A group of acclaimed international filmmakers competing in this year’s Academy Awards best international feature race will gather in Chicago this weekend for a special industry panel.
The 61st Chicago International Film Festival
announced details for its International Contenders Panel: World Cinema Now!,
which will bring together directors behind their countries’ official Oscar
submissions for a conversation about global storytelling and the state of world
cinema. The Hollywood Reporter senior writer Seth Abramovitch
will moderate the discussion.
Scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 18, the event will be
held at the festival’s main venue, AMC Newcity 14, as part of its Industry
Days program. Admission is free, though advance tickets are required.
Panelists include Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke (A
Useful Ghost, Thailand), Diego Céspedes (The Mysterious Gaze of
the Flamingo, Chile), Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Young Mothers,
Belgium), Agnieszka Holland (Franz, Poland), Tamara Kotevska
(The Tale of Silyan, North Macedonia), Odessa Rae (producer of The
Voice of Hind Rajab, Tunisia), and Simón Mesa Soto (A Poet,
Colombia).
This year’s Chicago lineup features 16 films
representing their nations in the Oscars race, along with two titles
from last year’s program that have also been submitted. Among them are
Argentina’s Belén, France’s It Was Just an Accident, Morocco’s Calle
Malaga, South Korea’s No Other Choice, Spain’s Sirât, and
Germany’s Sound of Falling, among others. Returning contenders include
Austria’s Peacock and the Dominican Republic’s Pepe.
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