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Clever - p. 17 The 33 - p. 12 Funny Girl - p. 20 Brooklyn - p. 15 A Perfect Day - p. 29 Carol - p. 16 Stinking Heaven - p. 31 Dheepan - p. 18 The Thin Yellow Line - p. 32 dAm I Am Michael - p. 23 Very Semi-Serious - p. 34 I Smile Back - p. 23 Walking Distance - p. 35 James White - p. 24 cMeY We Are Francesco - p. 35 Macbeth - p. 26

Bite - p. 15 All About Them - p. 13 Ludo - p. 26 Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories - p. 14 Other Madnesses - p. 29 Cuckold - p. 18 The Red Spider - p. 30 Neon Bull - p. 28 Tag - p. 32 tRiLe Orphans of Eldorado - p. 28 They Look Like People - p. 32 Tough Love - p. 33 Three Days in September - p. 32 XConfessions: A Conversation With Erika Lust - p. 36 sXy Why Me? - p. 35

CONTENTS 5 Welcome! 42 Travel Guide 7 Tickets & Passes 43 Hot Spots The Birth of Saké - p. 14 10 Opening Night 44 Education Program Breakfast at Ina’s - p. 15 11 Film Program Guide 45 Membership For Grace - p. 20 12-36 Film Guide: A to Z 45 Merchandise Open Tables - p. 28 Sweet Bean - p. 31 36 Closing Night 46-52 Daily Film Schedule 38 Industry Days 53 Film Index by Country fOd 39 Spotlight: Architecture 53 Film Index by Category 39 Panels & Tast of Cinema 54 Film Index by Theme 40 Short Films 55 Festival Partners Because everybody loves movies!

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Opening night Thursday, October 15, 2015 FILM PROGRAM GUIDE Mia Madre Italy, France • Dir. Nanni Moretti Cast: Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Nanni Moretti, Giulia Lazzarini NEW DIRECTORS COMPETITION MAIN COMPETITION Join us as we celebrate the glamor of going to the movies at Opening This selection of U.S. premiere films by first- and second- Night of the 51st Chicago International Film Festival with a premiere Representing a wide variety of styles and genres, these superb time directors introduces audiences to the world’s next presentation of Mia Madre (My Mother)! films compete for the Festival’s top honor, the Gold Hugo. great filmmakers.

program John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Partner Family Foundation program John Turturro provides madcap comic relief as a self-important Partner American actor in master filmmaker Nanni Moretti’s latest personal tour de force. An overworked director tries to complete her new movie—a political statement about factory workers—while caring for her much-beloved mother, who lies dying in the hospital. Real life and art clash violently in this moving personal drama about the heavy cost BLACK PERSPECTIVES of artistic integrity. English, Italian with subtitles. 106 min. OUT-LOOK Black Perspectives showcases the richness and diversity of These stellar LGBTQ-themed films exhibit artistic perspectives black cultures around the world and the filmmakers behind them. on sexuality and identity, competing for the Q Hugo Award. program Partner

DOCUMENTARY WORLD CINEMA From the political to the personal, this collection of outstanding A mix of classical narratives and stylish new innovations, films, both in and out of competition, presents the top nonfiction in this program offers a snapshot of the contemporary the world. cinematic landscape. Film Courtesy of program program Partner Partner

TICKET INFORMATION* TICKET CAN BE PURCHASED: CITY & STATE CINEMA OF THE AMERICAS FILM ONLY General seating IN PERSON Auditorium Theatre Box This program spotlights the vibrant work of emerging and $18* for members / $23* for non-members Office, 50 E. Congress Parkway Celebrate Illinois’ rich filmmaking tradition with the best features, documentaries, and short films from the Festival’s home state. established filmmakers from South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. VIP TICKET Includes premium reserved BOX OFFICE HOURS: program Partners seat on Orchestra level and reception Mon. & Thu. 10:00 AM-6:00 PM program $150 EFVIP Tue., Wed., Fri. 12:00 PM-6:00 PM Partner Purchased only at: chicagofilmfestival.com BY PHONE 312-341-2300 ONLINE auditoriumtheatre.org U.S. INDIES Reception theWit Hotel, 201 N. State St. These U.S.-made low-budget films represent the freshest AFTER DARK 9:30 PM-11:30 PM and most innovative independent narrative and nonfiction filmmaking today. Plunge into paranoia, witchcraft, and soul-wrenching stand-up comedy with our lineup of horror and flinch-inducing fringe films. Evening Program Cocktail reception with hors d’oeuvres program Penelope R. and The Auditorium Theatre of Cocktail attire. Wristband and ticket Partner Robert Steiner Roosevelt University required for entry. 50 E. Congress Parkway 5:30 PM Red carpet arrivals SHORTS 6:30 PM Guest presentations followed *Includes a $3.00 facility fee and is subject to $5.00/ticket and $2.00/order handling fee. Handling fee SPECIAL by premiere of Mia Madre will be waived for ticket(s) purchased in person at the Auditorium Box Office. PRESENTATIONS Funny, striking, and moving—find your Highlight films own personal gem in our selection of From searing dramas to bold epics, With A-list stars and acclaimed animated, documentary, horror, and these are the most acclaimed films directors in attendance, these high- experimental works. See p.40. from Hollywood and beyond. profile films offer audiences a sneak peek at this year’s most buzzed- program Jeanne Randall Malkin Partner lead sponsors media venue evening patrons about movies. Family Foundation partner partner John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation Penelope R. and Robert Steiner Paul and Ellen Gignilliat Jeanne Randall Malkin Family Foundation SPOTLIGHT: ARCHITECTURE + SPACE + DESIGN In conjunction with Chicago’s Architecture Biennial, these notable nonfiction and fiction films display For a complete list of remarkable representations of architecture, space and design. event partners OFFICIAL HEADQUARTERS AIRLINE HOTEL program Partners FILMS BY PROGRAM see page 53. 10 11 find news and updates at chicagofilmfestival.com Films A-Z A Don’t be overwhelmed by the sheer number of fantastic films we have in store! Here’s a helpful guide to navigate our film schedule and to build your Festival film list.

Visit chicagofilmfestival.com for new The Abandoned additions, a list of visiting filmmakers, and US • Dir. Eytan Rockaway announcements of our “Best of the Fest.” Absence Ausência In a vacant luxury complex, a young TITLE Brazil • Dir. Chico Teixeira woman takes a job as one of two security COUNTRY The 33 Adama guards covering the night shift. As she A sensitively observed slice of social DIRECTOR US, Chile • Dir. Patricia Riggen France • Dir. Simon Rouby patrols the vast hallways, increasingly realism, Absence tenderly depicts one In 2010, 33 Chilean miners were buried sinister phenomena threaten her, adolescent’s uncertain journey into In this vibrantly animated odyssey, a alive by the catastrophic explosion seemingly born from the building’s adulthood. Left adrift after his dad’s sudden young boy ventures outside the forbidden and collapse of a century-old gold and catacombs. The Abandoned is a departure, teenager Serginho works as a cliff walls of his secluded West African copper mine. Over the next 69 days, claustrophobic, bone-tingling thriller that vendor at the local market, playing father village in 1916 in search of his older SUMMARY an international team worked night and merges visceral scares with slow-burning figure to his little brother and companion brother. He will journey across land and LANGUAGE day in a desperate attempt to rescue the mystery–a haunted house that turns into to his frazzled, alcoholic mother. As sea and, eventually, find himself struggling RUNTIME trapped men. Starring Antonio Banderas a chilling psychological portrait. 86 min. Serginho’s burgeoning sexuality clashes to survive in war-torn Europe. Composed and Juliette Binoche, this tense, dramatic with his own search for a role model, the of a striking blend of 2D backdrops, with thriller depicts the courage of both the FRI 10/16 10:15 PM EFaban1 film achieves a new level of tenderness. sculpted, laser-scanned characters, SUN 10/18 7:30 PM EFaban2 miners and their families who refused to Portuguese with subtitles. 87 min. Adama is a stirring tale of adventure and give up. 125 min. courage for the whole family. French with After Dark MON 10/26 5:00 PM EFABS1 subtitles. 82 min. SCREENING DATES, SAT 10/24 6:00 PM EF33 TUE 10/27 5:15 PM EFABS2 SHOWTIMES & TICKET CODES FRI 10/23 5:45 PM EFADAMA1 special presentation world cinema SUN 10/25 11:30 AM EFADAMA2 MON 10/26 12:45 PM EFADAMA3 COMPETITION / PROGRAM cinema of the americas cinema of the americas world cinema black perspectives

All About Them A trois on y va France • Dir. Jérôme Bonnell 45 Years The Ardennes D’Ardennen UK • Dir. Andrew Haigh Micha loves Charlotte. Their friend Belgium • Dir. Robin Pront 600 Miles 600 Millas Mélodie also secretly loves Charlotte. As We Were Dreaming On the eve of their 45th anniversary, a Mexico • Dir. Gabriel Ripstein And now Mélodie is also falling for This gripping narrative follows two Als wir träumten couple’s marital equilibrium is threatened Micha. Sneaking behind each other’s Flemish brothers, Dave and Kenneth, Germany • Dir. Andreas Dresen when the husband’s past resurfaces A documentary-style thriller that draws backs can only work for so long. So who reunite after Kenneth’s four-year jail in an unexpected way. Long-frozen pointed connections between America’s what’s a trio of attractive French sentence for a crime both had committed. Five rowdy East German grungeheads secrets begin to thaw in this slow-burning permissive gun laws and firearms 20-somethings to do? This sexy Dave, who had escaped capture after test their limits at the tail end of the domestic drama. Stars Tom Courtenay smugglers, 600 Miles follows a US federal comedy starring the magnetic Anaïs the home invasion that led to Kenneth’s Communist era: running in the anarchist and Charlotte Rampling both won top agent (Tim Roth) held at gunpoint by a Demoustier asks, winkingly, if there can arrest, has even more to be guilty scene, picking fights with neo-Nazis, and honors at the Berlin Film Festival for their Mexican weapons dealer (Kristyan Ferrer). be such a thing as too much passion. about–like the fact that he’s been seeing launching their own techno-warehouse gripping performances. 93 min. Their journey into the country’s criminal French with subtitles. 86 min. Kenneth’s ex-girlfriend. The Ardennes is a hot spot. Under the ever-present influence underworld is fraught with consequences grim, twisted tale of familial loyalty. Dutch, of drugs and alcohol and the hyperkinetic SAT 10/17 3:30 PM EF451 far beyond what they can imagine. SAT 10/24 7:30 PM EFALL1 pulse of strobe lights, these young men will TUE 10/20 6:15 PM EF452 French with subtitles. 90 min. Spanish, English with subtitles. 85 min. MON 10/26 7:45 PM EFALL2 carve out a place in their rapidly changing TUE 10/27 11:30 AM EFALL3 SUN 10/18 2:30 PM EFARD1 country—or die trying. German with main competition SAT 10/17 4:30 PM EF6001 TUE 10/20 8:30 PM EFARD2 SUN 10/18 1:15 PM EF6002 world cinema WED 10/21 3:00 PM EFARD3 subtitles. 117 min. TUE 10/27 3:00 PM EF6003 MON 10/26 3:15 PM EFASWE1 world cinema TUE 10/27 5:00 PM EFASWE2 world cinema WED 10/28 3:45 PM EFASWE3 cinema of the americas 12 world cinema 13 find news and updates at chicagofilmfestival.com

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The Assassin Nie Yinniang Bite Taiwan, China • Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien Canada • Dir. Chad Archibald L’Astragale Body Ciało A breathtaking martial-arts film that won France • Dir. Brigitte Sy Casey returns from a bachelorette party Poland • Dir. Małgorzata Szumowska the Best Director prize at this year’s Banana Pancakes and the weekend with cold feet and a seemingly Breakfast at Ina’s France, 1957. On Albertine’s escape from Balancing bleakness and mirth in equal Cannes Film Festival, The Assassin Children of Sticky Rice innocuous insect bite. As her sense of US • Dir. Mercedes Kane chronicles a complex web of betrayals jail she breaks her foot and is rescued dread about her pending nuptials grows, measure, Body chronicles three haunted Netherlands • Dir. Daan Veldhuizen when a young killer seeks to assassinate by Julien, an ex-con who helps her hide so does a strange, stinger-like appendage souls in Warsaw: an icy coroner who Famous for its Heavenly Hots (pancakes a high-level official at the end of China’s from the authorities in Paris. An intense In a lush remote village in northern Laos, and an uncontrollable new appetite. Like suspects his dead wife may be trying with fruit compote), Ina’s was a Chicago Tang Dynasty. Gorgeous composition and romance sparks between the two outlaws, tourism is on the rise. But as Western a marital twist on The Fly, Bite incisively to contact him; his anorexic, suicidal breakfast institution. Every customer choreography, with pitch-perfect attention and when Julien is arrested, Albertine will backpackers and new technologies begin uses body horror to uncover the true daughter; and her hospital therapist, received a warm welcome from to period detail and a mesmerizing go to any lengths to be reunited with her to enter the town, the locals are ambivalent. terror of humanity’s mating rituals. 86 min. who moonlights as a medium. Playing proprietor and chef Ina Pinkney, the central performance by Shu Qi, define lover. This stylish, black-and-white tale of Some are eager to embrace the economic unexplained phenomena for dry laughs, “Breakfast Queen.” After 33 years in lovers on the run, adapted from Albertine FRI 10/23 10:30 PM EFBITE1 like a hanged man who miraculously the business, Pinkney retired in 2013. this singular take on the wuxia genre. opportunities, while others remain more SAT 10/24 10:00 PM EFBITE2 Mandarin with subtitles. 120 min. Sarrazin’s provocative autobiographical resistant. A beautifully photographed and regains consciousness, the film is Following the restaurant’s final month, Breakfast at Ina’s celebrates a beloved novel, stars rising French talents Leïla complex portrait of East-meets-West, After Dark a morbidly funny guide to the Great WED 10/21 6:00 PM EFASSA1 Bekhti and Reda Kateb as a Gallic Bonnie Beyond. Polish with subtitles. 90 min. eatery and a woman who achieved her FRI 10/23 8:15 PM EFASSA2 Banana Pancakes and the Children of & Clyde. French with subtitles. 96 min. dream against the odds. 50 min. Sticky Rice captures the growing pains FRI 10/16 5:00 PM EFBODY1 Highlight SAT 10/17 3:30 PM EFLAST1 of “progress” with wit and subtlety. Lao, TUE 10/20 12:15 PM EFBODY2 SUN 10/18 3:30 PM EFBREAK1 MON 10/19 6:00 PM EFLAST2 English with subtitles. 94 min. WED 10/21 3:15 PM EFBODY3 taste of cinema (P. 39) EFBREAKD WED 10/28 12:30 PM EFLAST3 THU 10/22 12:00 PM EFBREAK2 SAT 10/17 6:30 PM EFBAN1 FRI 10/23 4:00 PM EFBREAK3 MON 10/19 3:30 PM EFBAN2 main competition world cinema U.S. Indies documentary Competition city & State documentary

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Barash Brooklyn Israel • Dir. Michal Vinik Ireland, UK • Dir. John Crowley Big Father, Small Father Call Me Marianna In this spirited look at contemporary Brooklyn tells the moving story of Eilis Mów mi Marianna Israel, rebellious 17-year-old Naama and Other Stories (Saoirse Ronan), a young Irish immigrant Cha và con và The Birth of Saké Poland • Dir. Karolina Bielawska Carmín Tropical‬ Barash is living on the edge as her family navigating through 1950s Brooklyn. Lured Vietnam, France • Dir. Phan Dang Di US, Japan • Dir. Erik Shirai Mexico • Dir. Rigoberto Perezcano unravels. While she’s experimenting with by the promise of America, Eilis departs Her ex-wife won’t meet her. Her daughter alcohol, guys, and drugs, her army- This portrait of disaffected, libidinous To create the traditional Japanese drink the comfort of Ireland for the shores of rejects her. Her mother still calls her A noir unlike any other, this sun-soaked enrolled sister appears to have gone youth follows a group of friends in 1990s of saké, passionate laborers channel New York City. The initial shackles of “son.” As Marianna transitions from male whodunit is set in Juchitán, a southern AWOL. As parents fret about their older Saigon. While an amateur photographer time and the elements at a family-owned homesickness quickly diminish under the to female, she is abandoned by her loved Mexican town home to a community of daughter’s disappearance, Naama meets longs for his hunky roommate, an aspiring brewery in Japan. This contemplative spell of a fresh romance. But unexpected ones, alone in a world unwilling to accept people who consider themselves muxe a wild new girl in school and discovers, ballerina copes with her double life as a documentary chronicles a year in the life of developments force her to choose her true self. This multi-award-winning (mixed gender). After years away, muxe for the first time, the intoxicating fervor of sexy nightclub dancer. This sumptuous close-knit individuals who remain steadfast between her family’s home and her documentary is an intensely sympathetic Mabel returns to investigate the death of first love. Hebrew with subtitles. 90 min. film captures the hopes and hopelessness in the face of modernity. The film is as adopted land. 111 min. and powerful account of one individual’s an old friend, finding that the past can be of a generation of young Vietnamese. beautifully crafted as the artisanal drink it struggle to gain acceptance—even in just as unclear as the future. Spanish with THU 10/22 7:30 PM EFBARA1 profiles. Japanese with subtitles. 91 min. TUE 10/20 6:00 PM EFBROOK subtitles. 80 min. SUN 10/25 2:30 PM EFBARA2 Vietnamese with subtitles. 102 min. the midst of profound physical hardship. MON 10/19 5:45 PM EFBIRTH1 Polish with subtitles. 75 min. SAT 10/17 7:15 PM EFCARM1 FRI 10/16 9:45 PM EFBIG1 Highlight taste of cinema (P. 39) EFBIRTHD TUE 10/20 3:00 PM EFCARM2 world cinema MON 10/19 1:00 PM EFBIG2 WED 10/21 6:15 PM EFCALL1 TUE 10/20 3:30 PM EFBIRTH2 FRI 10/23 12:00 PM EFCARM3 out-Look SAT 10/24 12:15 PM EFBIG3 THU 10/22 5:15 PM EFCALL2 WED 10/21 12:30 PM EFBIRTH3 MON 10/26 1:15 PM EFCALL3 world cinema world cinema U.S. Indies documentary Competition out-Look out-Look documentary out-Look 14 15 find news and updates at chicagofilmfestival.com

