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The Chicago International Film Festival is very excited to welcome the director of Diane, Kent Jones. Mary Kay Place (The Big Chill, Big Love) delivers a stunning career-best performance as Diane, a woman weighed down by the simmering guilt of a past transgression. Now, after years of regret, Diane spends her days helping others and trying to save her drug-addled son. Variety called the film “a powerful meditation on guilt and loneliness.”

Kent Jones attending Chicago International Film Festival

Critic-turned-filmmaker Kent Jones won the best narrative feature and best American narrative screenplay at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival for Diane. […]

All screenings of AS I LAY DYING have been cancelled during the Chicago International Film Festival.

Refunds will be available from your point of purchase.

Oscar®-winning, Chicago-born director William Friedkin will be attending the Chicago International Film Festival to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition is the North American premiere of Friedkin Uncut, the illuminating documentary showing the director’s unwavering commitment to rawness and realism across his career, from The French Connection (1972) to Killer Joe (2011).

“A startling aperture onto the bright, witty, original mind of a man who isn’t afraid to make unconventional leaps” –The Hollywood Reporter

Get tickets for Friedkin Uncut and our Tribute to William Friedkin here![…]

The Chicago International Film Festival is very excited to welcome the editor of They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, Aaron Wickenden. The documentary that chronicles the last 15 years of Orson Welles life. The film stars Peter Bogdanovich, Steve Ecclesine, and Oja Kodar, to name a few.  The documentary is also being screened in conjunction with Welles’s last film ever produced, The Other Side Of The Wind.

They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead

Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom) tells the provocative story of legendary director Orson Welles during the final 15 years of his life when he struggled to make a Hollywood comeback with one last radical gamble.[…]

The director of Entrepreneur  is scheduled to attend the Chicago International Film Festival for both screenings of the documentary. Virpi Suutari is from Finland and has founded her career in the documentary industry. We are very excited to welcome her and even more excited to screen her great film!

Entrepreneur 

Troubled father Jani journeys across the countryside, running a small street fair and selling meat from a food truck. Helsinki business partners Maija and Reetta are about to launch a new oat-based meat substitute that could change the world.[…]