Cate Le Bon, Black Midi, Ibeyi, and Chai are among the acts from abroad at the festival this year.
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Lust for Youth bring their pretty darkwave to town this weekend
On Saturday these synth-loving Copenhagen postpunks stop at the Empty Bottle on their North American tour.
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Hollywood Fail
The eminently creepy Dutch abduction thriller “The Vanishing” kicks off “Hollywood Fail,” the Logan Square International Film Series’s monthlong program of “amazing foreign films remade into American films.”
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Julie Taymor’s “Tempest”
Helen Mirren conjures Julie Taymor’s “Tempest” Monday at the Chicago International Film Festival.
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Obbah: A Girl’s Elder Brother
A love triangle plays out against a real-world agriculture protest in Kim Jong-Guk’s partially scripted “Obbah: A Girl’s Elder Brother,” screening tonight at the School of the Art Institute.
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How to haul chickens to market
To market, to market with two dozen chickens. How do you do that?
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20th International Tournee of Animation
There are many pleasant surprises in this collection of 18 animated shorts from ten countries, but perhaps the biggest one is that the range of influences informing animation seems to be getting wider. While the terminal cuteness of Disney and the gallows humor of Eastern Europe have tended to dominate in the past, and are […]