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47th Chicago International Film Festival October 6–20

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In this year’s lineup, you will find films that are visually bold and Lelouch. Speaking of the great masters of cinema, they are also well artistically daring. Some present a refreshing view on the growing represented in our program this year. pains of childhood while others explore the immigrant experience from truly original perspectives. You will find award-winning films Each film provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience the as well as stories about real people that go beyond the headlines. sights, sounds and experiences of other cultures on the big screen And in keeping with our tradition of discovering new talent, this and the chance to hear and maybe even meet some of the artists year’s filmmakers will take you on provocative and exciting journeys behind them. The languages may be different, but the emotions are to lands near and far. These more than 45 first-time filmmakers the same. Film unites us like no other art form can. could very well be the future Cronenberg, Herzog, Wenders or Michael Kutza | Founder and Artistic Director 3 easy ways to buy tickets & passes

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Passes Special Events* Moviegoer and Passport Passes are not valid Buy a Festival Pass and save! Opening Night (Thursday, Oct. 6, p. 9) for Opening Night, Centerpiece, Closing Night, Available only until Oct. 5. The Harris Theater (205 E. Randolph Dr.) Tributes, Gala and Special Presentations, or Film Only: Main Floor: $35/member. $40/non- Special Events. Passes must be picked up and Moviegoer member. Balcony: $30/member. $35/non-member. redeemed in person at a Festival box office. 10 admissions to regular film screenings. VIP: $150/ticket, film, and reception. $90 for Cinema/Chicago members. All programs are subject to change. Festival films $120 for non-members. Junior Board night (Saturday, Oct. 8) are not rated and may contain mature content. Take Me Home, p. 38. Audience discretion is advised. Please visit Passport Film Only: $10/member. $13/non-member. chicagofilmfestival.com for all other 20 admissions to regular film screenings. VIP: $35/ticket, film, and after-party. ticketing questions. $170/members. $230/non-members. Spotlight South Asia community screenings (p. 40) TAKE THE CTA!

Individual Tickets The New 400 Theater (6746 N. Sheridan Rd.) To get to the Festival Theater, Sun. Oct. 9: $5/ticket. take the CTA Red Line to the Available on Sept. 22. Doc Films (University of Chicago 1212 E. 59 St.) Grand exit and walk one block Sun. Oct. 16: $5/ticket. south to Illinois Street, turn left and walk Regular five blocks east. Or find us directly off the $10/members, students, and seniors. Navy Pier bus lines. For more information, $13/non-member. south asia gala presentation: (Friday, Oct. 7) call the CTA at 312.836.7000 or visit mausam (seasons of love) $20/ticket, see p. 28. transitchicago.com 5 X 5 $5 Matinees (Mon. – Fri. through 5 pm). Black Perspectives Tribute Visit chicagofilmfestival.com for details special Presentations DISCOUNTED PARKING

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At this year’s Festival, the Lincoln Lounge at Lucky Strike Lanes will be the evening hang out spot for Festival filmmakers. Brush up on your film trivia as we will be giving 2 admit-one passes to the Lincoln Lounge in daily quizzes on our Facebook and Twitter pages during the Festival. On select dates, winners will get to relax by the fireplace, mingle with filmmakers and special Festival guests as they enjoy complimentary Brugal Rum and appetizers…it’s a truly exclusive Festival experience!

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the last rites of joe may Directors: Joe Maggio • usa The Chicago International Film Festival is honored to celebrate the latest creation from two giant Chicago institutions: Dennis Farina and the Steppenwolf Theater Company. Farina (Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Law and Order) gives the finest performance of his career as an aging hustler whose way of life is at a crossroads in this film shot in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood. Written and directed by Festival veteran Joe Maggio and featuring members of the Steppenwolf ensemble, The Last Rites of Joe May is a prime example of the vitality of Chicago filmmaking. 103 min. efopen Special Guests (Scheduled to attend) Director Joe Maggio, star Dennis Farina, and cast Thursday, October 6 Harris Theater (205 E. Randolph St.) 6:00 Red Carpet Arrivals 7:00 Guest presentation with host, award-winning journalist Bill Kurtis and screening of The Last Rites of Joe May Reception 9:30 – 11:30 Sidney Yates Gallery, The Chicago Cultural Center (77 E. Randolph St., 4th Floor) Cocktail reception with hors d’oeuvres Business attire & wristband required for entry

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The Artist L’artiste Director: Michel Hazanavicius • France A darling at this year’s 2011 Cannes Film Festival, The Artist is a black and white love song to silent cinema, and movies. Directed by Michel Hazanavicius (the OSS 117 films), The Artist tells the story of George Valentin (Jean Dujardin, best actor at Cannes) a very successful silent movie star who meets Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo), a young extra, and helps her on her way up the Hollywood ladder. But when talking pictures arrive, disaster strikes not only George’s career but also the blossoming romance between the two. A visually stunning film with arresting performances, The Artist perfectly captures the silent film era while staying relevant today. 100 min. efart Thursday, October 20 7:00 Screening of The Artist

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FESTIVAL CENTERPIECE PRESENTATION

my week with marilyn Director: Simon Curtis • UK In the early summer of 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl. The film famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott). When Miller leaves England, the coast is clear for Colin to introduce Marilyn to some of the pleasures of British life. 100 min. EFMYWEE wednesday, October 12 7:00 Screening of My Week With Marilyn Special Guests (Scheduled to attend) Director Simon Curtis and scripwriter Adrian Hodges

Black perspectives tribute

Join us for this year’s Black Perspectives Tribute as we celebrate 15 years of the Black Perspectives Program. Founded in 1997 through collaboration with legendary director Spike Lee, the Chicago International Film Festival’s Black Perspectives program presents films that break down barriers, shatter stereotypes, and introduce the world to some of the richest cultures on the planet. In addition to showcasing films that celebrate the depth and diversity of black cultures around the world, the Black Perspectives program pays tribute to emerging and established film artists of the highest caliber. efblkpr1 For more information visit, chicagofilmfestival.com

best of the festival wednesday, October 19. Join us for Best of the Fest when we bring back winning films from each of our competitive categories as well as a selection of Festival favorites for you to enjoy one last time!

Visit chicagofilmfestival.com on Monday, October 17 for a complete schedule of Best of the Fest and purchase your tickets. Award Winner: Main Competition Award Winner: New Directors Competition Award Winner: DocuFest Award Winner: Short Films Festival Favorites Back By Popular Demand Best of INTERCOM (p. 23) Highlights from the best in corporate, branded, educational, and interactive multimedia films, headlined by Errol Morris’ They Were There. WED 10/19 • 6:00 pm • EFINTER1

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All programs subject to change. Films are unrated. Viewer discretion advised. 11 film program guide

main competition

Representing a wide variety of styles and genres, these works compete for the Festival’s top honor, the Competition Partner Gold Hugo—as well as awards for best actors, director, and writer—in North America’s longest-running competitive film festival.

New Directors Competition docufest

This selection of first and second feature films receiving their U.S. Real stories, real people, real emotions. This selection of international premiere in Chicago celebrates the spirit of discovery and innovation documentaries competing for the Gold Hugo go beyond the headlines upon which the Festival was founded. in telling those true stories that surprise, entertain, and challenge us.

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spotlight south asia black perspectives

The Chicago International Film Festival’s commitment to present Celebrating its 15th anniversary, this program, created through a the films of cinematically significant regions of the world continues collaboration with director Spike Lee, this program showcases films that with this showcase of innovative works and exciting new voices from celebrate the richness and diversity of black cultures around the world Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. and the filmmakers responsible for them.

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chicago connection world cinema

Notable native Chicagoans who have left a mark in the film industry A mix of classic narratives and cutting edge forms, this program offers share their expertise and experience with Festival audiences through a a snapshot of the contemporary cinematic landscape. Serving up the series of master classes and screenings. Please join us as we celebrate sights, sounds and stories from cultures around the globe, the films the careers and screen the work of these major movie luminaries. represent the latest from established masters, festival award winners, box-office hits, and hidden gems.

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special presentations life is short

From swashbuckling heroes to the end of the world as we know it, The runtimes may be short, but the ideas are big. This collection of some of the year’s most anticipated films from Hollywood and abroad cutting-edge short films—encompassing narrative, documentary, are featured in this section, made even more exciting with appearances experimental, animation, and student productions—proves that a few by their creators. minutes can speak volumes.

after dark competition cinema of the americas

From H.P. Lovecraft to high voltage chases in the streets of Seoul, South From the Bahamas and Panama to Brazil, Chile, and Argentina, Korea, not to mention psycho killers using unconventional methods to this program spotlights the fresh and vibrant work of emerging and inflict mayhem, these films will keep you on the edge of your seat. established filmmakers from South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

City & State outrageous

Illinois has a rich filmmaking tradition second to none. This program From the edgy to the tender, these bold LGBT-themed films fearlessly showcases the best features, documentaries, and short films with exhibit new artistic perspectives on sexuality. their roots right here in Illinois.

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Spotlighting the contribution that female writers and directors continue to make to film around the world, this program features films as diverse as the women who made them.

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All Me: The Life and Almanya: Amador Times of Winfred Rembert WELCOME TO GERMANY Director: Fernando Léon de Aranoa Director: Vivian Ducat Director: Yasemin Samdereli Marcela’s pregnancy couldn’t have come at a If there was ever a case for designating a A six-year-old in Germany confronts and worse time. A Latin American immigrant living person a National Treasure, Winfred Rembert questions the nature of self-identity after in the outskirts of Madrid, Marcela is stuck in a is that person. Though he lived through learning of his Turkish grandfather’s journey stagnant relationship with a man who works a segregation and the civil rights era in the Deep as a guest worker in the 1960s.The discussion dead-end job selling flowers. Things begin to South, Rembert didn’t begin his life as an artist leads the whole family to travel to their original improve when she’s hired to care for a friend’s until the 1990s. Working on cured leather home in Turkey, a trip that will prove surprising ailing father, Amador. When Amador suddenly canvases that are later painted, Rembert in more ways than one. This delightful comedy dies, leaving her jobless, Marcela is faced with depicts a personalized form of US history that shows that your identity is not determined by an unusual moral dilemma in this heartfelt you can’t find in books, or anywhere else for where you live or where your parents come drama about life and death. that matter. 78 min. from, but rather what you feel inside. Spanish with subtitles. 112 min. German with subtitles. 101 min. MON 10/17 • 4:30 PM EFALL1 sun 10/16 • 1:45 PM EFAMA1 Mon 10/17 • 8:15 PM EFAMA2 TUE 10/18 • 5:50 PM EFALL2 FRI 10/14 • 4:15 PM EFALMA1 SAT 10/15 • 4:30 PM EFALMA2 SUN 10/16 • 1:20 PM EFALMA3

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American Translation Amnesty Amnistia Andrew Bird: Fever Year Directors: Pascal Arnold, Jean-Marc Barr Director: Bujar Alimani Director: Xan Aranda Why is it always the cute ones who harbor An unemployed mother of two with a convict Classically trained yet utterly unconventional, the deep dark secrets? When Aurore, the for a husband and a meddlesome father-in- musician Andrew Bird has been defying daughter of a wealthy American, falls for law, Elsa’s life could not get any harder. When classification for 20 albums and countless sexy Frenchman Chris, she has no idea what a new law coerces her into joyless conjugal live shows. And though Fever Year covers the adventure lies ahead. Escaping the doldrums visits, she unexpectedly finds a kindred culminating months of the artist’s last tour, it’s of life in the city, the two set out on a road spirit in Septim, whose monthly visits to his as much about the creative process as it is trip with some unexpected, unsavory detours. wife coincide with Elsa’s. Their newfound about performance. The film’s sensuous A thrilling blend of passionate devotion and joy, however, has an expiration date. This visual style is a match for the musician whose degeneracy, this French Natural Born Killers unconventional, pathos-filled love story probes combination of voice, violin, and whistle could asks how far you would go for love. the possibility for solace in companionship in charm Hades himself. 80 min. English, French with subtitles. 90 min. the face of adversity and poverty. SAT 10/15 • 8:50 PM EFAND1 Albanian with subtitles. 83 min. SAT 10/8 • 2:50 PM EFAMER1 SUN 10/16 • 8:30 PM EFAND2 SUN 10/9 • 3:40 PM EFAMER2 SUN 10/16 • 8:30 PM EFAMN1 THU 10/13 • 3:50 PM EFAMER3 TUE 10/18 • 4:10 PM EFAMN2 docufest world cinema City & State outrageous world cinema reelwomen

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Azhagarsamy’s Horse Best Intentions Bol Azhagar saamiyin kudhirai DIN DRAGOSTE CU CELE MAI BUNE INTENTII Director: Shoaib Mansoor Director: Suseendhiran Director: Adrian Sitaru A box office hit in Pakistan and India, this The small village of Mallayapuram is frantic One morning, Alex receives a devastating story from the heart of Lahore features a when they realize the holy wooden statue phone call: his mother has just been family bursting with vitality but teetering on of god Azhagarsamy’s horse is missing hospitalized after suffering a stroke. Desperate the brink of poverty and a patriarch whose from the local temple. When a real horse to control the situation but overwhelmed by rules and value system reflect the religious turns up soon after, people are convinced conflicting advice from friends, family and zealousness of the society around them. it is the wooden horse come to life bringing medical staff, he attempts to take matters When Hakeem’s eldest daughter can’t take it luck to the drought-striken village. However into his own hands. Unfortunately things do anymore, she rebels, spiraling the family out of when a man named (would you believe it) not go as planned. This daring addition to the any remaining sense of stability. This searing Azhagarsamy arrives claiming the horse is Romanian New Wave, based on the director’s family drama amplifies the socio-religious his, the entire village turns topsy-turvy in this real life experience, brims with emotional issues of contemporary Pakistani society. delightful comic romp. impact and authenticity. Urdu with subtitles. 165 min. Tamil with subtitles. 122 min. Romanian with subtitles. 105 min. MON 10/10 • 8:00 PM EFBOL1 S U N 1 0 / 9 • 6 : 0 0 P M • N E W 4 0 0 ( P.5) • E F A Z H 1 THU 10/13 • 8:10 PM EFBEST1 TUE 10/11 • 2:50 PM EFAZH2 FRI 10/14 • 5:50 PM EFBEST2 SUN 10/16 • 12:20 PM EFBEST3 world cinema world cinema spotlight south asia main competition spotlight south asia

Chile/France china

BoLLYWOOD CHOREOGRAPHY Bonsai BONSÁI Buddha Mountain Guan yin shan MASTER CLASS with Rujuta Vaidya Director: Christian Jimenez Director: Yu Li Choreographer Rujuta (Ruj) Vaidya’s Bollywood To read Flaubert and Proust with your girlfriend In this charming youth drama shot Master Class* will take you through the basic after a passionate bout of lovemaking…what American-indie style from China, three movements of Bollywood dance. Classes will more could a young intellectual want? How friends have given up on their future, begin with a warm-up, intro to hand and body about, years later, being asked by a veteran spending their time partying and working movements, along with footwork technique. novelist to type out the handwritten notes for odd jobs. When their apartment complex is The class will conclude with a full on energetic, his next novel? Julio is in literary heaven. But marked for demolition, they end up renting exhilarating Bollywood choreography! Trained life, like literature, can be surprising, and very a room from a former Peking Opera singer by legendary Bollywood choreograper Saroj soon Julio is forced to live up to the lies he has who is still grieving over her son’s death. Khan, Ruj is best known for choreographing the been spinning. Bonsai presents a charming Their two worlds collide at first, but the four, 2009 Oscars Slumdog Millionaire performance, Chilean spin on Proust’s Remembrance of each broken in their own way, discover a the Britney Spears Circus tour, the Oprah Things Past. family of sorts united by their differences. Winfrey show, the Black Eyed Peas tour and, Spanish with subtitles. 95 min. Mandarin with subtitles. 101 min. recently, the AR Rahman 2010 World Tour. FRI 10/14 • 5:30 PM EFBONS1 SAT 10/15 • 3:30 PM EFBUD1 *Classes for professional dancers will require dance SUN 10/16 • 8:20 PM EFBONS2 MON 10/17 • 3:30 PM EFBUD2 experience and a higher level of training. TUE 10/18 • 3:50 Pm EFBUD3 Fri, Oct. 7 & Sat, Oct. 8 world cinema world cinema For details visit chicagofilmfestival.com/southasia cinema of the americas reelwomen

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Bullhead Rundskop the Bully Project Bunny Drop Usagi doroppu Director: Michael Roskam Director: Lee Hirsch Director: Sabu Jacky is a cattle farmer tied into the A beautifully cinematic, character-driven Daikichi spies a young girl standing apart from livestock underworld that uses illegal growth documentary, The Bully Project follows the family at his grandfather’s funeral. She hormones to enhance their meat. Following five kids and families over the course of a turns out to be the old man’s love child and the assassination of a local police officer school year. Stories include two families nobody wants anything to do with her. Feeling investigating this illegal trade, a series of who have lost children to suicide and a sorry and curious, Daikichi volunteers to events force Jacky to deal with a brutal mother awaiting the fate of her 14-year-old take her in, without really understanding the incident from his past. What begins as a daughter who has been incarcerated after demands of being a parent. As the two get crime thriller slowly unravels into an intense bringing a gun on her school bus. With an to know each other and establish a routine, character-driven film that holds no punches. intimate glimpse into homes, classrooms, Daikichi must figure out how to balance his Dutch, French with subtitles. 129 min. cafeterias and principals’ offices, the film life, work and childcare in this charming film offers insight into the often cruel world of the about parenthood. SUN 10/9 • 8:15 PM EFBULH1 MON 10/10 • 6:00 PM EFBULH2 lives of bullied children. 90 min. Japanese with subtitles. 115 min. WED 10/12 • 3:15 PM EFBULH3 TUE 10/11 • 7:00 PM EFBULP1 MON 10/10 • 7:45 PM EFBUN1 TUE 10/11 • 5:25 PM EFBUN2 Special Guest (Scheduled to attend) Director Lee Hirsch special presentation world cinema docufest world cinema

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Cairo 678 678 Carol Channing: Chico & Rita Director: Mohamed Diab Larger than Life Directors: Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba Three Egyptian women from different social Director: Dori Berinstein backgrounds join forces to fight against their Inspiring, heartwarming, hilarious and full Amidst the Afro-Cuban rhythms of Havana country’s tolerance toward sexual harassment. of life, this portrait of the Tony® and Golden in the 1940s, Chico and Rita fall immediately Nelly files the first sexual harassment lawsuit Globe® award-winning actress, singer and in love. But infidelity and their respective in the history of the country, Seba, a victim comedienne weaves Broadway history with an pursuit of fame both unite and pull them apart of a gang rape, teaches self-defense, and unbelievable love story to capture the unique for the next six decades. Spanish filmmaker Fayza takes these self-defense lessons a persona behind the iconic performances in and music producer Fernando Trueba (La step too far. An expertly crafted combination of Hello Dolly and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Belle Epoque, Calle 54), graphic artist Javier character study, social critique, and vigilante Stay for the end credits: the film’s outtakes just Mariscal, and animator Tono Errando pay action, Cairo 678 is one of those rare films that cannot be missed. 88 min. tribute to the great Afro-Cuban and Be- resonates with audiences of both genders and bop musicians of the 40s and 50s in this across cultural divides. SAT 10/15 • 2:00 PM EFCAR1 delightfully sensuous animated film. SUN 10/16 • 12:10 PM EFCAR2 Arabic with subtitles. 100 min. English, Spanish with subtitles. 94 min. Sun 10/9 • 3:30 PM EFCAIR1 FRI 10/14 • 3:15 PM EFCHIC1 MON 10/10 • 4:15 PM EFCAIR2 SAT 10/15 • 8:00 PM EFCHIC2 WED 10/12 • 5:50 PM EFCAIR3 SUN 10/16 • 12:25 PM EFCHIC3 docufest main competition reelwomen world cinema

