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Film Country: U.S.
September 17, 2026
Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon
In Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon, Oscar-nominated director Bill Morrison reconstructs, through cellphone and body-cam footage, a shocking confrontation on Chicago’s Northwest side on October 12, 2025, after federal agents detained a young Latino man. This film screens as part of the ICE OUT:...
September 17, 2026
City & State Shorts: Homegrown Talent
In this program featuring a selection of shorts from the 62nd Chicago International Film Festival’s City & State shorts program, anxieties, both real and imagined, take center stage in the face of unknown family lineage, romantic longings, career disappointments, and bloody satires. With a va...
September 11, 2026
Down in the Delta
Directed by legendary poet Maya Angelou in her sole feature directorial debut, Down in the Delta is a tender portrait of familial endurance and intergenerational repair. When Loretta Sinclair (Alfre Woodard) finds herself and her children trapped within the compounding pressures of urban disinves...
September 11, 2026
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
From writer-director Bassam Tariq, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother stars Mahershala Ali as Latif, a devoutly religious hitman who struggles to balance work, faith, and fatherhood. When his wife dies, he embarks on a desperate journey across Houston to protect his children, confronting the for...
September 8, 2026
Mouse
2002, North Little Rock, Arkansas. Besties Minnie and Callie are getting ready for their high school senior year. Charismatic Callie, a singer and performer, is the town’s golden child, while the more awkward Minnie has grown up in her protective shadow. When their friendship is suddenly upended ...
