Chicago Latino Film Festival 2025: Highlights of a Creative Force | Festivals & Awards
Chicago is home to over 40 film festivals—it feels like every year the city introduces another one, providing endless opportunities for cinematic engagement. Despite the third coast often being overlooked by big studios, the City of Broad Shoulders continues to be a leading force for the underdogs of the creative
Ebertfest 2025 Announces Full Schedule, With Guests Including Francis Ford Coppola, Susan Seidelman, Rosanna Arquette, and More | Festivals & Awards
From April 23-26, 2025, Roger Ebert’s official film festival, EbertFest, will celebrate its 26th year with a host of new festival favorites and beloved classics. With twelve features and seventeen guests gracing the Virginia Theater at the College of Media at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, there’s a lot
Cannes Film Festival’s ACID Sidebar Unveils 2025 Lineup
The Cannes Film Festival‘s ACID sidebar, run by France’s independent cinemas’ association l’ACID , unveiled its 2025 line-up on Tuesday, with the section kicking off with The Adventura (L’aventura), a French family drama from actor/director Sophie Letourneur, starring Letourneur and Philippe Katerine as the parents of small children who go
Chicago Critics Film Festival Announces Full Schedule, Special Guests | Festivals & Awards
CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL Announces Full Program Lineup, Special Guests and Recipients of 2025 Emerging Critics Grant 12th Annual Festival Opens with THE BALTIMORONS, with filmmaker Jay Duplass attending; Angus MacLachlan’s A LITTLE PRAYER to close, featuring stars David Strathairn and Jane Levy in person; centerpiece is A24’s SORRY, BABY,
This Is The Best Water Bottle For Music Festivals
That brand is TAL, which is Walmart’s number one water bottle brand. Its latest collection seems designed with festival goers in mind, and every kind of festival goer at that. Consider TAL’s lightweight designs, touch-free, flip-up straws and covered spouts to stop germs getting in, secure, leak-proof lids with double
SXSW Film Festival 2025: 42nd Street, The Spies Among Us, Make It Look Real | Festivals & Awards
While there are thrilling and sensational documentaries that feel right at home in the sun-baked and bustling streets of Austin (“We Are Storror,” “Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt,” and “The Python Hunt” are some of the ones that feel tailor-made for gleeful reception from the Austin crowd),
SXSW Film Festival 2025: Fu*cktoys, $Positions, Idiotka | Festivals & Awards
Annapurna Sriram’s feature debut “Fu*cktoys,” about a sex worker earning a living while undoing a curse, is farce, psychodrama, theological inquiry, softcore, satire, and tragedy, all at the same time. And in an era when nearly everyone has gone digital, it’s been shot on 16mm color film by Cory Fraiman-Lott
SXSW Film Festival 2025: Table of Contents | Festivals & Awards
Links to all of our coverage this year, separated by author, in order of publication: BRIAN TALLERICO It Ends The Threesome Caper Another Simple Favor The Accountant 2 Death of a Unicorn O’Dessa Ghost Boy The Secret of Me Take No Prisoners Holland Drop The Rivals of Amziah King Hallow
SXSW Film Festival 2025: Are We Good?, I’m Carl Lewis!, Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror | Festivals & Awards
When documentaries center on one person, breadth is often sacrificed for depth. Thankfully, for the most part, three docs at this year’s SXSW are structured less in a way to speedily run through the greatest hits but to create a space for their subjects to meditate and ponder at their
SXSW Film Festival 2025: Forge, Slanted, The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick | Festivals & Awards
At this year’s SXSW, I’ve found that it’s easier to spot the thematic throughlines across projects. It’s a testament to the programmers for creating a line-up where the films feel in conversation with each other. Where else do you get films like “Together” and “Friendship,”–both of which explore the physical