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Chronicle of my Mother Cinema Komunisto CINEYOUTH Best of the Fest Waga haha no ki Director: Mila Turajlic Director: Multiple Director: Masato Harada If the illusion of reality is the currency of cinema, Cinema/Chicago’s yearly CineYouth Festival Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made then cinephile and former Yugoslav president celebrates the work of students 21 years old a career out of using his family as fodder Josip Broz Tito bought and paid for his country’s and younger, highlighting the creativity of for his novels, much to their dismay. When thrilling and heroic (but mostly made up) history. the next generation of filmmakers. Best of his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is This award-winning documentary chronicles the the Fest showcases the winning films from diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come 40-year history of Avala Studio, built by Tito to the 2011 CineYouth Festival; categories to terms with the toll his own behavior has crank out well-made propaganda films in order include Documentary, Chicago connection, taken on his increasingly distant family and to shape and control his country’s image in a Drama, Comedy, and Music Video. This resolve his own long-simmering resentments. post-war world. This veritable compendium of screening will include a Q+A with select Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously archival footage and clips from over 60 classic winning CineYouth filmmakers. wrought epic family portrait explores the Yugoslav films includes remembrances from Various languages with subtitles. 95 min. tenderness and trappings of familial bonds. Tito’s personal projectionist. THIS IS A FREE EVENT! Japanese with subtitles. 119 min. Serbian with subtitles. 101 min. Tickets must be obtained from box office. SAT 10/15 • 2:45 PM EFCHRO1 SUN 10/9 • 8:30 PM EFCINE1 SUN 10/16 • 7:50 PM EFCHRO2 MON 10/10 • 4:00 PM EFCINE2 SAT 10/15 • 10:30 AM EFCINYO1 MON 10/17 • 3:15 PM EFCHRO3 docufest main competition reelwomen

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Circus Columbia Cirkus Columbia the Clown O Palhaço Club Zeus Director: Danis Tanovic Director: Selton Mello Director: David Verbeek After living in exile in Germany for 20 years, What do those who make people laugh for First rule of Club Zeus: women feel what they Ditko returns to his hometown in Yugoslavia a living think is funny? Benjamin, a clown want to feel. This Shanghai male host club hoping to start a new life. He comes back in traveling with the Circus Esperanza, tackles caters to the emotional (and sexual) needs style: sexy girlfriend, new Mercedes, wads of this question and more when he decides to of its professional clientele and Leonardo, cash and a black cat named Bonny. He tries leave the circus he grew up in and pursue its youngest host, understands those needs to reconnect with his 20-year-old son, Martin, his own dreams. With only a copy of his perfectly. But his mentor and “big brother” but the lad is far more interested in Dad’s new birth certificate in hand, Benjamin looks for Sly wants a better future for Leonardo and is girlfriend. Soon the winds of war blow into answers, and for his identity, away from the willing to pay any price to free him from his town, forcing Divko and the townspeople to bright lights of the big top. duties. Shot in just ten days, Club Zeus is a decide which side they are on. Portuguese with subtitles. 88 min. visually striking exploration of the need for Bosnian with subtitles. 113 min. companionship in this digital age. WED 10/12 • 3:20 PM EFCLOWN1 Mandarin with subtitles. 75 min. SAT 10/8 • 5:10 PM EFCIRC1 MON 10/17 • 6:10 PM EFCLOWN2 MON 10/10 • 8:45 PM EFCIRC2 TUE 10/18 • 8:45 PM EFCLOWN3 MON 10/17 • 6:15 PM EFCLUB1 TUE 10/18 • 8:30 PM EFCLUB2

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Cold Sweat Sudor Frio Cooley High a conversation with Director: Adrián García Bogliano Director: Michael Schultz john c. reilly Online dating? What’s the worst that could In light of the demolition of the last building at From Chicago’s Southwest side to Hollywood’s happen? Well, apparently, you could find the Cabrini Green public housing complex, we A-list, the undeniably loveable John C. Reilly yourself trapped in an old house at the mercy revisit a crucial period in the history of local joins us for a talk about his life and work. The of a pair of aging right-wing revolutionaries Black cinema. Heartfelt and moving, this teen Oscar® and Tony ® nominated actor best known turned sadists with a penchant for torturing pic follows best friends Leroy “Preach” Jackson for a range of character types in films like young women with decaying dynamite and and Richard “Cochise” Morris, high school Magnolia, Gangs of New York, The Thin Red buckets of nitroglycerin. Prolific low-budget seniors at Cooley Vocational School near the Line and, now, in Lynne Ramsay’s We Need horror maestro Bogliano serves up a stylish housing complex, as they begin to consider to Talk About Kevin (p. 41), began his acting slice of extreme genre cinema, which also their future. They contend with girl trouble, career on stage with Chicago’s renowned alludes to the troubled state of generational difficult teachers, a couple of neighborhood Steppenwolf Theater Company and the politics in his homeland. thugs, and the police. Directed by Michael Organic Theater. Help us welcome home one Spanish with subtitles. 80 min. Schultz (Car Wash, Krush Groove) and written of the rising stars of the big screen. 60 min. by Eric Monte, the creator of the smash hit TV THU 10/13 • 10:00 PM EFCOLD1 WED 10/12 • 11:00 AM EFJohncr SAT 10/15 • 11:15 PM EFCOLD2 series Good Times. 107 min. SUN 10/9 • 5:15 PM EFCOOL

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Coriolanus Corpo Celeste Corrode Kshay Director: Ralph Fiennes Director: Alice Rohrwacher Director: Karan Gour Caius Martius ‘Coriolanus’ (Ralph Fiennes), a Mysteries of the flesh collide with questions of Chhaya, a woman of limited means, leads revered and feared Roman General, is at odds the soul when Marta, her mother and younger a good, decent life alongside her husband with the city of Rome and his fellow citizens. sister move back to their native Italy. Enrolled Arvind—until she becomes obsessed with Pushed by his controlling and ambitious in catechism class, Marta finds that the a sculpture of Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess mother Volumnia (Vanessa Redgrave) to lessons contradict the local priest’s support of wealth. Chhaya will stop at nothing to seek the exalted and powerful position of of a morally ambiguous political candidate. bring home this statue, and soon her past Consul, he is loath to ingratiate himself with Marta must come to terms with her conflicts weaknesses and disappointments (including the masses whose votes he needs in order to over the church’s religious teachings as well a miscarriage) bubble to the surface, secure the office. When the public refuses to as the conflicts occurring within her own consuming and corroding her soul. Corrode support him, Coriolanus’ anger prompts a riot changing body. is the latest example of an exciting new wave that culminates in his expulsion from Rome. Italian with subtitles. 90 min. of independent Indian cinema. The banished hero then allies himself with his Hindi with subtitles. 92 min. SAT 10/8 • 4:45 PM EFCORP1 sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius (Gerard Butler) SUN 10/9 • 1:00 PM EFCORP2 SAT 10/8 • 8:25 PM EFCORR1 to take his revenge on the city. 122 min. SUN 10/9 • 12:00 PM EFCORR2 THU 10/13 • 8:00 PM EFCORi TUE 10/11 • 2:30 PM EFCORR3

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All programs subject to change. Films are unrated. Viewer discretion advised. 17 france/usa germany/canada UK crazy horse a Dangerous Method David is Dying Director: Frederick Wiseman Director: David Cronenberg Director: Stephen Lloyd Jackson Frederick Wiseman’s latest documentary Seduced by the challenge of an impossible The thin veneer of youth, money, good takes us inside the legendary 60-year-old case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung (Michael looks and love are shattered when David Parisian cabaret club, presenters of the “best Fassbender) takes the unbalanced yet is diagnosed with HIV. With his pregnant nude dancing show in the world,” as they beautiful Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) fiancée kept in the dark, David confronts the rehearse and perform a new titillating show as his patient in A Dangerous Method. Jung’s realization that he may have infected them called Désirs, staged by famous French weapon is the method of his master, the as well. Sessions with a therapist become choreographer Philippe Decouflé. The third renowned Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen). a narrative device that filmmaker Stephen in Wiseman’s trilogy of films about iconic Both men fall under Sabina’s spell. 99 min. Lloyd Jackson uses to document David’s French institutions, Crazy Horse reveals descent into hedonistic despair. 90 min. MON 10/10 • 7:00 PM EFDANG1 the intense pace these young women must SAT 10/15 • 6:40 PM EFDAVDY1 maintain to perform 15 shows a week for MON 10/17 • 9:00 PM EFDAVDY2 hundreds of tourists from around the world. French with subtitles. 120 min. FRI 10/14 • 6:00 PM EFCRAZ1

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Day is Done Dekh Indian Circus the Destiny of Lesser Director: Thomas Imbach Director: Mangesh Hadawale Animals SIBO NE KRA, DABO NE KRA Fifteen years of 35mm footage shot almost Money: the cause of and solution to all of Director: Deron Albright entirely from one vantage point overlooking the life’s problems. Well, not exactly. But when Nearly a decade after being deported, back of the Zurich train station is paired with the circus comes to a small Indian village, Ghanaian Police inspector Boniface Koomsin fifteen years of answering machine messages Ghumroo and his sister Panni learn adult sized is still trying to get back to the U.S. But when to form an unlikely portrait of the artist. Though lessons about greed and corruption. Wanting his counterfeit passport is stolen, he mounts unseen and unheard, Thomas Imbach allows nothing more than a ticket to the big show, the a false investigation that takes him on a a full persona to develop from the voices and youngsters take a special interest in a cash dangerous journey through contemporary tone of each caller and the objects his camera payment Dad has received from the local Ghana. As the “investigation” continues, he will chooses, follows, and lingers over. politicians to secure his vote. Unfortunately, have to choose between dreams of escape and Swiss-German with subtitles. 111 min. they’re not the only ones interested in their the realities of life in his homeland. father’s sudden small windfall. FRI 10/7 • 3:40 PM EFDAY1 Fante, English, Twi, Pidgin, Ga with subtitles. MON 10/10 • 3:40 PM EFDAY2 Hindi with subtitles. 103 min. 89 min. SUN 10/16 • 4:00 PM EFDEKH1 SAT 10/15 • 12:10 PM EFDEST1 MON 10/17 • 3:00 PM EFDEKH2 SUN 10/16 • 6:00 PM EFDEST2 TUE 10/18 • 2:00 PM EFDEST3

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Diana Vreeland: Don’t Go Breaking My Heart the Double Steps The Eye has to Travel Daan gyun naam yu Los pasos dobles Director: Lisa Immordino Vreeland Director: Johnnie To Director: Isaki Lacuesta A true American visionary, Diana Vreeland Legendary Hong Kong filmmaker Johnny To Prepare to be taken over by this delightfully became the first fashion editor at Harper’s (Triad Election) returns to the world of comedy enigmatic storyline that traverses centuries, Bazaar in 1936 and from there proceeded with this achingly sweet tale. Charming Zixin continents and cultures. The “double steps” in to invent the concept of fashion as we now finds herself in a love triangle with two men question refer to advice left by French artist know it. A talented writer with a larger-than- that are as handsome as they are different. François Augiéras, who claimed the best way life personality, she had an innate ability To tells a heartfelt whimsical tale where to escape one’s enemies is to walk backwards to discover designers, photographers and neither time nor space can hold back love’s over your own footprints. Using one of Augiéras’ new ideas often to the point of controversy. grand gestures, while revealing an amusing lost works as the catalyst for the story, filmmaker Director Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s touch that might not be familiar to the fans of Isaki Lacuesta and painter Miquel Barceló delightfully playful tribute uses archival his action-packed films. weave together the structure and iconography footage, family photos, and an animated Cantonese, Mandarin with subtitles. 115 min. of the road movie with African griot storytelling. Spanish with subtitles. 86 min. conversation with George Plympton. 92 min. TUE 10/11 • 5:50 PM EFDONT1 WED 10/12 • 9:00 PM EFDONT2 SAT 10/15 • 7:00 PM EFDIANA1 MON 10/17 • 8:30 PM EFDOUB1 FRI 10/14 • 8:00 PM EFDONT3 TUE 10/18 • 3:30 PM EFDIANA2 TUE 10/18 • 6:10 PM EFDOUB2 docufest world cinema reelwomen main competition black perspectives

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Ending Note: Death of Fat, Bald, Short Man Flying Fish Igillena maluwo a Japanese Salesman Gordo, calvo y bajito Director: Sanjeewa Pushpakumara Director: Carlos Osuna Director: Mami Sunada The devastating consequences of civil war When a recently retired Japanese businessman With nothing going in the looks department, are set against breathtaking vistas of Sri is diagnosed with incurable cancer, he reacts notary Antonio is something of a Colombian Lanka as three separate stories are explored: to the news with the same pragmatic approach George Costanza: teased by his colleagues, a father and daughter’s relationship is tested that made him a successful salesman. In her unlucky with the ladies, and the doormat of all after an encounter with a soldier leaves her directorial debut, Mami Sunada combines non- who wish to tread, most notably his gambling- pregnant, an impoverished family must find a fiction film form with the growing trend of “end addicted brother. But Antonio’s luck seems way to manage their debt to the rebels, and of life journals” among the elderly in Japan. By set to take a turn for the better when he gets a young boy discovers his widowed mother’s channeling her thoughts and feelings through involved with a cultish self-help group and sexual affair. her father’s “ending note”, Sunada abstracts an equally unattractive boss takes over the Sinhala, Tamil with subtitles. 125 min. office. A distinctive animation style and an the weight of a life and the pain of loss into a S U N 1 0 / 9 • 3 : 0 0 P M • N E W 4 0 0 ( P.5) • E F F L Y 1 surprisingly hopeful and life-affirming message. undeniably heart-warming story make Fat, MON 10/10 • 5:20 PM EFFLY2 Japanese with subtitles. 90 min. Bald, Short Man a surefire crowd-pleaser. WED 10/12 • 4:00 PM EFFLY3 Spanish with subtitles. 91 min. MON 10/17 • 6:30 PM EFEND1 TUE 10/18 • 4:00 PM EFEND2 FRI 10/7 • 9:10 PM EFFAT1 sat 10/8 • 12:45 PM EFFAT2 docufest world cinema reelwomen world cinema spotlight south asia

For added screenings and a schedule of visiting filmmakers, see chicagofilmfestival.com. 19 USA/Albania France India the Forgiveness of Blood From One Film to Another Gandu Director: Joshua Marston D’un film à l’autre Director: Kaushik Mukherjee (Q) Director: Claude Lelouch Nik is your run-of-the-mill, digitally savvy, Gandu (local slang for “asshole”) is a lovable fun-loving teenager. But his dreams for the The irrepressible, enigmatic outlaw of the loser who hates his life in modern-day Kolkata. future come to a screeching halt when a Nouvelle Vague, Claude Lelouche, takes When he isn’t stealing money from his mother to long-simmering feud between his father and the viewer on an intimate cinematic tour of finance a fledgling rap career and lottery ticket a man who inherited land that once belonged his prolific career. Turning the camera on obsession, Gandu spends his days with a Bruce to Nik’s family comes to a violent end. Now, himself, the director of A Man and A Woman Lee-obsessed rickshaw driver named Rickshaw. thanks to an ancient Albanian law, Nik and bares his soul as he frankly confronts the As their friendship develops, the two descend his brother find themselves under house lessons of failure and the spoils of success. into a world of sex, drugs, and rap musical arrest while their father is on the lam, causing French with subtitles. 104 min. sequences. Audacious in both form and content, already high tensions to reach a boiling point Gandu introduces audiences to a raucous and in FRI 10/7 • 6:00 PM EFFROM1 in this tense drama. WED 10/12 • 2:30 PM EFFROM2 your face side of Indian film they definitely won’t Albanian with subtitles. 109 min. see from Bollywood. Mature audiences only. Special Guest (Scheduled to attend) Bengali with subtitles. 85 min. SAT 10/8 • 8:30 PM EFFORG1 Director Claude Lelouch, Friday only. SUN 10/9 • 2:30 PM EFFORG2 SAT 10/8 • 10:30 PM EFGAND1 TUE 10/11 • 5:30 PM EFGAND2

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George the Hedgehog the Giants Les géants the Good Doctor Jez Jerzy Director: Bouli Lanners Director: Lance Daly Directors: Wojciech Wawszczyk, Abandoned at their late grandfather’s house In this dark thriller that skewers modern Jakub Tarkowski, Tomasz Leśniak for the summer, teenage brothers Zak and medical practice and its morals, first-year This hilariously profane animated comedy Seth are left to their own devices. With the resident Dr. Martin Blake (Orlando Bloom) follows George, a skateboarding booze endless possibilities of summer fun and (mis-) strives to be a “good doctor”. Willing to do guzzler with a libido to match, as he turns from adventure to be had in the idyllic Belgian whatever it takes to succeed, he has the randy rodent into spiky statesman, by way countryside, the world, they feel, is their perfect opportunity to further his ambition of some pretty far out genetic manipulation oyster. But when money runs short and with when a young beautiful patient is assigned techniques. Both a bold piece of satire and a no help in sight, the boys scheme to support to his care. When the determined doctor refreshing break from the animated norm, the themselves by renting their home to a local unexpectedly falls prey to the seductive film brims with as much irreverent energy as drug dealer. A Mark Twain adventure-like charms of his ward, he must choose between its prickled protagonist. Mature audiences only. tale takes a dark turn in The Giants, artfully hypocrisy and the Hypocratic Oath. 93 min. Polish with subtitles. 80 min. capturing the underside of carefree youth. SUN 10/16 • 4:30 PM EFGOODD1 French with subtitles. 84 min. FRI 10/14 • 10:45 PM EFGEO1 SAT 10/15 • 10:45 PM EFGEO2 fri 10/7 • 8:50 PM EFGIAN1 SAT 10/8 • 1:00 PM EFGIAN2 TUE 10/11 • 4:00 PM EFGIAN3

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20 Become a member and save! Members are also invited to private advance screenings year-round. See page 49 for details. finland IRAN France/germany the good son Hyvä poika Goodbye Bé omid é didar GOODBYE FIRST LOVE Director: Zaida Bergroth Director: Mohammad Rasoulof un amour de jeunesse Director: Mia Hansen-Løve Seventeen-year-old Ilmari has spent most of In this gripping film shot semi-clandestinely, his young life looking after his mother, Leila, a a young disbarred female lawyer with an There is nothing quite like first love—or the renowned actress who loves to be the center exiled husband and an unwanted pregnancy heartbreak that follows. Camille and Sullivan of attention, and his younger brother. After a tries to secure a visa to leave the country. are head over heels, but his longing for recent scandal, Leila takes all three of them to Tension builds slowly and meticulously as independence and her need for security drive a distant island for a quiet weekend but soon the heroine faces off against an oppressive a deep wedge between them, and they part grows bored and invites all of her friends over regime, the walls slowly closing in around ways. Eight years later, Camille has finally for a party. There, she falls for scriptwriter her. This powerful portrait of one woman’s moved on and found new love—until Sullivan Aimo, and soon Ilmari’s resentment explodes struggle against the system in modern-day reenters her life. This perfectly pitched tale in this tragic portrait of a dysfunctional family. Iran won a best director award at this year’s of pathos and passion captures the ardor, Finnish with subtitles. 87 min. Cannes Film Festival. intensity, and anguish of love. Farsi with subtitles. 104 min. French, German, Danish with subtitles. 110 min. WED 10/12 • 8:40 PM EFGOODS1 THU 10/13 • 5:00 PM EFGOODS2 TUE 10/11 • 3:15 PM EFGOODB1 FRI 10/7 • 6:00 PM EFGDBYE1 MON 10/17 • 1:50 PM EFGOODS3 THU 10/13 • 7:30 PM EFGOODB2 MON 10/10 • 6:00 PM EFGDBYE2 SAT 10/15 • 2:10 pm EFGOODB3

