Chicago Int'l Film Festival @chifilmfest
North America’s longest running competitive international film festival. 60th #ChiFilmFest: Oct. 16-27, 2024 linktr.ee/chifilmfest Chicago, IL Joined August 2009-
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Loved Minhal Baig’s Chicago-set coming-of-age portrait WE GROWN NOW when I saw it at TIFF. It’s grown on me even more in the months since, and now it’s out in theaters. Go see it. My review via @Screendaily screendaily.com/reviews/we-gro…
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Opens today at the @filmcenter! siskelfilmcenter.org/we-grown-now
Winner of the Best Canadian Feature at @TIFF_NET, SOLO arrives in select US theaters next month. #ComingSoon
🎬 Today's the day! It's #CineYouth Opening Night! 🎉 Check out the full schedule & claim FREE tickets while supplies last: chicagofilmfestival.com/cineyouth/sche… See you at @facetschicago as we celebrate the next generation of filmmaking voices!
Experience the chilling television broadcast that left the world stunned. LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL is now streaming. 🔥 #HalfwayToHalloween
“A beautiful, creative and heartfelt love letter to Chicago.” WE GROWN NOW — last year's Opening Night selection & Audience Choice Award winner — opens today at the AMC Newcity, River East & @filmcenter! Don't miss this touching coming-of-age story from Chicagoan @minhalbaig.
HARD MILES, a sports family drama starring @MatthewModine, hits theaters tomorrow! Catch the thrills of this "soul-stirring" story — a #ChiFilmFest selection — with your whole family. 🚴♀️
CineYouth 2024 kicks off TOMORROW at @facetschicago! Join us all weekend long for inspiring, innovative short films from emerging filmmakers, plus live Q&As, mixers, workshops, & more. Claim FREE tickets now: chicagofilmfestival.com/cineyouth/sche…
Watch the exclusive trailer for Banel & Adama, directed by Ramata-Toulaye Sy. Coming to theaters June 7 from @KinoLorber. Add to watchlist ➡️ boxd.it/BDlg
We're proud that this year's #CineYouth offers a variety of accessibility options to make the Festival open to a wider audience, thanks to our friends at @PeriscopePA. Learn more: chicagofilmfestival.com/about/accessib…
See the next generation of filmmakers at #CineYouth Festival, presented by @chifilmfest, both in-person in #Chicago at @facetschicago from 4/19-21 and virtually around the world 4/22-28! Claim your free tix now! bit.ly/CineYouth24
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See the next generation of filmmakers .@CineYouth Festival, presented by @chifilmfest, both in-person in Chicago at @facetschicago from April 19-21 and virtually around the world April 22-28! Claim your free tickets now #CineYouth #Film #FilmFestival #Illinois
See the next generation of filmmakers .@CineYouth Festival, presented by @chifilmfest, both in-person in Chicago at @facetschicago from April 19-21 and virtually around the world April 22-28! Claim your free tickets now #CineYouth #Film #FilmFestival #Illinois
"From its very first shot, @minhalbaig's masterful WE GROWN NOW grabs you. A still shot of an empty hallway (in, as we learn, the Cabrini-Green housing project in Chicago) beckons you to discover it, to let the many lives it houses drift through you." - @bmanuel, @TheAVClub
"From its very first shot, @minhalbaig's masterful WE GROWN NOW grabs you. A still shot of an empty hallway (in, as we learn, the Cabrini-Green housing project in Chicago) beckons you to discover it, to let the many lives it houses drift through you." - @bmanuel, @TheAVClub
Looking to make your film more inclusive? Join us for our Access Granted workshop, presented by @AdobeVideo, Saturday at @facetschicago to learn about some creative choices and special tools that can make your film more accessible to all audiences. chicagofilmfestival.com/event/cineyout…
Internationally acclaimed, award-winning Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa joins us in person for a screening of his ravishing, newly restored CASA DE LAVA (1994) and his enthralling musical short DAUGHTERS OF FIRE (2023) Thursday, April 25, 6:00 p.m. siskelfilmcenter.org/casa-de-lava
"Channeling his idol Yasujiro Ozu, Wim Wenders crafts a serenely minimalist ode to the miracle that is the here and now." PERFECT DAYS enters the @Criterion Collection this July. 💚
A group of Chicagoans find companionship in the Brazilian martial art of Capoeira. A portrait of an up-and-coming female wrestler. A family in Gaza details their connection to the ocean. See you this Saturday for @CineYouth's Documentary program: chicagofilmfestival.com/film/cineyouth…
📽️ @CineYouth kicks off 1 week from today! Check out the lineup & claim FREE tickets: chicagofilmfestival.com/cineyouth
📽️ @CineYouth kicks off 1 week from today! Check out the lineup & claim FREE tickets: chicagofilmfestival.com/cineyouth
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Opens today at the @filmcenter! siskelfilmcenter.org/we-grown-now
“A beautiful, creative and heartfelt love letter to Chicago.” WE GROWN NOW — last year's Opening Night selection & Audience Choice Award winner — opens today at the AMC Newcity, River East & @filmcenter! Don't miss this touching coming-of-age story from Chicagoan @minhalbaig.
