The Chicago International Film Festival is an annual
film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upon ...
held every fall. Founded in 1964 by
Michael Kutza, it is the longest-running competitive film festival in North America. Its logo is a stark, black and white close up of the composite eyes of early film actresses
Theda Bara
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Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols. Her femme fatal ...
,
Pola Negri
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and
Mae Murray
Mae Murray (born Marie Adrienne Koenig; May 10, 1885 – March 23, 1965) was an American actress, dancer, film producer, and screenwriter. Murray rose to fame during the silent film era and was known as "The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips" and "Th ...
, set as repeated frames in a strip of film.
In 2010, the 46th Chicago International Film Festival presented 150 films from more than 50 countries. The Festival's program is composed of many different sections, including the International Competition, New Directors Competition, Docufest, Black Perspectives, Cinema of the Americas, and Reel Women.
Its main venue is the
AMC River East 21 Theatre in the
Streeterville
Streeterville is a neighborhood in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States, north of the Chicago River. It is bounded by the river on the south, the Magnificent Mile portion of Michigan Avenue on the west, and ...
neighborhood of Chicago.
International Connections Program
The International Connections Program was created in 2003 in order to raise awareness of the international film culture and diversity of
Chicago
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, and to make the festival more appealing to audience and staff of various ethnicities. Foreign films are screened for free throughout the city weekly from July through September.
Awards
Winners are awarded Hugo Awards in eight different competition categories.
*International Feature Film Competition
**Gold Hugo
**Silver Hugo: Jury Prize
**Silver Hugo: Best Director
**Silver Hugo: Best Actor (until 2019)
**Silver Hugo: Best Actress (until 2019)
**Silver Hugo: Best Performance (from 2020)
**Silver Hugo: Best Ensemble Performance
**Silver Hugo: Best Cinematography
**Silver Hugo: Best Screenplay
**Silver Hugo: Best Sound
**Silver Hugo: Best Art Direction
*New Directors Competition
*International Documentary Competition
*Out-Look Competition
*City & State Competition
**Chicago Award
*Live Action Short Film Competition
*Documentary Short Film Competition
*Animated Short Film Competition
Gold Hugo
Silver Hugo
Jury Award
* 2022 – ''
Close
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'', dir.
Lukas Dhont
Lukas Dhont (born 1991) () is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. He was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in 2019.
Early life
Dhont was born in Gent (in English Ghent), Belgium. His mother, Hilbe is a fashion teacher at an art ...
(Belgium)
* 2021 – ''
Drive My Car'', dir.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
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Hamaguc ...
(Japan)
* 2020 – ''
Careless Crime
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'', dir.
Shahram Mokri
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(Iran)
* 2019 – ''
Vitalina Varela
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'', dir.
Pedro Costa
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Biography
After com ...
(Portugal)
Best Director
* 2022 –
Maryam Touzani
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(Morocco) for ''
The Blue Caftan''
* 2021 –
Peter Kerekes (Slovakia) for ''
107 Mothers''
* 2020 –
Andrei Konchalovsky
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(Russia) for ''
Dear Comrades!
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Andrei Sergeyevich Mikhal ...
''
* 2019 –
Maya Da-Rin (Brazil) for ''
The Fever''
Best Actor
* 2021 –
Bouli Lanners (Belgium) for ''
Nobody Has to Know''
* 2019 –
Bartosz Bielenia
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Education
In 2016, Bielenia graduated from AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków.
Career
He made his debut in 1999 at the Aleksander Wegierko Dramatic Theat ...
(Poland) for ''
Corpus Christi''
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* 2018 – ]Jesper Christensen
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(Denmark) for ''Before the Frost
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''[
* 2017 – ]Aleksandr Yatsenko
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Selected filmography
References
External links
* ...
(Russia) for ''Arrhythmia
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* 2016 – ]Adrian Titieni
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Selected filmography
References
External links
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1963 births
Living people
Romanian male film actors
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(Romania) for ''Graduation
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* 2015 – ]Alexi Mathieu Alexi is a given name that is a variant or nickname of Alexander or Alexandra. Notable people with the name include:
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* Alexi Laiho (1979–2020), full name Markku Uula Aleksi Laiho, Finnish singer, composer, and guitarist of the death metal ...
and Jules Gauzelin
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*Jules Abadie (1876–19 ...