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Haunters Cho-neung-ryeok-ja Here His Mother’s Eyes Director: Min-suk Kim Director: Braden King Les yeux de sa mère Director: Thierry Klifa A young thief’s ability to control minds is Cartography and passion come together frustrated when he meets one just beyond his in the first American film made in Armenia. With ambition and charm matched equally by reach in this fast paced Korean action thriller. Will, a satellite mapping engineer hired to a complete lack of remorse, best-selling author On a routine robbery of a pawnshop, things map Armenia, arrives solo but soon meets Mathieu will do anything for a good story. To go terribly awry and an epic cat-and-mouse Gadarine, a photographer and Armenian write the unauthorized biography of celebrity game quickly ensues, taking the viewer on a expatriate returning home for the first time. An news anchor Lena Weber (Catherine Deneuve super charged tour of Seoul at night. unlikely pair, the two are inexplicably connected in a career-topping performance), not only Korean with subtitles. 114 min. from their first encounter and together explore does he secure a job as her assistant but also new terrain both literally and figuratively. With seduces Lena, her estranged daughter who is FRI 10/14 • 10:00 PM EFHAUNT1 SAT 10/15 • 10:30 PM EFHAUNT2 a striking visual design, this international searching for her own son, and anyone who road-movie romance premiered at this year’s gets in his way, regardless of gender. Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals 110 min. French, Spanish with subtitles. 105 min. SAT 10/15 • 8:15 PM EFHERE1 SUN 10/9 • 3:00 PM EFHIS1 MON 10/17 • 8:00 PM EFHERE2 MON 10/10 • 5:30 PM EFHIS2 SUN 10/16 • 2:00 PM EFHIS3

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Get the Festival App at applitite.com. 21 UK france belgium the Holding Holidays by the Sea Hotel Swooni Swooni Director: Susan Jacobson Ni à vendre ni à louer Director: Kaat Beels Director: Pascal Rabaté After Cassie murders her abusive husband, What is happiness? How do we grasp it? Six a manipulative neighbor tries to run her off Invoking the elliptical whimsy of comedic characters fumble desperately as their lives her land. Help seems to come in the form legend Jacques Tati, this playful, wordless intersect over the course of one day and night of gruff Scotsman Aden, but Cassie soon romp sends up the French pleasure in in Brussels’ luxurious Hotel Swooni. A couple regrets letting Aden into her life when his summer holidays. Wandering in and out of a must face the truth about their marriage, while true nature begins to manifest itself. Stylish series of scenarios, each tinged with a touch a mother and daughter seek to repair their direction and taut performances keep of the absurd, the film follows a motley crew fractured relationship and a young African adrenaline running high in this accomplished, of vacationers enjoying a spell at the beach. boy urgently searches for his missing father. atmospheric gothic thriller. 93 min. The more than half dozen stories are cleverly Emotions run high in this hotel in which no one propelled by the cast’s brilliant physical checks out quite the same as they checked in. FRI 10/7 • 10:50 PM EFHOLD1 SAT 10/8 • 10:30 PM EFHOLD2 performances, witty comic-book inspired Dutch, French with subtitles. 90 min. cinematography, and swift pacing. WED 10/12 • 6:40 PM EFHOTEL1 French with subtitles. 77 min. THU 10/13 • 5:40 PM EFHOTEL2 SAT 10/15 • 6:10 PM EFHOLI1 MON 10/17 • 2:00 PM EFHOTEL3 SUN 10/16 • 3:00 PM EFHOLI2 TUE 10/18 • 4:40 PM EFHOLI3 after dark New Directors Competition reelwomen world cinema reelwomen

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If Not Us, Who Wer wenn nicht wir Innocent Saturday V subbotu Inshallah, Football Director: Andres Veiel Director: Aleksandr Mindadze Director: Ashvin Kumar Literature has the power to change the world, The 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant The fast-paced game of the world’s most or so university students Bernward Vesper accident is seen through the eyes of Valery, popular sport is contrasted against the slow and Gudrun Ensslin believe. Gudrun soon a young Communist party officer who has turning gears of democracy in this controversial discovers that words are not enough and, knowledge of the disaster yet, through a series documentary. With help from a committed seduced by one of Andreas Baader’s more of circumstances, is unable to flee the city. South American coach and his charming wife, direct and violent approaches to change, Instead of dealing with the impending doom, 18-year-old Kashmiri soccer player Basharat joins forces with him as co-founder of the Valery and his girlfriend partake in frivolous is good enough to go play in Brazil but can’t Red Faction Army. This stirring political drama activities, making you wonder, 25 years later, obtain a visa due to his father’s militant past. takes audiences back to a tumultuous time what would you have done in their shoes? More than a coming-of-age story about a teen in history when ideologies clashed, love was Russian with subtitles. 99 min. who dreams of living as a free citizen, it is also made, bombs were exploded and bullets fired. a coming-of-age story for democracy in India. SAT 10/15 • 5:50 PM EFINNOC1 German with subtitles. 124 min. SUN 10/16 • 9:00 PM EFINNOC2 Urdu, Kashmiri with subtitles. 83 min. TUE 10/11 • 8:30 PM EFIFNOT1 TUE 10/18 • 3:40 PM EFINNOC3 THU 10/13 • 5:00 PM EFINSH1 WED 10/12 • 5:20 PM EFIFNOT2 SAT 10/15 • 12:00 PM EFINSH2 SAT 10/15 • 11:30 AM EFIFNOT3 SUN 10/16 • 8:00 PM • DOC FILMS (P.3) • EFINSH3

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22 Follow us on Facebook (chicagofilmfestival), Twitter (@chifilmfest), and YouTube (chifilmfest). usa USA best of intercom INTO THE ABYSS Jeff, Who Lives at Home featuring THEY WERE THERE Director: Werner Herzog Directors: Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass With only eight days before he’s put to death, On his way to the store to buy wood glue, Jeff The 47th International Communications Michael Perry’s interview while on Death Row looks for signs from the universe to determine Media competition (INTERCOM) recognizes in Texas is not intended as a plea to abolish his path. However, a series of comedic and the incredible creativity found in corporate, the death penalty, but rather as an entry into unexpected events leads him to cross paths industrial, and educational filmmaking. the philosophical underpinnings of death with his family in the strangest of locations Showcasing select winners from this year’s and violence in a country that has not yet and circumstances. Jeff just may find the competition, the program is headlined by IBM’s done away with state sanctioned executions. meaning of his life... and if he’s lucky, pick up They Were There. Directed by Errol Morris Perennial fan favorite and patron saint of the wood glue as well. 84 min. (Tabloid, The Thin Blue Line) and scored by daring cinema, Werner Herzog’s latest Phillip Glass, this fascinating documentary TUE 10/18 • 7:00 PM EFJEFF1 documentary takes us once again into realms celebrates 100 years of breakthroughs and far removed from everyday experience to innovation at IBM, told by the employees and bring back the extraordinary. 100 min. leaders who made it all happen. 60 min. mon 10/18 • 6:15 pm EFINTO1 THIS IS A FREE EVENT! Tickets must be obtained from box office. WED 10/19 • 6:00 pm EFINTER1 special presentation docufest special presentation

italy usa Cuba the Jewel Il gioiellino Joint Body Juan of the Dead Director: Andrea Molaioli Director: Brian Jun Juan de los Muertos Director: Alejandro Brugues Deception, betrayal, and sleight of hand lie at Noir infused characters, with plenty to be the heart of this gripping drama of corporate paranoid about, are thrown together in a Juan is a lovable loser content to loaf intrigue. When multi-nationals threaten the desperate situation when recent parolee Nick around the streets of Havana wisecracking, existence of a family-owned dairy business, Burke (Mark Pellegrino) comes to the aid of womanizing, and wiling away the days with a the company patriarch and his loyal financial Michelle (Alicia Witt), an exotic dancer living in motley crew of fellow drifters. But when what advisor must find a way, any way, to keep a mysterious self-imposed exile in downstate seems at first to be dissident rumblings in the the company going. Desperate times Illinois. When they’re forced to team up and go city turns into a full-on flesh-eating zombie beget desperate measures and unsavory on the lam, the two wonder whether they can onslaught, Juan and his gang go into business consequences. even trust each other. 86 min. as “Juan of the Dead” – a crack team of slayers Italian with subtitles. 110 min. specializing in the undead. This wild romp WED 10/12 • 3:40 PM EFJOINT1 through the streets of the Cuban capital is a SAT 10/8 • 5:45 PM EFJEWEL1 FRI 10/14 • 6:30 PM EFJOINT2 SUN 10/9 • 7:30 PM EFJEWEL2 SAT 10/15 • 9:15 PM EFJOINT3 perfectly pitched blend of horror and laughs. TUE 10/11 • 3:00 PM EFJEWEL3 Spanish with subtitles. 92 min. THU 10/13 • 10:40 PM EFJUAN1 FRI 10/14 • 10:30 PM EFJUAN2

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KAIDAN – HORROR CLASSICS Karma the Kid Who Lies Ayashiki Bungo Kaidan Director: Prasanna Jayakody El chico que miente Directors: Masayuki Ochiai, Shinya Director: Marité Ugás Burdened by guilt over his mother’s death, Tsukamoto, Lee Sang-Il, Hirokazu Kore-Eda 23-year-old Payel moves into an old stable In this touching mix of road movie and coming- Four uncanny ghost stories from Japan’s turned into an apartment. Through the thin of-age story, a 13-year-old boy takes to the modern masters of cinema: The Arm tells the walls and a high window he can hear his roads of Venezuela alone in search of the story of a middle-aged man with a peculiar neighbors’ lovemaking and arguments, mother he never knew. As he makes his way fetish who convinces a young woman to lend inspiring sexual fantasies that lead him into amid the wreckage left behind by mudslides him her arm for the night; in The Whistler, a an emotional encounter with death and that hit a coastal town 10 years ago, the boy girl finds mysterious love letters addressed redemption. Structured like a jigsaw puzzle, shares stories of the tragedy with the people to her dying sister; a monk, forced to hide his Karma invites audiences to piece together he meets, as he tries to come to terms with deformed nose from the townspeople, faces these characters’ lives while immersing them what happened to his family. the ghost of a young boy, whom he purposely in a truly sensorial experience. Spanish with subtitles. 100 min. did not save from drowning in The Nose; and in Sinhalese with subtitles. 88 min. THU 10/13 • 4:00 PM EFKIDWH1 The Days After, a couple receives a visit from a SUN 10/16 • 5:30 PM • DOC FILMS (P.3) • EFKARMA1 MON 10/17 • 6:00 PM EFKIDWH2 young boy they believe is their deceased son. MON 10/17 • 5:50 PM EFKARMA2 TUE 10/18 • 6:00 PM EFKIDWH3 Japanese with subtitles. 160 min. world cinema SUN 10/9 • 8:30 PM EFKAID world cinema cinema of the americas world cinema spotlight south asia reelwomen

Belgium Norway/France the Kid with a Bike an evening with King of Devil’s Island Le gamin au vélo braden king Kongen av Bastøy Directors: Jean-Pierre, Luc Dardenne Director: Marius Holst Braden King is a New York-based filmmaker, 11-year-old Cyril’s only connection to his photographer and visual artist with Chicago Only twice in its history has the Norwegian father, who left him in a children’s home, is his roots. His most recent feature film, a road army fired on its own people. King of Devil’s bike. Desperately trying to retrieve his bike movie called Here, premiered at the 2011 Island focuses on one of these incidents: the and reunite with his father, the kid is charged Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals (p. 21). 1915 uprising at a boys’ reform school and its with confusion and anger. When local A live installation derived from of the project deadly aftermath. Erling is the newest resident hairdresser Samantha agrees to foster Cyril premiered at The Museum of Modern Art. of Bastøy Boys Home and immediately rebels on the weekends, she finds herself battling King’s previous work includes the feature film against the school’s oppressive regime. His his self-destructive tendencies. Awarded Dutch Harbor: Where The Sea Breaks Its Back rebellious spirit soon spreads like wildfire the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film (co-directed with photographer Laura Moya), among the inmates of this bleak institution. Festival, this tale of redemptive love bares the short film Home Movie and music videos The epic struggle for freedom that ensues the Dardennes’ evocative signature style. for Sparklehorse, Sonic Youth, Bonnie ‘Prince’ brings to light issues of class structure, French with subtitles. 87 min. Billy (Will Oldham) and Dirty Three. Join us for repression, and the consequences of control. Norwegian with subtitles. 120 min. SAT 10/8 • 5:15 PM EFKIDWI1 a presentation and discussion with the artist SUN 10/9 • 5:00 PM EFKIDWI2 followed by a Q&A. 60 min. FRI 10/7 • 5:45 PM EFKING1 FRI 10/14 • 5:00 PM EFKING2 SUN 10/16 • 7:00 PM EFBRAD1

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Kinyarwanda L.A. Raeven: Land of Oblivion Terre outragée Director: Alrick Brown Beyond the Image Director: Michale Boganim A young Tutsi girl and Hutu boy fall in love, L.A. Raeven - De verbeelding voorbij To the citizens of Prypiat, April 26, 1986 began an army captain tries to stay true to her Director: Lisa Boerstra just like any other day. Anya (Olga Kurylenko, mission while keeping her humanity intact, Lisbeth and Angelique Raeven are twin sisters Quantum of Solace) and Piotr celebrate and a priest grapples with his faith amidst who comprise the somewhat notorious video and their marriage while young Valery spends unspeakable betrayals and horrors. This performance duo L.A. Raeven. Their complex time with his physicist father, oblivious to the gorgeously shot first feature magnifies the and strained relationship unfolds in front of Lisa Chernobyl nuclear disaster that is irrevocably individual lives of those who suffered and Boerstra’s intimate camera while they work and changing their lives. What follows is a lyrical, endured in this compelling, wholly original live through the creation of two new performance pathos-filled portrait of the next ten years of take on the Rwandan Massacre of 1994. pieces. Inter-cutting scenes from earlier work those powerless to separate themselves from Kinyarwanda with subtitles. 100 min. and home videos from their childhood, viewers the town and its defining tragedy. French, Russian, Ukranian with subtitles. FRI 10/7 • 8:45 PM EFKINY1 are privy to the daily routines and conversations SAT 10/8 • 12:35 PM EFKINY2 at the home and studio they share. 107 min. THU 10/13 • 1:45 PM EFKINY3 Dutch with subtitles. 74 min. SAT 10/8 • 7:45 PM EFLAND1 SUN 10/9 • 12:40 PM EFLAND2 TUE 10/11 • 3:00 PM EFLARAE1 WED 10/12 • 5:00 PM EFLARAE2 world cinema docufest New Directors Competition black perspectives reelwomen reelwomen

Finland/france France USA

Le Havre Léa Leave it on the Floor Director: Aki Kaurismaki Director: Bruno Rolland Director: Sheldon Larry Humanity and dead-pan wit triumph in Aki Léa, a young student from the provinces, Sheldon Larry’s delightfully cheeky musical Kauriskmäki’s magical tale of an aging dreams of attending the prestigious Paris about the glamourous world of voguing Bohemian shoeshine and a young African Institute of Political Sciences and being follows the journey of one young gay African refugee. When fate lands Idrissa at Marcel fully independent. The sole caretaker of her American as he finds his place in the world. Marx’s doorstep in the French port city of Le resentful, Alzheimer’s-suffering grandmother, After being thrown out of the house by his Havre, Marcel knows what has to be done. Léa becomes a stripper in order to afford her homophobic mother, Brad stumbles into L.A.’s Enlisting the help of the whole neighbourhood university studies and her grandmother’s competitive underground drag ball scene of eccentrics and in defiance of all authority, nursing home. When things start to spiral out where he discovers a brave new world of he embarks on a risky plan to reconnect the of control, Léa discovers that easy answers friendship, love, and acceptance. Featuring boy with his mother. can come at a hefty price. original songs by Beyoncé’s creative director French with subtitles. 93 min. French with subtitles. 93 min. Kim Burse and dynamic choreography by Frank Gatson, Jr. 109 min. SAT 10/8 • 5:30 PM EFLEHAV1 FRI 10/7 • 4:10 PM EFLEA1 SUN 10/9 • 3:30 PM EFLEHAV2 FRI 10/14 • 7:30 PM EFLEA2 FRI 10/7 • 8:20 PM EFLEAVE1 SAT 10/15 • 3:40 pm EFLEA3 SAT 10/8 • 10:50 PM EFLEAVE2 world cinema black perspectives main competition world cinema outrageous

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Like Crazy A Little Closer A LONELY PLACE TO DIE Director: Drake Doremus Director: Matt Petock Director: Julian Gibley A love story is both a physical and emotional This lyrical portrait of life in small town A group of friends get much more than they tale—one that can be deeply personal Virginia finds a single mother struggling to bargained for when a weekend of extreme and heartbreaking for an audience to keep it together, working as a housekeeper mountain climbing turns into a terrifying ordeal. experience. When a British college student and looking for love. Meanwhile, her two This tension-filled thriller makes the most (Felicity Jones) falls for her American adolescent sons explore their own sexuality of its setting in the stunning but treacherous classmate, (Anton Yelchin), they embark on in the sweltering, stagnant days of summer. landscape of the Scottish Highlands with a passionate and life-changing journey to This debut family drama presents an immersive camerawork, an atmospheric Celtic be separated when she violates the terms of intimate study of the emotional landscape of soundtrack, and imagery straight out of The her visa. Like Crazy explores how a couple rural America. 73 min. Wicker Man. Featuring a chilling standout faces the real challenges of being together performance from Sean Harris (24 Hour Party SUN 10/9 • 6:15 PM EFALIT1 and of being apart. 88 min. MON 10/10 • 8:40 PM EFALIT2 People, The Red Riding Trilogy). 99 min. SUN 10/9 • 6:00 PM EFLIKE1 FRI 10/14 • 2:15 PM EFALIT3 SAT 10/8 • 10:40 PM EFLONE1 THU 10/13 • 10:40 PM EFLONE2 Special Guests (Scheduled to attend) Actors Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, and director Drake Soremus

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Hong Kong Sweden Denmark

Love Actually…Sucks! Love Always, Carolyn Love is in the Air Magi I Luften Director: Scud Director: Malin Korkeasalo, Director: Simon Staho Maria Ramström Hong Kong cult filmmaker Scud pushes as Daniel loves Lina, but Lina wants rock star many buttons as possible with these six tales Muse, mother, wife, and lover, Carolyn Niklas Ravn. Terese wants to give up her about love, sex and decadence. Opening with a Cassady was the great woman behind two virginity to Stefan but Stefan wants to come scandalously shocking wedding, Love Actually… of the Beat Generation’s greatest men: out and declare his intentions to Daniel who, Sucks! continues its exploration of the dark Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac. As the by now, is into Terese. Unable to express their side of romance with tales about an incestuous model for Kerouac’s Dean Moriarty in On dreams and passion with mere words, these relationship, a painter who falls for his male The Road, Neal was a living legend who four young souls break into song and dance model, a fitness trainer in search of young flesh, a often left Carolyn and the kids behind for over the course of one incredible night, in this lesbian couple with issues, a deadly love triangle grand adventures in the beatnik universe. color saturated, delightfully romantic musical. and a love story between a dance teacher and This endearing portrait celebrates the wit, Danish with subtitles. 93 min. his older student. Mature audiences only. beauty, grace, and normalcy of an overlooked SUN 10/16 • 5:15 PM EFLOVIS1 Cantonese with subtitles. 82 min. figure from one of American literature’s most MON 10/17 • 3:15 PM EFLOVIS2 popular moments. 71 min. FRI 10/7 • 10:50 PM EFLOVEA1 TUE 10/18 • 6:00 PM EFLOVIS3 SAT 10/8 • 9:45 PM EFLOVEA2 SUN 10/16 • 2:30 PM EFLOVE1 MON 10/10 • 3:50 PM EFLOVEA3 Mon 10/17 • 8:20 PM EFLOVE2

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26 Follow us on Facebook (chicagofilmfestival), Twitter (@chifilmfest), and YouTube (chifilmfest). Romania Mexico Indonesia