Carol Clever US • Dir. Todd Haynes Uruguay • Dirs. Federico Borgia, Cash Only Guillermo Madeiro The Closer We Get In an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s US • Dir. Malik Bader Scotland, UK • Dir. Karen Guthrie seminal novel The Price of Salt, Carol Cemetery of Splendor Still bitter from a recent divorce, martial The Club El Club follows two women (Cate Blanchett In this gritty Detroit-set thriller, Elvis Rak ti Khon Kaen arts instructor Clever discovers a car Scottish director Karen Guthrie’s intimate Chile • Dir. Pablo Larraín and Rooney Mara) from very different Martini (writer-star Nickola Shreli, in a Thailand tricked out with flames in his neighborhood documentary is a vivid chronicle of her Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the backgrounds who find themselves in gripping performance) is a single Albanian Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul and sets out on a single-minded quest: to coming to terms with a twofold loss, one an unexpected love affair in 1950s New father and landlord trying to do the right find the artist and treat his own vehicle. past—of her nuclear family shattered Berlin Film Festival, this unsettling York. As conventional norms of the time thing. But since he’s in debt to both Thai surrealist master Apichatpong His journey leads to a secluded village, years before by her father’s departure drama from director Pablo Larraín challenge their undeniable attraction, bookies and his daughter’s school, Elvis Weerasethakul returns with a tale that and to an enigmatic personality who isn’t to Africa—and one present, when her (No) centers on a group of disgraced an honest story emerges to reveal the needs to come up with some serious takes place between worlds natural quite what he expects. Delightfully odd and mother, the family anchor, suffers a Catholic priests sequestered in a resilience of the heart in the face of money fast. Chicago director Malik Bader and spiritual, past and present. When idiosyncratic, Clever is an absurd satire of stroke. Full of surprising revelations, beach house. The tranquility of their change. 118 min. delivers a riveting and assured genre film, a group of soldiers becomes afflicted the fragile façade of masculinity. Spanish Guthrie’s personal story becomes an anonymous daily routine is disturbed complete with rich cultural details and with a strange sleeping sickness, a with subtitles. 83 min. affecting and resonant look at post- when a young man materializes with WED 10/28 7:30 PM EFCAROL shockingly gruesome imagery. English, volunteer nurse communicates with colonialism and the complicated bonds of charges of abuse. The priests’ reaction Albanian with subtitles. 89 min. their unconscious selves through SAT 10/24 8:30 PM EFCLEV1 family. 81 min. to this unwanted interloper carries special presentation a medium. A hypnotic cinematic SUN 10/25 6:15 PM EFCLEV2 echoes of their institution’s shocking SAT 10/17 9:30 PM EFCASH1 WED 10/21 7:45 PM EFCLOSE1 out-Look dreamscape unfolds when she past. Spanish with subtitles. 97 min. WED 10/21 3:00 PM EFCASH2 world cinema THU 10/22 3:45 PM EFCLOSE2 discovers that the soldiers are sleeping FRI 10/23 5:15 PM EFCASH3 MON 10/19 8:15 PM EFCLUB1 cinema of the americas on an ancient royal grave. Thai with documentary Competition TUE 10/20 8:30 PM EFCLUB2 U.S. Indies subtitles. 122 min. main competition city & State SUN 10/25 5:30 PM EFCEM1 TUE 10/27 8:30 PM EFCEM2 cinema of the americas

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A Childhood (Une) Enfance The Companion El Acompañante France • Dir. Philippe Claudel Cuba Chronic Dir. Pavel Giroud Concrete Love - In this tender, keenly observed look Mexico, France • Dir. Michel Franco at growing up in poverty in small-town BEST OF THE FEST At the height of the 1980s AIDS epidemic, The Böhm Family Die Böhms–Architektur einer Familie Creative Control France, 13-year-old Jimmy dreams of a A hospice nurse (Tim Roth) has a deeper Cuban boxing champion Horacio’s CineyoutH Germany, Switzerland US • Dir. Benjamin Dickinson bourgeois life with family vacations and connection to his patients than their own punishment for failing a drug test is to Dir. Maurizius Staerkle-Drux games of tennis. Trapped in an unstable family members, but his above-and- Our yearly CineYouth Festival celebrates watch over the brash, combative Daniel, David’s new augmented-reality glasses household with a drug-addicted mother beyond approach to emotional baggage the work of students 21 years old and a patient in a sanatorium where HIV Prominent German architect Gottfried aren’t just for fun. They’re a dangerous and her criminal boyfriend, Jimmy is shields his true problems from the outside younger, highlighting the creativity of the patients are compulsorily confined. The Böhm is celebrated for his buildings of gateway into an alternate life, and a new forced to grow up too quickly. Over the world. Carrying traces of Amour, with next generation of filmmakers. CineYouth: two collide as Daniel yearns for freedom concrete, steel, and glass. His three sons kind of sexual fantasy. In near-future course of a sweltering summer, Jimmy stripped-down camerawork and naturalist Best of the Fest showcases the winning while Horacio dreams of returning to are also highly acclaimed. When the family Brooklyn, the high-powered ad executive must find moments of hope in a world full performances, Michel Franco’s restrained films from the 2015 CineYouth Festival. the ring. Starring Latin Grammy® winner matriarch, an architect herself and source tries to break away from his staid of strife. French with subtitles. 100 min. medical drama peers into the darkness This screening will include a Q&A with Yotuel Romero, this eye-opening drama of inspiration for all Böhm men, dies, existence by conjuring a 3D model of his and wonders about the last person to select filmmakers. 100 min. finds friendship and compassion during their emotional foundation is shattered. best friend’s girlfriend. This smart, stylish WED 10/21 6:00 PM EFCHILD1 sci-fi indie redefines meaningful human hold our hands as we step through to the SAT 10/17 11:00 am EFCINEY a little-known chapter in Cuban history. Sensitive to form and emotion, Concrete THU 10/22 8:15 PM EFCHILD2 interaction in the 21st century. 97 min. MON 10/26 3:30 PM EFCHILD3 other side. 92 min. Spanish with subtitles. 104 min. Love lays bare the blueprint of a family. This is a free event! WED 10/21 8:15 PM EFCHRON1 SUN 10/25 5:00 PM EFCOMP1 German, English with subtitles. 87 min. SUN 10/25 2:15 PM EFCREA main competition THU 10/22 8:30 PM EFCHRON2 Ticket must be obtained from box office. MON 10/26 5:15 PM EFCOMP2 THU 10/22 2:30 PM EFCLOVE1 MON 10/26 12:30 PM EFCHRON3 FRI 10/23 5:45 PM EFCLOVE2 U.S. Indies world cinema main competition spotlight architecture 16 documentary 17 find news and updates at chicagofilmfestival.com

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Cronies Double Happiness US • Dir. Michael J. Larnell Austria • Dir. Ella Raidel Cuckold Eisenstein in Guanajuato A decade-old tragedy casts a dark shade South Africa • Dir. Charlie Vundla This surreal, exquisitely framed Netherlands, Mexico over the drug-fueled wanderings of a Danny and the Human Zoo documentary looks at the construction of Dir. Peter Greenaway Embers young father, his troublemaking childhood In this intimate drama, a young African- UK • Dir. Destiny Ekaragha a near-exact replica of a scenic Austrian US • Dir. Claire Carré pal, and his new (white) friend over the American professor in Johannesburg town—cobblestone by cobblestone—in The revolutionary Soviet filmmaker course of a single summer’s day in St. falls apart after his wife leaves him for Danny, a teen growing up in a Jamaican an undeveloped Chinese tract of land. In Sergei Eisenstein kick-started modern After a global neurological epidemic, Louis. With its blend of black-and-white another man. His old school mate, now a working class family, finds his calling as a style both entrancing and playful, the movies with his breakthrough Battleship survivors exist with no long-term memory, cinematography, documentary-style homeless life coach, helps him get back an impressionist. But when a producer film questions the difference between real Potemkin. This energetic, stylish biopic left adrift in a world no one can fully interviews, and day-in-the-life naturalism, on his feet. But when his wife reappears tries to exploit his success by casting and imagined, model and reality, raising chronicles the director’s 1931 sojourn remember. A young woman in quarantine this Spike Lee-produced dramedy at his doorstep, she wreaks havoc on his him in a minstrel show, he must find the thought-provoking questions about the to Mexico, where, in Peter Greenaway’s yearns for freedom, while two lovers, presents a refreshingly candid and honest fragile state of mind. Cuckold is an incisive courage to stand up for himself. Based on nature of authenticity and happiness. imaginative retelling, he lost his virginity a young criminal, and an abandoned portrait of life in the hood. 86 min. vision of domestic turmoil and a sly take the life story (kinda) of comedian Lenny Features insightful interviews with urban to his suave male guide. A treat for child struggle for love and connection. on betrayal and forgiveness. 94 min. Henry (who wrote the screenplay), this planners, designers, and trailblazing cinephiles, the film features a giddy Like Memento en masse, this thought- FRI 10/16 3:00 PM EFCRONI1 BBC family dramedy skillfully navigates Beijing architect Ma Yansong. German, performance by Elmer Bäck as the provoking sci-fi film elegantly imagines a FRI 10/23 7:45 PM EFCRONI2 MON 10/26 8:30 PM EFCUCK1 the tricky realm of race in show business world where our past isn’t there to guide SAT 10/24 12:45 PM EFCRONI3 TUE 10/27 6:15 PM EFCUCK2 Mandarin with subtitles. 74 min. legendary director. English, Spanish with head-on. 90 min. subtitles. 105 min. us. English, Spanish with subtitles. 86 min. SUN 10/25 6:00 PM EFDOUB1 U.S. Indies world cinema FRI 10/16 8:00 PM EFEMBER1 Exclusive Free Member Screening! TUE 10/27 4:00 PM EFDOUB2 TUE 10/27 6:00 PM EFEISEN1 WED 10/28 5:30 PM EFEISEN2 SAT 10/17 1:00 PM EFEMBER2 black perspectives black perspectives See p. 45 for more information. spotlight architecture SUN 10/25 11:00 AM EFEMBER3 SUN 10/18 1:15 PM EFDANNY world cinema documentary new directors competition out-Look black perspectives U.S. Indies EXPLICIT CONTENT

The Dark Horse Embrace of the Serpent New Zealand El abrazo de la serpiente Dir. James Napier Robertson Dégradé Colombia, venezuela The Emperor in August Palestine, France Dir. Ciro Guerra Nihon no ichiban nagai hi ketteiban An inspirational yet streetwise true story, Dirs. Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser Dheepan Japan • Dir. Masato Harada Entertainment The Dark Horse follows Maori speed chess France • Dir. Jacques Audiard The quest for a mythical healing plant US • Dir. Rick Alverson champion Genesis “Gen” Potini (Cliff In this transfixing chamber drama, a fuels two separate Amazon River An intimate war picture, Masato Harada’s Curtis, Whale Rider), a volatile presence colorful assortment of women (including Jacques Audiard’s explosive immigrant expeditions decades apart in the early patient, understated period piece En route to Los Angeles, a washed-up with bipolar disorder, as he teaches beloved screen icon Hiam Abbass) crowd drama depicts a Sri Lankan rebel fighter 20th century. A lone shaman, the last of recreates the 24 hours leading up to comedian tours the shabbiest venues the game to an after-school club for a beauty salon in the Gaza Strip; the who attempts a better life in Paris under his people, leads both groups of explorers Japan’s official surrender in WWII and throughout the Mojave Desert, where underprivileged youth. Facing down better- banter is lively as they await haircuts, a dead man’s identity. A mixture of brutal in their imperious quest for knowledge the emperor’s resigned radio address to surreal encounters and lacerating educated peers, Gen’s squad must prove pedicures, and wedding-day styling. social realism and nail-biting suspense, with devastating consequences for the his people. Elegant shot framing captures self-examination go hand-in-hand. Can this game can be a way out of a dead-end The veneer of normalcy is stripped away the film’s grit and boldness won it the natives and newcomers alike. Shot in the drawing rooms and negotiating tables he entertain anyone? Does he even future. Tough and honest, this chess film when a violent confrontation escalates on top prize at this year’s Cannes Film gorgeous black-and-white, Ciro Guerra’s where, 70 years ago, the most powerful want to? Gregg Turkington (a.k.a. Neil deserves to be kinged. 124 min. the street outside, trapping the women Festival. Antonythasan Jesuthasan, a Cannes Film Festival winner is a stunning, men in Japan gathered to make a Hamburger) delivers a memorably inside the salon. Laced with dark comedy, former Tamil Tiger child soldier-turned- intensely symbolic expedition into the decision that would change the course of disturbing performance in this SAT 10/17 6:30 PM EFDARK Dégradé lays bare the absurdity and acclaimed-novelist, gives a breakout heart of darkness. Spanish, Portuguese, history. Japanese with subtitles. 135 min. absurdist road-movie oddity co-written tragedy of life under siege. Arabic with lead performance as the multi-faceted by Tim Heidecker (Cartoon Network’s world cinema German with subtitles. 125 min. SUN 10/18 1:45 PM EFEMP subtitles. 83 min. “Dheepan.” Tamil, French, English with Adult Swim) and throbbing with angry subtitles. 109 min. SAT 10/24 6:00 PM EFEMBRA1 humor. 104 min. THU 10/22 6:15 PM EFDEG1 SUN 10/25 3:00 PM EFEMBRA2 world cinema FRI 10/23 8:30 PM EFDEG2 FRI 10/16 8:30 PM EFDHEE1 SAT 10/17 10:45 PM EFENTER WED 10/28 12:30 PM EFDEG3 SAT 10/24 5:30 PM EFDHEE2 world cinema After Dark 18 world cinema Highlight cinema of the americas 19 find news and updates at chicagofilmfestival.com f h

For Grace Girls Lost Pojkarna US • Dirs. Kevin Pang, Mark Helenowski Sweden • Dir. Alexandra-Therese Keining From A to B Greater Things After cooking his way through several United Arab Emirates, Jordan A taboo-busting teen fable about UK, Japan • Dir. Vahid Hakimzadeh of Chicago’s top kitchens, Chef Curtis Dir. Ali F. Mostafa Front Cover gender fluidity, Girls Lost conjures one Heart of a Dog Duffy is set to design and open his own US • Dir. Ray Yeung of the screen’s most vividly realized In this stunningly composed meditation US • Dir. Laurie Anderson ambitious restaurant. An in-depth look With the five-year anniversary of their transgender characters. Three girls on space and human relationships, an at what it takes to create and manage friend’s death approaching, three high Ryan, a gay Chinese-American magazine discover a mysterious flower with adrift Iranian architect, a disengaged In this poetic and personal meditation one of the world’s greatest eateries, school buddies reconnect and decide to stylist, has long tried to suppress the power to change their sex, which Japanese couple, and a Lithuanian mixed on love, grief, and language, pioneering For Grace also tells the complex story embark on a road trip from Abu Dhabi to his Asian heritage for fear of being causes tomboy Kim to recognize her martial arts fighter search for connection Illinois-born musician and performance of a man constantly pushing forward in his gravesite in Beirut. A comedy of errors stereotyped. But when his latest client, own urgent need to live as a boy. in modern Japan. From the stylishly artist Laurie Anderson reflects on a a quest to overcome his traumatic past set across the landscape of the Middle a big Chinese movie star, demands that Brilliant male/female dual performances designed shops of Tokyo to a minimalist range of topics, from post-9/11 fears and create his own future. 92 min. East, From A to B is a charming and his photo shoot capture the spirit of their and a dreamy color palette give this glass suburban home to a mysterious and privacy issues to the death of her perceptive meditation on friendship and shared country, both men find themselves film a propulsive energy. Swedish with tree house in the woods, Greater Things beloved dog, Lolabelle, whom she SUN 10/18 8:15 PM EFGRACE1 forgiveness. Arabic with subtitles. 107 min. questioning their most deeply held subtitles. 106 min. reveals the strange places we inhabit, and taught to play the piano. Like all of THU 10/22 3:30 PM EFGRACE2 identities. In this smart, witty romantic Anderson’s art, Heart of a Dog is a MON 10/26 5:30 PM EFGRACE3 how they can both unite and divide us. FRI 10/16 8:15 PM EFATOB1 drama, cultural heritage rises above the FRI 10/16 1:00 PM EFGIRLS1 funny, political, and profound multi- SUN 10/18 8:15 PM EFATOB2 Japanese, English with subtitles. 66 min. latest fashion. 87 min. FRI 10/23 8:15 PM EFGIRLS2 layered experience. 75 min. Laurie U.S. Indies TUE 10/27 12:30 PM EFATOB3 SUN 10/25 8:30 PM EFGIRLS3 FRI 10/16 5:45 PM EFGREAT1 Anderson IN PERSON. city & State SUN 10/18 5:00 PM EFFRONT1 SAT 10/17 1:45 PM EFGREAT2 world cinema MON 10/19 6:15 PM EFFRONT2 world cinema SAT 10/17 6:00 PM EFHEART documentary new directors competition world cinema Highlight spotlight architecture out-Look documentary

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Full Contact Hector Netherlands, Croatia UK • Dir. Jake Gavin Dir. David Verbeek Funny Girl HELMUT JAHN: US • Dir. William Wyler Powerhouse actor Peter Mullan (War an Architect’s Life Working from an Air Force base in the INDUSTRY TRIBUTE Horse) delivers his best performance Henry Gamble’s Nevada desert, halfway across the world Revisit an old friend with Barbra in years as a homeless man journeying World-renowned for his progressive ® Gigi Pritzker Birthday Party from his targets, an emotionally reserved Streisand’s classic Oscar -winning turn across the UK to reach his relatives architecture and constant innovation, US • Dir. Stephen Cone drone operator (Grégoire Colin) grapples in this 1968 smash film version of the Prolific film executive Gigi Pritzker for Christmas. First-time director Jake Helmut Jahn has designed 16 buildings with the psychological ramifications of a Broadway musical that made her famous. headlines Industry Days (p. 38), the Gavin deftly mines humor and warmth in Illinois, including Chicago’s own United Henry’s turning 17 and might be gay. missile attack gone awry. But then events If you can’t make it to this season’s Festival’s new hub for filmmakers and from the seemingly bleak premise, as Airlines Terminal. He has also designed But he’s not telling his pastor father—not take an unexpected and surreal turn. sold-out London revival, this beautifully industry professionals. Producer of such Hector finds family in the unlikeliest of skyscrapers in major cities around the during his pool party, where school and ® This bold, arresting thriller from visionary restored print showcases the musical’s noted films as the Academy Award - places. Sometimes, simply putting one world, from Brussels and Rotterdam to church collide in a sunny, hormonal Dutch filmmaker David Verbeek is a grandest numbers, such as “People” nominated Rabbit Hole, Jon Stewart’s foot in front of the other can be its own Bangkok, Shanghai, and Berlin, which afternoon. This funny, heartbreakingly piercing portrait of dehumanization in the and “Don’t Rain on My Parade,” in its Rosewater, and the Ryan Gosling thriller triumph. 88 min. boasts his celebrated Sony Center. Jahn honest portrait from Chicagoan Stephen age of modern warfare. English, French archetypal rags-to-riches tale of Fanny Drive, Pritzker will be celebrated with will discuss his remarkable 49-year Cone finds a home between devout faith Brice, a young girl from New York’s Lower an onstage conversation along with FRI 10/16 8:45 PM EFHEC1 and burgeoning sexuality. 86 min. with subtitles. 105 min. SUN 10/18 11:00 aM EFHEC2 career in architecture and his unique film clips highlighting her producing East Side who became an integral part of WED 10/21 1:30 PM EFHEC3 vision, using clips from modern and THU 10/22 3:00 PM EFHENRY1 SAT 10/17 4:45 PM EFFULL1 the Ziegfeld Follies stage shows. 155 min. achievements. 60 min. SUN 10/18 12:00 PM EFFULL2 classic films that showcase his designs FRI 10/23 8:00 PM EFHENRY2 TUE 10/20 2:30 PM EFFULL3 SAT 10/17 11:15 AM EFFUNNY THU 10/22 7:00 PM EFGIGI new directors competition and reflect his philosophy. 60 min. SAT 10/24 11:30 AM EFHENRY3 SAT 10/17 6:00 PM EFHELM main competition Highlight U.S. Indies spotlight architecture city & State 20 out-Look 21 find news and updates at chicagofilmfestival.com

