Coverage of the 2025 Chicago International Film Festival

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Our reviews, interviews, and more from the 2025 Chicago International Film Festival.

Stay tuned as we update this page throughout the festival!

Reviews

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Review: ‘Primavera’
Review: ‘Primavera’

Set in early 18th-century Venice, Damiano Michieletto’s directorial debut features a young orphaned violinist as the pupil of composer Antonio Vivaldi.

Review: ‘A Useful Ghost’
Review: ‘A Useful Ghost’

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s latest film is perhaps a little long and overstuffed with ideas, but also like nothing you’ve ever seen before.

Review: ‘It Was Just An Accident’
Review: ‘It Was Just An Accident’

Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or-winner explores the morality of revenge, the bonds of trauma, and the thin line between imprisonment and life in an oppressive society.

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