Chicago International Film Festival

Chicago International Film Festival
Location212 W Van Buren St., Suite 400, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Founded1964
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.

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.

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

    Silver Hugo

    Jury Award

    Best Director

    Best Actor

    Best Actress

    Best Performance

    Best Cinematography

    Best Screenplay

    Best Art Direction

    • 2022 – Marcela Gómez and Daniel Rincon (Colombia) for The Kings of the World
    • 2021 – Sergey Fevralev (Russia) for Captain Volkonogov Escaped
    • 2020 – Jagna Dobesz (Poland) for Sweat

    Best New Director

    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.

    See also


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