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The Here After Efterskalv AN EVENING WITH Poland, Sweden Howard Shore

Dir. Magnus von Horn Hitchcock/Truffaut ® Hugo France, US • Dir. Kent Jones Three-time Oscar winner Howard Shore US • Dir. Martin Scorsese After serving time in juvenile detention, The Homecoming Blóðberg is one of cinema’s most celebrated I Am Michael teenager John returns to the strained In 1962, Alfred Hitchcock and François Iceland • Dir. Björn Hlynur Haraldsson composers. Along with scoring the entire This buoyant 2011 family film about US • Dir. Justin Kelly confines of the home he shares with Truffaut conducted a weeklong Lord Of the Rings trilogy, Shore has the power of movies will be presented his father and younger brother. As he conversation about the meticulous Bestselling self-help author Gunnar’s created soaring, propulsive compositions in a special 3D screening, celebrating James Franco and Zachary Quinto attempts to reintegrate into home and art of Hitchcock’s movies. The result: own advice cannot help him when his son for the greats, from Martin Scorsese to composer Howard Shore’s musical give powerhouse performances in this school life, the shadow of his violent past the seminal book Hitchcock/Truffaut. returns home with a gorgeous, uncannily David Cronenberg’s entire oeuvre. Shore contributions to filmmaking. Shore, who complex true-life drama about Michael haunts him, his family, and their scarred Featuring extensive archival footage familiar fiancée. Confronted with a past will reflect on his career in film in a can’t- has scored multiple Scorsese pictures, Glatze, a gay-rights activist who became ® community. Tensions mount until John and interviews with Martin Scorsese, he thought long buried, Gunnar must miss event. 60 min. was nominated for an Oscar for his a conservative Christian pastor and has no choice but to face the pain he has David Fincher, and Richard Linklater, this choose between guarding his own secrets soaring, majestic backing to this tale “ex-gay” therapist. Beginning against the SUN 10/18 5:30 PM EFSHORE caused. Swedish with subtitles. 100 min. brilliant behind-the-scenes account of and protecting his son. A deliciously of an orphan boy living in a Paris train backdrop of Matthew Shepard’s murder the famous discussion—with clips from dark comedy about the skeletons in our station in the 1930s who becomes and unfolding over more than a decade, I FRI 10/16 7:45 PM EFHERE1 Hitch’s works—is a look inside a master closets, The Homecoming upends the involved in the life of cinema pioneer Am Michael probingly explores questions SUN 10/18 11:45 AM EFHERE2 safe haven of family and sends up one of about faith, community, identity, and THU 10/22 1:00 PM EFHERE3 craftsman’s mind and an inspiring love Georges Méliès. 128 min. letter to the power of cinema. 80 min. the biggest taboos of all. Icelandic with what it means to truly follow your own subtitles. 90 min. SUN 10/18 2:15 PM EFHUGO path. 99 min. new directors competition SAT 10/24 5:00 PM EFHITCH1 MON 10/26 6:00 PM EFHITCH2 TUE 10/20 8:30 PM EFHOME1 SAT 10/24 9:00 PM EFMICH1 WED 10/21 5:30 PM EFHOME2 TUE 10/27 1:00 PM EFMICH2 Highlight FRI 10/23 1:45 PM EFHOME3 U.S. Indies documentary new directors competition out-Look

Homesick I Smile Back Austria, Germany US • Dir. Adam Salky Dir. Jakob M. Erwa Hopefuls Aspirantes Illegal Portraits Brazil • Dir. Ives Rosenfeld Laney (Sarah Silverman) is an attractive, Ritratti Abusivi A young musician and her boyfriend How to Win Enemies intelligent suburban wife and mother Italy • Dir. Romano Montesarchio In Jackson Heights move into their ideal apartment: high Junior, a young player for an amateur Còmo ganar enemigos of two adorable children. She has the US • Dir. Frederick Wiseman ceilings, retro aesthetic, lots of room. soccer team, dreams of going pro. But Argentina • Dir. Gabriel Lichtmann perfect husband, a pristine house, and Welcome to Parco Saraceno, a derelict But something’s off about their neighbor, his life is complicated: He squats with an a shiny SUV. However, just beneath the neighborhood in southeast Italy. Built in In his latest opus, acclaimed the “unofficial caretaker” who frequently alcoholic uncle, works a backbreaking Lucas, a young lawyer obsessed with façade lie depression and disillusionment the 1960s, its run-down houses once held documentarian Frederick Wiseman spies on the couple from her window. And job, and has a pregnant girlfriend. When crime novels, turns a chance encounter that send her careening into a secret the promise of suburban coastal bliss. chronicles the wide cultural tapestry of strange occurrences stack up, like the Junior’s more talented best friend signs with a beautiful woman into a date ending world of reckless compulsion. Adam Now home to a community of squatters, Jackson Heights, Queens—one of the pile of dog feces on their welcome mat. a contract with a professional team, in his bed. But when he wakes up alone, Salky’s harrowing second feature the development is a portrait of both world’s most diverse neighborhoods. Ingeniously photographed in its cloistered he has trouble keeping his jealousy in missing a secret stash of cash, the game’s electrified this year’s Sundance Film poverty and resilience. Without power From Hispanic immigrants to Holocaust setting, this spine-tingling paranoid check. With an aching social realism, afoot. Inspired by his favorite gumshoes, Festival crowds with its unblinking plunge or resources, the residents persevere, survivors, Gay Pride planners to thriller is a Rosemary’s Baby for a new Hopefuls conjures a raw sense of yearning Lucas looks for clues. What was once a into the nature of addiction. 85 min. finding new ways to live among the ruins aspiring taxi drivers, Wiseman presents generation. German with subtitles. 98 min. for dreams that will remain unfulfilled. love story becomes the caper to end all and maintain their way of life—and their a vivid and dynamic cross-section of Portuguese with subtitles. 75 min. capers. Spanish with subtitles. 78 min. FRI 10/16 6:00 PM EFSMILE dignity. Italian with subtitles. 71 min. humanity during a pivotal moment of FRI 10/23 6:00 PM EFSICK1 change. English, Spanish, Arabic with WED 10/21 5:45 PM EFHOW1 SUN 10/25 12:30 PM EFSICK2 FRI 10/16 3:45 PM EFHOPE1 special presentation TUE 10/20 7:45 PM EFILLEG1 subtitles. 190 min. MON 10/26 1:00 PM EFSICK3 SUN 10/25 4:00 PM EFHOPE2 THU 10/22 9:30 PM EFHOW2 WED 10/21 11:30 AM EFILLEG2 U.S. Indies TUE 10/27 7:45 PM EFHOPE3 MON 10/26 2:45 PM EFHOW3 SUN 10/25 1:30 PM EFJACK world cinema spotlight architecture world cinema world cinema U.S. Indies documentary cinema of the americas cinema of the americas documentary 22 23 find news and updates at chicagofilmfestival.com

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In the Shadow of Women Just Jim L’Ombre des femmes UK, US • Dir. Craig Roberts France • Dir. Philippe Garrel In The Underground Kakekomi Di Ceng Shen Chu Life isn’t on Jim’s side. A sullen outcast Kakekomionna to Kakedashiotoko In Philippe Garrel’s latest deconstruction China • Dir. Song Zhantao The Infinite Happiness in a small Welsh town, he’s continually Japan • Dir. Masato Harada The Laundryman of the Paris bourgeoisie, a documentarian France, Denmark • Dir. Ila Bêka, harassed by his classmates and ignored Qingtian jie yi hao flits selfishly between his wife (who’s Deep underneath the Earth’s surface, Louise Lemoine by his parents. When a mysteriously The latest from prolific writer-director Taiwan • Dir. Chung Lee also his artistic collaborator) and a pretty Chinese miners blackened with soot work James Dean-like American neighbor Masato Harada (Chronicle of My Mother) young intern, while absolving himself of long, dark days with little rest, while the Copenhagen’s “8 House,” an (Emile Hirsch) shows up next door is a beguiling character drama set during In this kinetic horror/kung-fu mash-up, an any blame. With beautiful black-and-white stress and danger of their work increases ultramodern loop of apartments created promising to make him a cool kid, Jim’s Japan’s Edo period. Three women fleeing innocuous-seeming dry cleaners fronts compositions recalling Garrel’s roots in worries at home. One has a child on the by architect Bjarke Ingels, reinvents the life is radically upended, with dangerous bad marriages find refuge at a monastery, for a hitman-for-hire operation. When the French New Wave, this stripped-down, way, but can he maintain the precarious concept of “home.” Its 500 residents consequences. Offbeat and surreal, Just one of their only outlets for obtaining a a nameless contract killer becomes unflinching drama is a bracingly self-aware balance of his life and livelihood? can traverse all nine floors by bike Jim is an indelible plunge into the dark legal divorce. But just outside the gates, haunted by his former targets, he enlists unveiling of the toxic male psyche. French Masterfully capturing the claustrophobic while their kids attend kindergarten side of teenage discontent. 84 min. vengeful ex-husbands and the Yakuza a psychic for help, but their quest to with subtitles. 73 min. environments, In the Underground is an on the ground floor. This exuberant lie waiting. With an impressive ensemble make peace with the past puts them intimate and powerful look at the toll that documentary profiles the (mostly) FRI 10/16 2:00 PM EFJUST1 cast, Kakekomi tells its women’s rights tale at odds with his ruthless employer. TUE 10/27 8:45 PM EFJUST2 SAT 10/24 3:30 PM EFSHAD1 China’s industrialization has taken on its happy residents, including a group with humor and panache. Japanese with Colorful and brimming with unforgettable MON 10/26 5:45 PM EFSHAD2 WED 10/28 5:45 PM EFJUST3 people. Mandarin with subtitles. 91 min. of children who experience the best subtitles. 143 min. characters, The Laundryman puts the scavenger hunt ever, offering a hopeful, stylish influences of Wong Kar-Wai on Highlight world cinema SUN 10/18 3:30 PM EFINUND1 inspired picture of communal living by SAT 10/17 3:00 PM EFKAKE1 the spin cycle. Mandarin, Taiwanese with MON 10/19 12:00 PM EFINUND2 SUN 10/18 7:30 PM EFKAKE2 design. Danish with subtitles, 85 min. subtitles. 112 min. documentary Competition SAT 10/17 2:15 PM EFINFIN1 world cinema FRI 10/16 10:30 PM EFLAUND1 MON 10/19 3:00 PM EFINFIN2 TUE 10/20 2:30 PM EFLAUND2

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THE BEST OF A Light Beneath Their Feet INTERCOM US • Dir. Valerie Weiss Invention The Living Fire Zhyva Vatra The 51st International Communications Canada, France • Dir. Mark Lewis In a commanding performance, Taryn Ukraine • Dir. Ostap Kostyuk Media Competition (INTERCOM), James White Manning (Orange is the New Black) Looking for Grace a competition run by the Festival’s A meditative sensory experience from US • Dir. Josh Mond plays an Evanston mother wrestling with “Lives begin and end, but everything Australia • Dir. Sue Brooks presenting organization, Cinema/ Canadian avant-garde artist Mark bipolar disorder and an imminent empty goes back to the earth.” A tour-de- Chicago, recognizes the incredible Lewis, Invention intimately explores our In this Sundance-winning drama, James nest. Her dedicated daughter Beth has force of cinematography and sound Grace, a rebellious teenager from a rich creativity found in corporate, industrial, relationship to the physical space around is an emotionally unstable young New a bright future ahead, but must decide if design, this captivating, award-winning family, leaves home to attend a concert and educational filmmaking. This us. Long, luxurious tracking shots take Yorker processing the recent death of his she will stay near home to care for her documentary looks at three generations several days away. Everyone—from screening will showcase some of this the viewer through museum works and long-absent father. His mother, a cancer unpredictable mom or follow her own path. of sheepherders in the Carpathian Grace’s mother (Radha Mitchell) to the year’s winning work, presenting an hour modern cityscapes in Toronto, São Paolo, survivor who raised him from a young Emotionally raw and bracingly honest, Mountains. While father and son take detective they hire to help track her—has of non-theatrical filmmaking whose level and Paris, panning and tilting at improbable age, falls terminally ill. With an immersive this coming-of-age drama balances the their flock on their annual journey through secrets, fissures in seemingly perfect of cinematic talent truly deserves to be angles to give a fresh perspective on the filmmaking style putting us inside James’s pull of family obligation against personal the highlands, the 82-year-old widower lifestyles. With a perspective-shifting script seen on the big screen. 60 min. everyday. Echoes of Koyaanisqatsi and head, this raw, affecting film features aspirations. 90 min. Ivan reflects on his past back home. A and gorgeous shots of rural Australia, Man With a Movie Camera infuse this a revelatory lead performance from sublime look at the cycles of life and the film is a surprising mystery about the WED 10/28 3:00 PM EFINTER poem of modern life. 87 min. Christopher Abbott (Girls), and co-stars TUE 10/20 8:45 PM EFLIGHT1 the waning of tradition. Ukrainian with wealthy and the damned. 97 min. WED 10/21 5:30 PM EFLIGHT2 Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City). 86 min. subtitles. 77 min. This is a free event! FRI 10/16 7:30 PM EFINVEN1 FRI 10/23 12:30 PM EFLIGHT3 SAT 10/17 2:30 PM EFLOOK1 Ticket must be obtained from box office. SAT 10/17 12:30 PM EFINVEN2 FRI 10/16 9:45 PM EFJAMES1 THU 10/22 7:15 PM EFLIV1 MON 10/19 8:15 PM EFLOOK2 SAT 10/17 7:15 PM EFJAMES2 U.S. Indies SAT 10/24 12:00 PM EFLIV2 TUE 10/20 12:00 PM EFLOOK3 spotlight architecture Film & after-Party EFJAMESP city & State Presented by the Festival Junior Board. documentary Competition main competition documentary 24 U.S. Indies 25 find news and updates at chicagofilmfestival.com

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Ludo Modern Metropolis: Mid- India • Dirs. Q, Nikon Century Chicago on Film Macbeth A Monster with a Thousand Unable to secure a room at a hotel, Dirs. Various UK, FRANCE • Dir. Justin Kurzel Heads Un monstruo de mil cabezas four partying Kolkata teenagers opt to Magallanes This selection of short films from Motley’s Law ® Mexico • Dir. Rodrigo Plá spend the night in a mall after hours. From the Academy Award -winning Peru, Argentina the Chicago Film Archives explores Denmark • Dir. Nicole Horanyi But a strange elderly couple has also producers of The King’s Speech and Dir. Salvador del Solar the architectural and design history Fed up with trying to secure health This captivating documentary follows taken up residence there, and soon acclaimed director Justin Kurzel comes a and legacy of mid-century Chicago. care for her husband’s severe medical A misfortune-plagued cabbie (Damián tough-as-nails lawyer (and former the teens become the latest victims visceral and visually breathtaking retelling An exceptional cinematic tour of our ailments, Sonia takes matters into her Alcázar) quietly bears the emotional Mrs. Wisconsin) Kimberley Motley, the in an ancient, bloodthirsty game. of the classic tale about an ambitious great metropolis, the program weaves own hands. Tracking down his doctor, and psychological scars of his military only American allowed to practice law The terrifying Ludo matches hypnotic Scottish lord who seizes the throne with together dynamic “city-symphony” films, she kidnaps him at gunpoint, setting service—but his trauma resurfaces when in Afghanistan. Motley defends US imagery with sinister mythology to the help of his wife. Starring Academy which celebrate the city’s unmistakable the stage for a nail-biter that evokes the ® a woman from his past takes a seat and European citizens caught in the create a truly frightening experience. Award -nominee Michael Fassbender skyline; an ode to stainless steel; and an mind-numbing bureaucracy of Brazil and ® in his taxi. In this unflinching tale of a country’s legal and political quagmire, Bengali with subtitles. 92 min. and Academy Award -winner Marion admiring portrait of Louis Sullivan’s Stock the citizen-on-the-edge stakes of Falling Cotillard, Macbeth is an epic cinematic man’s dangerous quest for redemption, even as she finds herself under threat THU 10/22 10:15 PM EFLUDO1 Exchange building. 56 min. Down. Rodrigo Plá’s latest drama is a experience. 112 min. the road to atonement is a bumpy one. timely and tightly paced sociopolitical of assassination. While Motley brazenly SAT 10/24 10:15 PM EFLUDO2 Spanish with subtitles. 109 min. chastises Afghani judges on behalf This is a free event! No ticket required. thriller. Spanish with subtitles. 74 min. SUN 10/25 4:45 PM EFMAC of her clients, she must also balance After Dark SUN 10/18 2:00 PM EFMAGA1 SAT 10/24 2:00 PM THU 10/22 1:30 PM EFMONS1 MON 10/19 8:30 PM EFMAGA2 the needs of her family a world away. Highlight Chicago Cultural center SAT 10/24 8:45 PM EFMONS2 TUE 10/20 11:30 AM EFMAGA3 Pashto, English with subtitles. 84 min. MON 10/26 6:15 PM EFMONS3 spotlight architecture TUE 10/20 8:00 PM EFMOT1 new directors competition world cinema THU 10/22 2:30 PM EFMOT2 documentary cinema of the americas cinema of the americas documentary Competition

Mountains May Depart Shan he gu ren The Middle Distance china • Dir. Jia Zhang-ke Mustang US • Dir. Patrick Underwood Turkey, Germany Milano 2015 In this penetrating dissection of modern Dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven My Golden Days Womanizing workaholic Neil returns Italy • Various directors China from storyteller extraordinaire Jia Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse to Michigan to reunite with his brother Zhangke (A Touch of Sin), a young woman At the start of this stark, meditative drama France • Dir. Arnaud Desplechin after their father dies. As they try to In this stunning omnibus feature, six chooses to marry a wealthy capitalist that recalls The Virgin Suicides, five sisters sell the family home, their interactions Italian directors explore different facets over a coal miner and names her firstborn play in the sea with their male classmates. Returning from Tajikistan, Paul faces are as chilly as the frost-covered of contemporary Milan, from subways son “Dollar.” Across two continents, three As punishment for such immoral behavior, an interrogation that leads him to February landscape. But Neil’s facade to skyscrapers, shuttered old theaters chapters, and 25 years reaching into the the grandmother and uncle raising the retrace three seminal moments from thaws under the glow of his brother’s to the inimitable La Scala. The result is near future, we watch one scattered family girls imprison them at home to maintain his past: his childhood, an eventful charismatic fiancée. Chicago writer- a rich and eclectic portrait of urban life chase a vision of success that remains their “purity” until marriage. Submission trip to the Soviet Union, and—most director Patrick Underwood crafts a and spaces—both rooted in history and heartbreakingly out of reach. Mandarin or defiance seem to be the only options, significantly—his love affair with the big-hearted romantic drama about bursting with a diversity of architecture and with subtitles. 131 min. as each sister, one by one, finds her nymph-like Esther. This poetic Cannes rebuilding. 80 min. humanity. Italian with subtitles. 103 min. own personal escape route. Turkish with award winner from French auteur SAT 10/17 8:00 PM EFMOUN1 Arnaud Desplechin unfolds as an WED 10/21 8:15 PM EFMILA1 subtitles. 94 min. FRI 10/23 6:00 PM EFMIDD1 TUE 10/20 8:00 PM EFMOUN2 intoxicating ode to romance. French SAT 10/24 12:30 PM EFMIDD2 THU 10/22 12:00 PM EFMILA2 SAT 10/24 5:30 PM EFMUST1 with subtitles. 120 min. MON 10/26 2:30 PM EFMIDD3 main competition MON 10/26 8:15 PM EFMUST2 spotlight architecture SAT 10/17 5:00 PM EFGOLD1 new directors competition documentary world cinema MON 10/19 5:30 PM EFGOLD2 U.S. Indies main competition 26 city & State 27 find news and updates at chicagofilmfestival.com

