CIFF 2015

Chicago 15 – WALKING DISTANCE – World Cinema

This film is also known as Distancias Cortas. First Festival Screening – October 27, 2015 @ 5:00 PM at The AMC River East Last Festival Screening – October 28, 2015 @ 5:30 PM at The AMC River East Fede lives a lonely life. Morbidly obese and isolated, his only human connection comes through visits from […]

Chicago 15 – THE MIDDLE DISTANCE – New Directors Competition

First Festival Screening – October 23, 2015 @ 6:00 PM @ The AMC River East Second Festival Screening – October 24, 2015 @ 6:00 PM @ The AMC River East Last Festival Screening – October 26, 2015 @ 2:30 PM @ The AMC River East Womanizing workaholic Neil returns to Michigan to reunite with his […]

Chicago 15 – A CHILDHOOD – Main Competition

Film is also known as Une Enfance. First Festival Screening – October 21, 2015 @ 6:00 PM at The AMC River East Second Festival Screening – October 22, 2015 @ 8:15 PM at The AMC River East Last Festival Screening – October 26, 2015 @ 3:30 PM at The AMC River East In this tender, […]

Chicago 15 – THE BIRTH OF SAKE

First Festival Screening – October 19, 2015 @ 5:45 PM at The AMC River East Second Festival Screening – October 20, 2015 @ 3:30 PM at The AMC River East Last Festical Screening – October 21, 2015 @ 12:30 PM at The AMC River East To create the Japanese drink of saké as it’s been […]

Calgary 15 – DEPROGRAMMED – Documentary Series

First Festival Screening – October 3, 2015 @ 9:30 PM at The Cineplex Eau Claire Last Festival Screening – October 4, 2015 @ 2:15 PM at The Cineplex Eau Claire In the early 1970s, a fear raced through America like wildfire: vague and shadowy “cults” were enthralling the country’s youth. In response, many families looked […]

Calgary 15 – A CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY – Gala Series

Festival Screening – October 1, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at Globe Downstairs A group of teenagers are unable to escape the abandoned school they are exploring and must deal with an angry ghost who has possessed the virgin in the group; a couple deals with the consequences of cutting down a Christmas tree in the […]

Calgary 15 – BROOKLYN – Headliner Series

Festival Screening – September 30, 2015 @ 7:45 PM at The Globe Downstairs Last Festival Screening – October 3, 2015 @ 9:45 PM at Cineplex Eau Claire Despairingly longing for the only home she has ever known, things begin to turn around for Ellis when she meets Maurizio (Michael Zegen, ADVENTURELAND, FRANCIS HA), a handsome […]

Calgary 15 – LANDFILL HARMONIC – Gala Series

Festival Screening – September 29, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at Globe Downstairs Residing in the slums of Cateura – a community built on a landfill – the Recycled Orchestra creatively finds beautiful ways to utilize the one thing they have an abundance of: trash. Using only discarded items they find at the local dump, the […]

Calgary 15 – COP CAR – Late Show Series

Festival Screening – September 25, 2015 @ 10:15 PM at The Globe Downstairs Last Festival Screening – September 27, 2015 @ 2:30 PM at The Globe Downstairs When a pair of rebellious 10-year-old boys run away from home and stumble upon a seemingly abandoned cop car in a country field, they think their not-so-innocence joyride […]

Calgary 15 – GUANTANAMO’S CHILD – Documentary Series

Festival Screening – September 25, 2015 @ 7:30 PM at The Globe Downstairs Last Festival Screening – September 26, 2015 @ 11:30 AM at The Globe Downstairs Since he was 15-years-old, Omar Khadr was held at the infamous US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. After spending 13 years locked away, the now 28-year-old […]