Film buffs and the culturally curious, take note: the 44th annual Chicago International Film Festival is coming October 16-19. The film festival is one of Chicago’s premier events and a showcase for artistic talent from around the globe.
The film festival offers a once-a-year chance to see films that would otherwise never flash on a multiplex screen. The festival, as always, offers a diverse collection of documentaries, feature films and shorts, a mix of the experimental and conventional, retrospectives and new releases. In debunking the notion that the films focus solely on the obscure or the “challenging”, this year’s festival includes Japanese anime, a South Korean western, an Italian-made modern mafia tale and a Swedish coming-of-age vampire story.
Surprisingly to some, the festival also includes a number of American made studio and independent films. Ed Norton and Jon Voight star in the pre-release screening of Pride and Glory. Darren Aronofsky presents The Wrestler, and even someone as unlikely as Jada Pinkett-Smith makes her directorial debut with the independent film The Human Contract. And this just scratches the surface.
If you enjoy movies to any degree, there is a film waiting for you to find it.
The film festival offers a once-a-year chance to see films that would otherwise never flash on a multiplex screen. The festival, as always, offers a diverse collection of documentaries, feature films and shorts, a mix of the experimental and conventional, retrospectives and new releases. In debunking the notion that the films focus solely on the obscure or the “challenging”, this year’s festival includes Japanese anime, a South Korean western, an Italian-made modern mafia tale and a Swedish coming-of-age vampire story.
Surprisingly to some, the festival also includes a number of American made studio and independent films. Ed Norton and Jon Voight star in the pre-release screening of Pride and Glory. Darren Aronofsky presents The Wrestler, and even someone as unlikely as Jada Pinkett-Smith makes her directorial debut with the independent film The Human Contract. And this just scratches the surface.
If you enjoy movies to any degree, there is a film waiting for you to find it.
Fear no subtitles, and enjoy.