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My Life with a King Ari Other Madnesses Philippines • Dir. Carlo Enciso Catu US • Dir. Jeremy Carr Nahid Paulina La Patota Jaypee, a high school student from a Iran • Dir. Ida Panahandeh A modern-day Taxi Driver, Other Argentina, Brazil rural town in the Philippines, sees his Neon Bull Boi Neon Madnesses plumbs the seedy Dir. Santiago Mitre Peggy Guggenheim: Nahid, a young divorcée, is allowed world open up when he befriends the Brazil, Uruguay underbelly of New York through the Art Addict “King of Poets,” an elderly local celebrity to live with her son, but only on the eyes of a man slowly losing his mind. Paulina, a young, idealistic lawyer, leaves Dir. Gabriel Mascaro US • Dir. Lisa Immordino Vreeland fighting to preserve the dying art of poetry condition that she does not remarry. A tour guide by day, by night Ed is her cushy job in the city to teach at a rural in Kapampangan, one of the country’s Hoping to move in with the man she In the rodeos of northeast Brazil, haunted by lucid dreams of horrific high school. Her deep-seated beliefs are Peggy Guggenheim—bohemian, local languages. Over long nights on the loves, Nahid considers another option two cowboys corral a bull by the tail crimes that seem all too real. When shaken when some students commit a socialite, curator—blazed a trail past porch, a tender intergenerational bond called “temporary marriage.” But is this in a whirlwind of gallops and dust. Ed decides to take justice into his own horrific crime and she is forced to take a her famous uncle’s museum. She forms in this celebration of a vibrant legal loophole a salvation or a curse? Behind the scenes, ranch hand Iremar hands, his bloody vigilantism may all be stance. Anchored by a complex, nuanced helped launch such acclaimed modern culture’s poetic legacy that pulses with Starring A Separation’s Sareh Bayat, this lives a quiet life, accompanying the in his head—or worse. 105 min. performance from Dolores Fonzi, this artists as Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson local color. Kapampangan, Tagalog with accomplished Cannes Film Festival award bulls cross-country as he dreams of blistering drama reconsiders the line Pollock, and her second husband winner weighs the rewards of domestic designing clothes. Blending lived-in SAT 10/17 9:30 PM EFOTHER1 between wealth and poverty, chaos and subtitles. 89 min. MON 10/19 9:15 PM EFOTHER2 Max Ernst, one of her many romantic security against the sacrifices of personal social realism, impressionist imagery, order, victim and survivor. Winner of involvements. This fascinating, MON 10/26 8:30 PM EFMYLI1 freedoms. Farsi with subtitles. 105 min. and sweltering eroticism, Neon Bull is a the best film award in Critics’ Week at WED 10/28 8:30 PM EFMYLI2 After Dark entertaining portrait of Guggenheim’s wildly unconventional look at machismo. Cannes. Spanish with subtitles. 103 min. turbulent life, many loves, and SUN 10/18 7:30 PM EFNAHID1 Portuguese with subtitles. 101 min. world cinema MON 10/19 8:30 PM EFNAHID2 THU 10/22 5:30 PM EFPAUL1 surprising career reveals a woman who MON 10/19 2:30 PM EFNEON1 SAT 10/24 2:00 PM EFPAUL2 was every bit the iconoclast as the new directors competition SAT 10/24 5:45 PM EFNEON2 TUE 10/27 2:00 PM EFPAUL3 artists she championed. 97 min. SUN 10/25 1:30 PM EFNEON3 SAT 10/17 12:45 PM EFPEGGY1 main competition MON 10/19 2:00 PM EFPEGGY2 main competition cinema of the americas cinema of the americas U.S. Indies EXPLICIT documentary CONTENT

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Obra A Perfect Day Un día perfecto Brazil • Dir. Gregorio Graziosi Spain • Dir. Fernando León de Aranoa Open Tables Radical Grace When a complacent young architect in US • Dir. Jack C. Newell Benicio del Toro and Tim Robbins US • Dir. Rebecca Parrish São Paolo discovers a burial ground at Orphans of Eldorado join a motley crew of aid workers Rams Hrútar the site of his first construction project, Food and conversation abound in this Órfãos do Eldorado stumbling through the Balkan War in Politically outspoken and Iceland • Dir. Grímur Hákonarson he must reckon with hidden secrets that comedy from Chicago writer-director- Brazil • Dir. Guilherme Coelho this M*A*S*H*-like black comedy about unapologetically feminist, the “Nuns on make him question the very foundation actor Jack C. Newell. Over dinner, friends struggling to do good in bad places. the Bus” protest group rebels against a When a prizewinning ram in a small of his heritage. An entrancing trade wild stories about relationships, In this sensual tale of obsession, a man Charged with Sisyphean tasks including Vatican-ordered censure by embracing Icelandic farming town is suspected of meditation on urban alienation and including a woman who falls in love returns to his Amazon hometown, resuming dragging a dead body out of a drinking social activism as a form of spiritual carrying a deadly disease, the government repressed national memory filmed in with an amnesiac and an unforgettably a dangerous old affair and beginning well without adequate rope, the team practice. An indelible exploration of mandates the slaughter of all the rams in stark, exquisitely composed black-and- sexy trip to Paris. Filmed locally, with another with a woman who seemingly finds that their most valuable asset is a the the changing face of Catholicism, the area. But for two farmer brothers who white, Obra is a haunting portrait of improvisational dialogue and a cast emerges from the river itself. With tantalizing sense of humor. 106 min. Chicago filmmaker Rebecca Parrish’s haven’t spoken to each other in 40 years, contemporary Brazil in flux. Portuguese, plucked from the city’s improv scene, photography and a story evoking the “City of uplifting documentary (executive- the disease is just the latest salvo in a Open Tables is a smorgasbord of fun. Gold” conquistador myth, this meditative film SUN 10/25 8:00 PM EFPERF1 produced by Susan Sarandon) is long-running sibling rivalry. With colorful English with subtitles. 80 min. TUE 10/27 7:45 PM EFPERF2 English, French with subtitles. 76 min. absorbs us in Oedipal desires and Brazilian a call for equality that transcends characters and an offbeat wit, Rams is a FRI 10/16 5:00 PM EFOBRA1 legends. Portuguese with subtitles. 96 min. peculiar tale ingeniously told. Icelandic Highlight boundaries. 75 min. SUN 10/18 12:15 PM EFOBRA2 TUE 10/20 6:15 PM EFOPEN1 with subtitles. 93 min. taste of cinema (P. 39) EFOPEND TUE 10/20 6:00 PM EFORPH1 SUN 10/25 7:30 PM EFRAD spotlight architecture SAT 10/24 3:15 PM EFOPEN2 THU 10/22 8:45 PM EFORPH2 SAT 10/24 8:00 PM EFRAMS1 TUE 10/27 3:00 PM EFOPEN3 FRI 10/23 11:30 AM EFORPH3 city & State SUN 10/25 2:45 PM EFRAMS2 cinema of the americas U.S. Indies new directors competition U.S. Indies world cinema city & State cinema of the americas documentary 28 29 find news and updates at chicagofilmfestival.com

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the Red Spider Czerwony pajak Sparrows Poland, Czech republic Iceland, Denmark Dir. Marcin Koszalka Road to La Paz Camino a La Paz Dir. Rúnar Rúnarsson Stinking Heaven Argentina • Dir. Francisco Varone US • Dir. Nathan Silver In this unconventional, unsettling serial Schneider Vs. Bax Forced to return to the remote village of The Surprise De Surprise killer film, a gifted young athlete develops Unemployed and adrift, 30-something Netherlands, belgium his childhood to live with his estranged Playing like a darkly sardonic home video Netherlands • Dir. Mike Van Diem a dangerous fascination with brutal Sebastian (Rodrigo de la Serna, The Dir. Alex Van Warmerdam father, teenager Ari has never felt more from Hell, Stinking Heaven examines a murders occurring across Communist-era Motorcycle Diaries) takes on work isolated. While his hard-partying dad and sober-living commune in suburban New Of all the times to fall in love, waiting for Krakow. With breathtaking cinematography as a private driver almost on a whim. In this hilariously deadpan cat-and-mouse loving but frail grandmother do their best Jersey. A new houseguest with connections a contract killer to carry out your assisted and striking period detail, renowned When elderly Muslim client Jalil offers game, hitman Schneider tries to finish to mend the broken past, local bullies to a resident’s past sends shockwaves suicide must rank as one of the least cinematographer and documentarian Sebastian a large sum to drive him to La an assignment in time to celebrate his and rough living leave Ari struggling to through the frail community, revealing convenient. In this pitch-black romantic Marcin Koszalka brings the paranoia of the Paz, Bolivia, the two set off on a life- birthday with his family. But the target, find his place. Unfolding with pathos the pain and pettiness bubbling just comedy from director Mike Van Diem time period to life, forgoing sensationalist changing 2,000 mile journey. By turns drug-addled writer Bax (writer-director and understated emotion, Sparrows is a beneath the surface. Prolific independent (Character), two people who’ve literally violence in favor of a haunting, disquieting heartwarming and hilarious, this road Alex Van Warmerdam), is packing, bittersweet coming-of-age story about auteur Nathan Silver filmed through the signed their lives away find in each other look at guilt and madness. Polish with movie spans generational, cultural, and too. An endless parade of unexpected learning to stand up for yourself. Icelandic endearingly lo-fi lens of Betacam, and a reason to hang on. Now if only they can subtitles. 90 min. religious divides on a tour through the visitors at Bax’s swamp cabin turns this with subtitles. 99 min. the cast lived together on set and largely outwit death long enough to enjoy the ride. South American continent. Spanish with showdown into an entertaining, intricate improvised their dialogue. 71 min. Dutch with subtitles. 111 min. SUN 10/18 5:00 PM EFRED1 subtitles. 90 min. puzzle—and, for Schneider, one heck of a SUN 10/18 2:45 PM EFSPARR1 TUE 10/20 5:30 PM EFRED2 MON 10/19 5:30 PM EFSPARR2 SUN 10/25 8:15 PM EFSURP1 headache. Dutch with subtitles. 96 min. Preceded by Serenity FRI 10/23 12:30 PM EFRED3 WED 10/21 8:00 PM EFROAD1 WED 10/21 12:00 PM EFSPARR3 MON 10/26 8:30 PM EFSURP2 THU 10/22 8:00 PM EFROAD2 WED 10/21 8:30 PM EFSVB1 Dir. Jack Dunphy, 6 min. new directors competition TUE 10/27 12:30 PM EFROAD3 FRI 10/23 5:30 PM EFSVB2 new directors competition SAT 10/17 9:00 PM EFSTINK1 world cinema WED 10/28 3:00 PM EFSVB3 MON 10/19 8:45 PM EFSTINK2 new directors competition TUE 10/27 1:30 PM EFSTINK3 main competition cinema of the americas U.S. Indies

Sherlock Holmes Surprise Film!!!! US • Dir. Arthur Berthelet Son of Saul Saul fia Every year, we love to surprise our Sweet Bean An Lost for nearly a century, this 1916 silent Hungary • Dir. László Nemes audience with a top-secret film that will Japan • Dir. Naomi Kawase version of the legendary sleuth filmed Song of Songs Pesn pesney keep them talking for days. What will this Sworn Virgin Vergine giurata at Chicago’s own Essanay Studios Saul is a member of the Ukraine • Dir. Eva Neymann year’s selection be–a true-life drama Red bean paste is the filling in this Italy, Albania • Dir. Laura Bispuri miraculously emerged last year from Sonderkommando, Jewish prisoners about overcoming adversity? A pulse- poignant tale of life, compassion, and a French cinema archive. The newly forced to assist the Nazis in large-scale With Yiddish folklorist Sholem Alecheim pounding action movie from a far-flung sweet endings. An uninspired red bean In an Albanian mountain village, a young restored film preserves the vision of star extermination. While working in one of as source material, Eva Neymann’s third country? Next year’s Oscar®-winning pancake chef is re-energized when a woman takes a culturally mandated vow and screenwriter William Gillette, who the crematoriums, Saul discovers the feature tells of young love in a Ukrainian masterpiece? Whatever it is, it’s FREE, plucky septuagenarian’s irresistible of chastity and lives as a man to avoid an adapted his own mega-popular stage play body of a boy he takes for his son. As the shtetl. We follow Hasidic lad Shimek so long as you wear your Chicago homemade recipe makes his snacks unwanted marriage. After 14 years, she for the screen. Incorporating elements of Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul from his birth to devout parents; through International Film Festival t-shirt or a local hit. Both characters use their leaves home for the first time. Tackling Holmes’s most famous stories, with a new decides to carry out an impossible task: adolescence and games with neighbor girl sweatshirt (p. 45) to get in. creations, photographed in mouth- questions of tradition and identity, Laura original score, this screening will be more save the child’s body from the flames, find Buzya; and into young adulthood, when watering close-up, to rebuild from Bispuri employs a mesmerizing lightness SUN 10/18 8:00 PM EFSFILM than elementary. 116 min. a rabbi to recite the mourner’s Kaddish, he leaves his village to become a doctor. traumatic pasts. The latest from poetic of touch, while Alba Rohrwacher delivers and offer the boy a proper burial. German, This sweetly nostalgic song is poetic and Japanese auteur Naomi Kawase is a an extraordinary measured performance SAT 10/24 3:00 PM EFSHER Tickets available one hour before start time Hungarian, Yiddish with subtitles. 107 min. dreamy. Russian with subtitles. 76 min. from the pop-up Festival merchandise table delectable philosophical dish. Japanese as Hanna/Mark. Albanian, Italian with located on the Box Office level. with subtitles. 113 min. subtitles. 84 min. Highlight THU 10/22 6:00 PM EFSaul TUE 10/20 5:45 PM EFSONG1 THU 10/22 5:00 PM EFSONG2 SAT 10/17 3:45 PM EFSWEET1 MON 10/26 7:30 PM EFSWORN1 Highlight SUN 10/25 11:30 AM EFSONG3 SUN 10/18 4:45 PM EFSWEET2 WED 10/28 8:15 PM EFSWORN2

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Syl Johnson: Any Way the Time Suspended Wind Blows Tempo Suspendido US • Dir. Rob Hatch-Miller Tag Riaru onigokko Mexico, Argentina To My Beloved Japan • Dir. Sion Sono Dir. Natalia Bruschtein Para Minha Amada Morta After struggling for decades to break out, They Look Like People Brazil • Dir. Aly Muritiba To Sleep with Anger soul singer Syl Johnson left the biz in Sion Sono, Japanese cinema’s most US • Dir. Perry Blackshear For the last 40 years, activist Laura US • Dir. Charles Burnett the 1980s to open a Chicago fried-fish entertaining shockmeister, delivers his Bonaparte has fought to keep alive A recent widower’s life is turned around After receiving an ominous phone call, South Central Los Angeles meets chain. Since then, he’s become one of craziest picture yet. A young schoolgirl the memory of her children, who were when he discovers a handful of sex tapes a young man crashing his friend’s flat Southern magic in this brilliant, the most sampled artists in hip-hop, with (who’s actually three different people) “disappeared” by Argentina’s military in his deceased wife’s homemade VHS becomes convinced mysterious forces surprising domestic drama from everyone from Run-DMC to Kanye West must fight killer winds, machine-gun- dictatorship in the 1970s. Now Laura’s collection. Obsessed with the idea of are inhabiting the bodies of everyone acclaimed director Charles Burnett. borrowing his distinctive voice and beats. toting teachers, pig-headed monsters, own memory is beginning to fade. Time tracking the unnamed lover, Fernando around him and starts prepping for an Danny Glover plays devilish transient With a lively soundtrack, this buoyant and fate itself to escape a strange, Suspended is a tender, heartrending leaves everything behind–including impending war. A disturbingly intimate Harry Mention, whose sudden documentary celebrates one man who deadly reality. Buckets of blood, cheeky portrait of a woman committed to his son–to insert himself into the life take on paranoia, this tension-filled appearance at his old friend Gideon’s can’t stop the music. 85 min. humor, and one of the wildest opening preserving the truths of her nation’s of Salvador, an ex-con and the man sequences in recent memory will leave horror indie debut will leave you on high horrible history, even as they slip from from the videotapes. An exhibition of family home begins a surreal series SUN 10/18 7:45 PM EFSYL1 you gasping for air. Japanese with alert, taking a good look at your co- her grasp. Spanish with subtitles. 65 min. remarkable cinematic control, To My of events that threaten to unravel SAT 10/24 1:00 PM EFSYL2 subtitles. 85 min. worker, your neighbor… and even your Beloved is a film rife with psychological the household. Now newly restored, best friend. 80 min. MON 10/19 7:15 PM EFTIME1 tension and subtlety. Portuguese with Burnett’s landmark 1990 film remains a documentary Competition THU 10/22 9:45 PM EFTAG1 WED 10/21 2:00 PM EFTIME2 trenchant and haunting tale of modern FRI 10/23 10:00 PM EFTAG2 SAT 10/17 10:45 PM EFTHEY1 subtitles. 113 min. middle-class black life. 102 min. Career U.S. Indies FRI 10/23 3:00 PM EFTHEY2 documentary Competition SAT 10/24 3:00 PM EFBELOV1 Achievement Award Recipient After Dark SUN 10/25 8:15 PM EFBELOV2 cinema of the americas After Dark WED 10/28 2:45 PM EFBELOV3 Charles Burnett IN PERSON U.S. Indies SUN 10/25 5:00 PM EFSLEEP world cinema cinema of the americas black perspectives U.S. Indies

