Welcome to TAKE 2, our monthly feature where we highlight recent Chicago International Film Festival selections that are now playing in theaters or on streaming platforms in case you missed them at the Festival! Take a look below for the best of #ChiFilmFest to watch this month.
RETURN TO SEOUL
Director: Davy Chou
Snapshots, 58th Chicago International Film Festival
After an impulsive travel decision to visit friends, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on an unexpected journey in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new directions.
Screening Details:
Opens March 3 at the Music Box Theatre.
THE YEAR BETWEEN
Director: Davy Chou
Co-Winner, Audience Award for Best Film, 58th Chicago International Film Festival
In her sharply comic feature debut, Chicago filmmaker Alex Heller plays an acerbic college student with bipolar disorder struggling to connect with her parents and make her way in the world.
Screening Details:
Opens March 30 at the Music Box Theatre.
A LOT OF NOTHING
Director: Mo McRae
Black Perspectives, 58th Chicago International Film Festival
Fiercely committed performances drive this satirical hothouse thriller about a successful Black couple driven to take action after learning that their neighbor, a while policeman, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed youth.
Screening Details:
Now playing in select theaters and on VOD.
CLOSE
Director: Lukas Dhont
Winner: Silver Hugo Jury Award and Gold Q-Hugo, 58th Chicago International Film Festival
Following a perfect summer vacation, the intimate friendship of Leo and Remi, thirteen-year-old best friends, is tragically tested by the social pressures of the new school year.
Screening Details:
Playing at the Music Box Theater beginning February 3.
PACIFICTION
Director: Albert Sera
Snapshots, 58th Chicago International Film Festival
De Roller, France’s top man in post-colonial Tahiti, grows paranoid as rumors of military tests begin circulating throughout the island in this mesmerizing, elliptical vision of declining colonial enterprise and imperialist corruption.
Screening Details:
Playing at the Gene Siskel Film Center beginning February 17.
THE BLUE CAFTAN
Director: Maryam Touzani
Winner: Silver Hugo for Best Director, 58th Chicago International Film Festival
After master tailor Halim reluctantly takes on a new apprentice, the two must conceal their mutual attraction in this elegant and sympathetic reflection on adoration, love, and longing.
Screening Details:
Playing at the Music Box Theatre beginning February 24.
GODLAND
Director: Hlynur Pálmason
Winner: Gold Hugo for Best Film, 58th Chicago International Film Festival
Journeying to Iceland to establish a parish in a remote part of the Danish colony, a priest is confronted by an unforgiving landscape and wary locals, who refuse to bend to his will.
Screening Details:
Playing at the Gene Siskel Film Center starting February 24.
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