Loverboy Machete Language Madame X Director: Catalin Mitulescu El lenguage de los machetes Director: Lucky Kuswandi Director: Kyzza Terrazas In a small Romanian town, a group of In this Indonesian-styled Priscilla Queen of 20-something guys known as “loverboys” It’s one thing to talk, or even sing, about the Desert, our transsexual superhero goes woo young women into loving them before revolution. It’s another to take one up. Ray and up against Mr. Storm, The National Morality selling them into prostitution. One of the Ramona are not blind to the corruption and Front, and his deadly burqa-clad wives. A men, Luca, has never had any qualms with injustice that engulf the less fortunate in their dark wit pervades this daring, camp-filled first his profession until he meets Veli, a young country. Ramona finds an outlet in her music, but feature from director Lucky Kuswandi. farm girl. As their relationship deepens, Luca Ray struggles to find a cause—until he settles Indonesian with subtitles. 100 min. begins to question the path he is making and on a course of action that might prove to be WED 10/12 • 1:45 PM EFMADA1 the path he has chosen for the future. downright revolutionary … and lethal. Machete FRI 10/14 • 10:15 PM EFMADA2 Romanian with subtitles. 94 min. Language possesses a nervous, unsettling SUN 10/16 • 4:10 PM EFMADA3 energy that perfectly mirrors its characters own SUN 10/9 • 1:50 PM EFLOVER1 FRI 10/14 • 4:00 PM EFLOVER2 near-frenzied search for purpose. SAT 10/15 • 11:50 aM EFLOVER3 Spanish with subtitles. 85 min. TUE 10/11 • 8:40 PM EFMACH1 WED 10/12 • 7:15 PM EFMACH2

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Israel/Palestine USA Denmark/Sweden

Man Without a Cell Phone MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE Melancholia Ish lelo selolari Director: Sean Durkin Director: Lars von Trier Director: Sameh Zoabi Elizabeth Olsen stars as Martha, a young The title of Lars von Trier’s anticipated new film A young Arab Israeli finds his political voice woman rapidly unraveling amidst her attempt describes both the state of mind of newlywed in this genial comedy about Israel-Palestine to reclaim a normal life after fleeing from a Justine (Kirsten Dunst) as well as the name tensions. Jawat loves to endlessly call girls on cult and its charismatic leader (John Hawkes). of the planet on a collision course to Earth. his cell phone, even though his heart belongs to Seeking help from her estranged older sister Featuring standout performances by an all-star another. His father, Saleh, is causing a ruckus Lucy (Sarah Paulson) and brother-in-law cast featuring Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, over a newly constructed cell phone tower near (Hugh Dancy), Martha is unable and unwilling Kiefer Sutherland, Stellan Skarsgard, Alexander his olive grove, going so far as to attempt its to reveal the truth about her disappearance. Skarsgard, and John Hurt, Melancholia is destruction. When Jawat’s calls to the West When her memories trigger a chilling a hauntingly beautiful, dreamlike and eerie Bank draw the attention of Israeli authorities, paranoia that her former cult could still be portrait of a family confronting the prelude to the young slacker finally takes a stand. pursuing her, the line between Martha’s the end of the world. 135 min. Arabic with subtitles. 83 min. reality and delusion begins to blur. 120 min. FRI 10/7 • 8:30 PM EFMELAN SUN 10/16 • 11:30 AM EFMAN1 SAT 10/8 • 5:00 PM EFMMMM1 MON 10/17 • 3:45 PM EFMAN2 TUE 10/18 • 8:20 PM EFMAN3

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SPOTLIGHT SOUTH ASIA PRESENTS A Gala Presentation of Michael MAUSAm (Seasons of Love) Director: Markus Schleinzer Director: Pankaj Kapoor While troubling to use subtle and pedophilia Join us on the red carpet as we celebrate the launch of the Spotlight South Asia program, in the same sentence, there’s no better way presented by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, with a Gala Presentation to describe this matter-of-fact story of a of the highly anticipated Bollywood feature Mausam (Seasons of Love). Renowned Indian man who keeps a young boy locked in his actor Pankaj Kapoor makes his directorial debut with this Bollywood-style love story between basement. The horrors of unseen sexual Kashmiri refugee Aayat and Punjabi Air Force officer Harry. Spanning a full decade and two abuse merge with the banal cues of modern continents, we follow their relationship through four distinct seasons, each representing a domestic life as this understated film carefully different stage in their lives. A passionate and sweeping romantic epic full of exuberant musical plots its twists and turns. The film forgoes numbers, Mausam brings to life an unforgettable journey of sacrifice, separation, and love. explicit visuals in exchange for an ending that Hindi with subtitles. 160 min. FRI 10/7 • 6:30 PM • EFMAUS1 you won’t forget. German with subtitles. 96 min. Special Guests (Scheduled to attend) Director Pankaj Kapoor SAT 10/8 • 2:40 PM EFMICH1 6:00 Red Carpet Arrivals | 6:30 Screening SUN 10/9 • 7:45 PM EFMICH2 10:00 After-party at Privét Nightclub & Lounge, 937 N. Rush St. featuring Bollywood and Bangra DJs. Complimentary admission with ticket stub.

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Mexico Poland Austria/Luxembourg

Miss Bala the Mole Kret My Best Enemy Mein bester Feind Director: Gerardo Naranjo Director: Rafael Lewandowski Director: Wolfgang Murnberger Equal doses of unrelenting action, beauty Pawel and his father Zygmunt make a living Deception and irony fuel this World War II- queen fantasy, and social disquiet rule this importing second hand clothing from France to set comedy. Victor Kauffman, the son of a detached tale of drug trafficking in Baja Poland. When Zygmunt is suddenly and publicly wealthy Jewish gallery owner, and Rudi are California, inspired by a true story. On her accused of being a past Communist informant, lifelong friends. When Rudi returns to Vienna way to compete in her first beauty pageant, he flees the country leaving the stubbornly from Germany as an S.S. officer in the Third Laura is swept up in a gangland slaying and apolitical Pawel to pick up the pieces and face Reich, the Kaufmanns don’t just have their suddenly finds herself forced to work as a the pervading legacy of Poland’s troubled past. own safety to worry about. A rare, long lost mule in order to save her own life. With strong performances and sympathetic Michelangelo drawing the family has secretly Spanish with subtitles. 113 min. characters, The Mole candidly explores how held for centuries has become the most the weight of history affects a son’s love for his desired object of Adolf Hitler, and a comedy SAT 10/8 • 8:00 PM EFMISS1 MON 10/10 • 8:35 PM EFMISS2 family and his motherland. of errors ensues as the two old friends find Polish, French with subtitles. 108 min. themselves trying to outwit the other in a race to track down the work of art. FRI 10/14 • 3:00 PM EFMOLE1 SUN 10/16 • 5:30 PM EFMOLE2 German with subtitles. 106 min. TUE 10/18 • 6:20 PM EFMOLE3 SUN 10/16 • 4:15 PM EFMYBES1 TUE 10/18 • 5:20 PM EFMYBES2 main competition cinema of the americas main competition world cinema

28 Follow us on Facebook (chicagofilmfestival), Twitter (@chifilmfest), and YouTube (chifilmfest). Thursday, october 6 • Harris Theater (205 E. Randolph st.) opening night presentation the last rites of joe may 103 min. • eflast1

6:00 Red Carpet Arrivals Special Guests (Scheduled to attend) 7:00 Guest presentation and screening Director Joe Maggio, star Dennis Farina, 9:30 Reception and cast

friday, october 7 • AMC RIVER EAST 21 (322 E. ILLINOIS ST.)

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2/3 PM day is done 3:40 PM • 111 min. 4 ways of p.18 • EFDAY1 PM Léa the sea 4:00 PM • 78 min. 4:10 PM • 93 min. the screen 5 p.25 • EFLEA1 p.40 • EFWAYS1 PM illusion 5:00 PM • 77 min. king of p.37 • EFSCREE1 6 goodbye from one film PM ticket to devil’s island to another tomboy paradise 5:45 PM • 120 min. first love mausam 6:10 PM • 84 min. 6:00 PM • 110 min. 6:00 PM • 104 min. 6:15 PM • 88 min. p.24 • EFKING1 take me home (seasons of p.39 • EFTOM1 7 p.21 • EFGDBYE1 6:40 PM • 97 min. p.20 • EFFROM1 PM p.39 • EFTICK1 love) p.38 • EFTAKE1 6:30 PM • 160 min. 8 p.28 • EFMAUS1 PM leave it on southwest melancholia kinyarwanda the floor 9 the giants 8:15 PM • 128 min. Fat, Bald, PM 8:50 PM • 84 min. 8:30 PM • 135 min. 8:45 PM • 100 min. 8:20 PM • 109 min. p.38 • EFSOUTH1 p.27 • EFMELAN Short Man p.25 • EFKINY1 p.25 • EFLEAVE1 p.20 • EFGIAN1 9:10 PM • 91 min. 10 PM p.19 • EFFAT1 love actually 11 sucks! the holding PM 10:50 PM • 82 min. 10:50 PM • 93 min. rabies p.22 • EFHOLD1 p.26 • EFLOVEA1 11:15 PM • 90 min. 12 AM p.35 • EFRABIE1 saturday, october 8 • AMC RIVER EAST 21 (322 E. ILLINOIS ST.)

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11 AM the screen illusion panel: black 12 11:30 AM • 77 min. PM perspectives p.37 • EFSCREE2 12:00 PM • 60 min. Fat, Bald, p.43 • efpanbp southwest kinyarwanda Short Man 1 12:30 PM • 128 min. 12:35 PM • 100 min. 12:45 PM • 91 min. PM the giants p.38 • EFSOUTH2 1:00 PM • 84 min. on the bridge p.25 • EFKINY2 p.19 • EFFAT2 p.20 • EFGIAN2 1:15 PM • 96 min. 2 p.34 • EFONBRI1 PM ticket to paradise american michael 3 2:30 PM • 88 min. translation PM on the edge 2:40 PM • 96 min. 2:50 PM • 90 min. p.39 • EFTICK2 3:00 PM • 106 min. p.28 • EFMICH1 tomboy OSLO, p.13 • EFAMER1 3:10 PM • 84 min. AUGUST 31 p.34 • EFONEDG1 without 4 3:45 PM • 87 min. p.39 • EFTOM2 PM 3:30 PM • 96 min. p.35 • EFOSLO1 p.42 • EFWITH1 corpo 5 celeste PM 4:45 PM • 90 min. the kid with MARTHA MARCY a bike circus p.17 • EFCORP1 MAY MARLENE le havre 5:15 PM • 87 min. columbia 5:00 PM • 120 min. 5:30 PM • 93 min. 6 the jewel p.24 • EFKIDWI1 jr. board event 5:10 PM • 113 min. p.27 • EFMMMM1 PM 5:45 PM • 110 min. take me home p.16 • EFCIRC1 p.25 • EFLEHAV1 p.23 • EFJEWEL1 6:00 PM • 97 min. 7 p.38 • EFTAKE2 PM woman in the fifth 7:15 PM • 84 min. what love land of 8 p.42 • efwoman1 the return may bring oblivion PM miss bala 7:30 PM • 120 min. the forgiveness corrode of joe rich 7:45 PM • 107 min. 8:00 PM • 113 min. 8:05 PM • 95 min. p.41 • EFWHAT1 p.25 • EFLAND1 of blood p.28 • EFMISS1 8:25 PM • 92 min. 9 8:30 PM • 109 min. p.35 • EFRETJO1 PM p.17 • EFCORR1 p.20 • EFFORG1 love actually 10 sucks! PM 9:45 PM • 82 min. p.26 • EFLOVEA2 gandu the holding 10:30 PM • 85 min. a lonely 11 leave it on 10:30 PM • 93 min. p.20 • EFGAND1 place to die PM the floor 10:40 PM • 99 min. p.22 • EFHOLD2 10:50 PM • 109 min. p.26 • EFLONE1 p.25 • EFLEAVE2 12 AM

5 x 5 $5 Matinees (Monday – Friday through 5 PM) 29 SUNday, october 9 • AMC RIVER EAST 21 (322 E. ILLINOIS ST.) NEW 400 THEATER SCREEN 2 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 5 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 11 SCREEN 21 6746 N. Sheridan Rd.

11 AM salaam dunk 11:30 AM • 83 min. 12 PM corrode p.36 • EFSALAA1 12:00 PM • 92 min. on the edge p.17 • EFCORR2 corpo land of 1 12:30 PM • 106 min. oblivion PM p.34 • EFONEDG2 without celeste 1:00 PM • 90 min. 12:40 PM • 107 min. 1:15 PM • 87 min. loverboy p.25 • EFLAND2 2 p.42 • EFWITH2 p.17 • EFCORP2 PM 1:50 PM • 94 min. the p.27 • EFLOVER1 forgiveness 3 woman in his mother’s of blood We Have PM eyes flying fish the fifth 2:30 PM • 109 min. american a Pope 3:00 PM • 105 min. cairo 678 3:00 PM • 102 min. le havre 3:00 PM • 125 min. 3:15 PM • 84 min. p.20 • EFFORG2 translation 3:30 PM • 93 min. 4 p.21 • EFHIS1 3:30 PM • 100 min. p.41 • EFWEHAV1 p.19 • EFFLY1 PM p.42 • efwoman2 3:40 PM • 90 min. p.15 • EFCAIR1 p.25 • EFLEHAV2 p.13 • EFAMER2 5 the kid with PM OSLO, a bike top floor, 5:00 PM • 87 min. cooley high AUGUST 31 left wing the student 6 5:15 PM • 96 min. p.24 • EFKIDWI2 5:15 PM • 107 min. 5:30 PM • 93 min. like crazy 5:35 PM • 110 min. Azhagarsamy’s PM P.35 • EFOSLO2 a little p.17 • EFCOOL p.39 • EFTOP1 closer 6:00 PM • 88 min. p.38 • EFSTUD1 Horse 6:15 PM • 73 min. p.26 • EFLIKE1 6:00 PM • 122 min. 7 PM p.26 • EFALIT1 p.14 • EFAZH1

8 michael the jewel PM 7:45 PM • 96 min. tyrannosaur 7:30 PM • 110 min. p.28 • EFMICH2 8:00 PM • 91 min. p.23 • EFJEWEL2 cinema sacrifice p.40 • EFTYRAN1 Komunisto kaidan 8:00 PM • 132 min. bullhead 9 8:15 PM • 129 min. PM 8:30 PM • 101 min. horror p.36 • EFSACRI1 p.16 • EFCINE1 classics p.15 • EFBULH1 8:30 PM • 160 min. 10 p.24 • EFKAID PM

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MONday, october 10 • AMC RIVER EAST 21 (322 E. ILLINOIS ST.)

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2/3 ticket to top floor, panel: panel: art as PM paradise left wing south asia activism day is done 3:00 PM • 88 min. 3:30 PM • 93 min. 2:00 PM • 60 min. 12:30 PM • 60 min. 3:40 PM • 111 min. 4 p.39 • EFTICK3 p.39 • EFTOP2 p.43 • efpansa p.43 • EFPANEDU p.18 • EFDAY2 PM cinema love actually Komunisto cairo 678 5 sucks! 4:00 PM • 101 min. 4:15 PM • 100 min. PM 3:50 PM • 82 min. p.16 • EFCINE2 p.15 • EFCAIR2 flying fish p.26 • EFLOVEA3 his mother’s 6 5:20 PM • 125 min. tyrannosaur eyes PM 5:45 PM • 91 min. goodbye 5:30 PM • 105 min. p.19 • EFFLY2 shorts 1 the return bullhead p.40 • EFTYRAN2 first love p.21 • EFHIS2 6:30 PM • 80 min. of joe rich 6:00 PM • 129 min. 7 6:00 PM • 110 min. 6:15 PM • 95 min. a dangerous PM p.44 • EFSHTCT1 p.15 • EFBULH2 p.21 • EFGDBYE2 p.35 • EFRETJO2 method 7:00 PM • 99 min. 8 bunny drop p.18 • EFDANG1 PM 7:45 PM • 115 min. wetlands p.15 • EFBUN1 a little circus bol 8:15 PM • 111 min. miss bala 9 8:35 PM • 113 min. closer columbia 8:00 PM • 165 min. PM p.41 • EFWET1 8:40 PM • 73 min. p.28 • EFMISS2 8:45 PM • 113 min. p.14 • EFBOL1 the student p.26 • EFALIT2 p.16 • EFCIRC2 9:00 PM • 110 min. 10 p.38 • EFSTUD2 PM rabies 10:15 PM • 90 min. 11 PM p.35 • EFRABIE2

TUESday, october 11 • AMC RIVER EAST 21 (322 E. ILLINOIS ST.)

SCREEN 2 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 5 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 9 SCREEN 11 SCREEN 21 2/3 Azhagarsa- corrode l.a. raeven PM my’s Horse the jewel 2:30 PM • 92 min. 3:00 PM • 74 min. goodbye 3:00 PM • 110 min. 2:50 PM • 122 min. p.17 • EFCORR3 p.25 • EFLARAE1 what love 3:15 PM • 104 min. p.23 • EFJEWEL3 4 p.14 • EFAZH2 the giants may bring p.21 • EFGOODB1 PM 4:00 PM • 84 min. 3:30 PM • 120 min. p.20 • EFGIAN3 p.41 • EFWHAT2 5 salaam dunk PM gandu 5:00 PM • 83 min. bunny drop volcano 5:30 PM • 85 min. p.36 • EFSALAA2 don’t go 6 5:25 PM • 115 min. ken nordine PM 5:50 PM • 99 min. p.20 • EFGAND2 patang breaking my p.15 • EFBUN2 6:00 PM • 90 min. p.40 • EFVOLC1 6:10 PM • 93 min. heart p.34 • EFKEN1 7 p.35 • EFPAT1 the bully 5:50 PM • 115 min. PM project p.19 • EFDONT1 we need to talk 7:00 PM • 90 min. 8 one upon a time about kevin p.15 • EFBULP1 PM 7:30 PM • 112 min. in anatolia wild bill wetlands p.41 • EFWENEE1 machete 8:15 PM • 96 min. 9 7:50 PM • 150 min. 8:20 PM • 111 min. language if not us, who 8:30 PM • 124 min. p.42 • EFWILD1 PM p.34 • EFONCE1 p.41 • EFWET2 8:40 PM • 85 min. p.27 • EFMACH1 p.22 • EFIFNOT1 10 PM the Whisperer in Darkness 11 10:15 PM • 103 min. PM p.42 • EFWHISP1 30 For added screenings and a schedule of visiting filmmakers, see chicagofilmfestival.com. wednESday, october 12 • AMC RIVER EAST 21 (322 E. ILLINOIS ST.)

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2/3 madame x john c. reilly PM the clown 1:45 PM • 100 min. joint body 11:00 aM • 60 min. 3:20 PM • 88 min. p.27 • EFMADA1 p.17 • EFjohncr bullhead without 3:40 PM • 86 min. 3:15 PM • 129 min. 4 p.16 • EFCLOWN1 p.23 • EFJOINT1 PM 3:30 PM • 87 min. from one film p.15 • EFBULH3 flying fish p.42 • EFWITH3 to another 5 4:00 PM • 125 min. 2:30 PM • 104 min. PM p.19 • EFFLY3 p.20 • EFFROM2 return ticket if not us, who 5:30 PM • 88 min. 6 cairo 678 women and l.a. raeven 5:20 PM • 124 min. PM p.36 • EFRETIC1 5:50 PM • 100 min. children 5:00 PM • 74 min. p.22 • EFIFNOT2 wild bill p.15 • EFCAIR3 hotel swooni 6:00 PM • 80 min. p.25 • EFLARAE2 6:10 PM • 96 min. 7 p.42 • EFWOMEN1 p.42 • EFWILD2 PM 6:40 PM • 90 min. machete my week with p.22 • EFHOTEL1 language marilyn 8 volcano 7:15 PM • 85 min. 7:00 PM • 100 min. PM 7:50 PM • 99 min. p.27 • EFMACH2 p.11 • efmywee NOBODY ELSE p.40 • EFVOLC2 we believed the good 9 don’t go smuggler BUT YOU son 8:00 PM • 170 min. 8:30 PM • 115 min. PM breaking my 8:30 PM • 102 min. 8:40 PM • 87 min. p.41 • EFWEBEL1 p.37 • EFSMUG1 heart p.34 • EFNOBOD1 p.21 • EFGOODS1 10 9:00 PM • 115 min. the Whisperer PM p.19 • EFDONT2 in Darkness 9:45 PM • 103 min. 11 p.42 • EFWHISP2 PM festival centerpiece presentation

my week with marilyn 100 min. • EFMYWEE 7:00 Guest presentation and screening Special Guests (Scheduled to attend) Director Simon Curtis and scripwriter Adrian Hodges

thurSday, october 13 • AMC RIVER EAST 21 (322 E. ILLINOIS ST.)

