A blind ferryman, a family reckoning with colonial history and a mother navigating an unexpected diagnosis are among the stories coming to Cairo International Film Festival:

A recap of the best animated features and shorts at the 62nd Chicago International Film Festival https://bit.ly/4iCr4T9

CIFF coverage is up for Seeing & Believing. Couple of must-see movies in here for this fall:

MJ's @lindseyromain.bsky.social shares five films from @chicagofilmsociety.org's Film Festival that are worth adding to your watchlist.

MJ's @lindseyromain.bsky.social says about FATHERLAND: "There is so much contained in this nesting doll of a film, one of the year’s absolute best."

#Fatherland is in select theaters now.

Happy Halloween! My final CIFF dispatch is out.

Featuring: THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID and A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JO: CHAPTER PHAEDRA reviews, speaking with CIFF volunteers, and a film festival survival guide with tips from my festivalgoing friends/experts.

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Took a week off from the movies after the density of screenings during CIFF, but this week Im back to it. Caught up on Wicker, Wildwood, and Sense and Sensibility. Today I’m seeing Godzilla Minus Zero

I just submitted "The Asylum" to Canadian Independent Film Festival - CIFF via FilmFreeway.com!

“No Hands: The Wild Ride of the Schwinn Bicycle Company” @ CIFF 2026

#62ndChicagoInternationalFilmFestival #DanielClarke #IgnazSchwinn #NoHandsTheWildRideoftheSchwinnBicycleCompany #UnfeaturedFilms

https://justpaste.in/movies/no-hands-the-wild-ride-of-the-schwinn-bicycle-company-ciff-2026/

Glad I skipped this one at CIFF!

I saw #TheStuntDriver too, and I enjoyed it. letterboxd.com/journ/film/t...

Europe on Screen, Europe in Collaboration at #CIFF will also feature an interview with Olivier Père exploring his tenure as Managing Director of ARTE France Cinéma.

Supported by CEI, French Embassy in Ireland. Presented in association with Screen Producers Ireland & Creative Europe Desk Ireland.

Glad I skipped this one at CIFF!

CIFF 2026: Corpus, No Rest for the Wicked, castration movie iii.ii; a fragmentary passage - by Clint Worthington www.rogerebert.com/festivals/ci...

Cork International Film Festival returns from Thursday 12 to Sunday 22 November 2026.

Proudly supported by Creative Europe MEDIA.

#CIFF programme: tinyurl.com/ky6xsbae

Patrick Stewart was the special guest the year I worked for CIFF. I didn’t get to meet him, but the stories I heard from coworkers all spoke to how kind he was, but also how much fun he was. Truly a great onscreen and off

I witnessed Isle of Flightless birds live I—
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“The festival played host to a bevy of creature features, genre thrillers, and folk-horror freakouts."

From @chilfilmfest, @clintworthing.bsky.social reviews CORPUS, NO REST FOR THE WICKED, CASTRATION MOVIE III.II; A FRAGMENTARY PASSAGE:

Writer/Director Daniel Clarke brought a 77-minute history of the rise and fall of the Schwinn Bicycle Company,”No Hands: The Wild Ride of the Schwinn Bicycle Company” to the 62nd Chicago #62ndChicag
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Better late than never, for @ebertvoices.bsky.social I trawled CIFF 2026's After Dark program to find some queer highlights: body-swap thriller CORPUS, Nordic Gothic vamps in NO REST FOR THE WICKED, and TERF chaos in CASTRATION MOVIE iii.ii--A FRAGMENTARY PASSAGE: www.rogerebert.com/festivals/ci...

Since late-August, I’ve covered Locarno, Telluride, TIFF, NYFF, Busan, CIFF and VAFF. I’ve got Black Harvest Film Festival in a little over a week and then I’m done for the year.

Same, actually! I’ll be getting into it with CIFF coverage later this week.