On our final dispatch out of the 61st Chicago International Film Festival, we talked about:

• Anything that Moves (dir. Alex Philips)
• Before the Call (dir. James Choi, World Premiere)
• Only Heaven Knows  (dir. Nurzhamal Karamoldoeva, World Premiere)
• New Group (dir. Yûta Shimotsu)
• Young Mothers (dir. Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardennes)
• Palestine 36 (dir. Annemarie Jacir – U.S. Premiere)
• Is This Thing On? (dir. Bradley Cooper)

• Blue Violet (dir. Josie Charles)
• Coyotes (dir. Said Zagha)
• Dummy! (dir. Francesca Pazniokas)
• Earworm (dir. Patrik Eklund)
• Pinpoint (dir. Michael Merlino)
• Hotel Acropole (dir. Sarah Lasry)

• Tsuna the empty can – Meatball and Spaghetti (dir. Iku Ogawa)
• Pow! (dir. Joey Clift)
• On the Mat Outside my Door (dir. Antje Heyn)
• Yore Gramps and the Whale (dir. Mariana Elisabetsky)
• Snow Bear (dir. Aaron Blaise)
• Are We There Yet? (dir. Sven Kristlbauer, Raul Bison, Marion Zeder)
• Lily (dir. Kate Siegel)

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