SCREEN 2 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 5 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 9 SCREEN 11 SCREEN 21 the return kinyarwanda patang 2/3 top floor, PM wetlands of joe rich 1:45 PM • 100 min. 2:20 PM • 93 min. 3:00 PM • 111 min. left wing 2:30 PM • 95 min. p.25 • EFKINY3 p.35 • EFPAT2 4 woman in p.41 • EFWET3 3:30 PM • 93 min. p.35 • EFRETJO3 the kid PM p.39 • EFTOP3 american the fifth translation who lies 4:05 PM • 84 min. 4:00 PM • 100 min. 5 inshalla, 3:50 PM • 90 min. the good p.42 • efwoman3 p.24 • EFKIDWH1 PM ways of football p.13 • EFAMER3 son hotel swooni the sea 5:00 PM • 83 min. 5:00 PM • 87 min. 6 return ticket 5:30 PM • 78 min. p.22 • EFINSH1 p.21 • EFGOODS2 PM 5:40 PM • 90 min. 6:00 PM • 88 min. p.22 • EFHOTEL2 p.40 • EFWAYS2 one upon a time p.36 • EFRETIC2 7 haskell in anatolia PM the turin wexler 6:10 PM • 150 min. p.34 • EFONCE2 horse 7:00 PM • 90 min. goodbye 8 7:15 PM • 146 min. p.41 • EFHASK1 7:30 PM • 104 min. PM the slut best coriolanus p.39 • EFTURIN1 p.21 • EFGOODB2 8:20 PM • 88 min. intentions smuggler 8:00 PM • 122 min. 8:20 PM • 115 min. 9 p.37 • EFSLUT1 8:10 PM • 105 min. women and p.17 • EFCORI PM p.14 • EFBEST1 children p.37 • EFSMUG2 9:00 PM • 80 min. the yellow 10 p.42 • EFWOMEN2 sea cold sweat PM juan of a lonely 9:20 PM • 140 min. 10:00 PM • 80 min. the dead place to die p.42 • EFYELL1 p.17 • EFCOLD1 11 10:40 PM • 92 min. 10:40 PM • 99 min. PM p.23 • EFJUAN1 p.26 • EFLONE2 friday, october 14 • AMC RIVER EAST 21 (322 E. ILLINOIS ST.)

SCREEN 2 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 5 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 11 SCREEN 21 panel: 2/3 chico & rita shorts 7 a little take me home PM the mole 2:15 PM • 97 min. animation 3:15 PM • 94 min. 3:05 PM • 67 min. closer volcano 3:00 PM • 108 min. 2:00 PM • 60 min. 2:15 PM • 73 min. p.38 • EFTAKE3 p.15 • EFCHIC1 p.45 • EFSHTDC1 3:20 PM • 99 min. 4 p.28 • EFMOLE1 p.43 • efpanani p.26 • EFALIT3 p.40 • EFVOLC3 PM almanya loverboy 4:15 PM • 101 min. 5 shorts 1 4:00 PM • 94 min. p.13 • EFALMA1 PM king of 5:00 PM • 80 min. p.27 • EFLOVER2 bonsai devil’s island 5:00 PM • 120 min. p.44 • EFSHTCT2 NOBODY ELSE 6 5:30 PM • 95 min. best BUT YOU PM p.24 • EFKING2 p.14 • EFBONS1 intentions Crazy Horse 5:40 PM • 102 min. 5:50 PM • 105 min. 6:00 PM • 120 min. joint body p.34 • EFNOBOD2 6:30 PM • 86 min. 7 p.14 • EFBEST2 p.18 • EFCRAZ1 PM shorts 4 p.23 • EFJOINT2 7:10 PM • 63 min. Léa don’t go 8 7:30 PM • 93 min. p.45 • EFSHTSX1 PM breaking my the silver cliff p.25 • EFLEA2 8:00 PM • 82 min. snowtown undefeated heart 9 p.37 • EFSILV1 8:30 PM • 120 min. shorts 2 8:20 PM • 113 min. 8:00 PM • 115 min. PM p.40 • EFUNDEF1 p.19 • EFDONT3 patang p.38 • EFSNOW1 9:00 PM • 87 min. 9:10 PM • 93 min. 10 p.44 • EFSHTAN1 p.35 • EFPAT3 PM haunters madame x 10:00 PM • 114 min. george 11 10:15 PM • 100 min. p.21 • EFHAUNT1 the hedgehog juan of PM p.27 • EFMADA2 10:45 PM • 80 min. the dead shorts 3 10:30 PM • 92 min. p.20 • EFGEO1 11:15 PM • 100 min. 12 P.23 • EFJUAN2 AM p.44 • EFSHTMD1

5 x 5 $5 Matinees (Monday – Friday through 5 PM) 31 saturday, october 15 • AMC RIVER EAST 21 (322 E. ILLINOIS ST.)

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11 cineyouth AM best of fest 10:30 AM • 95 min. panel: if not us, who p.16 • EFCINYO1 loverboy inshalla, 12 11:30 AM • 124 min. PM distribution 11:50 aM • 94 min. football 12:00 PM • 60 min. p.22 • EFIFNOT3 the destiny of p.27 • EFLOVER3 the silver cliff 12:00 PM • 83 min. p.43 • efpandis lesser animals 12:30 PM • 82 min. p.22 • EFINSH2 1 NOBODY ELSE 12:10 PM • 89 min. p.37 • EFSILV2 PM return ticket BUT YOU p.18 • EFDEST1 1:15 PM • 88 min. 1:00 PM • 102 min. 2 p.36 • EFRETIC3 p.34 • EFNOBOD3 carol PM the turin channing shorts 6 2:00 PM • 88 min. goodbye horse 2:10 PM • 104 min. 2:30 PM • 75 min. p.15 • EFCAR1 3 2:00 PM • 146 min. chronicle of p.21 • EFGOODB3 p.45 • EFSHTAQU1 PM p.39 • EFTURIN2 my mother buddha 2:45 PM • 119 min. mountain Léa p.16 • EFCHRO1 4 3:30 PM • 101 min. PM 3:40 PM • 93 min. valley of the p.14 • EFBUD1 p.25 • EFLEA3 shorts 5 forgotten 4:15 PM • 72 min. almanya turn me on, 4:30 PM • 83 min. 4:30 PM • 101 min. 5 p.40 • EFVALL1 PM dammit! p.45 • EFSHTWW1 p.13 • EFALMA2 5:00 PM • 76 min. p.40 • EFTURN1 6 innocent holidays by sacrifice PM saturday the sea sadermania 5:30 PM • 132 min. 5:50 PM • 99 min. 6:10 PM • 77 min. 6:15 PM • 85 min. p.36 • EFSACRI2 p.22 • EFINNOC1 p.22 • EFHOLI1 7 David is Dying p.36 • EFSADER1 diana 6:40 PM • 90 min. PM vreeland the slut p.18 • EFDAVDY1 7:15 PM • 88 min. 7:00 PM • 92 min. 8 p.37 • EFSLUT2 p.19 • EFDIANA1 PM chico & rita 8:00 PM • 94 min. natural andrew bird: here p.15 • EFCHIC2 the yellow sea selection 8:15 PM • 110 min. 9 fever year 8:30 PM • 140 min. 8:40 PM • 90 min. p.21 • EFHERE1 PM p.34 • EFNAT1 8:50 PM • 80 min. p.42 • EFYELL2 p.13 • EFAND1 joint body 9:15 PM • 86 min. 10 snowtown p.23 • EFJOINT3 PM 9:40 PM • 120 min. p.38 • EFSNOW2 george haunters the hedgehog 11 10:30 PM • 114 min. shorts 3 PM cold sweat 10:45 PM • 80 min. p.21 • EFHAUNT2 11:00 PM • 100 min. p.20 • EFGEO2 P.44 • EFSHTMD2 11:15 PM • 80 min. 12 p.17 • EFCOLD2 AM

sunday, october 16 • AMC RIVER EAST 21 (322 E. ILLINOIS ST.) DOC FILMS SCREEN 2 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 5 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 9 SCREEN 11 SCREEN 21 1212 E. 59 St.

11 AM man without a cell phone panel: shorts 1 11:30 AM • 83 min. 12 PM social media the slut 11:45 aM • 80 min. carol p.27 • EFMAN1 12:00 PM • 60 min. 12:00 PM • 88 min. chico & rita p.44 • EFSHTCT3 channing p.43 • efpansm best p.37 • EFSLUT3 12:30 PM • 94 min. 12:10 PM • 88 min. intentions 1 p.15 • EFCHIC3 p.15 • EFCAR2 12:20 PM • 105 min. PM p.14 • EFBEST3 almanya 1:20 PM • 101 min. shorts 2 2 amador his mother’s p.13 • EFALMA3 PM 1:45 PM • 112 min. 1:50 PM • 87 min. love always, eyes p.44 • EFSHTAN2 p.13 • EFAMA1 2:00 PM • 105 min. carolyn 2:30 PM • 71 min. 3 p.21 • EFHIS3 holidays by PM p.26 • EFLOVE1 the sea play 3:00 PM • 77 min. 3:00 PM • 118 min. p.22 • EFHOLI2 natural p.35 • EFPLAY1 4 selection PM madame x dekh indian 3:45 PM • 90 min. 4:10 PM • 100 min. my best circus the good p.34 • EFNAT2 p.27 • EFMADA3 enemy 4:00 PM • 103 min. doctor 5 4:15 PM • 106 min. p.18 • EFDEKH1 4:30 PM • 93 min. PM p.20 • EFGOODD1 three Love is p.28 • EFMYBES1 musketeers karma in the Air 5:30 PM • 88 min. the mole 5:00 PM • 110 min. 5:15 PM • 93 min. the destiny of p.24 • EFKARMA1 6 5:30 PM • 108 min. p.39 • EFTHREE1 p.26 • EFLOVIS1 PM turn me on, p.28 • EFMOLE2 lesser animals dammit! on the 6:00 PM • 89 min. romeos 6:20 PM • 76 min. bridge braden king p.18 • EFDEST2 7 p.40 • EFTURN2 6:30 PM • 96 min. PM 6:45 PM • 94 min. 7:00 PM • 60 min. p.36 • EFROMEO1 p.34 • EFONBRI2 p.24 • EFBRAD1

8 chronicle of inshalla, PM sleeping my mother andrew bird: football bonsai beauty amnesty 7:50 PM • 119 min. fever year 8:00 PM • 83 min. 8:20 PM • 95 min. 8:10 PM • 101 min. 8:30 PM • 83 min. p.16 • EFCHRO2 8:30 PM • 80 min. p.22 • EFINSH3 9 innocent p.14 • EFBONS2 p.37 • EFSLPBE1 sleep PM p.13 • EFAMN1 p.13 • EFAND2 saturday 8:50 PM • 96 min. 9:00 PM • 99 min. p.37 • EFSLEEP1 10 p.22 • EFINNOC2 PM

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32 Get the Festival App at applitite.com. monday, october 17 • AMC RIVER EAST 21 (322 E. ILLINOIS ST.)

SCREEN 2 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 5 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 9 SCREEN 11 SCREEN 21 2/3 hotel swooni buddha valley of the dekh indian Love is the good son PM 2:00 PM • 90 min. chronicle of forgotten circus in the Air 1:50 PM • 87 min. mountain my mother p.22 • EFHOTEL3 3:30 PM • 101 min. 2:15 PM • 73 min. 3:00 PM • 103 min. 3:15 PM • 93 min. p.21 • EFGOODS3 4 3:15 PM • 119 min. PM p.14 • EFBUD2 p.40 • EFVALL2 p.18 • EFDEKH2 p.26 • EFLOVIS2 man without the silver cliff p.16 • EFCHRO3 5 4:00 PM • 82 min. all me a cell phone PM p.37 • EFSILV3 4:30 PM • 78 min. 3:45 PM • 83 min. p.27 • EFMAN2 6 the kid karma p.13 • EFALL1 play 5:50 PM • 88 min. the clown 5:30 PM • 118 min. PM who lies club zeus david 6:10 PM • 88 min. Ending Note p.35 • EFPLAY2 6:00 PM • 100 min. p.24 • EFKARMA2 6:15 PM • 75 min. robinson 7 p.16 • EFCLOWN2 6:30 PM • 90 min. 6:00 PM • 90 min. PM p.24 • EFKIDWH2 p.16 • EFCLUB1 p.19 • EFEND1 p.36 • EFDAVID1 8 PM love always, into the abyss here amador sleeping 7:30 pm • 100 min. 8:00 PM • 110 min. the double target beauty carolyn 9 8:15 PM • 112 min. 8:10 PM • 154 min. David is Dying 8:20 PM • 71 min. p.23 • EFINTO1 p.21 • EFHERE2 steps PM 8:30 PM • 101 min. 8:30 PM • 86 min. p.13 • EFAMA2 p.39 • EFTARG1 9:00 PM • 90 min. p.26 • EFLOVE2 p.37 • EFSLPBE2 10 p.18 • EFDAVDY2 p.19 • EFDOUB1 PM 11 PM

TUESday, october 18 • AMC RIVER EAST 21 (322 E. ILLINOIS ST.)

SCREEN 2 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 5 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 9 SCREEN 11 SCREEN 21 the destiny of 2/3 play southwest diana women and innocent PM buddha lesser animals 2:15 PM • 118 min. 2:45 PM • 128 min. vreeland children saturday mountain p.35 • EFPLAY3 2:10 PM • 80 min. 2:00 PM • 89 min. 4 3:50 PM • 101 min. p.38 • EFSOUTH3 3:30 PM • 92 min. 3:40 PM • 99 min. PM p.42 • EFWOMEN3 p.18 • EFDEST3 p.14 • EFBUD3 holidays by p.19 • EFDIANA2 p.22 • EFINNOC3 5 the sea amnesty Ending Note PM 4:40 PM • 77 min. my best 4:10 PM • 83 min. 4:00 PM • 90 min. p.13 • EFAMN2 p.19 • EFEND2 6 the kid p.22 • EFHOLI3 enemy all me Love is PM who lies 5:20 PM • 106 min. 5:50 PM • 78 min. in the Air the double the mole p.28 • EFMYBES2 pina steps 7 6:00 PM • 100 min. p.13 • EFALL2 jeff, who 6:00 PM • 93 min. 6:20 PM • 108 min. 6:15 PM • 103 min. 6:10 PM • 86 min. PM p.24 • EFKIDWH3 lives at home p.26 • EFLOVIS3 p.28 • EFMOLE3 p.35 • EFPINA we need to talk 7:00 PM • 84 min. p.19 • EFDOUB2 8 about kevin PM sleep p.23 • EFJEFF1 7:45 PM • 112 min. club zeus the clown 8:10 PM • 96 min. man without 9 romeos p.41 • EFWENEE2 8:30 PM • 75 min. PM 8:45 PM • 88 min. p.37 • EFSLEEP2 target a cell phone 9:00 PM • 94 min. p.16 • EFCLUB2 p.16 • EFCLOWN3 8:50 PM • 154 min. 8:20 PM • 83 min. p.36 • EFROMEO2 10 p.39 • EFTARG2 p.27 • EFMAN3 PM 11 PM wedneSday, october 19 • AMC RIVER EAST 21 (322 E. ILLINOIS ST.) best of the festival Visit our website for a complete schedule of Best of the Festival on Monday, Oct. 17. SCREEN 2 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 5 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 11 SCREEN 21

5 PM your vote counted back by 6 coming soon PM intercom popular joe swanberg to be 6:00 PM • 60 min. demand 6:00 PM • 90 min. announced p.23 • efinter1 p.38 • EFjoe1 7 fan favorite PM

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Will it be the first Chicago showing of a hotly anticipated Hollywood blockbuster? Maybe the first look at a foreign film making waves around the world? How about a potential Oscar winner for Best Picture? You won’t know what you’ll see until the lights go down. Are you excited yet? Well here’s the best part: It’s FREE! The only catch is that you’ve gotta wear a Festival T-shirt or sweatshirt (p. 52) to get in.

Thursday, october 20 • AMC RIVER EAST 21 (322 E. ILLINOIS ST.) closing night presentation the artist L’artiste 100 min. • EFART1 7:00 Screening

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Natural Selection an evening with Nobody Else But You Director: Robbie Pickering ken nordine Poupoupidou Director: Gérald Hustache-Mathieu Linda’s devoutly religious husband Abe hasn’t Voice-over and radio legend Ken Nordine has slept with her since he found out she was recorded hundreds of radio and TV spots and The ambiguous suicide of local beauty, barren. That was 20 years ago. But when Abe movie trailers over the past seven decades weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn suffers a stroke she finds out that his sexual and has been the voice of our Festival for 46 Monroe look-a-like finds an eager sleuth in needs were long being taken care of at the years. His 1957 album Word Jazz virtually David Rousseau, best-selling crime novelist. local sperm bank. And that he has a mullet- created a new art form that combined the free When Rousseau visits a remote Alps headed ex-con son named Raymond. Linda flow of improvisational jazz with poetry. Ken village for the reading of his friend’s will he goes to Florida to meet Raymond and the pair is currently developing a series of multimedia unwittingly, but irresistibly, gets caught in the embark on a journey of self-discovery in this projects called Image Jazz that will combine tangled web of murder and small town politics offbeat, darkly funny road movie that was a words with computer-generated images. This in this off-beat mystery. big winner at this year’s SXSW Film Festival. event offers a rare and unique opportunity to French with subtitles. 102 min. 90 min. hear Ken talk in person about his long and WED 10/12 • 8:30 PM EFNOBOD1 SAT 10/15 • 8:40 PM EFNAT1 innovative career and to experience some of FRI 10/14 • 5:40 PM EFNOBOD2 SUN 10/16 • 3:45 PM EFNAT2 his best work, followed by a Q&A. 90 min. SAT 10/15 • 1:00 PM EFNOBOD3 TUE 10/11 • 6:00 PM EFKEN1

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On the Bridge On the Edge Sur la planche Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Director: Olivier Morel Director: Leila Kilani Bir zamanlar Anadolu’da Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan PTSD, or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Badia and Imane dream of leaving their job at a can be a whole new kind of war for our shrimp processing plant in Tangier and working In a nod to Sergio Leone, Turkish master young men and women returning from Iraq in the “Free Zone”—an enclave beyond the Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s unconventional crime and Afhghanistan. The opposite of fighting capital city that boasts European business drama unfolds into an immersive experience. alongside your brothers and sisters in arms, practices and proffers entry into a better life. What seems to begin as a typical police this battle is often fought alone, against The twosome befriend another duo who work procedural quickly spirals into anything but demons the soldier hides from others. The at a textile plant in the “Free Zone” and begin when a confessed murderer is saddled into power of the documentary form is strongly felt making some extra cash stealing goods to leading the cops to the buried body. Dead- as On the Bridge not only gives voice to the resell on the black market. Moody and edgy, ends, subtle clues, and red-herrings all personal trauma our warriors endure but also reflecting the girls’ own restiveness, this noir- coalesce into an intense study on the nature as a means to help them honor their service infused tale plaintively examines the cost of of truth and our ability to grasp the reality of and move forward as Americans. 96 min. class aspiration in an unyielding society. any given moment. Arabic with subtitles. 106 min. Turkish with subtitles. 150 min. SAT 10/8 • 1:15 PM EFONBRI1 SUN 10/16 • 6:30 PM EFONBRI2 Sat 10/8 • 3:00 PM EFONEDG1 TUE 10/11 • 7:50 PM EFONCE1 suN 10/9 • 12:30 PM EFONEDG2 THU 10/13 • 6:10 PM EFONCE2

