The 2025 Chicago International Film Festival is around the corner. Today, it announced its full lineup for the 61st edition ...

The festival features something for everyone, from a documentary on Chicago’s Jackie Robinson West Little League to an Elizabeth Olsen afterlife comedy.

It’s lights, camera, action in Chicago as the city celebrates the 61st Chicago International Film Festival. As the ...

The world premiere of filmmaker Kevin Shaw’s “One Golden Summer,” a documentary that revisits the trials and tribulations of the Jackie Robinson West Little League, opens up this year’s Chicago ...

Now in its 61st year, the Chicago International Film Festival celebrates global cinema, rising talent, and major premieres — Artistic Director Mimi Plauché joins us with a preview.

When we speak of “we” as a society, who is being referred to? Who is being left out? That’s one of the prime questions underpinning Lucrecia Martel’s documentary Nuestra Tierra (Landmarks), which just ...

The Rocky Horror Picture Show” bombed in Chicago theaters after its 1975 release, but was reintroduced to a late-night crowd ...

After several stops in multiple cities, The Criterion Mobile Closet is joining the Chicago International Film Festival this ...

"Mercy," starring Adil Hussain and Raj Vasudev, is on a celebrated global tour, receiving widespread appreciation from the ...

Roger Ebert was the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize, Chicago is emblematic of the stark decline in film criticism.

Chicago stories have the ability to capture not only the hearts and minds of people across the city, but throughout the U.S. and, in some cases, the world. That influence shapes a slate of exciting ...