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Our Member’s Pre-Sale for first access to Festival tickets is now live!

Member’s get their first choice of tickets to the incredible slate of films from this year’s Festival. From our prestigious International Competition to our vast selection of documentaries to the high-profile awards contenders in our Gala and Special Presentations sections.

Membership also includes discounts on Festival tickets as well as year-round benefits including access to free advanced screenings throughout the year. Check out our Membership page to see all the details, and become a member now to get access to these benefits for this year’s Festival![…]

We’re thrilled to announce the addition of James Mangold’s Ford v Ferrari to the Festival’s Special Presentations program and Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman as a Gala Presentation! Find full details below on these exciting screenings. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, September 27 at 10:00am but become a member now to get first access during our Members’ Pre-Sale starting Monday, September 23 at 10:00am!

New Additions

Ford v Ferrari
Dir. James Mangold
Country: United States
Program: Special Presentations

Academy Award®-winners Matt Damon and Christian Bale star in Ford v Ferrari, based on the remarkable true story of the visionary American car designer Carroll Shelby (Damon) and the fearless British-born driver Ken Miles (Bale), who together battled corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.[…]

We’re thrilled to announce Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn will open the 55th Chicago International Film Festival!

Edward Norton‘s star-studded adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s ground-breaking novel features a stellar ensemble cast that also includes Bruce Willis, Leslie Mann, Fisher Stevens, Alec Baldwin, and Willem Dafoe, among many more. Entertainment Weekly‘s review of the film called it “a meticulously, lovingly made mood piece, full of empathy for the ones who can’t speak – at least not always the way they want to – for themselves.”[…]

Here are the films chosen for the International, New Directors, and Documentary competitions for this year’s Chicago International Film Festival! Head to Screen Daily for the exclusive. The films in our competition programs compete for the Festival’s jury awards including the Gold Hugo for Best Film.

Many films will be making their North American and US premieres at the Festival. Several films being screened will represent their country at the Oscars as submissions for the Best International Feature Film including Corpus Christi (Poland), Instinct (The Netherlands), Our Mothers (Belgium), and Spider (Chile).[…]

This Friday the 13th we’re thrilled to announce the After Dark program at the 55th Chicago International Film Festival! From blood-splattering gore to suspenseful sci-fi to the outrageously wild, weird and wicked, this lineup of boundary-pushing horror and fringe films from around the world will blow your mind and keep you up late. See the full lineup announcement in the AV Club.

Prepare to squirm with anxiety when attending this year’s haunting After Dark program. This year’s selection is lead by the highly anticipated Zombieland: Double Tap, reuniting the infamous band of zombie apocalypse survivors 10 years later.[…]