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The Thin Yellow Line Tough Love Härte La delgada línea amarilla Germany • Dir. Rosa von Praunheim Mexico • Dir. Celso García Three Days in September The Treasure Comoara Tri dena vo septemvri A violent German hustler, his innocent Romania • Dir. Corneliu Porumboiu This Guillermo del Toro-produced buddy Macedonia, Kosovo Tikkun prostitute, and the shared histories of Umrika Armed with a metal detector and comedy follows a retired foreman who Dir. Darijan Pejovski Israel • Dir. Avishai Sivan sexual abuse that bind them together: In India • Dir. Prashant Nair reluctantly returns to manual labor, this stranger-than-fiction romantic docu- boundless determination, two neighbors leading a team of misfits charged with In this taut thriller, two women meet on A young Israeli ultra-Orthodox man drama, German New Wave filmmaker go on the hunt for rumored buried bounty. The inhabitants of an Indian mountain painting the median line on a lonely rural a train. Marika is running from her past; experiences a crisis of faith in this Rosa von Praunheim combines Relentless in their search, they refuse to village are overjoyed when one of their road. While the crew makes their own fun Jana is on the way to confront hers. They formally daring black-and-white drama documentary and campy reenactments let general ineptitude, petty arguments, own ships off to America (“Umrika”) to in the middle of nowhere, their foreman arrive in a small Macedonian countryside that employs bravura, often shocking to tell the wild tale of Andreas Marquardt, or bureaucratic red tape stand in their make his fortune. But when the success vows to impart the value of a day’s work. village, Jana’s childhood home, where imagery. Following a near-death now 59, a man who survived years of way. Acclaimed Romanian director story’s younger brother discovers things Beloved Mexican actor Damián Alcázar nothing seems to happen until a corrupt experience, the formerly devout Yeshiva pimping, prison, and personal trauma to Corneliu Porumboiu’s sharp, deadpan aren’t quite as they seem, he journeys to heads up the ultimate male bonding trip. police officer starts to meddle in their student begins wandering Jerusalem’s eventually find true love. German with comedy sends up the value of wealth and uncover the truth. Starring Life of Pi’s Suraj Spanish with subtitles. 95 min. affairs. In this slick, assured feature empty streets at night without purpose, subtitles. 89 min. stature in the new Europe. Romanian with Sharma and The Grand Budapest Hotel’s debut, secrets unspool in classic while his father—a Kosher butcher— subtitles. 89 min. Tony Revolori, Umrika is a beguiling, funny FRI 10/16 5:30 PM EFTHIN1 Hitchcockian fashion. Macedonian, experiences terrifying nightmares as TUE 10/20 5:30 PM EFTOUGH1 tale about the power of the American SUN 10/18 11:30 AM EFTHIN2 FRI 10/23 12:15 PM EFTOUGH2 FRI 10/16 6:15 PM EFTREAS1 dream. Hindi with subtitles. 102 min. MON 10/19 3:00 PM EFTHIN3 Albanian with subtitles. 90 min. retribution for saving his son. Hebrew, MON 10/19 6:00 PM EFTREAS2 Yiddish with subtitles. 120 min. FRI 10/16 5:45 PM EFTHREE1 documentary Competition THU 10/22 3:30 PM EFUM1 new directors competition SAT 10/17 2:00 PM EFTHREE2 SUN 10/18 5:15 PM EFTIKK1 main competition SUN 10/25 12:00 PM EFUM2 MON 10/26 12:00 PM EFTHREE3 TUE 10/27 5:30 PM EFUM3 cinema of the americas MON 10/19 8:00 PM EFTIKK2

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Under Electric Clouds Walking Distance Pod elektricheskimi oblakami Distancias Cortas Russia, Ukraine Underground Fragrance Mexico • Dir. Alejandro Guzmán Alvarez We are Francesco Dir. Aleksey German Jr. Di Xia Xiang Noi siamo Francesco China, France • Dir. Pengfei Song Valley of Love Fede lives a lonely life. Morbidly obese Italy • Dir. Guendalina Zampagni We Monsters Wir Monster In 2017 Russia, exactly 100 years after France • Dir. Guillaume Nicloux and isolated, his only human connection Germany • Dir. Sebastian Ko the Bolshevik Revolution, the world is On the rapidly urbanizing outskirts of comes through visits from his overbearing Guendalina Zampagni’s coming-of-age on the verge of a new great war. An Beijing, Yong Le spends his days scouring Reuniting onscreen for the first time in sister and her long-suffering husband. comedy explores the world of its titular Sarah, a sulky teen still smarting over her unfinished skyscraper looms on the homes scheduled for demolition for 35 years, Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Inspired after seeing their vacation character, a college student born without parents’ divorce, angrily shoves a friend horizon, casting an emblematic shadow furniture to pawn and his nights in the sub- Depardieu star as long-divorced actors photos, Fede makes a rare journey arms, as he struggles to overcome his off a dam to her apparent death. Although over a society about to collapse. With basement of a high-rise apartment building. who are forced out of their estrangement out of his apartment to develop an old disability, land a girlfriend, and pursue a she owns up to the incident, her chilly, breathtaking sci-fi imagery, this wildly After an accident blinds him, a nightclub when they’re summoned to Death Valley roll of film, an action that reintroduces normal life. And then there’s his biggest self-absorbed parents do everything strange magical realist film interweaves dancer, hoping to secure a day job with by a request in their son’s suicide note. friendship, discovery, and joy into his life worry: He’s still a virgin. This funny and they can to bury it. Guilt and self-doubt the stories of seven individuals, from a real estate developer, nurses him back What follows is a thought-provoking in this delicate and sweetly realized debut heartfelt film shines with tenderness and fuel their journey as they attempt to keep an architect to a Kyrgyz laborer, as to health. Produced by Tsai Ming-Liang, dissection of grief, self-doubt, and the film. Spanish with subtitles. 104 min. compassion. Italian with subtitles. 87 min. their lives from unraveling. A suspenseful the film adapts his signature meditative possibility of spiritual healing within the domestic thriller, We Monsters revels it explores a dystopian dreamscape. FRI 10/16 2:45 PM EFFRAN1 social realism, revealing a world in which grandeur of one of America’s most mystical TUE 10/27 5:00 PM EFWALK1 in the insidious dynamics of a family in Russian with subtitles. 138 min. WED 10/28 5:30 PM EFWALK2 SUN 10/25 5:15 PM EFFRAN2 everyone, literally and figuratively, is looking locations. French with subtitles. 92 min. MON 10/26 6:00 PM EFFRAN3 crisis. German with subtitles. 95 min. SUN 10/25 7:45 PM EFCLOUD1 to move up. Mandarin with subtitles. 75 min. TUE 10/27 8:15 PM EFCLOUD2 MON 10/26 8:00 PM EFVALL1 world cinema FRI 10/16 7:15 PM EFWEMON1 TUE 10/27 6:00 PM EFVALL2 world cinema SAT 10/17 9:45 PM EFWEMON2 SUN 10/18 6:00 PM EFFRAG1 cinema of the americas spotlight architecture MON 10/19 5:15 PM EFFRAG2 WED 10/28 2:30 PM EFVALL3 MON 10/19 12:30 PM EFWEMON3 TUE 10/20 12:30 PM EFFRAG3 world cinema world cinema new directors competition spotlight architecture

A Very Ordinary Citizen Why a film about Michele Yek Shahrvand-e Kamelan Maamouli de Lucchi? Perché un film su Iran • Dir. Majid Barzegar Very Semi-Serious Michele De Lucchi Why Me? De ce eu? US • Dir. Leah Wolchok Italy • Dir. Alessio Bozzer Romania, Bulgaria Mr. Safari, an 80-year-old pensioner, Volta à Terra Dir. Tudor Giurgiu Women He’s Undressed lives alone and without direction. When Dying is easy, comedy is hard, and Portugal, Switzerland A portrait of the famous radical Italian Australia • Dir. Gillian Armstrong his son, living abroad, tries to arrange for cartooning is a pain in the neck. This Dir. João Pedro Plácido designer and progenitor of the Maker Driven by ambition and the righteous This glitzy documentary follows his elderly father to visit him, Mr. Safari documentary profiles veteran and upstart Movement, this informative, playful pursuit of justice, a young Romanian Daniel, a charismatic young farmer in costume designer Orry-Kelly, who becomes dangerously obsessed with a cartoonists, all with one goal: to tickle documentary traces Michele De Lucchi’s prosecutor investigates a former colleague northern Portugal, is dedicated to the dressed generations of starlets, from local female travel agent who is hired to the funny bone of New Yorker cartoon personal experiments and provocations. accused of soliciting bribes. Delving farming methods of his forbearers. But Ingrid Bergman to Marilyn Monroe, help. Co-written by acclaimed filmmaker editor Robert Mankoff, the colossally With De Lucchi serving as his own further into the case, he finds himself will dreams of love take him away from as a gay man in a world where “gay” Jafar Panahi (Crimson Gold, Taxi), this imposing gateway to the widely respected narrator, the film examines his pioneering caught in a larger system of power and his homeland? A bittersweet coming- didn’t exist. A gossipy portrait of provocative story delivers a quietly publication. Very Semi-Serious is a achievements with the design movement political graft and his own inescapable of-age story featuring illuminating, Hollywood fashions through the powerful statement about loneliness and colorful picture of a cottage industry of Memphis, including the stripped-down quagmire. Why Me? bracingly tells the hypnotic photography of the Portuguese decades, the film also lifts back the those who get left behind in contemporary humor, and a brilliant inquiry into what, “First Chair,” the Oceanic Lamp, and true story of a determined individual countryside amid the changing seasons, curtain on the unspoken sexual politics Tehran. Farsi with subtitles. 100 min. exactly, makes us laugh. 83 min. a spectacular LED-lit bridge in Tbilisi, confronting his country’s far-reaching Volta à Terra is a poetic love song to and insidious institutional corruption. of showbiz. 99 min. SUN 10/18 5:45 PM EFVERY1 Georgia. Italian with subtitles. 65 min. SAT 10/17 8:30 PM EFAVERY1 traditional ways of life. Portuguese with Romanian with subtitles. 125 min. SUN 10/18 11:45 AM EFAVERY2 SUN 10/25 11:45 AM EFVERY2 FRI 10/23 8:30 PM EFWOMEN1 subtitles. 78 min. THU 10/22 6:00 PM EFLUCCI1 THU 10/22 4:00 PM EFAVERY3 WED 10/28 5:00 PM EFWOMEN2 MON 10/26 3:30 PM EFLUCCI2 MON 10/19 1:00 PM EFWHYME1 U.S. Indies WED 10/21 5:30 PM EFVOLTA1 SUN 10/25 7:45 PM EFWHYME2 main competition FRI 10/23 3:30 PM EFVOLTA2 TUE 10/27 8:00 PM EFWHYME3 world cinema documentary spotlight architecture out-Look documentary documentary Competition world cinema documentary 34 35 x y

XConfessions: A Conversation With You Can’t Save Yourself Erika Lust Sweden • Dir. Erika Lust alone Nessuno si salva da solo Italy • Dir. Sergio Castelitto Youth Erika Lust brings a much-needed feminist’s Italy, Switzerland voice to the erotic film industry, shooting A recently divorced couple (Italian Dir. Paolo Sorrentino acting virtuosos Riccardo Scamarcio her explicit short films with an eye From celebrated director Paolo Sorrentino toward expressing female pleasure. The and Jasmine Trinca) agrees to meet for dinner. They spend the meal re- (The Great Beauty) comes a witty filmmaker’s xConfessions project gathers meditation on age, talent, and wisdom. erotic fantasies and testimonials from her examining their life together, opening new and old wounds alike, as they recall Fred (Michael Caine), an acclaimed online audience, which she brings to life composer, and his filmmaker best friend through her filmmaking. In conversation their promising beginnings, troubled middles, and hopeful endings. An Nick (Harvey Keitel) are vacationing in the with Chicago-based filmmaker Maria Swiss Alps together. One is firmly retired, Finitzo, Lust, in person, will show clips emotionally rich, penetrating take on adult relationships, Sergio Castellitto’s while the other is trying to finish his final from her films and discuss the taboo opus. With entire lifetimes in the rearview nature of onscreen pleasure. 90 min. film offers a decidedly humanistic take on love and all its complications. Italian mirror, what could be left on the road WED 10/21 8:30 PM EFERIKA with subtitles. 102 min. ahead? 123 min. SAT 10/24 8:15 PM EFYOUTH1 WED 10/21 8:30 PM EFYOU1 Highlight SUN 10/25 2:00 PM EFYOUTH2 EXPLICIT THU 10/22 8:45 PM EFYOU2 CONTENT WED 10/28 1:15 PM EFYOU3 Highlight world cinema

CLOSING night FILMS Thursday October 29, 2015

New Directors Competition Winner Main Competition Winner Our New Directors competition highlights the most promising The crown jewel of the 51st Chicago International Film Festival new voices in cinema from around the globe. There are 14 films international feature competition, as selected by our international in the category this year, but the jury will only select one winner jury, will screen as the closing night celebration. With notable – which we will present in a special encore screening on closing auteurs going up against distinctive, lesser-known talents, it’s night. If you missed it during the Festival, here’s your chance to anyone’s guess who will emerge victorious in the end. Come see see the first or second work from a filmmaker who’s sure to be the film that will truly be seen as the Best of the Fest! talked about at great length for years to come. 7:45 PM EFBEST2 $14 (film only) 5:30 PM EFBEST1 $14 (film only)

Closing night after-party

Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Check website for additional evening Paul and Ellen information: chicagofilmfestival.com Partner Gignilliat 9:30 PM EFCLOSEP $40 (PARTY-ONLY) 36 CHEZ, 247 E. Ontario St. Wristband and ticket required for entry. TASTE OF CINEMA Satiate your tastebuds along with your appetite for good films with this pairing of movies followed by culinary experiences. With Breakfast at Ina’s (p. 15), celebrate with Chef Isaac Weliver of Local Root (601 N. McClurg Ct.) to taste Ina’s iconic menu with a new twist; with The Birth of Saké (p. 14), go to an exclusive sake tasting with Japanese tapas at Murasaki Sake Lounge (211 E. Ontario St.); and with Open Tables (p. 28), step inside the film for appetizers and cocktails at Trenchermen (2039 W. North Av.), one of the Chicago foodie hotspots featured in the movie. Each pairing is $50 and includes film ticket. For more information, go to chicagofilmfestival.com.

BREAKFAST AT INA’S (p. 15) THE BIRTH OF SAKé (p. 14) OPEN TABLES (p.28) SUN 10/18 3:30 PM EFBREAKD MON 10/19 5:45 PM EFBIRTHD TUE 10/20 6:15 PM EFOPEND

ADDITIONAL PANELS Science + Cinema: Friend Or Foe: How Do Film Critics New Directors: The Festival’s new hub for filmmakers and industry professionals Industry Days PUBLIC events are $5 each! Tickets must be Refresh My Memory and Filmmakers Get Along? Origins and Authenticity to connect, share ideas, and inspire each other, Industry purchased from box office. All events subject to change. From Memento to Eternal Sunshine of How do film critics view the people What makes a film feel authentic, Days will examine current and future trends in the film and the Spotless Mind, amnesia is a common behind the movies they write about? distinctive, and real? Is it a starting entertainment business. For more information, a list of confirmed speakers, and Industry trope in movies—a powerful launching Do they ignore them and their feelings? point that comes from one’s own lived Days registration, go to: point to explore issues such as identity And what happens when they get to experience; specific and thorough All panels require an Industry Days badge and take place at the and emotion. This year’s Festival includes know the directors—and like them? research; or simply a knack for Tribune Tower (435 N. Michigan Ave.), unless otherwise noted. chicagofilmfestival.com/industry-days three films, Embers, Open Tables, If Roger Ebert and Werner Herzog capturing emotional truth? Join us for All events listed as “Open to the public” take place at the AMC and Other Madnesses, which portray became friends, does that mean other an enlightening discussion about the River East 21. characters with faulty memories. This critics and directors can, too? This panel boundaries between fact and fiction, panel brings together filmmakers and will explore the complicated dynamic authenticity and originality, with several neuroscientists to discuss the nature between artists and the gatekeepers of this year’s New Directors competition Thursday, Oct. 22 Saturday, Oct. 24 and fallibility of memory, and its varied who help (or hurt) them. 60 min. filmmakers. 60 min. Industry Tribute: Gigi Pritzker How to Make a Great Movie for $50,000 or Less representations on screen. 60 min. Open to the public Accredited badge holders only This is a free event! This is a free event! 7:00 PM-8:00 PM EFgigi 10:00 AM-11:00 AM This is a free event! Ticket must be obtained from box office. No ticket required. See p. 20 for more details. Ticket must be obtained from box office. WED 10/21 4:00 PM EFPAN3 THU 10/22 4:00 PM A Conversation with Writer-Producer-Directors Steve SAT 10/17 12:00 PM EFPAN1 AMC River East 21 Columbia College Chicago, 1104 S. Friday, Oct. 23 Pink and Jeff Garlin Open to the public AMC River East 21 Wabash St., Room 402 Overseas Connections: How to Gain Access to 11:15 AM-12:15 PM EFPINGAR International Partners and Financiers co-produced with IFP/Chicago How to Sell Your Film Accredited badge holders only Accredited badge holders only 10:00 AM-11:00 AM 1:00 PM-2:00 PM Crowdfunding and Crowdfinding: How to Raise Money The Foreign-Language Film Crisis: Are Subtitled and Prime Your Prospective Audience Accredited badge holders only Movies Fading on U.S. Screens? Open to the public 11:30 AM-12:30 PM 2:00 PM-3:00 PM EFIDAY3

Making an Impact: How to Build Coalitions, Engage The Distribution Puzzle: Film Releasing Strategies Communities, and Change the World Through Film from Theaters to VOD Accredited badge holders only co-produced with IFP/Chicago 1:00 PM-2:00 PM Accredited badge holders only 2:30 PM-3:30 PM Is the Future of Indie Film in TV and on the Web? Open to the public Power Players: How Women Producers & Financiers 2:15 PM-3:15 PM EFIDAY1 are Changing the Entertainment Business SPOTLIGHT: ARCHITECTURE + SPACE + DESIGN This program celebrates the remarkable spirit and outstanding representations of innovative architecture and design in the cinema. Open to the public From Milan to Tokyo to São Paulo, the international selection features the work of celebrated visionaries and chronicles ordinary people How to Build a Booming Chicago Film Industry 4:00 PM-5:00 PM EFIDAY4 Open to the public and characters interacting with extraordinary and complex places and spaces. See p. 53 for complete program listing. co-produced with Stage 18 Sunday, Oct. 25 4:00 PM-5:00 PM EFIDAY2 ARCHITECTS ON FILM PANEL: FILMED SPACES The Pitch On Wednesdays throughout the Chicago Architecture Biennial, How do directors use the language of cinema, with its A curated selection of filmmakers with new narrative projects in local and visiting architects and designers present films that have demarcated frame, running time, and two-dimensional space, to active development will take part in a competitive pitch session. touched their lives and careers. The highly curated selection capture the majesty and complexity of architecture and design— The winning pitch will receive an award of in-kind services from ranges from films that have influenced their own thoughts on artistic mediums designed to be explored in depth and interacted Avid, HP, Magnanimous Media, and Stage 18. Location TBD. architecture to those that can spark conversations about the with over many years? In this panel, filmmakers will discuss the co-produced with IFP/Chicago intersection between film, architecture, philosophy, and society. methods for tackling this unique challenge to bring the wonder of Accredited badge holders only Screenings will be followed by conversations with presenters. the built environment to the big screen. 60 min. presenting 10:00 AM-2:00 PM Partner This is a free event! No ticket required. This is a free event! Ticket must be obtained from box office. Wednesdays, 6:00PM (10/14, 10/21, 10/28, 11/4, 11/18, 12/2, 12/9) SUN 10/18 11:00 AM EFPAN2 AMC River East 21 Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St.

