Feature Films In Competition

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US PREMIERE  Two Finnish filmmakers travel the globe collecting complaints...

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CHICAGO PREMIERE  The story of two longtime friends grabbing onto one last chance to make it big as life and responsibility loom...

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CHICAGO PREMIERE Classical music is an elitist pursuit, right? Not in Venezuela. Thanks to the National Network of Youth and Children's Orchestras of Venezuela...

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CHICAGO PREMIERE A jazzy, improvisational film about love and music. Guy’s a trumpet player who makes the wrong romantic choices when Madeline’s the one he should be with...

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US PREMIERE The most perfectly preserved Stradivarius violin is in a glass case and can’t be played...

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE One of the best concert films to hit screens in recent years, Burning captures Scottish post-rock band Mogwai in a perfect union of sound and image...

CHICAGO PREMIERE Two bluegrass musicians from Virginia, mandolinist Tara Linhardt and fiddler Danny Knicely, travel to the mountains of Nepal in an exploration of the amazing connections that exist between the music and folk culture of the two regions.

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CHICAGO PREMIERE  From the womb to the grave, music affects us—we all know that, but do we understand exactly how?

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WORLD PREMIERE  The New York Piano Competition, established by renowned musicians and mentors Melvin Stecher and Norman Horowitz, provides a backdrop for this documentary...

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NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE  After brilliant but emotionally damaged concert pianist Ainhoa (Spanish TV star Anne Igartiburu) is injured in an accident, she faces a future in which she might never play again...

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WORLD PREMIERE  Musical worlds collide when Li'l Wally, the 69-year-old World's Polka King, teams up with polka punk band, The Polkaholics, for a concert in a Chicago bar...

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US PREMIERE  As early as the 1950s, John jacques Perrey knew to let the electronic music go out of the experimental scene, while pushing it towards pop music...

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Riot Acts examines the lives and careers of transgendered and gender-variant musicians, who share their stories...

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CHICAGO PREMIERE This documentary chronicles the coming together of the surviving vocal stars and studio musicians of Jamaica’s Rocksteady era to record In album of their greatest 1960s hits, to perform at a reunion concert, and to tell their story...
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CHICAGO PREMIERE  Mocking hipsters, mumblecore, and Hollywood fakery in a murder-mystery-comedy about a serial killer and the amateur filmmakers who are attempting to make the first “docu-thriller” about his exploits...

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CHICAGO PREMIERE  Provocative, political, and often in poor taste, Portland's unclassifiable Sissyboy drag troupe raised eyebrows and hackles..

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CHICAGO PREMIERE   Chinese modernization and cultural encroachment have separated Tibetans from the music and dance that connected them to a way life that is itself rapidly disappearing...

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NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE  Take a peek into the mind of Brazilian musician Tom Zé, one of the most innovative avant-garde pop composers of the past century...

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CHICAGO PREMIERE  Trimpin creates sound sculptures, kinetic experiments, and unique artistic creations using many different media and reaching across disciplinary boundaries...

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US PREMIERE  Love happens. Love takes place. Strange love. True love. Crazy love. Desperate love. Everywhere. Every moment...

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CHICAGO PREMIERE  The Real Digital Revolution : West Coast Hip-Hop Documentary takes viewers behind the scenes of making music in the New Millennium...

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CHICAGO PREMIERE  Thirty years before grunge music put Seattle on the map, late 1960’s groups like Black on White Affair, The Soul Swingers, and Cold, Bold & Together filled airwaves and packed clubs every night of the week. ..

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CHICAGO PREMIERE  Exploring rural American hip-hop, Where You From documents three young white men as they seek new lives through their music despite their struggles with drug addiction, broken families, and isolation...