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Films I may watch at this year's 52nd Chicago International Film Festival.
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- DirectorAnne Zohra BerrachedStarsJulia JentschBjarne MädelJohanna GastdorfAt work, Astrid is admired by her fans as a famous cabaret artist and privately a second child is on road to complete her family happiness.8/10
October 14 @ 8:30 - DirectorAntonio CamposStarsRebecca HallMichael C. HallTracy LettsThe story of Christine Chubbuck, a 1970s TV reporter struggling with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career.10/10 (favorite ofCompetition)
October 15 @ 5:45 - DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsPyotr SkvortsovViktoriya IsakovaYuliya AugContemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.10/10
October 15 @ 8:30 - DirectorYan EnglandStarsAntoine Olivier PilonSophie NélisseLou-Pascal TremblayTim, a shy 16 years old athlete, is both brilliant and talented. But the pressure he undergoes pushes him to the edge, where human limits reach the point of no return.7/10
October 20 @ 5:45 - DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsIsabelle HuppertLaurent LafitteAnne ConsignyA successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.9/10
October 20 @ 8:30 - DirectorAdrián SabaStarsGustavo BorjasElisa TenaudHerbert CorimanyaSebastián has a talent for picking locks, and that's the only reason his supposed friends hang out with him. The gang breaks into industrial buildings and dockside warehouses in and around Lima. It's a grim life as a petty crook which Sebastián endures by escaping into an own personal dream-world. One day Emilia appears in his inner realm. It becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish whether their strong feelings for each other are real or part of his fantasy world. Emilia's two brothers, the leaders of a gang of thieves, will never accept their love. When Sebastián gets into a confrontation with one of them, he lashes out. There's only one way out of this nightmare, but before his planned escape with Emilia, Sebastián risks everything in one last assault.6/10
October 24 @ 12:45 - DirectorJuho KuosmanenStarsJarkko LahtiOona AirolaEero MilonoffThe true story of Olli Mäki, the famous Finnish boxer who had a shot at the 1962 World Featherweight title.10/10
October 24 @ 3:15 - DirectorParviz ShahbaziStarsSaed SoheiliSaghar GhanaatAzarakhsh FarahaniA young girl informs her father she's been kidnapped and asks him to bring the ransom money. Panicked, her father and brothers go to Tehran to look for her. They are unaware, however, that the girl has in fact eloped with her boyfriend and now spends her time in the company of a band of street musicians. Following the arrest of the band leader and full of the love for her boyfriend, the young girl descends an uncertain path...9/10
October 25 @ 6:00 - DirectorPark Chan-wookStarsKim Min-heeHa Jung-wooCho Jin-woongA woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.10/10 (favorite of the festival)
October 25 @ 8:30 - DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsAmy AdamsJeremy RennerForest WhitakerA linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world.October 27 @ 7:00
- DirectorJan P. MatuszynskiStarsAndrzej SewerynDawid OgrodnikAleksandra KoniecznaThe story of a well-known artistic family: legendary painter Zdzislaw Beksinski, his wife Zofia and their son Tomasz, a highly-praised music critic and translator. Their lives were far from being usual.Possibly
October 17 @ 5:45 - DirectorRoberto AndòStarsToni ServilloDaniel AuteuilPierfrancesco FavinoMinisters from the G8 countries meet in Germany to decide on a secret plan affecting many countries. IMF director Roché has invited a monk for his confession. Roché's later found dead. Is it murder or suicide? Did he reveal the plan?Possibly
October 17 @ 6:00 - DirectorIngrid JungermannStarsAnnette O'TooleSheila VandDeborah RushCommitment phobic Morgan and her ex-girlfriend Jean, locally famous true crime podcasters, suspect Morgan's new love interest is a murderer.Possibly
October 18 @ 8:45 - DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsPeter KurthJakob DiehlYuliya KhlyninaFollows three people whose paths cross during a terrible time of war: Olga, a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French Resistance; Jules, a French collaborator; and Helmut, a high-ranking German SS officer.Possibly
October 19 @ 3:00 - DirectorLuis SampieriStarsGloria BerbucJulia CarchetiMaría Laura CarhuavilcaThe Amado's decide to spend a weekend at the family's country home, but the plan is disrupted when Dominga, the Amado's cleaning woman, gives birth to a baby in the middle of a family gathering.Possibly
October 19 @ 6:00 - DirectorCarlos LechugaStarsLola AmoresEduardo MartinezCesar DomínguezThe story of an improbable friendship between a revolutionary country girl and a noncompliant gay writer she has to watch over for three consecutive days.Possibly
October 19 @ 8:00 - DirectorTomasz WasilewskiStarsJulia KijowskaMagdalena CieleckaDorota KolakPoland, 1990. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it's time to change their lives, and fulfill their desires.Possibly
October 20 @ 12:00 - DirectorMijke de JongStarsNora El KoussourIlias AddabHassan AkkouchA teenage Muslim growing up in Amsterdam becomes radicalised.Possibly
October 20 @ 2:00 - DirectorRupert JonesStarsToby JonesAnne ReidSinead MatthewsA psychological thriller about the destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother.Possibly
October 21 @ 8:45 - DirectorBaltasar KormákurStarsBaltasar KormákurHera HilmarGísli Örn GarðarssonA troubled father working as a doctor decides to go to extreme measures to save his daughter from the devastating influence of her drug-dealer boyfriend.Possibly
October 22 @ 7:15 - DirectorDominique AbelFiona GordonStarsEmmanuelle RivaPierre RichardEmmy Boissard PaumelleFiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.Possibly
October 24 @ 8:30