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Shorts 1: FEEL THE ILLINOISE– Shorts 2: COVERED IN LINES– SHORTS 5: TRACING SHADOWS– SHORTS 6: TAKE ME TO YOUR WORLD– CITY AND STATE ANIMATION CINEMATIC frontiers DOCUMENTARIES

These inventive local shorts blending fiction, animation, and Cute creatures, wacky characters, and prodigious landscapes meet in With their innovative use of cinematography and editing, these These engaging true stories encompass the full spectrum of life itself. documentary filmmaking showcase the wide range of talent across these out-of-the-ordinary shorts that reveal fresh angles on the world. films aren’t afraid to explore new aesthetic territory. Chicago and Illinois. Cars race to their own destruction in Hell Runs on Gasoline! A mischievous cat takes over her master’s job in Buy One Get A single memory captures the power of cinema in Why? (Israel). (Canada). Mental illness unravels a family in A Tale of Love, In Nomad (1), a husband tries to take his wife out for the night, but One Free (South Korea, 3). Jean really dreads meeting up with Nature and urban landscapes are blurred in the hypnotic Blue Madness and Death (Chile). A Hollywood Boulevard Superman their guests stand in his way. Discover a forbidden planet in Chasm. his obnoxious, soul-sucking family for Sunday Lunch (France). In Signal (Canada, 10). By night Buenos Aires becomes a jungle considers the toil of maintaining his alter ego in Perfection is The documentary I Am the Passenger attempts to fill a hole Waves ’98 (Lebanon, 4), a young man drifts away to an imaginary in The Mad Half Hour (Argentina, 9). A boy’s job hunt turns Forever (UK, 12). Santa Cruz del Islote (US, 11) is a larger- in the filmmaker’s memory. In Unknown Unknown, grocery world to escape his dull life in Beirut. A boy raised by wolves embarks eerie in Monaco (Australia). In Manna (Belize), time passes than-life portrait of a small island off the coast of Colombia. When life shopping has never felt so off. Old-time radio undergoes an extreme on a journey to find his origins in Däwit (Germany). Wellington differently for a man living on a small remote island. Every Day throws you off your game, the hardest part is Keeping Balance makeover in Retrocognition. An ominous announcement turns Jr. (France) follows a father and son as they go hunting for “hat My Dad Dies (US) is a physical diary of persistent emotional (Austria). Aurorua (UK) is an invitation to escape the white noise a young woman’s world upside down in Marlene. Nick Santore stuff.” Life is a long, not-so-winding road in Somewhere Down pain. Leidi (Colombia) would very much like to know what her of the city. 92 min. documents a bittersweet relationship between a father and his son. the Line (Ireland). An inventor’s experiment goes too far in the noir- boyfriend did last night. 89 min. The Same River Twice (2) infuses childhood memories with life inspired Cat Killer (US). 89 min. SAT 10/24 12:15 PM EFSHDOC and color. 93 min. FRI 10/23 7:30 PM EFSHtra SAT 10/17 12:00 PM EFSHAN1 FRI 10/23 5:00 PM EFSHCS1 FRI 10/23 2:30 PM EFSHAN2 SUN 10/25 12:00 PM EFSHCS2 MON 10/26 3:30 PM EFSHCS3

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Shorts 3: DRAWN TO THE BLOOD– Shorts 4: THE LIFE WE KNOW– SHORTS 7: BEYOND THE HORIZON– SHORTS 8: THE TOWER ABOVE THE EARTH– MIDNIGHT PROGRAM BOLD CHARACTERS INNOVATIVE STORYTELLING ARCHITECTURE

Prepare for the sexy, the horrifying, and the abnormal with these Complex individuals face life-changing ordeals in these shorts driven These short films experiment with the structural norms of cinematic Claustrophobic urban spaces, hypnotic skylines, and historic boundary-pushing films. by powerful, gripping narratives. storytelling to depict the unique vantage points of their characters. architecture coalesce in this collection of shorts that take a bright new view of space and design in cinema. A horror flick leaves the safe confines of the screen in Sânge A young Somali-American faces an urgent political dilemma in The A maternity ward becomes the place where a teenager can try and (Mexico, 5). Revenge is a dish best served frozen in Ramona Youth (US, 8). An unexpected encounter makes a girl question her mend The Broken Past (Argentina). A mechanical fan witnesses INsite: A Document (US) sheds fresh light on Mies van der (Romania). Rate Me (UK) offers a portrait of an escort in twelve extreme right-wing upbringing in Patriot (UK). A teenager tries odd misdeeds in One-minded (South Korea, 13). A woman visits Rohe’s famous Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois. Two young user reviews. Flesh and film lustfully intertwine in The Exquisite to cope with grief in A Hole in My Heart (Netherlands, 7). Base her lover for the last time in Deszcz (Australia). A mysterious brothers feel suffocated by their closed urban environment in Ten Corpus (Austria, 6). A mother will go to any lengths to help her son’s jumpers wave their late friend goodbye in Last Base (Norway). incident is analyzed backward in over (UK). In Turtle (China, 14), Buildings Away (Israel). Tehran-Geles (France, 15) draws a unusual “disability” in Thicker Than Water (South Korea). 90 min. Puberty tests a girl’s relationship with her father in Wintry Spring a woman buys a reptile from a construction worker–and his dignity, mesmerizing continuum between Tehran and Los Angeles. You’ll be (Egypt). A phone call disrupts life on a film set in the one-take Test too. American culture baffles a chain-smoking, corporate Japanese Out of Breath (Switzerland) after an animated flight through a SAT 10/24 10:30 PM EFSHMID (Israel). It’s hard to go back to school after the internet has seen woman in Oh Lucy! (Japan). 89 min. city’s arteries. Meet the diverse inhabitants of a colossal apartment EXPLICIT things you didn’t want to Share (US). 87 min. building in Super-Unit(s) (Poland, 16). Zero m2 (France) CONTENT SAT 10/24 5:15 PM EFSHbey follows the humorous misfortunes of a student’s eventful apartment- SAT 10/24 7:45 PM EFSHLIF hunting. 93 min.

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Education Screenings CineYouth Festival Student Film Council We bring over 8,000 Chicago Public Our FREE CineYouth Festival showcases Our Student Film Council provides a Now Playing: A Celebration of School students (grades 6-12) into the work of student filmmakers 22 years FREE program for public, private, and Chicago On Screen SAVE theaters throughout the school year and old and younger, highlighting the creativity suburban high school students who have presented by the Chicago International Film Festival’s Junior Board during the Chicago International Film of the next generation of directors, a passion for film. Council members Festival for FREE Education Screenings. writers, and performers. CineYouth are given the opportunity to experience THE features screenings of over 75 officially and attend the numerous film festivals Saturday, November 14, 7:00 PM Study guides are provided to give selected short films and offers educational and programs that take place during the The Godfrey Hotel Chicago (127 W. Huron St.) background to the cultural context of the opportunities for participating guests. school year in Chicago. $75 regular ticket/$125 VIP ticket DATE! films, highlight themes and historical Evening proceeds support the Festival’s Education Program Tickets available now! references, and introduce questions that Through CineYouth, we are proud to Members engage in conversations with encourage personal examination of the support young artists by honoring their directors and festival programmers films’ subject matter. Each screening work and providing them with tools and with the goal of further analyzing, is followed by a Q&A with filmmakers, resources to assist them in their future understanding, and appreciating film and subjects, and/or film professionals and artistic endeavors. its relationship to audiences and the city. professors. Award-winning CineYouth films are shown The goals of the program are to give during the Chicago International Film NEW POSTER! students from across the city the Festival at the free CineYouth Best of the DESIGN: opportunity to view unique films and, in Fest (p. 16) screening. Tsung-Hui Kuo-Crary the process, transform them from passive audience members to active, engaged Entries for CineYouth 2016 are accepted viewers and thinkers. Because Chicago November 2, 2015–March 18, 2016. Public Schools have limited resources to provide students with field trip experience, CineYouth takes place at Columbia this program provides buses, theaters, College Chicago May 5-7, 2016! films, speakers, study guides, and teacher support entirely FREE.

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Program Partners Lead education Partners foundation support NEW! NEW! Cynthia Stone Raskin 44 45 Thursday, October 15 • Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress Pkwy. sunday, October 18 • AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois St. SCREEN 2 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 11 SCREEN 20 SCREEN 21 Mia Madre (p. 10) architecture panel Opening Night 11 11:00 AM • 60 min. Hector AM p.39 • EFPAN2 11:00 AM • 88 min. 5:30 PM Red carpet arrivals. The Thin Yellow p.21 • EFHEC2 6:30 PM Guest presentation and screening. Line A Very Ordinary The Here After 12 11:30 AM • 95 min. Citizen 11:45 AM • 100 min. PM Obra Full Contact 9:30 PM – 11:30 PM Cocktail reception with hors d’oeuvres. p.32 • EFTHIN2 11:45 AM • 100 min. p.22 • EFHERE2 12:00 PM • 105 min. 12:15 PM • 80 min. p.34 • EFAVERY2 p.28 • EFOBRA2 p.20 • EFFULL2 1 PM 600 Miles Danny and the 1:15 PM • 85 min. Human Zoo p.12 • EF6002 1:15 PM • 90 min. 2 The Emperor in p.18 • EFDANNY Friday, October 16 • AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois St. PM August Magallanes 1:45 PM • 135 min. 2:00 PM • 109 min. SCREEN 2 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 11 SCREEN 20 SCREEN 21 The Ardennes 2:30 PM • 90 min. p.19 • EFEMP HUGO p.26 • EFMAGA1 Sparrows 3 p.13 • EFARD1 2:15 PM • 128 min. 2:45 PM • 99 min. PM p.23 • EFHUGO Breakfast at Ina’s 12 3:30 PM • 50 min. p.31 • EFSPARR1 PM In The Underground p.15 • EFBREAK1 4 3:30 PM • 91 min. 1 PM p.24 • EFINUND1 PM Girls Lost 1:00 PM • 106 min. p.21 • EFGIRLS1 5 Front Cover Sweet Bean the Red Spider 4:45 PM • 113 min. 2 Just Jim PM 5:00 PM • 87 min. 5:00 PM • 90 min. Howard Shore PM p.31 • EFSWEET2 2:00 PM • 84 min. We are p.20 • EFFRONT1 p.30 • EFRED1 5:30 PM • 60 min. Very Semi- Tikkun p.25 • EFJUST1 Francesco 6 Underground p.23 • EFSHORE Serious 5:15 PM • 120 min. 3 Cronies 2:45 PM • 87 min. PM Fragrance 5:45 PM • 83 min. p.32 • EFTIKK1 PM 3:00 PM • 86 min. p.35 • EFFRAN1 6:00 PM • 75 min. p.34 • EFVERY1 p.34 • EFFRAG1 Hopefuls p.18 • EFCRONI1 4 3:45 PM • 75 min. 7 p.22 • EFHOPE1 PM PM Syl Johnson: The Abandoned Nahid Any Way the 7:30 PM • 86 min. 7:30 PM • 105 min. Obra 8 Kakekomi Wind Blows p.13 • EFabaN2 5 Body PM 7:30 PM • 143 min. p.28 • EFNAHID1 PM 5:00 PM • 80 min. 7:45 PM • 85 min. Surprise Film!!!! The Thin Yellow 5:00 PM • 90 min. p.25 • EFKAKE2 p.28 • EFOBRA1 Greater Things p.15 • EFBODY1 From A to B p.32 • EFSYL1 For Grace 8:00 PM Three Days in Line 8:15 PM • 107 min. 8:15 PM • 92 min. p.31 • EFSFILM September 5:45 PM • 66 min. 9 6 5:30 PM • 95 min. I Smile Back p.21 • EFGREAT1 p.20 • EFATOB2 p.20 • EFGRACE1 PM 5:45 PM • 90 min. p.32 • EFTHIN1 The Treasure 6:00 PM • 85 min. PM p.32 • EFTHREE1 6:15 PM • 89 min. p.23 • EFSMILE 7 p.33 • EFTREAS1 10 PM We Monsters PM Invention 7:15 PM • 95 min. 7:30 PM • 87 min. The Here After p.35 • EFWEMON1 8 p.24 • EFINVEN1 Embers 7:45 PM • 100 min. 11 PM 8:00 PM • 86 min. p.22 • EFHERE1 PM p.19 • EFEMBER1 From A to B Dheepan Hector 9 8:15 PM • 107 min. 8:30 PM • 109 min. 8:45 PM • 88 min. 12 PM p.20 • EFATOB1 p.18 • EFDHEE1 p.21 • EFHEC1 AM Big Father, Small Father James White 10 and Other 9:45 PM • 86 min. PM Stories The Abandoned p.24 • EFJAMES1 10:15 PM • 86 min. 9:45 PM • 102 min. The Laundryman main competition spotlight architecture After Dark p.14 • EFBIG1 p.13 • EFabaN1 FILM 11 10:30 PM • 112 min. new directors competition cinema of the americas U.S. Indies PM p.25 • EFLAUND1 PROGRAM documentary black perspectives world cinema 12 AM GUIDE out-Look special presentation Highlight

Saturday, October 17 • AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois St. Monday, October 19 • AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois St. SCREEN 2 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 11 SCREEN 20 SCREEN 21 SCREEN 2 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 11 SCREEN 20 SCREEN 21

11 CINEYOUTH 12 In The AM BEST OF THE FEST PM Underground 11:00 AM • 100 min. 12:00 PM • 91 min. p.16 • EFCINEY p.24 • EFINUND2 We Monsters 12 science panel Funny Girl SHORTS 2: Big Father, 12:30 PM • 95 min. 12:00 PM • 60 min. animation 1 Small Father PM 11:15 AM • 155 min. PM p.35 • EFWEMON3 Invention p.39 • EFPAN1 Peggy p.20 • EFFUNNY 12:00 PM • 89 min. and Other Why Me? 12:30 PM • 87 min. Guggenheim: p.40 • EFSHAN1 Stories 1:00 PM • 125 min. 1 p.24 • EFINVEN2 Embers Art Addict 1:00 PM • 102 min. Peggy p.35 • EFWHYME1 PM 1:00 PM • 86 min. 2 p.14 • EFBIG2 12:45 PM • 97 min. PM Guggenheim: Art p.19 • EFEMBER2 p.29 • EFPEGGY1 Greater Things Addict Three Days in 1:45 PM • 66 min. Neon Bull 2:00 PM • 97 min. 2 p.21 • EFGREAT2 The Infinite The Infinite PM September 3 2:30 PM • 101 min. The Thin Yellow p.29 • EFPEGGY2 2:00 PM • 90 min. Looking for Happiness PM p.28 • EFNEON1 Line Happiness p.32 • EFTHREE2 Grace 2:15 PM • 85 min. Banana 3:00 PM • 95 min. 3:00 PM • 85 min. 3 2:30 PM • 97 min. p.24 • EFINFIN1 Pancakes and p.32 • EFTHIN3 p.24 • EFINFIN2 PM p.25 • EFLOOK1 the Children... Kakekomi 4 L’Astragale 45 Years PM 3:30 PM • 94 min. 3:00 PM • 143 min. 3:30 PM • 93 min. p.14 • EFBAN2 4 p.25 • EFKAKE1 3:30 PM • 96 min. Sweet Bean PM p.14 • EFLAST1 p.12 • EF451 3:45 PM • 113 min. 600 Miles p.31 • EFSWEET1 5 PM Underground 4:30 PM • 85 min. Full Contact Fragrance 5 p.12 • EF6001 4:45 PM • 105 min. 5:15 PM • 75 min. My Golden Days The Birth of Sparrows PM My Golden Days p.34 • EFFRAG2 Saké p.20 • EFFULL1 6 The Treasure 5:30 PM • 120 min. 5:30 PM • 99 min. 5:00 PM • 120 min. L’Astragale 5:45 PM • 91 min. p.31 • EFSPARR2 Helmut Jahn p.27 • EFGOLD1 PM Front Cover 6:00 PM • 89 min. p.27 • EFGOLD2 6 Heart of a Dog 6:15 PM • 87 min. 6:00 PM • 96 min. p.14 • EFBIRTH1 6:00 PM • 60 min. p.14 • EFLAST2 p.33 • EFTREAS2 PM Banana 6:00 PM • 75 min. p.20 • EFFRONT2 p.21 • EFHELM p.21 • EFHEART Pancakes and 7 Time Suspended the Children... The Dark Horse PM 7 6:30 PM • 124 min. 7:15 PM • 65 min. PM 6:30 PM • 94 min. Carmín Tropical p.33 • EFTIME1 p.14 • EFBAN1 p.18 • EFDARK James White 7:15 PM • 80 min. 7:15 PM • 86 min. 8 p.15 • EFCARM1 p.24 • EFJAMES2 8 PM Looking for Tikkun PM The Club Mountains May Special Stinking Heaven 8:15 PM • 97 min. Grace Magallanes 8:00 PM • 120 min. A Very Ordinary 8:45 PM • 77 min. Nahid p.32 • EFTIKK2 Depart Screening TBA 8:30 PM • 105 min. p.17 • EFCLUB1 8:15 PM • 97 min. 8:30 PM • 109 min. 8:00 PM • 131 min. Citizen 8:00 PM 9 p.31 • EFSTINK2 p.25 • EFLOOK2 9 Stinking Heaven 8:30 PM • 100 min. PM p.28 • EFNAHID2 p.26 • EFMAGA2 PM p.27 • EFMOUN1 Other 9:00 PM • 77 min. p.34 • EFAVERY1 Madnesses p.31 • EFSTINK1 Other Cash Only Madnesses 9:15 PM • 105 min. 9:30 PM • 89 min. We Monsters 10 p.29 • EFOTHER2 10 9:30 PM • 105 min. p.16 • EFCASH1 PM PM 9:45 PM • 95 min. p.29 • EFOTHER1 p.35 • EFWEMON2 They Look Like People Entertainment 11 11 PM PM 10:45 PM • 80 min. 10:45 PM • 104 min. p.32 • EFTHEY1 p.19 • EFENTER 12 12 AM AM 46 47 tuesday, October 20 • AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois St. thursday, October 22 • AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois St. SCREEN 2 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 11 SCREEN 20 SCREEN 21 SCREEN 2 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 11 SCREEN 20 SCREEN 21 Breakfast at Ina’s Magallanes 12 12:00 PM • 50 min. 12 Looking for 11:30 AM • 109 min. Milano 2015 p.15 • EFBREAK2 PM p.26 • EFMAGA3 PM Underground Grace Body 12:00 PM • 103 min. Fragrance 12:00 PM • 97 min. 12:15 PM • 90 min. p.26 • EFMILA2 p.25 • EFLOOK3 12:30 PM • 75 min. p.15 • EFBODY2 1 The Here After 1 p.34 • EFFRAG3 PM a Monster with a 1:00 PM • 100 min. PM Thousand Heads p.22 • EFHERE3 1:30 PM • 74 min. 2 p.27 • EFMONS1 PM 2 Concrete Love - Motley’s Law PM The Böhm Family 2:30 PM • 84 min. 3 2:30 PM • 87 min. Henry Gamble’s p.27 • EFMOT2 PM p.17 • EFCLOVE1 Birthday Party The Laundryman Full Contact 3:00 PM • 86 min. 3 2:30 PM • 112 min. 2:30 PM • 105 min. The Closer We p.21 • EFHENRY1 For Grace Carmín Tropical p.25 • EFLAUND2 p.20 • EFFULL3 Umrika PM 3:00 PM • 80 min. Get 3:30 PM • 92 min. 4 A Very Ordinary 3:30 PM • 102 min. p.15 • EFCARM2 The Birth of PM 3:45 PM • 81 min. p.20 • EFGRACE2 p.33 • EFUM1 p.17 • EFCLOSE2 Citizen Saké 4:00 PM • 100 min. 4 3:30 PM • 91 min. p.34 • EFAVERY3 PM p.14 • EFBIRTH2 5 Song of Songs PM Call Me 5:00 PM • 76 min. Marianna p.30 • EFSONG2 Paulina 5:15 PM • 75 min. Why a film about p.15 • EFCALL2 5 6 5:30 PM • 103 min. Michele... PM PM p.29 • EFPAUL1 Son of Saul Dégradé 6:00 PM • 107 min. 6:00 PM • 65 min. 6:15 PM • 83 min. p.30 • EFsaul p.35 • EFLUCCI1 the Red Spider Tough Love p.18 • EFDEG1 Gigi Pritzker Song of Songs 5:30 PM • 90 min. 5:30 PM • 89 min. 5:45 PM • 76 min. 7 (industry Tribute) 6 Orphans of p.30 • EFRED2 p.33 • EFTOUGH1 PM The Living Fire 7:00 PM • 60 min. PM Eldorado p.30 • EFSONG1 Brooklyn 45 Years Open Tables 7:15 PM • 77 min. p.20 • efgigi Barash 6:00 PM • 96 min. 6:00 PM • 111 min. 6:15 PM • 76 min. p.25 • EFLIV1 p.28 • EFORPH1 6:15 PM • 93 min. p.15 • EFBROOK 7:30 PM • 90 min. p.28 • EFOPEN1 8 Road to La Paz p.12 • EF452 PM p.14 • EFBARA1 7 A Childhood 8:00 PM • 90 min. PM 8:15 PM • 100 min. Chronic p.30 • EFROAD2 Orphans of You Can’t Save 8:30 PM • 92 min. Illegal 9 Eldorado p.16 • EFCHILD2 Yourself alone Portraits p.16 • EFCHRON2 PM 8:45 PM • 96 min. How to Win 8:45 PM • 102 min. 8 7:45 PM • 71 min. Motley’s Law p.28 • EFORPH2 p.36 • EFYOU2 p.23 • EFILLEG1 Enemies PM 8:00 PM • 84 min. 9:30 PM • 78 min. Tag Mountains May p.27 • EFMOT1 10 p.22 • EFHOW2 9:45 PM • 85 min. The Ardennes Depart The Homecoming PM Ludo p.32 • EFTAG1 8:30 PM • 90 min. The Club A Light Beneath 8:30 PM • 90 min. 8:00 PM • 131 min. 8:30 PM • 97 min. Their Feet 10:15 PM • 92 min. 9 p.13 • EFARD2 p.27 • EFMOUN2 p.22 • EFHOME1 PM p.17 • EFCLUB2 8:45 PM • 90 min. 11 p.26 • EFLUDO1 p.25 • EFLIGHT1 PM

