Chicago International Film Festival

Chicago International Film Festival
Location212 W Van Buren St., Suite 400, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Founded1964
Most recent60th Chicago International Film Festival
Hosted byCinema/Chicago
LanguageInternational
Websitehttp://www.chicagofilmfestival.com

The Chicago International Film Festival is an annual film festival 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, Pola Negri, and Mae Murray, set as repeated frames in a strip of film.[1]

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 neighborhood of Chicago, although it has dropped that venue during the most recent festival as of 2023 (59th), instead using the AMC Newcity 14.

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, 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.[2]

  • 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
  • Gold Hugo
  • Silver Hugo
  • Roger Ebert Award
  • International Documentary Competition
    • Gold Hugo
    • Silver Hugo
  • Out-Look Competition
    • Gold Q-Hugo
    • Silver Hugo
  • City & State Competition
    • Chicago Award
  • Live Action Short Film Competition
    • Gold Hugo
    • Silver Hugo
  • Documentary Short Film Competition
    • Gold Hugo
    • Silver Hugo
  • Animated Short Film Competition
    • Gold Hugo
    • Silver Hugo

    Gold Hugo

    Year Winning film Director(s) Country Ref.
    1965 The Lollipop Cover Everett Chambers  United States [3]
    1966 Bushido (Bushidō zankoku monogatari) Tadashi Imai  Japan [4]
    1967 Here's Your Life (Här har du ditt liv) Jan Troell  Sweden [5]
    1968 Innocence Unprotected (Nevinost bez zastite) Dušan Makavejev  Yugoslavia [6]
    1969 Eeny Meeny Miny Moe (Ole dole doff) Jan Troell  Sweden [7]
    1970 The Green Wall (La muralla verde) Armando Robles Godoy  Peru [6]
    1971 Mon oncle Antoine Claude Jutra  Canada [6]
    1972 Bleak Moments Mike Leigh  United Kingdom [6]
    1973 Mirage (Espejismo) Armando Robles Godoy  Peru [8]
    Morgiana Juraj Herz  Czechoslovakia [9]
    1974 Pirosmani Georgy Shengalaya  Soviet Union [6]
    1975 Land of Promise (Ziemia obiecana) Andrzej Wajda  Poland [6]
    1976 Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit) Wim Wenders  West Germany [6]
    1977 The Huntsmen (Oi kynigoi) Theo Angelopoulos  Greece [10]
    1978 To an Unknown God (A un dios desconocido) Jaime Chávarri  Spain [11]
    1979 Angi Vera Pál Gábor  Hungary [6]
    1980 Camera Buff (Amator) Krzysztof Kieślowski  Poland [6]
    1981 The German Sisters (Die bleierne Zeit) Margarethe von Trotta  West Germany [6]
    1982 Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean Robert Altman  United States [6]
    1983 The South (El Sur) Victor Erice  Spain
     France    		 [6]
    1984 Khandhar (The Ruins) Mrinal Sen  India [6]
    1985 The Official Story (La historia oficial) Luis Puenzo  Argentina [12]
    1986 Welcome in Vienna (Wohin und zurück) Axel Corti  Austria
     West Germany
      Switzerland    		 [13]
    1987 Whooping Cough (Szamárköhögés) Péter Gárdos [hu]  Hungary [6]
    1988 Little Vera (Malenkaya Vera) Vasili Pichul  Soviet Union [14]
    1989 Zerograd (Gorod Zero) Karen Chakhnazarov  Soviet Union [6]
    1990 Ju Dou Zhang Yimou  China
     Japan    		 [6]
    1991 Delicatessen Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro  France [6]
    1992 Dream of Light (El sol del membrillo) Victor Erice  Spain [15]
    1993 Twinkle (Kira kira hikaru) Joji Matsuoka  Japan [16]
    1994 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls) Michael Haneke  Austria
     Germany    		 [17]
    1995 Maborosi (Maboroshi no Hikari) Hirokazu Koreeda  Japan [18]
    1996 Ridicule Patrice Leconte  France [19]
    1997 The Winter Guest Alan Rickman  United Kingdom [20]
    1998 The Hole (Dong) Tsai Ming-liang  Taiwan [21]
    1999 Sachs' Disease (La maladie de Sachs) Michel Deville  France [22]
    2000 Amores perros Alejandro González Iñárritu  Mexico [23]
    2001 Fat Girl (À ma soeur!) Catherine Breillat  France [24]
    2002 Madame Satã Karim Aïnouz  Brazil [25]
    2003 Crimson Gold (Talaye Sorkh) Jafar Panahi  Iran [26]
    2004 Kontroll Nimród Antal  Hungary [27]
    2005 My Nikifor (Mój Nikifor) Krzysztof Krauze  Poland [28]
    2006 Fireworks Wednesday (Chaharshanbe Suri) Asghar Farhadi  Iran [29]
    2007 Silent Light (Stellet Lijcht) Carlos Reygadas  Mexico [30]
    2008 Hunger Steve McQueen  Ireland [31]
    2009 Mississippi Damned Tina Mabry  United States [32]
    2010 How I Ended This Summer (Kak ya provyol etim letom) Alexei Popogrebski  Russia [33]
    2011 Le Havre Aki Kaurismäki  Finland [34]
    2012 Holy Motors Leos Carax  France
    2013 My Sweet Pepper Land Huner Saleem  Iraq
    2014 The President Mohsen Makhmalbaf  Georgia
     France
     United Kingdom
     Germany    		 [35]
    2015 A Childhood Philippe Claudel  France [36]
    2016 Sieranevada Cristi Puiu  Romania [37]
    2017 A Sort of Family Diego Lerman  Argentina [38]
    2018 Happy as Lazzaro Alice Rohrwacher  Italy
      Switzerland
     Germany
     France    		 [39]
    2019 Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma  France [40]
    2020 Sweat Magnus von Horn  Sweden [2]
    2021 Memoria Apichatpong Weerasethakul  Thailand
     Colombia
     Germany
     France
     Mexico
     China
    2022 Godland Hlynur Pálmason  Iceland
     Denmark
     France
     Sweden    		 [41]
    2023 Explanation for Everything Gábor Reisz  Hungary
     Slovakia    		 [42]
    2024 Vermiglio Maura Delpero  Italy
     France
     Belgium    		 [43]

    Silver Hugo

    Jury Award

    Best Director

    Best Actor

    Best Actress

    Main article: Silver Hugo Award for Best Actress

    Best Performance

    Best Screenplay

    Best Editing

    • 2024 – Telmo Churro and Pedro Filipe Marques (Portugal) for Grand Tour

    Best Cinematography

    Best Art Direction

    Best New Director

    Special Mention

    Lifetime Achievement Awards

    Winners of the festival's Lifetime Achievement Award include Steven Spielberg, Helen Hunt, Dustin Hoffman, Martin Landau, Shirley MacLaine, Lord Richard Attenborough, François Truffaut, Jodie Foster, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Williams, Manoel de Oliveira, and Clint Eastwood.[citation needed]

    Career Achievement Awards

    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. 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 for the various categories, which include Gold and Silver Hugos, are listed on the film festival website.[47][48]

    See also

    References

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