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Festivals/Programs: Chicago Intl Film Festival
September 17, 2026
Saints
Lali, a woman adrift, reluctantly returns to Barcelona to care for her estranged, dying mother. When she discovers a penchant for petty theft as a means of lashing out, she encounters Rosario, the magnetic leader of a ring of thieves who steal and sell religious artifacts. Lali finds not only thr...
September 17, 2026
Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building
It’s the early 1990s in Mexico City, and Bruno is turning 11. Amid the exuberant celebrations, the sudden revelation that Bruno’s father has HIV throws the family into limbo. The boy's blossoming feelings for his best friend Vladimir and the confusion around his father’s diagnosis collide with th...
September 17, 2026
Rose
Early 17th century, rural Germany: a mysterious soldier, soft-spoken and marred by a battle scar across his face, arrives in a Protestant village. The odd stranger claims to be the heir to an abandoned farmstead, yet the document he provides to support his claim doesn’t quite convince the suspici...
September 17, 2026
The Riverbank
Izaquiel works as a disillusioned cleaner by day, and by night he explores Recife’s mangrove forests in search of secret encounters in the receding tides. There he meets the mysterious Jeremias, a handsome and magnetic fisherman, whose mysticism clashes against the fervent Evangelism that surroun...
September 17, 2026
Rehearsals for a Revolution
Over five chapters, each focusing on a relative or friend, Iranian filmmaker Pegah Ahangarani sketches her life story defined by expressions of resistance. Drawing from personal archives, home videos, footage from gripping street protests, and recorded voices, she retraces more than 40 years of I...
