Connect with the artists and filmmakers of the Chicago International Film Festival with these livestream Q&As. Livestream Q&As will be hosted on the film’s webpage on our streaming portal. Ticket holders can access the Q&A through the virtual access link emailed with their ticket purchase. Attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions during the event.
We recommend you start streaming the film by the suggested streaming start time listed below so you can seamlessly join the virtual Q&A following your screening.
Additionally, tune in for our morning Coffee Talks where we will host filmmakers from this year’s Festival for intimate and informal conversations about their work. Each Coffee Talk takes place at 11:00am CT each morning and can be streamed on our Facebook or YouTube channels.
Tuesday, October 20
11:00am Coffee Talk: “Dreams from the Diaspora: Black Perspectives”
Filmmakers Kantarama Gahigiri (“Ethereality”), Ekwa Msangi (Farewell Amor) and Tebogo Malebogo (“Heaven Reaches Down to Earth”) discuss producing stories from varied African perspectives outside of the continent.
2:00pm: Til Kingdom Come
Livestream Q&A with director Maya Zinshtein, producer Abie Troen, and Yael Eckstein, President of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
Suggested Streaming Start Time: 12:25pm
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7:00pm: Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds
Livestream Q&A with directors Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer
Suggested Streaming Start Time: 5:10pm
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9:00pm: The Special
Livestream Q&A with director Ignacio Márquez
Suggested Streaming Start Time: 7:15pm
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Wednesday, October 21
11:00am Coffee Talk: “Spellbinding: Documenting Faith and Power”
Join directors Yoav Shamir (The Prophet and the Space Aliens), Maya ZInshtein (Til Kingdom Come), and Carmine Grimaldi (“When Two and Three”) for a conversation about their films, each addressing questions of religion and spirituality, and the power they have over people.
2:00pm: The Prophet and the Space Aliens
Livestream Q&A with director Yoav Shamir
Suggested Streaming Start Time: 12:15pm
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4:00pm: Becoming Mona
Livestream Q&A with directors Sabine Lubbe Bakker & Niels van Koevorden
Suggested Streaming Start Time: 2:05pm
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7:00pm: An Evening with Rachel Brosnahan
In-depth conversation with actress Rachel Brosnahan
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9:00pm: 40 Years a Prisoner
Livestream Q&A with director Tommy Oliver
Suggested Streaming Start Time: 7:05pm
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Thursday, October 22
11:00am Coffee Talk: “Disconnecting the Dots: Animated Storytelling”
Animators Frederic Schuld (“The Chimney Swift”), Alexandra Ramires (“Tie”), and Renee Zhan (“O Black Hole!”) discuss telling stories through animation.
2:00pm: Farewell Amor
Livestream Q&A with director Ekwa Msangi
Suggested Streaming Start Time: 12:05pm
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4:00pm: Gaza Mon Amour
Livestream Q&A with directors Tarzan & Arab Nasser
Suggested Streaming Start Time: 2:15pm
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9:00pm: Under the Open Sky
Livestream Q&A with director Nishikawa Miwa
Suggested Streaming Start Time: 6:40pm
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Friday, October 23
2:00pm: City So Real
Livestream Q&A with director Steve James, producer Zak Piper, subjects Neal Sáles-Griffin and Amara Enyia, and moderated by Natalie Moore (WBEZ)
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4:00pm: Padrenostro
Livestream Q&A with director Claudio Noce
Suggested Streaming Start Time: 1:45pm
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9:00pm: Twilight’s Kiss
Livestream Q&A with director Ray Yeung
Suggested Streaming Start Time: 7:15pm
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Saturday, October 24
11:00am Coffee Talk: “Girls on Film: Women in Cinema”
Swiss director Stefanie Klemm (Of Fish and Men), French filmmaker Suzanne Lindon (Spring Blossom), Spanish director Meritxell Colell, and Argentine filmmaker Lucia Vassallo (Transoceánicas) talk about the conception and process of their female-centered stories.
2:00pm: Artistic Achievement Award: Gianfranco Rosi
Livestream award ceremony and conversation with director Gianfranco Rosi
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4:00pm: Sweat
Livestream Q&A with director Magnus von Horn
Suggested Streaming Start Time: 2:00pm
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Past Q&As
Apples
Livestream Q&A with director Christos Nikou
And Tomorrow the Entire World
Livestream Q&A with director Julia von Heinz
Belushi
Livestream Q&A with director R.J. Cutler, Judy Belushi, and Animal House producer Ivan Reitman
Careless Crime
Livestream Q&A with director Shahram Mokri | Link coming soon
The Columnist
Livestream Q&A with director Ivo van Aart
Dear Comrades!
Livestream Q&A with director Andrei Konchalovsky
Finding Yingying
Livestream Q&A with director Jiayan “Jenny” Shi, producer Brent E. Huffman, and cinematographer Shilin Sun
For Madmen Only
Livestream Q&A with director Heather Ross and actor James Urbaniak
I Am Greta
Livestream Q&A with director Nathan Grossman
Kubrick by Kubrick
Livestream Q&A with director Gregory Monro
Mama Gloria
Livestream Q&A with director Luchina Fisher and subject Gloria Allen
New Order
Livestream Q&A with director Michel Franco | Link coming soon
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
Livestream Q&A with director Lili Horvát
The Reason I Jump
Livestream Q&A with director Jerry Rothwell and subjects Bertra & Ben McGann and Donna & Emma Budway
The Road Up
Livestream Q&A with directors Greg Jacobs & Jon Siskel and subject Jesse Teverbaugh
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Sleep
Livestream Q&A with director Michael Venus
Sylvie’s Love
Livestream Q&A with director Eugene Ashe
Spring Blossom
Livestream Q&A with director Suzanne Lindon
Things We Dare Not Do
Livestream Q&A with director Bruno Santamaría and producer Abril López Carrillo
The Ties
Livestream Q&A with director Daniele Luchetti
Coffee Talk: “Reclaiming Our Time: Black Perspectives”
Filmmakers Tommy Oliver (40 Years a Prisoner), Amina Sutton and Maya Tanaka (“The Price of Cheap Rent”) and Terrance Daye (“-Ship: A Visual Poem”) will discuss their experience of producing working under the label of Black cinema.
Coffee Talk: “Rising Up: The Power of New Voices”
With films screening in the Festival’s New Directors Competition, rising talents João Paulo Miranda Maria (Memory House), Tarzan and Arab Nasser (Gaza Mon Amour), and Lili Horvát (Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time) talk about their different approaches to cinematic storytelling.
11:00am Coffee Talk: “Trans World: Telling Stories of Gender and Change”
Filmmakers Luchina Fisher (Mama Gloria), Sebastian Lipschitz (Little Girl), and Bruno Santamaria (Things We Dare Not Do) discuss their films, each about trans lives in different countries and societies, respectively, Chicago, France, and Mexico.
