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Banner: the 60th Chicago International Film Festival

Genre: Comedy


A group of four people lay intertwined in the grass, contentedly looking up at the sky.

Adult Children

Rich Newey  |   United States
English  
Comedy, Drama

A sheltered Chicago 17-year-old looks to her older half-siblings for guidance on impending adulthood—only to discover they’re more mixed up than she is.

A close up of a man laying on a bed, lighting bathing him in red, yellow, and green light.

Anything That Moves

Alex Phillips  |   United States
English  
Comedy, Crime, Horror, Sex and Sexuality

In this raucous exploitation thriller, a Chicago bike-courier/sex worker delivers whatever his clients desire—until they start turning up dead.

A woman in sunglasses walks to her car, parked outside of her lavish home.

Bugonia

Yorgos Lanthimos  |   United Kingdom
English  
Comedy, Environmental, Science Fiction, Thriller

Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

An elderly man in a feathered headband stands in front of a mirror, putting in vampire teeth.

Dracula

Radu Jude  |   Romania, Austria, Luxembourg, Brazil
Romanian  
Comedy, Film on Film, Literary Adaptation, Social Commentary

A vampire hunt, an AI-generated Vlad the Impaler, a vulgar folktale, and much more collide in this unforgettable retelling of the Dracula myth.

A man and a woman stand face to face, both excited to see each other. Another man stands between them, shocked.

Eternity

David Freyne  |   United States
English  
Comedy, Drama, Family Affairs

In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan is faced with the impossible choice between her husband and her first love.

Two women stand in a room together, looking at a book. Another woman looks on from the doorway.

Father Mother Sister Brother

Jim Jarmusch  |   United States
English, French  
Comedy, Drama, Family Affairs

A feature film in the form of a triptych. The three stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other.

The Helsinki Effect

Arthur Franck  |   Finland, Germany, Norway
English, Finnish, Russian  
Comedy, Historical, Political

Starring Henry Kissinger and Leonid Brezhnev (among others), this witty film about a 1973 global security conference asks what diplomacy is good for.

A man stands on stage in green light, holding a microphone to his mouth with a smug expression on his face.

Is This Thing On?

Bradley Cooper  |   United States
English  
Comedy, Drama, Family Affairs
As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex (Will Arnett) faces middle age and an impending divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess (Laura Dern) confronts the [...]
A man in a white suit stands smiling in the street, standing in front of a black and white portrait of himself.

Jay Kelly

Noah Baumbach  |   United Kingdom, United States, Italy
English  
Comedy, Drama

Famous movie actor Jay Kelly (George Clooney) embarks on a journey of self-discovery, accompanied by his devoted manager (Adam Sandler).

The Kidnapping of Arabella (Il rapimento di Arabella)

Carolina Cavalli  |   Italy
Italian  
Comedy, Coming of Age, Road Movie, Women-Centered

Plagued with guilt over her role in the suicide of a recently evicted man, court bailiff Orsolya wanders the city of Cluj in search of absolution.

No Other Choice (Eojjeolsugaeopda)

Park Chan-wook  |   South Korea
Korean  
Comedy, Crime, Social Commentary

In Park Chan-wook’s latest satirical thriller, an unemployed paper expert hatches a desperate plan to eliminate the competition for a coveted job.

Pasa Faho

Kalu Oji  |   Australia
English, Igbo  
Comedy, Coming of Age, Drama, Family Affairs

A Nigerian shoe salesman in Australia juggles fatherhood, fading traditions, and a changing world when his adolescent son comes to live with him full time.

A man runs alongside a wall, both him and the background blurry with motion. His mouth is open in a scream.

A Poet (Un poeta)

Simón Mesa Soto  |   Colombia
Spanish  
Art, Comedy, Drama, Social Commentary

Attempting to revive his career, struggling poet Oscar mentors a young writer from a lower-class neighborhood in this farcical portrait of ambition.

Rental Family

HIKARI  |   United States, Japan
English, Japanese  
Comedy, Drama, Family Affairs
Set in modern-day Tokyo, Rental Family follows an American actor (Brendan Fraser) who struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese "rental family" agency, [...]
A man stands in a warehouse, looking down at a red contraption with white tubes coming out of the top.

A Useful Ghost (Pee Chai Dai Ka)

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke  |   Thailand
Thai  
Comedy, LGBTQ, Political, Romance

Vengeful ghosts, possessed vacuum cleaners, and a supernatural sense of justice converge in this charmingly absurd fable of memory, loss, and grief.

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Rian Johnson  |   United Kingdom, United States
English  
Comedy, Crime, Mystery

World-renowned detective Benoit Blanc returns for his most dangerous case yet.

We Are Pat

Rowan Haber  |   United States
English  
Comedy, Film on Film, LGBTQ, Social Commentary

A whimsical and complex interrogation of “Pat,” the famously awkward, androgynous SNL character created by comedian Julia Sweeney in the early 1990s.

What Does That Nature Say to You (Geu jayeoni nege mworago hani)

Hong Sangsoo  |   South Korea
Korean  
Comedy, Drama, Family Affairs

A quixotic poet drives his girlfriend to her parents’ home on the outskirts of Seoul. As a lazy afternoon becomes a drunken evening, his ideals are tested.

What Marielle Knows (Was Marielle Weiss)

Frédéric Hambalek  |   Germany
French, German  
Comedy, Family Affairs, Social Commentary

Julia and Tobias’ seemingly perfect marriage is threatened when their daughter Marielle develops telepathic powers in this hilarious and offbeat dark comedy.