🎬 Today's the day! It's #CineYouth Opening Night! 🎉 Check out the full schedule & claim FREE tickets while supplies last: chicagofilmfestival.com/cineyouth/sche… See you at @facetschicago as we celebrate the next generation of filmmaking voices!
We Grown Now comes out in theaters tomorrow. This film has taken me six years to make and it’s so incredibly rewarding to see it finally enter the world. My heart is so full.
CineYouth 2024 kicks off TOMORROW at @facetschicago! Join us all weekend long for inspiring, innovative short films from emerging filmmakers, plus live Q&As, mixers, workshops, & more. Claim FREE tickets now: chicagofilmfestival.com/cineyouth/sche…
.@LilRel4, @minhalbaig, @jurneesmollett and composer @jaywadley at a NYC special screening of #WeGrownNow ✨
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Looking to make your film more inclusive? Join us for our Access Granted workshop, presented by @AdobeVideo, Saturday at @facetschicago to learn about some creative choices and special tools that can make your film more accessible to all audiences. chicagofilmfestival.com/event/cineyout…
So, @minhalbaig @jjpirro @Participant and so many more cherished colleagues began this journey before the pandemic, and this week it takes its next step into the world. So proud to be counted among the #WeGrownNow team. avclub.com/we-grown-now-m…
See the next generation of filmmakers .@CineYouth Festival, presented by @chifilmfest, both in-person in Chicago at @facetschicago from April 19-21 and virtually around the world April 22-28! Claim your free tickets now #CineYouth #Film #FilmFestival #Illinois
65 short films From filmmakers aged 10 to 22 Over 3 days at @facetschicago See you April 19-21 for #CineYouth! Claim your free tickets now: chicagofilmfestival.com/cineyouth
#WeGrownNow starts Friday in select theaters: tickets.wegrownnow.com
The AWFJ MOVIE OF THE WEEK is @sonyclassics' #WeGrownNow, a brilliant coming-of-age drama from Chicago native @minhalbaig about best friends in the Cabrini-Green projects in the 1990s — and how tragedy and police presence changed everything. AWFJ reports: awfj.org/blog/2024/04/1…
Looking to make your film more inclusive? Join us for our Access Granted workshop, presented by @AdobeVideo, Saturday at @facetschicago to learn about some creative choices and special tools that can make your film more accessible to all audiences. chicagofilmfestival.com/event/cineyout…
Ready for CineYouth 2024? See you in just 1⃣ week at @facetschicago!
If you see only 1 Joker movie this year….
"THE PEOPLE'S JOKER, directed by @VeraDrew22, is the best superhero movie I’ve ever seen" - Richard Brody, The New Yorker Don't miss the chance to see this daring queer parody at the @musicboxtheatre plus a post-film Q&A with Drew: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-even… newyorker.com/culture/the-fr…
Tune into the @chifilmfest Instagram to catch some #CineYouth filmmaker spotlights and see behind-the-scenes glimpses of some of the shorts playing at this year's Festival: instagram.com/chifilmfest
i'll be there for the Friday and Saturday screenings Chicago! Please come. So excited to show this movie in a theater that means so much to me
"THE PEOPLE'S JOKER, directed by @VeraDrew22, is the best superhero movie I’ve ever seen" - Richard Brody, The New Yorker Don't miss the chance to see this daring queer parody at the @musicboxtheatre plus a post-film Q&A with Drew: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-even… newyorker.com/culture/the-fr…
Alice Rohrwacher’s LA CHIMERA (2023) continues at the @filmcenter and the @musicboxtheatre. See Venue websites for showtimes. "Ends up falling somewhere—spiritually and thematically—between a fairy tale and a ghost story." More info: bit.ly/CF0405041124
.@filmspotting LIVE! Bring Mom to @musicboxtheatre on Mother's Day for our screening and discussion (w/ @phillipstribune!) of ROMAN HOLIDAY. VIP tickets (screening/podcast/meet and greet): bit.ly/4aIKBfe Standard tix: (screening/podcast only): musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-even…
Join us at @ChiCulturCenter this Thursday, April 11th for a Spring Open House event from 4-8pm! • Creatives! Get a FREE headshot and portfolio review • Join a Black majorette dance workshop + a poetry open mic, tasty mocktails and more! eventbrite.com/e/dcase-presen…
65 short films From filmmakers aged 10 to 22 Over 3 days at @facetschicago See you April 19-21 for #CineYouth! Claim your free tickets now: chicagofilmfestival.com/cineyouth