(France) for ''A Childhood
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Plot
Jimmy is 13 years old and lives in a small dilapidated town in eastern France. At a young age, he has to stand on his own feet and ...
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* 2014 – ]Anton Yelchin
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(USA) for ''Rudderless
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* 2013 – Robert Wieckiewicz (Poland) for '' Walesa: Man of Hope''
* 2012 – ]Denis Lavant
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(France) for ''Holy Motors
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* 2011 – Maged El Kedwany
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(Egypt) for ''678
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* 2010 – Youssouf Djaoro
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He made his debut by appearing in the film ''Daresalam'' in 2000 in which he played the character of Tom. It was directed by the critically acclaimed Issa Serge Coelo and was the firs ...
(Chad) for ''A Screaming Man
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''
* 2009 – Filippo Timi
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Biography
Winner of ‘best actor under 30’ at the 2004 UBU Awards, the maximum prize for Italian theatre, onstage he has been Orpheus, Danton, Perceval, Cupid, H ...
(Italy) for ''Vincere
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''
* 2008 – Michael Fassbender
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(Ireland) for ''Hunger
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''
* 2007 – Sam Riley
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(United Kingdom) for ''Control
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''
* 2006 – Jürgen Vogel
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(Germany) for ''The Free Will
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''
* 1989 – Jörg Gudzuhn Jörg or Joerg () is a German name, equivalent to George (given name), George in English.
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* Jörg Frischmann, German Paralympian athlete
* Jörg Haider, Austrian politician
* :de:Jörg Andrees Elten, Jör ...
(GDR) for '' Fallada, letztes Kapitel''
* 1987 – Avtandil Makharadze
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He was born in Batumi. Active since the 1970s. Avtandil Makharadze started his acting career as a student at Shota Ru ...
(Georgia) for ''Monanieba
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''
* 1971 – Ezzatollah Entezami
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Career
Ezzatolah Entezami started his career on stage in 1941 and graduated from theatre and cinema school in Hanover, Germany in ...
(Iran) for '' The Cow''
Best Actress
* 2021 – Michelle Fairley
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(Ireland) for '' Nobody Has to Know''
* 2019 – Debbie Honeywood (UK) for ''Sorry We Missed You
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''[
* 2018 – ]Zhao Tao
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(China) for ''Ash Is Purest White
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''[
* 2017 – ]Jowita Budnik
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Budnik was born in Warsaw and studied at the University of Warsaw.
She made her film debut in 1985 at the age of 11 in Radosław Piwowarski's ''Kochankowie mojej m ...
(Poland) and Eliane Umuhire (Rwanda) for ''Birds Are Singing in Kigali''[
* 2016 – ]Rebecca Hall
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(UK) for ''Christine
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People
* Christine (name), a female given name
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* ''Christine'' (1983 film), based on King's novel of the same name
* ''Christine'' (1987 fil ...
''[
* 2015 – ]Lizzie Brocheré
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(France) for ''Full Contact
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The first part of the movie takes place in Bangkok, Thailand. Gou Fei's (Chow Yun-fat) frie ...
''[
* 2014 – ]Geraldine Chaplin
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(United States) for ''Sand Dollars
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* 2013 – ]Nadeshda Brennicke
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Biography
Brennicke is the adoptive daughter of TV and voice-over actor Michael Brennicke and h ...
(Germany) for '
* 2012 – Ulla Skoog
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Skoog studied at the Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting from 1979 until 1981, when she started ...
(Sweden) for '' The Last Sentence''
* 2011 – Olivia Colman
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(UK) for ''Tyrannosaur
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''
* 2010 – Liana Liberato
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(USA) for ''Trust
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''
* 2009 – Giovanna Mezzogiorno (Italy) for ''Vincere
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''
* 2008 – Preity Zinta
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(India) for '' Heaven on Earth''
* 2007 – Yu Nan
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Career
Yu Nan started acting at the age of 4, playing role of a little girl with a handkerchief t ...
(China) for ''Tuya's Marriage
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Storyline
The film depicts life in Inner Mongolia, in a region where desertification is making life hard for sheep herders. It tells the story of Tuya and her husband, who agr ...
''
* 2006 – Viktoriya Isakova
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, Darya Moroz
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, Anna Ukolova (Russia) for ''The Spot
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* 2005 – Inka Friedrich
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Having studied at the Berlin University of the Arts, Friedrich won the Silver Hugo Award for Best Actress for her starring role in the 2005 film ''Summer in Berl ...