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OSLO, AUGUST 31 patang Pina oslo, 31.august Director: Prashat Bhargava Director: Wim Wenders Director: Joachim Trier Can you ever really go home again? In Legendary German filmmaker (and Chicago Nearing the end of drug rehab, the talented Chicago-born Prashant Bhargava’s visually Film Festival discovery) Wim Wenders brings and handsome 30-something Anders is stunning feature debut, a successful Delhi long-time friend and dance innovator Pina given leave to interview for a job in Oslo. He businessman returns to his familial home, Bausch’s revolutionary work to life through spends the day and night visiting old haunts, urban-bred daughter in tow, for a surprise state-of-the-art 3D in Pina. A labor of love for reconnecting with friends, and searching visit during India’s largest kite festival. The both Wenders and the Tanztheater Wuppertal, for a hint of meaning and hope in the new excitement of their homecoming soon fades Bausch’s company, Pina features four of her life ahead of him. Strikingly shot and with a as long-held resentments and distrust surface. most acclaimed choreographies ingeniously touch of comedy, this homage to the French Hindi with subtitles. 93 min. staged indoors and outdoors. By focusing on New Wave presents a compelling study of depth and perspective instead of flashy effects, TUE 10/11 • 6:10 PM EFPAT1 loneliness and the possibility of redemption. THU 10/13 • 2:20 PM EFPAT2 Wenders creates a submersive experience for Norwegian with subtitles. 96 min. FRI 10/14 • 9:10 PM EFPAT3 dance fans and neophytes alike. Multiple languages with subtitles. 103 min. SAT 10/8 • 3:30 PM EFOSLO1 SUN 10/9 • 5:15 PM EFOSLO2 MON 10/17 • 7:30 PM EFPINA

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Play Rabies Kalevet the Return of Joe Rich Director: Ruben Östlund Director: Aharon Keshales Director: Sam Auster Based on real cases of bullying in Sweden, Take the classic horror movie formula - hot He lost his job, his wife and his home, but not Play incisively delves into a children’s world girls lost in the woods, marauding homicidal his sense of honor. When Joe (Sam Witwer) ruled by intimidation and manipulation maniacs, and gallons of blood and gore. Add returns to Chicago he looks up his aging while delivering a nuanced commentary some dark humor, sharp, witty dialogue, and but still dangerous, Uncle Dom (Armand on race relations. When three boys are unexpected twists and voilá, you get Rabies, Assante) in the hopes of getting “connected” falsely accused of stealing a cell phone by Israel’s critically acclaimed first foray into and living the life of a made man. When older boys from immigrant African families, the slasher genre. Sophisticated enough to Uncle Dom resists, Joe makes him an offer the latter assert their dominance through appeal to a broad audience but with sufficient he can’t refuse. 95 min. elaborate role play and gang rhetoric. What splatter to satisfy the hardcore genre fan, SAT 10/8 • 8:05 PM EFRETJO1 follows is an alarmingly tense game that no Rabies is an exhilarating and highly enjoyable MON 10/10 • 6:15 PM EFRETJO2 adult could dare to win. viewing experience. THU 10/13 • 2:30 pm EFRETJO3 Swedish with subtitles. 118 min. Hebrew with subtitles. 90 min. SUN 10/16 • 3:00 PM EFPLAY1 FRI 10/7 • 11:15 PM EFRABIE1 MON 10/17 • 5:30 PM EFPLAY2 MON 10/10 • 10:15 PM EFRABIE2 TUE 10/18 • 2:15 PM EFPLAY3

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Return Ticket an evening with Romeos Dao Fu Yang Liu Bai Li david robinson Director: Sabine Bernardi Director: Yung-Shing Teng A CELEBRATION OF SILENT CINEMA Lukas, a female-to-male transgendered After working for two years at a failed David Robinson, director of the Pordenone youth undergoing hormone replacement clothing enterprise, migrant worker Cao Li Silent Film Festival, will be presenting a therapy, travels to Cologne for his returns to Shanghai to try her hand again. compilation of exceptional silent films from compulsory civil service. There he meets Reconnecting with hometown friends Guo past editions of the festival. A film critic and the attractive Fabio, who embodies all Lukas and Jiuzi, she gets drawn into a scheme, scholar, Robinson is best known for the wants to be. But can he open up to Fabio? illegally chartering a bus to take fellow book Chaplin: His Life and Times, a primary And what will happen to their relationship Fuyang natives home for the New Year source for Richard Attenborough’s Chaplin if he does? The charisma, sensitivity, and holiday. Cao Li, unsure herself of whether or starring Robert Downey, Jr., and is considered chemistry between the leads makes this not she herself will return home, has her own the leading authority on the life and career unique love story a treasure to watch. misgivings about their scam, in this intimate, of the legendary filmmaker and comedian. German with subtitles. 94 min. rarely seen portrait of a migrant culture. Celebrated every October in the Italian SUN 10/16 • 6:45 PM EFROMEO1 Mandarin with subtitles. 88 min. town of Pordenone, the festival features all TUE 10/18 • 9:00 PM EFROMEO2 WED 10/12 • 5:30 PM EFRETIC1 types of silent films, often accompanied by THU 10/13 • 6:00 PM EFRETIC2 original scores from some of the world’s most world cinema SAT 10/15 • 1:15 PM EFRETIC3 acclaimed orchestras and composers. 90 min. outrageous MON 10/17 • 6:00 PM EFDAVID1 New Directors Competition reelwomen

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Sacrifice Zhao shi gu er Sadermania: Salaam Dunk Director: Kaige Chen from fanship to friendship Director: David Fine What are the limits of loyalty, family, and Director: Adam Gacka When violent images of Iraq are all the justice? Driven by jealousy and power, Calling all Hulkamaniacs! When you’re done Western world is accustomed to, it’s easy General Tu-Angu frames an entire clan for training, taking your vitamins, and saying your to forget that life continues in the war- the murder of their king and wipes out all prayers, then you can meet the purest fan of torn nation. At the American University of 300 members. All but one—a baby boy and all, Chris Sader, in a story that travels from Iraq-Sulaimani, life does just that, as is dynastic heir, secretly rescued by the family childhood obsession to an unexpected and extraordinarily personified by the school ’s doctor. But when Tu-Angu orders the Herod- touching friendship. In this inspirational tale, women’s basketball team. In a sports movie like murder of every male infant, the doctor Chris and Hulk Hogan relate how they met and for the ages, Salaam Dunk follows the team’s makes an inconceivable sacrifice in Kaige developed a bond through mutual struggles season, chronicling their triumphs and Chen’s (Farewell My Concubine) breathtaking and personal loss that each would have faced tragedies both on and off the court. adaptation of a classical Chinese opera. alone if not for the unlikely friendship that English, Arabic, Kurdish with subtitles. 83 min. Mandarin with subtitles. 132 min. develops between them. 85 min. SUN 10/9 • 11:30 aM EFSALAA1 TUE 10/11 • 5:00 PM EFSALAA2 SUN 10/9 • 8:00 PM EFSACRI1 sat 10/15 • 6:15 PM EFSADER1 SAT 10/15 • 5:30 PM EFSACRI2

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36 Become a member and save! Members are also invited to private advance screenings year-round. See page 49 for details. France Brazil japan the Screen Illusion the Silver Cliff Sleep Nemuriyusurika L’illusion comique O abismo prateado Director: Katsumi Sakaguchi Director: Mathieu Amalric Director: Karim Aïnouz Equal parts revenge tale and family drama, In this contemporary adaptation of Pierre Violeta, a dentist in Rio de Janeiro, is happily Sleep examines the lengths people will go Corneille’s brilliant, eponymous 17th century married and still engages in passionate morning to exact retribution. Raped 17 years ago as play, the enigmatic Alcandre is now a hotel lovemaking with her husband. Then he leaves a teenager, Kotono now makes a living as a concierge who uses the myriad in-house high- on business and calls to tell her he never plans masseuse, leading a nomadic life with her tech security cameras to show worried father to return. Confused, she begins to wander the daughter Natsume (born out of the rape) Pridamant the whereabouts and travails of streets, trying to figure out what happened and and her aging father. Living out of the back his son, Clindor. As Pridamant witnesses the why. Rio is as much a protagonist as Violeta, of a van, the clan share a tender bond, each conflicting romances involving his estranged its energetic and melancholic landscapes a looking out for the needs of the others, son, Corneille’s modernist meta-narrative reflection of her changing moods in this ode to belying the perversity of their lifestyle and the is transposed to contemporary Paris, resilience in the face of heartbreaking loss from true motivation for their life on the road. underscoring the ambiguous nature of love, Gold Hugo winner Karim Aïnouz (Madame Sãta). Japanese with subtitles. 96 min. wealth and desire in an age of consumerism. Portuguese with subtitles. 82 min. SUN 10/16 • 8:50 PM EFSLEEP1 French with subtitles. 77 min. FRI 10/14 • 8:00 PM EFSILV1 TUE 10/18 • 8:10 PM EFSLEEP2 FRI 10/7 • 5:00 PM EFSCREE1 SAT 10/15 • 12:30 PM EFSILV2 SAT 10/8 • 11:30 AM EFSCREE2 MON 10/17 • 4:00 PM EFSILV3

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Sleeping Beauty the Slut Ha-Notenet smuggler Director: Julia Leigh Director: Hagar Ben-Asher Sumagurâ: Omae no mirai o erabe Director: Katsuhito Ishii Forget everything you thought you knew Winner of the Best Director prize at the about Sleeping Beauty. In Julia Leigh’s Jerusalem Film Festival, Hagar Ben-Asher’s From the man who created the celebrated unsettling take on the classic tale, the beauty alternative, almost anti-cautionary tale “O-Ren Ishii” animated sequence in Kill Bill, is Lucy (Emily Browning), a young woman presents Tamar, a beautiful, young single Vol. 1 comes this stylish and outrageous who begins working at a niche job in the sex mother with a seemingly insatiable sexual but brutal film that makes Tarantino’s work industry in order to pay for her education. appetite. While running a chicken farm with look like family fare. In serious debt to local Drugged and placed in a “sleeping beauty her two daughters, she finds servicing the gangsters, Kinuta is coerced into taking a job chamber”, Lucy becomes the play thing of village’s lackluster men gets her through the as a smuggler of dead bodies for the Japanese paying customers, where almost anything inconveniences of everyday life. That is until underworld, only to find himself caught in the is permissible. With so much beyond her a hunky veterinarian comes to town. middle of a bloody gang war. Based on the control, will Lucy ever wake up to the world Hebrew with subtitles. 88 min. popular eponymous manga, Smuggler has all around her? 101 min. the makings of a midnight classic. THU 10/13 • 8:20 PM EFSLUT1 Japanese with subtitles. 115 min. SUN 10/16 • 8:10 PM EFSLPBE1 SAT 10/15 • 7:15 PM EFSLUT2 mon 10/17 • 8:30 PM EFSLPBE2 SUN 10/16 • 12:00 PM EFSLUT3 WED 10/12 • 8:30 PM EFSMUG1 THU 10/13 • 8:20 PM EFSMUG2

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Snowtown Southwest Sudoeste the Student El Estudiante Director: Justin Kurzel Director: Eduardo Nunes Director: Santiago Mitre Based on true events, this skillfully crafted In a small fishing village in Brazil, Clarice Roque goes from young Lothario to activist psychological thriller centers on 16-year-old experiences her entire life, beginning at and general rabble-rouser in this cleverly Jamie, who lives in a squalid, crime-ridden birth, in the space of a day. The villagers plotted parable revealing the underbelly of slum on the outskirts of Adelaide. When John remain oblivious to Clarice’s unique situation, Argentinian politics. Set at the University Bunting, a charismatic older man, enters his living life just like us, one day at a time. In of Buenos Aires, the heady mix of sex, life, he offers friendship and escape from an attempt to understand her reality, Clarice intellectualism and shady ploys that would his deadbeat existence. But as Bunting’s tries to change her destiny as well as the make Richard Nixon smile, soon become behavior becomes increasingly sinister, destiny of those around her in this haunting all too real and Roque finds that he’s in way Jamie finds himself caught up in horrors he and thought-provoking film. over his head. With nuanced performances could never have imagined as he realizes his Portuguese with subtitles. 128 min. and dynamic pacing, Santiago Mitre’s debut new father-figure is actually a cold-blooded feature has earned comparisons to Truffaut, FRI 10/7 • 8:15 PM EFSOUTH1 serial killer. 120 min. SAT 10/8 • 12:30 PM EFSOUTH2 Godard and Alexander Payne. Spanish with subtitles. 110 min. FRI 10/14 • 8:30 PM EFSNOW1 tue 10/18 • 2:45 PM EFSOUTH3 SAT 10/15 • 9:40 PM EFSNOW2 SUN 10/9 • 5:35 PM EFSTUD1 MON 10/10 • 9:00 PM EFSTUD2

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usa surprise event an evening with Take Me Home Director: Sam Jaeger Every year, we love to surprise our audience joe swanberg with a top-secret film that will keep them New film movements always undergo the Thom (Sam Jaeger, NBC’S Parenthood) just talking for days. What will that film be this torture of critical labeling and mislabeling but can’t win. After losing a job offer and getting year? Will it be the first Chicago showing of whatever you want to call it, DIY, Mumblecore, evicted, he decides to buckle up as an illegal a hotly anticipated Hollywood blockbuster? Slackavettes, Chicago’s Joe Swanberg is at New York City cab driver. When he picks Maybe the first look at a foreign film making its forefront. With such notable independent up Claire (Amber Jaeger), they embark on waves around the world? How about a films of recent years as Kissing On the Mouth, a trip neither one anticipated. This comedy ® potential Oscar winner for Best Picture? LOL and Hannah Takes the Stairs, Swanberg, finds solace in the back seat of a cab, the You won’t know what you’ll see until the lights a former staff member of the Chicago landscape of the USA, and even in a complete go down. Are you excited yet? Well here’s International Film Festival, has made a career stranger. This classic road movie shows how the best part: It’s FREE! The only catch is of portraying life and relationships in a way that a little cross-country drive can lead you to a that you’ve gotta wear our Festival t-shirt or audiences can relate to. Join us for an open different exit. 97 min. sweatshirt (p. 52) to get in. So you get to look discussion with Joe Swanberg about the ins junior board screening: awesome and see a great film. What more and outs of indie film production in Chicago, SAT 10/8 • 6:00 PM EFTAKE2 could you ask for? 90–120 min. followed by a Q&A. 90 min. FRI 10/7 • 6:40 PM EFTAKE1 WED 10/19 • 8:00 pm EFSURP1 WED 10/19 • 6:00 pm EFJOE1 FRI 10/14 • 2:15 PM EFTAKE3

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Target Mishen Three Musketeers Ticket to Paradise Director: Alexander Zeldovich Director: Paul W.S. Anderson Boleto al paraiso Director: Gerardo Chijona The year is 2020. The place, Russia. Four They are known as Porthos, Athos, and members of the country’s elite go out in search Aramis—three elite warriors who serve the What would you do to get to paradise? Eunice, no of the fountain of youth in this sci-fi take on King of France as his best Musketeers. After longer able to tolerate her father’s abuse, flees Anna Karenina. Their goal is a secret military discovering an evil conspiracy to overthrow the small town she calls home. She falls in with science facility that guards and administers the King, the Musketeers come across a the “freakies”, a gang of hard-living street kids, the secret to eternal life which happens to young, aspiring hero — D’Artagnan — and who embrace her, but then the group finds out also include an amped up sex drive. Throw in take him under their wing. Together, the four that the local AIDS facility offers food, clothing, goggles that measure the good and evil in a embark on a dangerous mission to foil the and shelter. Eunice once again finds herself person and this lurid, highly stylized, near giddy plot that not only threatens the Crown, but the alone as the rest of the group decides they Russian production is sure to become a cult hit. future of Europe itself in this big-screen action want in—whatever the cost. A highly compelling Russian with subtitles. 154 min. adventure update of the Alexandre Dumas’ chronicle of disaffected youth culture in Cuba. novel shot in state-of-the-art . 110 min. Spanish with subtitles. 88 min. MON 10/17 • 8:10 PM EFTARG1 3D TUE 10/18 • 8:50 PM EFTARG2 SUN 10/16 • 5:00 PM EFTHREE1 FRI 10/7 • 6:15 PM EFTICK1 SAT 10/8 • 2:30 PM EFTICK2 MON 10/10 • 3:00 PM EFTICK3

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Tomboy Top Floor, Left Wing the Turin Horse A Torinói ló Director: Céline Sciamma Dernier étage gauche gauche Director: Bela Tarr Director: Angelo Cianci Gender identity and friendship lie at the heart Turin 1899: Philosopher Nietzsche witnesses of this sweet, heartbreaking film. After moving It was supposed to be just a routine day a horse being whipped and subsequently into a new home with her mother and sister, for respected bailiff Francois Echeverria. retreats into madness. The Turin Horse 10-year-old Laure willingly poses as a boy But when he arrives at an apartment in the observes the life of that fateful horse as well after being confused for one by neighbor Lisa. Parisian projects to collect unpaid rent, he as its owners, a farmer and his daughter, As Michael, Laure soon wins the admiration is unexpectedly taken hostage by an edgy who struggle to survive in harsh conditions. A of neighborhood boys for her soccer skills teenage son and his reluctant Algerian father. sparse, dramatic and almost silent tale, it is a and girls for her sensitivity. No matter how Word of terrorist activity spreads quickly, and fitting finale for acclaimed director Béla Tarr, imaginative Laure is in dealing with boy with trigger-happy cops waiting outside and who has announced this to be his last film. issues, keeping her true identity secret will the media closing in, they have to decide what Hungarian with subtitles. 146 min. prove difficult as she and Lisa become closer. to do about their hostage, five kilos of cocaine, THU 10/13 • 7:15 PM EFTURIN1 French with subtitles. 84 min. and closely guarded secrets in this comedy. SAT 10/15 • 2:00 PM EFTURIN2 French, Arabic with subtitles. 93 min. FRI 10/7 • 6:10 PM EFTOM1 SAT 10/8 • 3:10 PM EFTOM2 SUN 10/9 • 5:30 PM EFTOP1 MON 10/10 • 3:30 PM EFTOP2 world cinema THU 10/13 • 3:30 PM EFTOP3 outrageous reelwomen world cinema world cinema

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Turn Me On, Dammit! Tyrannosaur Undefeated Få meg på, for faen Director: Paddy Considine Director: Daniel Lindsay Director: Jannicke Systad Jacobsen Actor Paddy Considine (In America) Set in Memphis, Undefeated chronicles the Fifteen-year-old Alma feels trapped in delivers a gritty tale of self-destruction and Manassas Tigers’ 2009 football season as they her small Norwegian town. To curb her redemption in his feature-length directorial strive to win the first playoff game in the high restlessness and active imagination and to debut. Expanded from his award-winning school’s 110-year history. A perennial whipping satiate her sexual appetite, Alma regularly short film, Dog Altogether, Tyrannosaur boy, in recent decades Manassas had gone so calls a phone sex hotline. After an awkward follows the unlikely friendship between rage- far as to sell their home games to the highest encounter with a crush turns her into a social filled Joseph (Peter Mullan) and Christian bidder, but that all changed in the spring of pariah, Alma decides to run away to Oslo. Goodwill store worker, Hannah (Olivia 2004 when Bill Courtney volunteered to lend a Funny, quirky and endearing, Turn Me On, Colman). Mullan’s electrifying performance hand. The football program began resurrecting Dammit! charmingly captures the ups and finds a perfect counterpoint in Colman’s itself and, in 2009, features the most talented downs of teenage sexuality. measured portrayal. 91 min. team it has ever fielded. 113 min. Norwegian with subtitles. 76 min. SUN 10/9 • 8:00 PM EFTYRAN1 FRI 10/14 • 8:20 PM EFUNDEF1 SAT 10/15 • 5:00 PM EFTURN1 MON 10/10 • 5:45 PM EFTYRAN2 Special Guest (Scheduled to attend) SUN 10/16 • 6:20 PM EFTURN2 Director Daniel Lindsay

