CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
October 7 thru October 21, 2004

FILMS FOR TWO® is proud to present the following highlights from this year’s CIFF schedule. The films listed below fall into our own three top categories, however there are many more films on the list & we urge you to review the complete schedule yourself & select according to your own interests.

Click here to access the CIFF website.

We have purchased our “magic passport,” and selected over 20 films already. We will do our best to see as many as possible & report back to all of you immediately.

FF2’s CIFF PICKS FOR 2004

FILMS BY PROMINENT AMERICAN INDIE DIRECTORS:

Title	Director	Previous Releases
FINDING NEVERLAND	Marc Forster	MONSTER’S BALL
KINSEY	Bill Condon	CHICAGO GODS & MONSTERS
OUTING RILEY	Pete Jones	STOLEN SUMMER
P.S.	Dylan Kidd	ROGER DODGER
SIDEWAYS	Alexander Payne	ABOUT SCHMIDT ELECTION
UNDERTOW	David Gordon Green	ALL THE REAL GIRLS GEORGE WASHINGTON

FILMS BY JEWISH DIRECTORS
&/OR ON THEMES WITH SPECIFIC JEWISH INTEREST:

Title	Director	Country
CAMPFIRE	Joseph Cedar	Israel
CHECKPOINT	Yoav Shamir	Israel
SOFIE	Liv Ullmann	Denmark
SYRIAN BRIDE	Eran Riklis	Golan Heights
WHY (NOT) BRAZIL?	Laetitia Masson	France

FF2 NOTE: click here to read Jan’s review of CAMPFIRE
for the WORLD JEWISH DIGEST.

FILMS DIRECTED BY WOMEN:

Title	Director	Country
BORICA	Marisol Torres	USA
BORN INTO BROTHELS	Zana Briski	USA
DANCE CUBA	Cynthia Newport	USA/Cuba
DEAR FRANKIE	Shona Auerbach	Scotland
THE HARVEST TIME	Marina Razbezhkinka	Russia
I LIKE TO WORK	Francesca Comencini	Italy
IN THE BATTLEFIELDS	Danielle Arbid	Lebanon
THE JOURNEY	Ligy Pullapally	India
LIPSTICK & DYNAMITE, PISS & VINEGAR	Ruth Leitman	USA
NATHALIE	Anne Fontaine	France
NELLY	Laure Duthilleul	France
THE PLEASURE IS ALL MINE	Isabelle Broue	France
SCHIZO	Guka Omarova	Kazakhstan
SHEER MADNESS	Margarethe von Trotta	Germany
SOFIE	Liv Ullmann	Denmark
STRAY DOGS	Marziyeh Meshkini	Iran
THE TIME WE KILLED	Jennifer Todd Reeves	USA
TOMORROW WE MOVE	Chantal Ackerman	France
WHY (NOT) BRAZIL?	Laetitia Masson	France
THE WOODSMAN	Nicole Kassel	USA

FF2 NOTE: In addition to these 20 full-length films (17 features
& 3 documentaries), 15 films by women are also featured in the CIFF’s
four “shorts” programs: THE SHORTER SIDE OF THINGS.
(See complete schedule for details)

SPECIAL GUESTS @ THE 2004 CIFF

The following filmmakers (highlighted in RED above) are expected at this year’s CIFF. Many of them will personally introduce their films &/or conduct Q&A sessions after the screening. We have often found Q&A sessions very enlightening in the past, so we suggest you attend as many as possible:

Chantal Akerman
Zana Briski
Isabelle Broue
Joseph Cedar
Bill Condon
Laure Duthileul
Marc Forster
David Gordon Green
Pete Jones
Cynthia Newport
Jennifer Todd Reeves
Eran Riklis
Yoav Shamir
Margarethe von Trotta
Liv Ullmann

FINAL NOTE

Since we are now “members of the press,” we have access to review tapes & special screenings. Therefore, we will be able to rate some films for you before the CIFF officially opens. We promise to enter all new information as quickly as possible, so you will have our input when making your own picks.

Although tickets for most of the “high buzz films” by well-known American Indie directors sell out quickly, tickets for foreign films & documentaries can often be purchased right up to the moment when the actual screening begins.

So don’t give up! Keep checking this page with your own CIFF schedule in hand & we will do our best to guide you to some exceptional films. Go. Enjoy. Learn new things & see the world in interesting new ways.