, Nadja Uhl
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(Germany) for '' Summer in Berlin''
* 2003 – Ludivine Sagnier
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(France) for ''Little Lili
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Best Performance
* 2022 – Vicky Krieps
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(Luxembourg) for ''Corsage
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* 2020 – Yakusho Koji (Japan) for ''Under the Open Sky
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Mikami, a middle-aged former yakuza who has spent most of his life in prison, is released after serving 13 years f ...
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Best Cinematography
* 2022 – Maria von Hausswolff (Iceland) for '' Godland''
* 2021 – Kasper Tuxen Kasper may refer to:
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(Denmark) for '' The Worst Person in the World''
* 2020 – Tobie Marier Robitaille (Canada) for ''Night of the Kings
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''
* 2019 – Vladimír Smutný
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...
(Czech Republic) for '' The Painted Bird''
Best Screenplay
* 2022 – Alice Diop
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Early life and education
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, Amrita David, and Marie NDiaye
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(France) for '' Saint Omer''
* 2021 – Alexandre Koberidze
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Career
He directed several s ...
(Georgia) for ''What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
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* 2020 – Christos Nikou
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and Stavros Raptis (Greece) for ''Apples
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* 2019 – Pema Tseden
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(China) for ''Balloon
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Best Art Direction
* 2022 – Marcela Gómez and Daniel Rincon (Colombia) for ''The Kings of the World''
* 2021 – Sergey Fevralev Sergey may refer to:
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(Russia) for ''Captain Volkonogov Escaped
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* 2020 – Jagna Dobesz (Poland) for ''Sweat
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Lifetime Achievement Awards
Winners of the festival's ''Lifetime Achievement Award'' include Steven Spielberg
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, Helen Hunt
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Hunt rose to fame portraying Jam ...
, Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker. As one of the key actors in the formation of New Hollywood, Hoffman is known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters. He is th ...
, Martin Landau
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, Shirley MacLaine
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, Lord Richard Attenborough
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, François Truffaut
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, Jodie Foster
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, Sigourney Weaver
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, Robin Williams
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, Manoel de Oliveira
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, and Clint Eastwood
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.
Career Achievement Awards
*Bruce Dern
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(2013)
*Terrence Howard
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(2005)
*Susan Sarandon
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(2005)
*Shirley MacLaine
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(2005)
*Robert Zemeckis
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(2004)
*Irma P. Hall
Irma Dolores Player Hall (born June 3, 1935) is an American actress who has appeared in films and television shows since the early 1970s. Hall often played matriarchal figures in films including '' A Family Thing'', '' The Ladykillers'' and ''Soul ...
, Robert Townsend and Harry J. Lennix
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(2004)
*Annette Bening
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(2004)
*Robin Williams
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(2004)
*Nicolas Cage
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(2003)
Television awards
The Television Awards started with the idea of honoring television commercials in a special event of the film festival, but over time evolved and grew into a bigger event, comprising not only commercials but also television productions, series, and online television
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. In 2003 a separate ceremony was launched for the TV awards, and in 2017, the event became a separate event, named the Chicago International Television Festival. Winners and runners-up
A prize is an award to be given to a person or a group of people (such as sporting teams and organizations) to recognize and reward their actions and achievements. for the various categories, which include Gold and Silver Hugos, are listed on the film festival website.
See also
* Chicago International Children's Film Festival
In 1983, Facets Multi-Media founded the Chicago International Children's Film Festival (CICFF), the first competitive festival of films for children in the U.S. The impetus for the Festival came from a need to introduce new, culturally diverse fil ...
* Chicago International Documentary Film Festival The Chicago International Documentary Film Festival (CIDF) is a festival of documentary films in the United States. The film event was established in 2003 and is dedicated to the celebration and cultivation of the documentary film
A documentary ...
* Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival
*Chicago Underground Film Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF), founded in 1993, is the longest running underground film festival in the world. It's an internationally recognized program providing a venue for documentary, experimental and avant-garde narrative film and ...
* List of film festivals
This is a list of existing major film festivals, sorted by continent.
The world's oldest film festival is the Mostra internazionale d'arte cinematografica (''Venice Film Festival''), while the most prestigious film festivals in the world, known ...
References
External links
Chicago International Film Festival
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Film festivals in Chicago
Lifetime achievement awards
Film festivals established in 1964