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Valley of the Forgotten Volcano Ways of the Sea Halaw Vale dos Esquecidos Director: Rúnar Rúnarsson Director: Sheron Dayoc Director: Maria Raduan An unconventional coming-of-age tale Solidarity, hope, and fear beget friendship in In a secluded area of Brazil’s Mato Grosso wrapped in a tender love story, this debut this tale of a perilous journey across the South region, an impossible land dispute rages feature presents a portrait of compassionate China Sea. A motley group of individuals— between Indians evicted from their homeland, devotion and an unflinching look at aging. from children hoping to be reunited with absent squatters, land-grabbers, the Landless When Hannes retires at age 67, it seems mothers and would-be prostitutes to human Workers Movement, and the ranchers who that life—well, meaningful life—has come to traffickers preying on the locals’ desperation— own property. With no resolution in sight and an end. Estranged from family and friends, cross paths while waiting to be smuggled by violence threatening to erupt at any moment, Hannes’ most intimate relationship is with his boat, destination Malaysia. The possibilities the film looks closely at each group’s boat, until a series of drastic events causes for a bright future seem increasingly distant perspective, offering a meditation on the him to take stock of his life. as they near the shore in this slow-burning, concept of private property across social and Icelandic with subtitles. 99 min. suspense-filled verité drama. cultural boundaries. Filipino, Tagalog with subtitles. 78 min. TUE 10/11 • 5:50 PM EFVOLC1 Portuguese with subtitles. 72 min. WED 10/12 • 7:50 PM EFVOLC2 FRI 10/7 • 4:00 PM EFWAYS1 SAT 10/15 • 4:15 PM EFVALL1 FRI 10/14 • 3:20 PM EFVOLC3 THU 10/13 • 5:30 PM EFWAYS2 MON 10/17 • 2:15 PM EFVALL2

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We Believed Noi Credevamo we have a pope Habemus Papam We Need to Talk about Kevin Director: Mario Martone Director: Nanni Moretti Director: Lynne Ramsay Broken into four episodes, this sweeping What would happen if the Pope got cold In a tour-de-force performance, Tilda Swinton historical epic follows the lives of three patriotic, feet? Multi-award-winning Italian master plays reluctant mother Eva grappling with fervent youth who devote their lives to the comic, actor and director Nanni Moretti’s her fraught relationship with troubled son cause of Italy’s unification in the 19th century. comically poignant We Have a Pope, which Kevin (Ezra Miller). Based on Lionel Shriver’s Youthful idealism soon leads to disappointment, finds newly elected Cardinal Melville (the eponymous novel and featuring a shining as the machinations of competing political legendary French actor Michel Piccoli) performance by Chicago’s very own John C. factions come into play. With 2011 marking the petrified by the idea of taking up the position. Reilly as Eva’s husband, Lynne Ramsay’s 150th anniversary of Italy’s Risorgimento, this As the Cardinal agonizes over his ability to masterful psychological thriller presents breathtaking tour de force traces the journey of dispense religious and moral leadership, he a provocative tale, which crescendos to a sacrifice and tragedy taken to make Italy the sends the Vatican into a tailspin as they try chilling, unforgettable climax. 112 min. country it is today. to control their worst ecclesiastical and PR TUE 10/11 • 7:30 PM EFWENEE1 Italian with subtitles. 170 min. nightmare in this critically acclaimed Cannes TUE 10/18 • 7:45 PM EFWENEE2 Film Festival favorite. WED 10/12 • 8:00 PM EFWEBEL1 Italian with subtitles. 102 min. Special Guests (Scheduled to attend) Actor John C. Reilly, Tuesday, Oct. 11 only. SUN 10/9 • 3:00 PM EFWEHAV1

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Wetlands Marécages an evening with What Love May Bring Director: Guy Édoin Haskell Wexler Ces amours-là Director: Claude Lelouch Saddled with a guilt no teenager should have One of the most influential cameramen the ® to bear, 17-year-old brooding Simon feels cinema has ever known, Chicago-born Haskell The 43rd film from Academy Award -winning starkly out of place on his parents’ struggling Wexler’s expertise behind the camera has director and French New Wave maverick dairy farm. Life on the farm is demanding, given the world such classics as Who’s Afraid Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman) elicits but no matter how hard Simon tries, he of Virginia Woolf, In the Heat of the Night, a vision that is as potent as ever. Driven by a cannot live up to his father’s expectations. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and The spirited will, the turbulent life of Ilva Lemoine, Resentments simmer, so when a tragic Thomas Crown Affair. In addition, he’s directed from her delight-filled childhood through the accident hits close to home, the question some extremely important films such as Great War, the French Resistance, liberation, of blame haunts the family and possibilities Medium Cool and Latino. Join Haskell Wexler and memories of soldiers loved and lost, is for forgiveness seem ever remote, in this in person, for a conversation about his truly recounted in this spectacular epic drama. captivating family drama. visionary career, followed by a Q&A. 90 min. French with subtitles. 120 min. French with subtitles. 111 min. THU 10/13 • 7:00 PM EFHASK1 SAT 10/8 • 7:30 PM EFWHAT1 MON 10/10 • 8:15 PM EFWET1 TUE 10/11 • 3:30 PM EFWHAT2 TUE 10/11 • 8:20 PM EFWET2 (Scheduled to attend) THU 10/13 • 3:00 PM EFWET3 Special Guest Director Claude Lelouch, Saturday only.

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All programs subject to change. Films are unrated. Viewer discretion advised. 41 USA UK USA the Whisperer in Darkness Wild Bill Without Director: Sean Branney Director: Dexter Fletcher Director: Mark Jackson Based on a story by H.P. Lovecraft, The Not everyone is pleased when wild Bill On remote Whidbey Island, Joslyn is in Whisperer in Darkness is an eerily deft Hayward rolls into town after serving eight charge of caring for an old man in a vegetative recreation of classic 1930’s studio horror fare. years in jail on drug charges. His two sons, state while his family is on vacation. Totally Professor Albert Wilmart, a smug skeptic, Dean and Jimmy, have been living alone isolated from the world—no Internet, no is forced to question his views by a series ever since their mother abandoned them, cell phone signal—her fragile mental state of increasingly bizarre encounters with the and his old cohorts want Bill back in the slowly begins to crumble. In a chilling and supernatural. Genuinely terrifying and highly “saddle” again. Bill and his sons begin to nuanced debut, Joslyn Jensen delivers an entertaining, Whisperer is a fitting homage for bond, but trouble strikes when Jimmy gets outstanding performance as a young woman Lovecraft aficionados and, for newcomers, a mixed up with his father’s old crew, causing struggling with her sexuality, loneliness, and perfect introduction to one of the great horror Bill to realize that the town ain’t big enough frail mind in this haunting film. 87 min. masterminds of the 20th century. 103 min. for the both of them in this contemporary SAT 10/8 • 3:45 PM EFWITH1 Western influenced gangster vehicle set in TUE 10/11 • 10:15 PM EFWHISP1 SUN 10/9 • 1:15 PM EFWITH2 WED 10/12 • 9:45 PM EFWHISP2 London’s East End. 96 min. WED 10/12 • 3:30 pm EFWITH3 TUE 10/11 • 8:15 PM EFWILD1 WED 10/12 • 6:10 PM EFWILD2

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Woman in the Fifth Women and Children the Yellow Sea Hwanghae La femme du Vème Director: Daniel Mitelpunkt Director: Na Hong-Jin Director: Pawel Pawlikowski Joe just doesn’t get it. He has been enjoying When taxi driver Gu-nam finds himself in Reality and imagination become the slacker life—until he finds out that his financial straits, he accepts a proposal from a indistinguishable in this loose adaptation of girlfriend is pregnant. He is finally ready to local mob boss to travel to Seoul to carry out Douglas Kennedy’s novel. Tom (Ethan Hawke in settle down, but can a leopard ever change a hit on a professor. Once Gu-Nam arrives in an extraordinary performance) arrives in Paris his spots? Enlisting the help of his best the capital city, he discovers he isn’t the only to reconnect with his daughter, even though his friend, Joe sets out to make amends for person targeting the professor and in a quick ex-wife has placed a restraining order on him. past misdemeanors in this Woody Allen- turn of events, finds himself on the run. Gu- To make ends meet, Tom accepts a job as a esque comedy. 80 min. nam must call in his every survival instinct to watchman for a seedy operation. Life takes a stay one step ahead of his pursuers in this WED 10/12 • 6:00 PM EFWOMEN1 strange turn when he meets mysterious Margit THU 10/13 • 9:00 PM EFWOMEN2 thrilling man-on-the-run crime drama. (Kristin Scott Thomas), and down the rabbit TUE 10/18 • 2:10 PM EFWOMEN3 Korean with subtitles. 140 min. hole he goes in this strange Kafka-esque tale. THU 10/13 • 9:20 PM EFYELL1 English, French with subtitles. 84 min. SAT 10/15 • 8:30 PM EFYELL2 SAT 10/8 • 7:15 PM EFWOMAN1 SUN 10/9 • 3:15 PM EFWOMAN2 THU 10/13 • 4:05 PM EFWOMAN3

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Join us for these unique opportunities to hear more from Festival filmmakers, industry professionals and more. Please pick up your free ticket at the Festival Box Office. BLACK PERSPECTIVES: BUILDING A COMMUNITY For the 15th anniversary of our Black Perspectives program, we are turning our focus to independent production and distribution models for black cinema in Chicago. With one of the largest and most diverse African-American populations in the country, we’ll explore the past, present and future of black cinema produced in our area. 60 min. Saturday, October 8, 12:00 PM • AMC River East 21 EFPANBP

SPOTLIGHT SOUTH ASIA: BEYOND BOLLYWOOD South Asia, and India in particular, is known for high-end Bollywood Blockbusters, but it is also home to a growing regional film industry that is gaining prominence and producing visually stunning, edgy work. Join directors whose new films are showcased in this year’s Spotlight South Asia program as they discuss their experiences making movies outside of the studio system. 60 min. Monday, October 10, 2:00 PM • AMC River East 21 EFPANSA

NEW DIRECTORS: CAMERA READY? Join an exciting line up of Festival directors as they discuss the process of developing and workshopping scripts in preparation for production. This ever-popular event offers a rare opportunity to ask questions of directors who have successfully crafted a feature but still clearly remember the trials and tribulations of starting out in the industry. 60 min. Thursday, October 13, 4:00 PM • Columbia College Chicago (1104 S. Wabash Ave., Room 402) No ticket required. Arrive early as seating is limited to theater capacity.

ANIMATION: BLURRING THE LINES We might associate animation with Disney and children’s cartoons, but it also has a long history as an alternative art form. Join a group of Festival filmmakers whose shorts and features use animation in all of its guises to satirize, criticize and generally push the envelope of what we expect to see in animated work. 60 min. Friday, October 14, 2:00 PM • AMC River East 21 EFPANANI

DOCUMENTARY CURRENTS What are the latest trends in documentary form? Has technology changed the way docs are produced and distributed? How do filmmakers incorporate new styles and approaches such as 3D and animation into their storytelling and character development strategies? Join a lineup of this year’s visiting filmmakers and members of the local documentary community for an insightful conversation on the status of non-fiction cinema. 60 min. Friday, October 14, 12:00 PM • DePaul University (243 S. Wabash Ave, lower-level auditorium) No ticket required. Arrive early as seating limited to theater capacity. NEW MODELS OF DISTRIBUTION The increasing popularity of Video On Demand (VOD) platforms is just the latest development to rock the ever-changing world of independent film distribution. Join a stellar line up of panelists from leading U.S. distributors to discuss current trends in distribution, how to strategize the distribution of your film, and where we can, and should, be going from here. Panelists include reps from Strand Releasing, The Weinstein Company, and more. 60 min. Saturday, October 15, 12:00 PM • AMC River East 21 EFPANDIS

SOCIAL MEDIA: SPREADING THE WORD Love it or hate it, there’s no denying that social media can be a valuable tool for filmmakers, whether it’s used as a marketing device or a fundraising platform. Join a number of filmmakers who have used social media effectively in promoting their work as well as other experts in the field to share wisdom and discuss ideas. Then tweet about it! 60 min. Sunday, October 16, 12:00 PM • AMC River East 21 EFPANSM

ART AS ACTIVISM We all know first-hand that film has the power to move us emotionally, but does it also have the power to create social change? How does a film go beyond entertainment and become a call to action? Do filmmakers consider themselves activists as well as auteurs? Join a panel of Festival filmmakers as well as local voices for a discussion about the importance of looking at film with education and social awareness in mind. 60 min. Monday, October 10, 12:30 PM • AMC River East 21 EFPANEDU

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SHORTS 1: CITY & STATE 80 min. A combination of narrative, documentary and animated short films shining the light on talented local filmmakers.

Twelve-year-old Kyle Krichbaum has an unusual and fascinating hobby in THE VACUUM KID. A teenager’s commute through Chicago in a blizzard reinforces her corrosive spirit in L TRAIN. THE GHOSTS non-stop shorts! is a 50s style tale of a wild gang of juvenile delinquents who take the Our short film programs will be playing back-to- life of a sleepy little town, and an innocent young girl, by storm. Tim back throughout Friday, October 14 and Saturday, Burton fans will love THE DOCTOR’S WIFE, an animated musical October 15. Immerse yourself in a series of shorts love letter to Frankenstein. A chain gang prisoner desperately dreams encompassing the best new local work, outrageous of a break in the atmospheric WINTER. A young woman is keeping animation, hilarious sexual capers, award-winning something from her concerned husband in THE TRUTH. The winning film from the Illinois Film Office Shortcuts Short Film Competition short documentaries, the return of our nightmare- 2011 will also be screened. inducing Midnight Mayhem program, and much, much more. Come with an open mind and expect to MON 10/10 • 6:30 PM • EFSHTCT1 FRI 10/14 • 5:00 PM • EFSHTCT2 be surprised, moved, titillated, and terrified. SUN 10/16 • 11:45 PM • EFSHTCT3

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SHORTS 2: Pen & Paper 87 min. SHORT 3: MIDNIGHT MAYHEM 100 min. A stunning panorama of new animated shorts from around the world. Zombies, ghosts, murderers and more go on the rampage in this miniature showcase of terror. An accident changes Dinki’s life in the gorgeous BIRDBOY (Spain). A striking blend of animation styles are used in FLOWERS FOR JUPITER Thirty years after a zombie epidemic the undead are used for cheap (USA). A seductive alternative cityscape is presented in the stylish labor in the stylish THE UNLIVING (Sweden). A mysterious vagrant HELLVILLE (France). A poodle puppy terrorizes the henpecked Carlos is hiding in an empty house in the menacing GHOST (South Korea). in EL MACHO (UK). One man’s obsession with the passing of time is There’s a new addition to the family in the form of a benign severed explored in black and white stop-motion in THE EAGLEMAN STAG head in the darkly comedic CROPPED (Australia). A little boy and a (UK). Animator Bill Plympton invited multiple animators to remake his yeti-like monster go on a disturbing adventure in DREAM OF 1ST OF Oscar® award-winning short Guard Dog, and GUARD DOG GLOBAL APRIL 1999 (France). A gruesome scene unfolds in a peaceful home JAM (USA) is the eye-popping result! THE GALLERY (Poland) is a by the sea in BEATING HEARTS (USA). A young mother’s mental satirical parable on modern consumer habits. A young boy learns some state deteriorates rapidly in the nightmarish FOAL (Austria) and an life lessons in THE RENTER (USA). TRAUMDEUTUNG (UK) explores army of mutant flies is unleashed in an orgy of bloodlust in FRIEND our fascination with dreams. HEAVY HEADS (Denmark) is a minimalist OF FLIES (Sweden). black comedy. (Iran) uses cutouts in a witty commentary BRIDE CAN FRI 10/14 • 11:15 PM • EFSHTMD1 on the role of women in Iranian society. Oscar has to leave something SAT 10/15 • 11:00 PM • EFSHTMD2 behind in the melancholy, beautifully hand drawn BELLY (UK). FRI 10/14 • 9:00 PM • EFSHTAN1 SUN 10/16 • 1:50 PM • EFSHTAN2 after dark

44 Become a member and save! Members are also invited to private advance screenings year-round. See page 49 for details. SHORTS 4: IN N’ OUT 63 min. shorts 5: WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE 83 min. A series of provocative shorts exploring sex and relationships in Unsettling, surprising and off-kilter encounters abound in these eight unique and hilarious ways. compelling and carefully crafted films.

An elderly couple’s dinner repartee takes an unexpected and hilarious A 17-year-old boy experiences some surprises during his first day turn in PASS THE SALT, PLEASE (USA). The pleasures and perils of on the job in MEATHEAD (New Zealand). A father and son share an going back for more are explored in EX-SEX (USA). An old man has awkward moment at a wedding in THE SHIRT (Germany). A piece of a dirty secret in GRANDPA’S WET DREAM (USA/JAPAN). Wallace chewing gum, a dog collar, a stain on the wall in the shape of Australia, and Gromit meets Shortbus when a Claymation couple decides and a crooked traffic light all play a part in THE RUNAWAY (Spain). to spice up their sex life in VENUS (Denmark). A plucky actress An old woman convinces herself that she will die as soon as she has prepares for a challenging new role in METHOD (USA). Bert’s barely sold her last minute of cell phone time in MINUTO 200 (Colombia). clad neighbor comes to borrow some sugar and things go horribly Perceptions of reality are explored on a one-take journey in 720 wrong in SUGAR (The Netherlands). DEGREES (Bangladesh). A young girl’s sexual awakening swelters in the heat of a long summer’s day in (Israel). Two brothers FRI 10/14 • 7:10 PM • EFSHTSX1 NARKIS who run an unusual carwash business have some problems on their hands in KRASS (Iceland). An unseen tension lurks in a seemingly everyday situation in THE STRANGE ONES (USA). SAT 10/15 • 4:30 PM • EFSHTWW1

shorts 6: A QUESTION OF TIMING 75 min. SHORTS 7: TRUTH BE TOLD 67 min. A selection of international shorts which encompass the sublime, the Original documentary shorts that have won international acclaim for ridiculous, and everything in-between. their fresh approaches and sensitive storytelling.

Three eager bank robbers go over the big plan before robbing a bank FLYING ANNE (The Netherlands) is a sensitive portrayal of a beautiful in the hilarious THE HEIST (UK). In OSTRICH’S FLIGHT (Brazil) a young girl suffering from Tourette Syndrome. GRANDMOTHERS struggling businessman tries a novel money making approach. An (UK) uses mixed media animation to render the tragic story of one impromptu Cyndi Lauper sing-a-long is about more than just a song woman’s experience of the Argentine revolution. In CARETAKER in TIME AFTER TIME (USA). Rocky is a little boy with a lot of love FOR THE LORD (UK), we are privy to the everyday goings on to give in THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF ROCKY (Belgium). The and discontent amongst an aging and steadily declining church turmoil at the end of a relationship is explored with sensitivity and community in Scotland. THE HIGH LEVEL BRIDGE (Canada) is a simplicity in THE SHOWER (Chile). A surprising encounter takes fitting and humorous homage to the people and events surrounding place at an indoor playground in the Neil LaBute penned AFTER- an oddly significant landmark. GOODBYE MANDIMA (Switzerland) SCHOOL SPECIAL (USA). Randomness, existence and the order, or is a moving account of childhood memories of growing up in Zaire. In disorder, of things, is explored in the beautiful hybrid animation JUST BITTER LEMON (Bangladesh), we experience the point of view of a THAT SORT OF A DAY (India). traffic policeman in the chaotic streets of Dhaka. SAT 10/15 • 2:30 PM • EFSHTAQU1 FRI 10/14 • 3:05 PM • EFSHTDC1

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For 20 years, Cinema/Chicago’s Education Outreach Program has fostered media literacy and multicultural understanding by bringing international film to Chicago Public School students, training Chicago educators, and encouraging young filmmakers in their creative endeavors. At Cinema/Chicago, we believe that film is a powerful tool that promotes literacy while it enhances critical-thinking skills.