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wednesday, October 21 • AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois St. friday, October 23 • AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois St. SCREEN 2 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 11 SCREEN 20 SCREEN 21 SCREEN 2 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 11 SCREEN 20 SCREEN 21

11 11 AM AM Illegal Orphans of Portraits Eldorado 11:30 AM • 71 min. 12 11:30 AM • 96 min. Carmín Tropical 12 p.23 • EFILLEG2 PM p.28 • EFORPH3 12:00 PM • 80 min. Tough Love Sparrows PM p.15 • EFCARM3 the Red Spider A Light Beneath 12:15 PM • 89 min. 12:00 PM • 99 min. Their Feet p.33 • EFTOUGH2 The Birth of p.31 • EFSPARR3 12:30 PM • 90 min. Saké 1 p.30 • EFRED3 12:30 PM • 90 min. 12:30 PM • 91 min. PM p.25 • EFLIGHT3 1 p.14 • EFBIRTH3 PM The Homecoming 2 1:45 PM • 90 min. Hector PM indie film Panel 1:30 PM • 88 min. p.22 • EFHOME3 SHORTS 2: Time Suspended 2:15 PM • 60 min. 2 p.21 • EFHEC3 p.38 • EFIDAY1 animation PM 2:00 PM • 65 min. They Look Like 2:30 PM • 89 min. p.33 • EFTIME2 3 PM People p.40 • EFSHAN2 Volta à Terra 3:00 PM • 80 min. 3 3:30 PM • 78 min. chicago film p.32 • EFTHEY2 Breakfast at Ina’s PM The Ardennes Cash Only 4 p.34 • EFVOLTA2 industry panel 4:00 PM • 50 min. 3:00 PM • 90 min. 3:00 PM • 89 min. Body PM 4:00 PM • 60 min. p.15 • EFBREAK3 p.13 • EFARD3 p.16 • EFCASH2 3:15 PM • 90 min. p.38 • EFIDAY2 critics Panel p.15 • EFBODY3 SHORTS 1: City & 4 4:00 PM • 60 min. 5 State PM p.39 • EFPAN3 PM Cash Only Schneider Vs. 5:00 PM • 93 min. 5:15 PM • 89 min. p.40 • EFSHCS1 Concrete Love - Bax Adama p.16 • EFCASH3 The Böhm Family 5:30 PM • 96 min. The Middle 6 Homesick 5:45 PM • 82 min. Distance 5 PM 5:45 PM • 87 min. p.30 • EFSVB2 p.13 • EFADAMA1 PM 6:00 PM • 98 min. p.17 • EFCLOVE2 6:00 PM • 80 min. p.22 • EFSICK1 p.26 • EFMIDD1 Volta à Terra A Light Beneath 5:30 PM • 78 min. How to Win Their Feet The Homecoming 7 6 p.34 • EFVOLTA1 Enemies 5:30 PM • 90 min. 5:30 PM • 90 min. PM SHORTS 5: PM 5:45 PM • 78 min. A Childhood p.25 • EFLIGHT2 p.22 • EFHOME2 Call Me TRACING p.22 • EFHOW1 6:00 PM • 100 min. The Assassin Marianna Cronies SHADOWS 6:00 PM • 120 min. 6:15 PM • 75 min. 8 Henry Gamble’s 7:45 PM • 86 min. p.16 • EFCHILD1 Birthday Party 7:30 PM • 89 min. p.14 • EFASSA1 p.15 • EFCALL1 PM p.18 • EFCRONI2 p.41 • EFSHtra Dégradé Girls Lost 8:00 PM • 86 min. 7 The Assassin Women He’s PM 8:30 PM • 83 min. 8:15 PM • 106 min. p.21 • EFHENRY2 Undressed p.18 • EFDEG2 p.21 • EFGIRLS2 8:15 PM • 120 min. 9 p.14 • EFASSA2 8:30 PM • 99 min. The Closer We PM p.35 • EFWOMEN1 Get 8 7:45 PM • 81 min. Road to La Paz PM p.17 • EFCLOSE1 8:00 PM • 90 min. 10 Tag Milano 2015 Chronic XConfessions: PM Schneider Vs. You Can’t Save 8:15 PM • 92 min. p.30 • EFROAD1 A Conversation 10:00 PM • 85 min. 8:15 PM • 103 min. Bax Yourself alone Bite p.32 • EFTAG2 p.26 • EFMILA1 p.16 • EFCHRON1 With Erika Lust 10:30 PM • 86 min. 9 8:30 PM • 96 min. 8:30 PM • 102 min. 8:30 PM • 90 min. p.30 • EFSVB1 p.36 • EFYOU1 11 p.15 • EFBITE1 PM p.36 • EFERIKA PM 48 49 SATURday, October 24 • AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois St. Chicago Cultural monday, October 26 • AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois St. SCREEN 2 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 11 SCREEN 20 SCREEN 21 Center SCREEN 2 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 11 SCREEN 20 SCREEN 21

11 steve pink & jeff 12 Three Days in AM garlin PM September Henry Gamble’s 11:15 AM • 60 min. Birthday Party p.38 • EFPINGAR 12:00 PM • 90 min. p.32 • EFTHREE3 Chronic 12 The Living Fire 11:30 AM • 86 min. Adama 12:30 PM • 92 min. 12:00 PM p.21 • EFHENRY3 SHORTS 6: 1 12:45 PM • 82 min. Call Me PM The Middle Homesick p.16 • EFCHRON3 Big Father, 77 min. documentary PM p.13 • EFADAMA3 Marianna Distance Cronies 1:00 PM • 98 min. Small Father... p.25 • EFLIV2 12:15 PM • 92 min. 1:15 PM • 75 min. 12:15 PM Syl Johnson: Any 12:30 PM • 80 min. 12:45 PM p.22 • EFSICK3 1 Way the Wind Blows p.41 • EFSHDOC p.15 • EFCALL3 PM 102 min. p.26 • EFMIDD2 86 min. 2 p.14 • EFBIG3 1:00 PM • 85 min. p.18 • EFCRONI3 PM foreign film p.32 • EFSYL2 The Middle Modern How to Win Distance 2 crisis panel Paulina 2:00 PM • 60 min. Metropolis... Enemies 2:30 PM • 80 min. PM 2:00 PM • 103 2:00 PM • 56 min. 3 p.38 • EFIDAY3 Why a film about 2:45 PM • 78 min. p.26 • EFMIDD3 min. SHORTS 8: p.27 PM Michele... p.22 • EFHOW3 As We Were p.29 • EFPAUL2 architecture SHORTS 1: city & 3 Sherlock 3:30 PM • 65 min. A Childhood Dreaming To My Beloved 2:45 PM • 93 min. state PM Holmes Open Tables p.35 • EFLUCCI2 3:30 PM • 100 min. 3:15 PM • 117 min. 3:00 PM In the Shadow p.41 • EFSHARC 4 3:30 PM • 93 min. 113 min. of Women 3:00 PM 3:15 PM • 76 min. PM p.16 • EFCHILD3 p.13 • EFASWE1 p.40 • EFSHCS3 p.33 • EFBELOV1 power 3:30 PM • 73 min. 116 min. p.28 • EFOPEN2 4 players panel p.24 • EFSHAD1 p.30 • EFSHER PM 4:00 PM • 60 min. 5 p.38 • EFIDAY4 Absence PM 5:00 PM • 87 min. Hitchcock/ The Companion 5 Truffaut SHORTS 7: BEYOND p.13 • EFABS1 In the Shadow For Grace PM THE HORIZON of Women 5:15 PM • 104 min. 5:00 PM • 80 min. Dheepan 6 Hitchcock/ 5:30 PM • 92 min. p.17 • EFCOMP2 We are p.22 • EFHITCH1 Mustang 5:15 PM • 89 min. a Monster with a Truffaut 5:45 PM • 73 min. p.20 • EFGRACE3 Francesco Neon Bull 5:30 PM • 109 PM p.24 • EFSHAD2 5:45 PM 5:30 PM • 94 min. p.41 • EFSHbey Thousand Heads 6:00 PM • 80 min. 6:00 PM • 87 min. 6 Embrace of min. p.27 • EFMUST1 6:15 PM • 74 min. PM 101 min. p.18 • EFDHEE2 The 33 p.22 • EFHITCH2 p.35 • EFFRAN3 the Serpent 6:00 PM p.27 • EFMONS3 6:00 PM p.28 • EFNEON2 7 125 min. PM 7 125 min. p.12 • EF33 PM p.19 • EFEMBRA1 Sworn Virgin All About 7:30 PM • 84 min. All About Them Them SHORTS 4: THE 8 p.31 • EFSWORN1 7:45 PM • 86 min. p.13 • EFALL2 Valley of Love 8 7:30 PM • 86 min. LIFE WE KNOW PM 8:00 PM • 92 min. Mustang p.13 • EFALL1 Rams 7:45 PM • 87 min. My Life with a PM 8:00 PM • 93 min. Cuckold p.34 • EFVALL1 8:15 PM • 94 min. a Monster with a Clever Youth p.40 • EFSHlif The Surprise King p.29 • EFRAMS1 8:30 PM • 94 min. p.27 • EFMUST2 Thousand Heads 8:30 PM • 83 min. 8:15 PM 9 8:30 PM • 111 min. 8:30 PM • 89 min. p.18 • EFCUCK1 9 8:45 PM • 74 min. p.17 • EFCLEV1 123 min. I Am Michael PM p.31 • EFSURP2 p.28 • EFMYLI1 PM p.27 • EFMONS2 p.36 • EFYOUTH1 9:00 PM • 99 min. p.23 • EFMICH1 Bite 10 10 PM PM 10:00 PM Ludo SHORTS 3: 86 min. 10:15 PM midnight p.15 • EFBITE2 92 min. 10:30 PM 11 11 p.26 • EFLUDO2 90 min. PM PM p.40 • EFSHMID 12 12 AM AM

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SUNday, October 25 • AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois St. tuesday, October 27 • AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois St. SCREEN 2 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 11 SCREEN 20 SCREEN 21 SCREEN 2 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 11 SCREEN 20 SCREEN 21 All About Them 11 Embers 12 11:30 AM • 86 min. AM 11:00 AM • 86 min. PM p.13 • EFALL3 Song of Songs p.19 • EFEMBER3 Adama 11:30 PM • 76 min. 11:30 AM • 82 min. Very Semi- From A to B Road to La Paz 12 p.30 • EFSONG2 p.13 • EFADAMA2 Serious SHORTS 1: city & 12:30 PM • 107 min. 12:30 PM • 90 min. PM 11:45 AM • 83 min. Umrika state 1 I Am Michael p.30 • EFROAD3 PM p.20 • EFATOB3 p.34 • EFVERY2 12:00 PM • 102 min. 12:00 PM • 93 min. Stinking Heaven 1:00 PM • 99 min. Homesick p.33 • EFUM2 p.40 • EFSHCS2 12:30 PM • 98 min. 1:30 PM • 77 min. p.23 • EFMICH2 1 p.31 • EFSTINK3 PM p.22 • EFSICK2 2 PM Paulina Neon Bull 2:00 PM • 103 min. 2 1:30 PM • 101 min. p.29 • EFPAUL3 PM p.28 • EFNEON3 In Jackson Youth Creative 3 600 Miles Open Tables Heights 2:00 PM • 123 min. Control Barash PM 3:00 PM • 85 min. 3:00 PM • 76 min. 1:30 PM • 190 min. p.36 • EFYOUTH2 2:15 PM • 97 min. Rams 2:30 PM • 90 min. p.12 • EF6003 p.28 • EFOPEN3 3 p.23 • EFJACK p.17 • EFCREA 2:45 PM • 93 min. p.14 • EFBARA2 Double PM Embrace of the p.29 • EFRAMS2 4 Serpent Happiness PM 4:00 PM • 74 min. 3:00 PM • 125 min. Hopefuls 4 p.19 • EFEMBRA2 p.19 • EFDOUB2 PM 4:00 PM • 75 min. p.22 • EFHOPE2 5 As We Were Walking PM Absence Distance 5 To Sleep with Macbeth 5:15 PM • 87 min. Dreaming 4:45 PM • 112 min. The Companion We are 5:00 PM • 117 min. Umrika 5:00 PM • 104 min. PM Anger p.13 • EFABS2 p.35 • EFWALK1 5:00 PM • 102 min. p.26 • EFMAC 5:00 PM • 104 min. Francesco p.13 • EFASWE2 5:30 PM • 102 min. 5:15 PM • 87 min. 6 Eisenstein in Valley of Love Cemetery of p.33 • EFSLEEP p.17 • EFCOMP1 PM Guanajuato p.33 • EFUM3 6 Double Splendor p.35 • EFFRAN2 Cuckold 6:00 PM • 92 min. Happiness 6:15 PM • 94 min. 6:00 PM • 105 min. p.34 • EFVALL2 PM Clever 5:30 PM • 122 min. p.19 • EFEISEN1 6:00 PM • 74 min. 6:15 PM • 83 min. p.16 • EFCEM1 p.18 • EFCUCK2 p.19 • EFDOUB1 7 7 p.17 • EFCLEV2 PM PM Hopefuls Radical Grace 7:45 PM • 75 min. A Perfect Day 8 7:45 PM • 106 min. 7:30 PM • 75 min. PM p.22 • EFHOPE3 8 A Perfect Day p.29 • EFRAD Why Me? Under Electric p.29 • EFPERF2 Why Me? PM 7:45 PM • 125 min. Under Electric 8:00 PM • 106 min. Clouds Cemetery of Special 8:00 PM • 125 min. To My Beloved The Surprise p.35 • EFWHYME2 7:45 PM • 138 min. Just Jim p.35 • EFWHYME3 Clouds Girls Lost 8:15 PM • 111 min. p.29 • EFPERF1 9 Splendor Screening TBA 8:15 PM • 113 min. 8:30 PM • 106 min. p.34 • EFCLOUD1 8:45 PM • 84 min. 8:30 PM • 122 min. 8:15 PM • 138 min. 9 p.33 • EFBELOV2 p.31 • EFSURP1 PM 8:00 PM p.34 • EFCLOUD2 PM p.21 • EFGIRLS3 p.25 • EFJUST2 p.16 • EFCEM2 10 10 PM PM

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12 12 AM AM 50 51 wednesday, October 28 • AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois St. SCREEN 2 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 7 SCREEN 11 SCREEN 20 SCREEN 21 Index By Country 11 ALBANIA DENMARK Sworn Virgin ��������������������31 PHILIPPINES Song of Songs �����������������30 AM Sworn Virgin ��������������������31 Infinite Happiness, The ����24 We Are Francesco �����������35 My Life with a King ����������28 Under Electric Clouds ������34 Motley’s Law ��������������������27 Why a film about 12 ARGENTINA Sparrows �������������������������31 Michele de Lucchi? ����������35 POLAND UNITED ARAB EMIRATES PM How to Win Enemies �������22 You Can’t Save Yourself Body ��������������������������������15 From A to B ����������������������20 Dégradé L’Astragale Paulina ����������������������������29 FRANCE Alone �������������������������������36 Call Me Marianna ������������15 12:30 PM • 83 min. 12:30 PM • 96 min. 1 p.18 • EFDEG3 Road to La Paz ����������������30 Adama �����������������������������13 Youth �������������������������������36 Red Spider, The ���������������30 URUGUAY PM p.14 • EFLAST3 You Can’t Save Yourself alone Time Suspended �������������33 All About Them ����������������13 Clever ������������������������������17 1:15 PM • 102 min. L’Astragale �����������������������14 JAPAN PORTUGAL Neon Bull �������������������������28 2 p.36 • EFYOU3 PM AUSTRALIA Big Father, Small Father Birth of Sake, The ������������14 Volta a Terra ��������������������34 Intercom Valley of Love Looking for Grace ������������25 and Other Stories ������������14 Emperor in August, The ���19 USA 2:30 PM • 92 min. 3 To My Beloved the best of Schneider Vs. Women He’s Undressed ��35 Childhood, A ��������������������16 Greater Things �����������������21 ROMANIA 33, The ����������������������������12 PM 2:45 PM • 113 min. 3:00 PM • 60 min. Bax p.34 • EFVALL3 p.33 • EFBELOV3 p.24 • EFINTER 3:00 PM • 96 min. BEST OF THE FEST Chronic ����������������������������16 Kakekomi �������������������������25 Treasure, The ������������������33 Abandoned, The ��������������13 p.30 • EFSVB3 As We Were 3:00 PM AUSTRIA Dégradé ���������������������������18 Sweet Bean ���������������������31 Why Me? �������������������������35 Birth of Sake, The ������������14 4 Dreaming PM 3:45 PM • 117 min. Double Happiness �����������19 Dheepan ��������������������������18 Tag �����������������������������������32 Breakfast at Ina’s �������������15 p.13 • EFASWE3 Homesick �������������������������22 Hitchcock/Truffaut ������������22 RUSSIA Carol ��������������������������������16 5 Women He’s In the Shadow KOSOVO Under Electric Clouds ������34 Cash Only ������������������������16 PM Undressed BEST OF THE FEST BELGIUM of Women ������������������������24 Three Days in Creative Control ��������������17 Eisenstein in 5:00 PM • 99 min. Walking Just Jim p.35 • EFWOMEN2 5:00 PM Distance Ardennes, The �����������������13 Infinite Happiness, The ����24 September �����������������������32 SOUTH AFRICA Cronies ����������������������������18 5:45 PM • 84 min. Guanajuato 6 5:30 PM • 105 min. 5:30 PM • 104 min. Schneider Vs. Bax �����������30 Invention ��������������������������24 Cuckold ���������������������������18 Embers ����������������������������19 PM p.25 • EFJUST3 p.35 • EFWALK2 BEST OF THE FEST p.19 • EFEISEN2 Macbeth ���������������������������26 LEBANON Entertainment ������������������19 6:00 PM 7 BEST OF THE FEST BRAZIL My Golden Days ��������������27 From A to B ����������������������20 SPAIN For Grace ������������������������20 PM 6:30 PM Absence ��������������������������13 Valley of Love ������������������34 Perfect Day, A ������������������29 Front Cover ���������������������20 Carol Hopefuls ��������������������������22 MACEDONIA Funny Girl ������������������������20 8 7:30 PM • 118 min. Neon Bull �������������������������28 GERMANY Three Days in SWEDEN Heart of a Dog �����������������21 PM BEST OF THE FEST Sworn Virgin p.16 • EFCAROL 7:45 PM My Life with a BEST OF THE FEST 8:15 PM • 84 min. BEST OF THE FEST Obra ��������������������������������28 As We Were Dreaming ����13 September �����������������������32 Girls Lost �������������������������21 Henry Gamble’s Birthday 8:00 PM 8:00 PM King p.31 • EFSWORN2 8:30 PM • 89 min. Orphans of Eldorado �������28 Concrete Love - Here After, The ����������������22 Party ��������������������������������21 9 BEST OF THE FEST PM p.28 • EFMYLI2 Paulina ����������������������������29 The Boehm Family ����������17 MEXICO XConfessions: A Hitchcock/Truffaut ������������22 8:45 PM To My Beloved �����������������33 Homesick �������������������������22 600 Miles �������������������������12 Conversation With Hugo ��������������������������������23 10 Mustang ���������������������������27 Carmin Tropical ���������������15 Erika Lust ������������������������36 I Am Michael ��������������������23 PM BULGARIA Tough Love ����������������������33 Chronic ����������������������������16 I Smile Back ��������������������23 Why Me? �������������������������35 We Monsters �������������������35 Eisenstein in SWITZERLAND In Jackson Heights ����������23 11 PM Guanajuato ����������������������19 Concrete Love - James White ��������������������24 CANADA HUNGARY Monster with a Thousand The Böhm Family ������������17 Just Jim ���������������������������25 12 Bite ����������������������������������15 Son of Saul ����������������������30 Heads, A ��������������������������27 Volta a Terra ��������������������34 Light Beneath Their AM Invention ��������������������������24 Thin Yellow Line, The ������32 Youth �������������������������������36 Feet, A �����������������������������25 ICELAND Time Suspended �������������33 Middle Distance, The �������26 CHILE Homecoming, The �����������22 Walking Distance �������������35 TAIWAN Modern Metropolis: *Best of The Fest presents encore screenings of select award winners and audience favorites. 33, The ����������������������������12 Rams �������������������������������29 Assassin, The ������������������14 Mid-Century Chicago on Visit chicagofilmfestival.com starting Mon., Oct. 26 for announcement of the films. Club, The �������������������������17 Sparrows �������������������������31 NETHERLANDS Laundryman, The ������������25 Film ����������������������������������27 Banana Pancakes and the Open Tables ��������������������28 Thursday, October 29 • AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois St. CHINA INDIA Children of Sticky Rice ����14 THAILAND Other Madnesses ������������29 Assassin, The ������������������14 Ludo ��������������������������������26 Eisenstein in Cemetery of Splendor �����16 Peggy Guggenheim: Art (p. 36) In the Underground ���������24 Umrika �����������������������������33 Guanajuato ����������������������19 Addict ������������������������������29 Closing Night Mountains May Depart ����27 Full Contact ���������������������20 TURKEY Radical Grace ������������������29 5:30 PM Screening of New Directors Competition Winner. Underground Fragrance ��34 IRAN Schneider Vs. Bax �����������30 Mustang ���������������������������27 Sherlock Holmes �������������30 7:45 PM Screening of Main Competition Winner. Nahid �������������������������������28 Surprise, The �������������������31 Stinking Heaven ��������������31 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM Closing Night after-party with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. COLOMBIA Very Ordinary Citizen, A ��34 UK Syl Johnson: Any Way the Embrace of the Serpent ��19 NEW ZEALAND 45 Years ��������������������������12 Wind Blows ����������������������32 IRELAND Dark Horse, The ��������������18 Brooklyn ��������������������������15 They Look Like People ����32 CROATIA Brooklyn ��������������������������15 Closer We Get, The ���������17 To Sleep With Anger ��������33 Full Contact ���������������������20 PALESTINE Danny and the Very Semi-Serious �����������34 ISRAEL Dégradé ���������������������������18 Human Zoo ����������������������18 CUBA Barash �����������������������������14 Greater Things �����������������21 VENEZUELA The Companion ���������������17 Tikkun ������������������������������32 PANAMA Hector ������������������������������21 Embrace of the Serpent ��19 The Companion ���������������17 Just Jim ���������������������������25 CZECH REPUBLIC ITALY Macbeth ���������������������������26 VIETNAM The Red Spider ���������������30 Illegal Portraits �����������������23 PERU Big Father, Small Father Mia Madre �����������������������10 Magallanes ����������������������26 UKRAINE and Other Stories ������������14 Milano 2015 ���������������������26 Living Fire, The ����������������25

Index by Category AFTER DARK Illegal Portraits �����������������23 Danny and the How to Win Enemies �������22 For Grace ������������������������20 Abandoned, The ��������������13 Infinite Happiness, The ����24 Human Zoo ����������������������18 Magallanes ����������������������26 Henry Gamble’s Birthday Bite ����������������������������������15 Invention ��������������������������24 Syl Johnson: Any Way the Monster With a Thousand Party ��������������������������������21 Entertainment ������������������19 Milano 2015 ���������������������26 Wind Blows ����������������������32 Heads, A �������������������������27 Light Beneath Their Laundryman, The ������������25 Modern Metropolis: To Sleep With Anger ��������33 Neon Bull �������������������������28 Feet, A...... �25 Ludo ��������������������������������26 Mid-Century Chicago on Obra ��������������������������������28 Middle Distance, The �������26 Other Madnesses ������������29 Film ����������������������������������27 CINEMA OF THE Orphans of Eldorado �������28 Open Tables ��������������������28 Tag �����������������������������������32 Obra ��������������������������������28 AMERICAS Paulina ����������������������������29 Radical Grace ������������������29 They Look Like People ����32 Under Electric Clouds ������34 33, The ����������������������������12 Road to La Paz ����������������30 Syl Johnson: Any Way the Underground Fragrance ��34 600 Miles �������������������������12 Thin Yellow Line, The ������32 Wind Blows ����������������������32 ARCHITECTURE Why a Film about Absence ��������������������������13 Time Suspended �������������33 Concrete Love - Michele De Lucchi? ���������35 Carmín Tropical‬ ��������������15 To My Beloved �����������������33 DOCUMENTARY The Böhm Family ������������17 Clever ������������������������������17 Walking Distance �������������35 COMPETITION Double Happiness �����������19 BLACK PERSPECTIVES Club, The �������������������������17 Banana Pancakes and the Greater Things �����������������21 Adama �����������������������������13 Companion, The ��������������17 CITY/STATE Children of Sticky Rice ����14 Helmut Jahn: Cronies ����������������������������18 Embrace of the Serpent ��19 Breakfast at Ina’s �������������15 Call Me Marianna ������������15 52 An Architect’s Life ������������21 Cuckold ���������������������������18 Hopefuls ��������������������������22 Cash Only ������������������������16 CONTINUED > > > 53 Closer We Get, The ���������17 Radical Grace ������������������29 Homecoming, The �����������22 SPECIAL AND HIGHLIGHT U.S. INDIES In the Underground ���������24 Very Semi-Serious �����������34 Magallanes ����������������������26 PRESENTATIONS Birth of Sake, The ������������14 Living Fire, The ����������������25 Why a Film about Middle Distance, The �������26 Assassin, The ������������������14 Breakfast at Ina’s �������������15 Motley’s Law ��������������������27 Michele De Lucchi? ���������35 Nahid �������������������������������28 33, The ����������������������������12 Cash Only ������������������������16 Syl Johnson: Any Way the Women He’s Undressed ��35 Orphans of Eldorado �������28 Brooklyn ��������������������������15 Creative Control ��������������17 Wind Blows ����������������������32 Red Spider, The ���������������30 Carol ��������������������������������16 Cronies ����������������������������18 Time Suspended �������������33 MAIN COMPETITION Road to La Paz ����������������30 Dheepan ��������������������������18 Embers ����������������������������19 Tough Love ����������������������33 45 Years ��������������������������12 Sparrows �������������������������31 Funny Girl ������������������������20 For Grace ������������������������20 THANK YOU TO OUR FESTIVAL PARTNERS Volta a Terra ��������������������34 Body ��������������������������������15 Thin Yellow Line, The ������32 Heart of a Dog �����������������21 Henry Gamble’s Birthday Cinema/Chicago would like to acknowledge our partners – without their generosity the Childhood, A ��������������������16 Underground Fragrance ��34 Hitchcock/Truffaut ������������22 Party ��������������������������������21 51st Chicago International Film Festival would not be possible. DOCUMENTARY Chronic ����������������������������16 In the Shadow of I Am Michael ��������������������23 Birth of Saké, The ������������14 Club, The �������������������������17 OUT-LOOK (LGBTQ) Women ����������������������������24 In Jackson Heights ����������23 Breakfast at Ina’s �������������15 Full Contact ���������������������20 Absence ��������������������������13 I Smile Back ��������������������23 James White ��������������������24 GOLD PARTNERS Concrete Love - Looking for Grace ������������25 Big Father, Small Father Macbeth ���������������������������26 Light Beneath Their The Böhm Family ������������17 Mountains May Depart ����27 and Other Stories ������������14 Perfect Day, A ������������������29 Feet, A �����������������������������25 Double Happiness �����������19 My Golden Days ��������������27 Call Me Marianna ������������15 Sherlock Holmes �������������30 Middle Distance, The �������26 For Grace ������������������������20 Neon Bull �������������������������28 Carmin Tropical ���������������15 Son of Saul ����������������������30 Open Tables ��������������������28 Heart of a Dog �����������������21 Paulina ����������������������������29 Carol ��������������������������������16 XConfessions: A Other Madnesses ������������29 Hitchcock/Truffaut ������������22 Schneider Vs. Bax �����������30 Eisenstein in Conversation With Peggy Guggenheim: Art Illegal Portraits �����������������23 Sweet Bean ���������������������31 Guanajuato ����������������������19 Erika Lust ������������������������36 Addict ������������������������������29 In Jackson Heights ����������23 Tikkun ������������������������������32 Front Cover ���������������������20 Youth �������������������������������36 Radical Grace ������������������29 Infinite Happiness, The ����24 Treasure, The ������������������33 Girls Lost �������������������������21 Stinking Heaven ��������������31 Invention ��������������������������24 Very Ordinary Citizen, A ��34 Henry Gamble’s Birthday TASTE OF CINEMA Syl Johnson: Any Way the Milano 2015 ���������������������26 Party ��������������������������������21 Birth of Sake, The ������������14 Wind Blows ����������������������32 Modern Metropolis: NEW DIRECTORS I Am Michael ��������������������23 Breakfast at Ina’s �������������15 They Look Like People ����32 Mid-Century Chicago on COMPETITION Sworn Virgin ��������������������31 For Grace ������������������������20 Very Semi-Serious �����������34 OFFICIAL AIRLINE HEADQUARTERS HOTEL SILVER PARTNERS Film ����������������������������������27 Embers ����������������������������19 Women He’s Undressed ��35 Open Tables ��������������������28 Peggy Guggenheim: Art Hector ������������������������������21 Sweet Bean ���������������������31 Addict ������������������������������29 Here After, The ����������������22

Index by Theme/genre COMEDY HISTORICAL Heads, A ��������������������������27 SENIORS I Smile Back ��������������������23 PLATINUM MEDIA PARTNERS BRONZE PARTNERS Body ��������������������������������15 Adama �����������������������������13 Obra ��������������������������������28 45 Years ��������������������������12 Kakekomi �������������������������25 Clever ������������������������������17 As We Were Dreaming ����13 Paulina ����������������������������29 Breakfast at Ina’s �������������15 Light Beneath Their Danny and the Assassin, The ������������������14 Perfect Day, A ������������������29 Closer We Get, The ���������17 Feet, A �����������������������������25 Human Zoo ����������������������18 Brooklyn ��������������������������15 Time Suspended �������������33 Funny Girl ������������������������20 Motley’s Law ��������������������27 From A to B ����������������������20 Carol ��������������������������������16 Treasure, The ������������������33 Hector ������������������������������21 Mustang ���������������������������27 Funny Girl ������������������������20 Companion, The ��������������17 Very Ordinary Citizen, A ��34 Mia Madre �����������������������10 Nahid �������������������������������28 Homecoming, The �����������22 Eisenstein in Why Me? �������������������������35 Road to La Paz ����������������30 Paulina ����������������������������29 How to Win Enemies �������22 Guanajuato ����������������������19 Sweet Bean ���������������������31 Peggy Guggenheim: Art Just Jim ���������������������������25 Embrace of the Serpent ��19 RELIGION Valley of Love ������������������34 Addict ������������������������������29 gold MEDIA PARTNERS Laundryman, The ������������25 Emperor in August, The ���19 Body ��������������������������������15 Very Ordinary Citizen, A ��34 Radical Grace ������������������29 Mia Madre �����������������������10 Hitchcock/Truffaut ������������22 Club, The �������������������������17 Youth �������������������������������36 Sworn Virgin ��������������������31 Open Tables ��������������������28 Kakekomi �������������������������25 Henry Gamble’s Birthday Tag �����������������������������������32 Perfect Day, A ������������������29 Modern Metropolis: Party ��������������������������������21 SEX AND SEXUALITY Three Days in Rams �������������������������������29 Mid-Century Chicago on I Am Michael ��������������������23 Absence ��������������������������13 September �����������������������32 Schneider vs. Bax �����������30 Film ����������������������������������27 Mustang ���������������������������27 All About Them ����������������13 Time Suspended �������������33 Stinking Heaven ��������������31 Peggy Guggenheim: Art Radical Grace ������������������29 Barash �����������������������������14 XConfessions: A PARTICIPATING PARTNERS official car Surprise, The �������������������31 Addict ������������������������������29 Road to La Paz ����������������30 Big Father, Small Father Conversation With Thin Yellow Line, The ������32 Red Spider, The ���������������30 and Other Stories ������������14 Erika Lust ������������������������36 Treasure, The ������������������33 Son of Saul ����������������������30 ROMANCE Call Me Marianna ������������15 Valley of Love ������������������34 Song of Songs �����������������30 All About Them ����������������13 Carmin Tropical ���������������15 Very Semi-Serious �����������34 Time Suspended �������������33 L’Astragale �����������������������14 Carol ��������������������������������16 Walking Distance �������������35 Women He’s Undressed ��35 Barash �����������������������������14 Creative Control ��������������17 We Are Francesco �����������35 Big Father, Small Father Cuckold ���������������������������18 Youth �������������������������������36 JEWISH and Other Stories ������������14 Eisenstein in FOUNDATIONS & GOVERNMENT SUPPORT Barash �����������������������������14 Brooklyn ��������������������������15 Guanajuato ����������������������19 CRIME Funny Girl ������������������������20 Carmin Tropical ���������������15 Front Cover ���������������������20 600 Miles �������������������������12 Son of Saul ����������������������30 Carol ��������������������������������16 Girls Lost �������������������������21 Ardennes, The �����������������13 Song of Songs �����������������30 Eisenstein in Henry Gamble’s Birthday L’Astragale �����������������������14 Tikkun ������������������������������32 Guanajuato ����������������������19 Party ��������������������������������21 Cash Only ������������������������16 Front Cover ���������������������20 Homecoming, The �����������22 How to Win Enemies �������22 MUSIC How to Win Enemies �������22 I Am Michael ��������������������23 participating hotels Laundryman, The ������������25 As We Were Dreaming ����13 In the Shadow of Mustang ���������������������������27 Monster with a Thousand Funny Girl ������������������������20 Women ����������������������������24 Neon Bull �������������������������28 Heads, A ��������������������������27 Heart of a Dog �����������������21 Light Beneath Their Orphans of Eldorado �������28 Other Madnesses ������������29 Syl Johnson: Any Way the Feet, A �����������������������������25 Sparrows �������������������������31 Red Spider, The ���������������30 Wind Blows ����������������������32 My Golden Days ��������������27 Sworn Virgin ��������������������31 Schneider vs. Bax �����������30 Song of Songs �����������������30 Tikkun ������������������������������32 Sherlock Holmes �������������30 POLITICAL Surprise, The �������������������31 Tough Love ����������������������33 cultural partners Three Days in 600 Miles �������������������������12 Underground Fragrance ��34 We Are Francesco �����������35 September �����������������������32 Banana Pancakes and the Valley of Love ������������������34 Women He’s Undressed ��35 We Monsters �������������������35 Children of Sticky Rice ����14 We Are Francesco �����������35 XConfessions: A Why Me? �������������������������35 Closer We Get, The ���������17 You Can’t Save Yourself Conversation With Companion, The ��������������17 Alone �������������������������������36 Erika Lust ������������������������36 FAMILY-FRIENDLY Dégradé ���������������������������18 Adama �����������������������������13 Dheepan ��������������������������18 SCI-FI WOMEN’S ISSUES FESTIVAL PATRONS Breakfast at Ina’s �������������15 Embrace of the Serpent ��19 Creative Control ��������������17 L’Astragale �����������������������14 Danny and the Full Contact ���������������������20 Embers ����������������������������19 Barash �����������������������������14 John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation • Paul and Ellen Gignilliat Human Zoo ����������������������18 In Jackson Heights ����������23 Full Contact ���������������������20 Body ��������������������������������15 Penelope R. and Robert Steiner • Cynthia Stone Raskin • Jeanne Randall Malkin Family Foundation Funny Girl ������������������������20 In the Underground ���������24 Girls Lost �������������������������21 Brooklyn ��������������������������15 Hugo ��������������������������������23 Magallanes ����������������������26 Tag �����������������������������������32 Carol ��������������������������������16 Sweet Bean ���������������������31 Motley’s Law ��������������������27 Under Electric Clouds ������34 Dégradé ���������������������������18 Cinema/Chicago, the presenting organization of the Chicago International Film Festival, is a year-round non-profit cultural and educational 54 Very Semi-Serious �����������34 Monster With a Thousand Girls Lost �������������������������21 organization dedicated to fostering better communication between people of diverse cultures through the art of film and the moving image. 55 Cinema/Chicago Nonprofit 30 E. 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