47th Chicago International Film Festival education screenings The Bully Project CineYouth Best of the Fest Kinyarwanda Patang Salaam Dunk short film program Tomboy Undefeated

STUDENTS teachers Cinema/Chicago brings more than 5,000 CPS students into theaters Regardless of the source—film or video, textbook or novel, for special Education Outreach Screenings during the Festival and photograph or illustration, song or music—media carries a message throughout the school year. and meaning. Media technology is advancing at an ever-increasing pace, and the rate at which students are bombarded with images, These screenings cover a wide variety of genres, including foreign sounds, and information can be daunting. Media literacy is the ability cinema, documentaries, local productions, and international new to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate information gathered releases. With the help of the Cinema/Chicago Education Advisory from these sources. Committee—made up of youth media professionals and educators— films are chosen that relate to the CPS curriculum, exposing students Cinema/Chicago’s Teachers Institute Media Literacy Training to films from other cultures, in other languages, and about complex Program, with the support of the Polk Brothers Foundation, is a and engaging subjects. series of workshops designed to aid CPS educators in bringing new perspectives to curriculum development and classroom study Prior to each screening, Cinema/Chicago provides study guides to through the use of film and other media. The Teachers Institute is led prepare teachers and students for the content and concepts of the by renowned film and media professionals and professors. film, ensuring that the discussion regarding the film can take place long after the students have left the theater. Following each screening, Through interactive workshops, the Teachers Institute gives educators students meet special guests—directors, actors, producers, critics, the opportunity to increase their awareness of the impact of media on documentary subjects—and are able to ask questions pertaining the lives of their students and to connect media literacy concepts and to the screening. These discussions elevate students from passive art education to Illinois learning standards. audience members to engaged participants. Students are asked to write essays on the film, bringing their critical-thinking skills into play Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program as they begin to look at film narratives, construction and visuals. The deaf and hard of hearing community has been often left out of the movie-going experience. For many years the Chicago International Cinema/Chicago, with support from Columbia College Chicago, is Film Festival has been reaching out to these communities to raise proud to provide buses, theaters, films, speakers, study guides, and awareness of the multitude of high-quality subtitled films presented teacher support for our Education Outreach screenings at no cost to at the Festival. Additionally, with new initiatives beginning in Spring schools or teachers. 2012, Cinema/Chicago’s Education Outreach Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program will bring film and filmmaking to the deaf and hard of hearing student community in Chicago.

From screenings that include post-screening discussions with American Sign Language interpreters to filmmaking and editing workshops, Cinema/Chicago strives to provide opportunities for the deaf and hard of hearing community beyond the Festival. More information will be available on Saturday, October 15 at 2:00 PM at a free screening of the documentary Deaf Jam at the Chicago Cultural Center. Representatives from numerous deaf and hard of hearing advocacy groups will be on hand to discuss the deaf and hard of hearing community and their relationship to the arts.

TEACHERS Learn how you can be a part of our programs by contacting Education Program Manager Rebecca Fons at [email protected] or call 312.683.0121 x112. For more information visit: cinemachicago.org/education YOUNG FILMMAKERS For seven years, Cinema/Chicago has lead education partner The CineYouth Festival celebrates the work showcased the talent of young filmmakers of filmmakers 21 years old and younger, with the nationally recognized CineYouth highlighting the creativity of the next Festival. Cinema/Chicago is proud to host generation of filmmakers. a youth film festival that not only honors the hard work and creativity of young filmmakers supporting education partner The three-day CineYouth Festival features but also provides a positive educational public screenings of officially selected environment for participants. films; hands-on production workshops and networking opportunities for participating filmmakers. CineYouth concludes with an awards ceremony honoring the winning films from all categories, including Documentary, Animation, Drama, Horror, Comedy, Public Service Announcement, and Music Video. Award-winning films are shown during the Chicago International Film Festival Chicago International Film Festival at a CineYouth “Best of the Fest” screening (p. 17).

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spotlight south asia kicks off a three-year program highlighting the film culture of a different region of the world each year. This year, Chicago audiences will be introduced to the remarkably exciting work coming out of South Asia.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS: Gala Presentation of Mausam (Seasons of Love) (P. 28) on Friday, October 7, with red carpet appearance by director Pankaj Kapoor, followed by after party

Master classes with renowned Bollywood choreographer Rujuta Vaidya (P. 14)

Community and education outreach screenings at venues around the city

Film premieres from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka including: Azhagarsamy’s Horse (P. 14), Bol (P. 14), Corrode (P. 17), Dekh Indian Circus (P. 18), Flying Fish (P. 19), Gandu (P. 20), Inshallah, Football (P. 22), Karma (P. 24), Patang (P. 35)

Dekh Indian Circus Patang

Mausam (Seasons of Love)

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BY COUNTRY: HONG KONG CHICO & RITA �������������������������15 Shorts 2: Pen & Paper ���� 44 Diana Vreeland: Juan of the Dead ��������������23 ALBANIA DON’T GO BREAKING DOUBLE STEPS, THE ������������19 Eye Has to Travel ������������19 Kaidan – AMNESTY ��������������������������������13 MY HEART �������������������������������19 ART Ending Note: Death of a Horror Classics ��������������24 FORGIVENESS LOVE ACTUALLY…SUCKS! ���26 SRI LANKA All Me: The Life and Times Japanese Salesman ���������19 Rabies ������������������������������������35 OF BLOOD �������������������������������20 FLYING FISH ����������������������������19 of Winfred Rembert �������13 From One Film Whisperer in HUNGARY KARMA �������������������������������������24 Double Steps, The ������������19 to Another ��������������������������20 Darkness, The ��������������������42 ARGENTINA TURIN HORSE, THE ���������������39 L.A. Raeven: Inshallah, Football �������22 COLD SWEAT ��������������������������17 SWEDEN Beyond the Image �������������25 Into the Abyss �������������������23 LGBT STUDENT, THE ������������������������38 ICELAND LOVE ALWAYS, CAROLYN ����26 Screen Illusion, The �������37 L.A. Raeven: American Translation ���13 VOLCANO ��������������������������������40 MELANCHOLIA �����������������������27 Beyond the Image �������������25 His Mother’s Eyes �������������21 AUSTRALIA PLAY �����������������������������������������35 BIOGRAPHY Love Always, Carolyn ����26 Leave it on the Floor �����25 SLEEPING BEAUTY ���������������37 INDIA All Me: The Life and Times On the Bridge ���������������������34 Love Actually…Sucks! ���26 SNOWTOWN ����������������������������38 AZHAGARSAMY’S HORSE ���14 SWITZERLAND of Winfred Rembert �������13 Pina ������������������������������������������35 Love Is in the Air ���������������26 CORRODE ��������������������������������17 DAY IS DONE ��������������������������18 Carol Channing: Sadermania �������������������������36 Madame X ������������������������������27 AUSTRIA DEKH INDIAN CIRCUS �����������18 Larger than Life ��������������15 Salaam Dunk �����������������������36 Romeos ����������������������������������36 MICHAEL ����������������������������������28 GANDU �������������������������������������20 TAIWAN Diana Vreeland: Shorts 7: Tomboy ����������������������������������39 MY BEST ENEMY ��������������������28 INSHALLAH, FOOTBALL �������22 RETURN TICKET ��������������������36 Eye Has to Travel ������������19 Truth be Told ���������������������45 Without ���������������������������������42 MAUSAM Undefeated �������������������������40 BELGIUM (SEASONS OF LOVE) �������������28 TURKEY BLACK PERSPECTIVES Valley of MUSIC BULLHEAD ������������������������������15 PATANG ������������������������������������35 ONCE UPON A Cooley High ������������������������17 the Forgotten �������������������40 Andrew Bird: GIANTS, THE ���������������������������20 TIME IN ANATOLIA �����������������34 David is Dying ����������������������18 Fever Year ���������������������������13 HOTEL SWOONi ���������������������22 INDONESIA Destiny of Lesser DRAMA Chico & Rita �������������������������15 KID WITH A BIKE, THE ����������24 MADAME X ������������������������������27 UK Animals, The ������������������������18 Amador ����������������������������������13 CORIOLANUS �������������������������17 Double Steps, The ������������19 Amnesty ��������������������������������13 MUSICAL BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA IRAN DAVID IS DYING ����������������������18 Leave it on the Floor �����25 Best Intentions �����������������14 Artist, The ������������������������������9 CIRCUS COLUMBIA ���������������16 GOODBYE ��������������������������������21 HOLDING, THE ������������������������22 Kinyarwanda ����������������������25 Buddha Mountain ��������������14 Bol �������������������������������������������14 A LONELY PLACE TO DIE �����26 Cairo 678 �������������������������������15 Leave it on the Floor �����25 BRAZIL ISRAEL MY WEEK WITH MARILYN ����11 CINEMA OF THE AMERICAS Clown, The ���������������������������16 Love Is in the Air ���������������26 CLOWN, THE ���������������������������16 MAN WITHOUT PINA ������������������������������������������35 Bonsai ������������������������������������14 Cooley High ������������������������17 Mausam SILVER CLIFF, THE ����������������37 A CELLPHONE �����������������������27 TYRANNOSAUR ���������������������40 Clown, The ���������������������������16 Corrode ��������������������������������17 (Seasons of Love) �������������28 SOUTHWEST ���������������������������38 RABIES ������������������������������������35 WE NEED TO TALK Cold Sweat ��������������������������17 Dangerous Method, A �����18 VALLEY OF SLUT, THE ��������������������������������37 ABOUT KEVIN �������������������������41 Fat, Bald, Short Man �������19 David is Dying ����������������������18 POLITICAL/SOCIAL THE FORGOTTEN �������������������40 WILD BILL ��������������������������������42 Juan of the Dead ��������������23 Forgiveness of Bol �������������������������������������������14 IRAQ WOMAN IN THE FIFTH �����������42 Kid who Lies, The ���������������24 Blood, The ����������������������������20 Cairo 678 �������������������������������15 CANADA SALAAM DUNK �����������������������36 WOMEN AND CHILDREN ������42 Machete Language ����������27 Good Doctor, The ������������20 Cinema Komunisto ������������16 DANGEROUS METHOD, A �����18 Miss Bala ������������������������������28 Here ����������������������������������������21 Circus Columbia ���������������16 WETLANDS �����������������������������41 ITALY USA Silver Cliff, The ����������������37 Hotel Swooni ���������������������22 If Not Us, Who ���������������������22 CORPO CELESTE �������������������17 ALL ME: THE LIFE AND TIME Southwest ���������������������������38 Jewel, The ����������������������������23 Into the Abyss �������������������23 CHILE JEWEL, THE ����������������������������23 OF WINFRED REMBERT �������13 Student, The ������������������������38 Karma �������������������������������������24 Jewel, The ����������������������������23 BONSAI ������������������������������������14 WE BELIEVED �������������������������41 ANDREW BIRD: Ticket to Paradise �����������39 Kid who Lies, The ���������������24 Land of Oblivion ���������������25 WE HAVE A POPE ������������������41 FEVER YEAR ���������������������������13 Valley of King of Devil’s Island �����24 Loverboy ������������������������������27 CHINA BULLY PROJECT, the Forgotten �������������������40 Le Havre ��������������������������������25 Machete Language ����������27 BUDDHA MOUNTAIN ��������������14 JAPAN THE �������������������������������������������15 Léa �������������������������������������������25 Man Without RETURN TICKET ��������������������36 BUNNY DROP ��������������������������15 CAROL CHANNING: CITY&STATE Michael ����������������������������������28 a Cell Phone ����������������������27 SACRIFICE �������������������������������36 CHRONICLE OF LARGER THAN LIFE ��������������15 Andrew Bird: Miss Bala ������������������������������28 Mole, The ������������������������������28 MY MOTHER ����������������������������16 COOLEY HIGH ������������������������17 Fever Year ���������������������������13 My Week With Marilyn ����11 On the Bridge ���������������������34 COLOMBIA ENDING NOTE: DEATH OF A crazy horse �����������������������18 Joint Body ����������������������������23 Oslo, August 31 �����������������35 Salaam Dunk �����������������������36 FAT, BALD, SHORT MAN �������19 JAPANESE SALESMAN ���������19 DESTINY OF LESSER Last Rites of Joe May �������9 Play �����������������������������������������35 Student, The ������������������������38 KAIDAN– ANIMALS, THE ������������������������18 Return of Return Ticket ��������������������36 Top Floor, Left Wing ������39 CUBA HORROR CLASSICS ��������������24 DIANA VREELAND: Joe Rich, The �����������������������35 Sleeping Beauty ���������������37 Valley of Juan of the dead ��������������23 SLEEP ��������������������������������������37 THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL ����19 Sadermania �������������������������36 Slut, The ��������������������������������37 the Forgotten �������������������40 TICKET TO PARADISE �����������39 SMUGGLER �����������������������������37 FORGIVENESS OF Shorts 1: City & State ���� 44 Southwest ���������������������������38 Ways of the Sea ����������������40 BLOOD, THE ����������������������������20 Turin Horse, The ���������������39 We Have a Pope ������������������41 DENMARK LUXEMBOURG HERE ����������������������������������������21 COMEDY Tyrannosaur ���������������������40 LOVE IS IN THE AIR ���������������26 MY BEST ENEMY ��������������������28 into the abyss �������������������23 Almanya ��������������������������������13 Volcano ��������������������������������40 ROMANCE MELANCHOLIA �����������������������27 JEFF, WHO LIVES Artist, The ������������������������������9 Ways of the Sea ����������������40 Amador ����������������������������������13 VOLCANO ��������������������������������40 MEXICO AT HOME ����������������������������������23 Azhagarsamy’s Horse ���14 We Have a Pope ������������������41 Bonsai ������������������������������������14 MACHETE LANGUAGE ����������27 JOINT BODY ����������������������������23 Don’t Go Breaking We Need to Talk Don’t Go Breaking EGYPT MISS BALA ������������������������������28 KINYARWANDA ����������������������25 My Heart �������������������������������19 about Kevin �������������������������41 My Heart �������������������������������19 CAIRO 678 �������������������������������15 LAST RITES OF JOE MAY �������9 Holidays by the Sea ��������22 Without ���������������������������������42 Goodbye First Love ���������21 MOROCCO LEAVE IT ON THE FLOOR �����25 Jeff, Who Lives Woman in the Fifth �����������42 Like Crazy ����������������������������26 FINLAND ON THE EDGE �������������������������34 LIKE CRAZY ����������������������������26 at Home ����������������������������������23 Love Is in the Air ���������������26 GOOD SON, THE ���������������������21 LITTLE CLOSER, A �����������������26 Juan of the Dead ��������������23 EXTREME Loverboy ������������������������������27 LE HAVRE ��������������������������������25 NETHERLANDS MARTHA MARCY Man Without a Cell Gandu �������������������������������������20 Take Me Home ����������������������38 CLUB ZEUS �����������������������������16 MAY MARLENE �����������������������27 Phone �������������������������������������27 George the Hedgehog ���20 FRANCE L.A. RAeVEN: NATURAL SELECTION ����������34 Natural Selection ����������34 Smuggler �����������������������������37 SEXY AMERICAN TRANSLATION ���13 BEYOND THE IMAGE �������������25 ON THE BRIDGE ���������������������34 Top Floor, Left Wing ������39 Club Zeus �����������������������������16 BONSAI ������������������������������������14 RETURN OF Turn Me On, Dammit ����������40 FAMILY Crazy Horse �����������������������18 crazy horse �����������������������18 NORWAY JOE RICH, THE �����������������������35 Women and Children ������42 Almanya ��������������������������������13 Dangerous Method, A �����18 FROM ONE FILM KING OF DEVIL’S ISLAND �����24 SADERMANIA �������������������������36 Best Intentions �����������������14 Gandu �������������������������������������20 TO ANOTHER ��������������������������20 OSLO, AUGUST 31 �����������������35 SALAAM DUNK �����������������������36 COMING-OF-AGE Bunny Drop ��������������������������15 Léa �������������������������������������������25 GOODBYE FIRST LOVE ���������21 TURN ME ON, DAMMIT! ���������40 TAKE ME HOME ����������������������38 Corpo Celeste �������������������17 Dekh Indian Circus �����������18 Love Actually…Sucks! ���26 HIS MOTHER’S EYES �������������21 THREE MUSKETEERS �����������39 Giants, The ���������������������������20 Hotel Swooni ���������������������22 Romeos ����������������������������������36 HOLIDAYS BY THE SEA ��������22 PAKISTAN UNDEFEATED �������������������������40 Little Closer, A �����������������26 Little Closer, A �����������������26 Shorts 4: In n’ Out ������������45 KING OF DEVIL’S ISLAND �����24 BOL �������������������������������������������14 WHISPERER IN On the Edge �������������������������34 Silver Cliff, The ����������������37 Sleeping Beauty ���������������37 LAND OF OBLIVION ���������������25 DARKNESS, THE ��������������������42 Romeos ����������������������������������36 Sleep ��������������������������������������37 Slut, The ��������������������������������37 LE HAVRE ��������������������������������25 PALESTINE WITHOUT ���������������������������������42 Ticket to Paradise �����������39 Tomboy ����������������������������������39 LÉA �������������������������������������������25 MAN WITHOUT Tomboy ����������������������������������39 SOUTH ASIA NOBODY ELSE BUT YOU ����� 34 A CELL PHONE �����������������������27 VENEZUELA Turn Me On, Dammit ����������40 FAMILY DRAMA Azhagarsamy’s Horse ���14 on the bridge �������������������� 34 KID WHO LIES, THE ���������������24 Chronicle of Bol �������������������������������������������14 PINA ������������������������������������������35 PHILIPPINES CRIME DRAMA My Mother ����������������������������16 Corrode ��������������������������������17 PLAY �����������������������������������������35 WAYS OF THE SEA ����������������40 BY category: American Translation ���13 Good Son, The ���������������������21 Dekh Indian Circus �����������18 SCREEN ILLUSION, THE �������37 3D Destiny of Lesser Goodbye ��������������������������������21 Flying Fish ����������������������������19 TOMBOY ����������������������������������39 POLAND Pina ������������������������������������������35 Animals, The ������������������������18 His Mother’s Eyes �������������21 Gandu �������������������������������������20 TOP FLOOR, LEFT WING ������39 GEORGE THE HEDGEHOG ���20 Three Musketeers �����������39 Joint Body ����������������������������23 Kid with a Bike, The ����������24 Inshallah, Football �������22 WHAT LOVE MAY BRING ������41 MOLE, THE ������������������������������28 Last Rites of Joe May �������9 Wetlands �����������������������������41 Karma �������������������������������������24 WOMen and children ������42 AFTER DARK Nobody Else But You ������34 Women and Children ������42 Mausam ROMANIA Cold Sweat ��������������������������17 Once Upon a (Seasons of Love) �������������28 GERMANY BEST INTENTIONS �����������������14 Haunters ������������������������������21 Time in Anatolia �����������������34 HISTORICAL Patang ������������������������������������35 ALMANYA ��������������������������������13 LOVERBOY ������������������������������27 Holding, The ������������������������22 Return of Almanya ��������������������������������13 dangerous method, a �����18 Lonely Place to Die, A ����26 Joe Rich, The �����������������������35 Coriolanus �������������������������17 THRILLER GOODBYE FIRST LOVE ���������21 RUSSIA Rabies ������������������������������������35 Wild Bill ��������������������������������42 Dangerous Method, A �����18 Bullhead ������������������������������15 IF NOT US, WHO ���������������������22 INNOCENT SATURDAY ����������22 Shorts 3: If Not Us, Who ���������������������22 Good Doctor, The ������������20 ON THE EDGE ������������������������ 34 TARGET ����������������������������������39 Midnight Mayhem �������������� 44 DOCUMENTARY Innocent Saturday ����������22 Haunters ������������������������������21 ROMEOS ����������������������������������36 Smuggler �����������������������������37 All Me: The Life and Times Love Always, Carolyn ����26 Holding, The ������������������������22 PINA ������������������������������������������35 SERBIA Snowtown ����������������������������38 of Winfred Rembert �������13 My Best Enemy ��������������������28 Lonely Place to Die, A ����26 CINEMA Komunisto ������������16 Whisperer in Andrew Bird: Sacrifice �������������������������������36 Martha Marcy GHANA Darkness, The ��������������������42 Fever Year ���������������������������13 We Believed �������������������������41 May Marlene �����������������������27 DESTINY OF LESSER SOUTH KOREA Yellow Sea, The ����������������42 Bully Project, The �����������15 What Love May Bring ������41 Snowtown ����������������������������38 ANIMALS, THE ������������������������18 HAUNTERS ������������������������������21 Carol Channing: Wetlands �����������������������������41 YELLOW SEA, THE ����������������42 ANIMATION Larger than Life ��������������15 HORROR Yellow Sea, The ����������������42 GREECE Chico & Rita �������������������������15 Cinema Komunisto ������������16 Cold Sweat ��������������������������17 AMNESTY ��������������������������������13 SPAIN Fat, Bald, Short Man �������19 Crazy Horse �����������������������18 Haunters ������������������������������21 AMADOR ����������������������������������13 George the Hedgehog ���20 Day is Done ���������������������������18 Holding, The ������������������������22

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