Chicago 2004

Michael Kutza seems indefatigable. 40 years ago, he founded the Chicago International Film Festival. He has been heading it since. And has created an event that attracts the Chicago filmgoers, among them an enthusiastic young public. Kutza's special interest is for young cinema, domain on which our jury focused. It awarded our prize to the film Campfire, second feature by the Israeli filmmaker Joseph Cedar. Details

Back to the Future. This is not a story about films, and partly only on the festival. It is a story of friendship, experiences and nostalgia. It is a text for happy few that the editor-in-chief of this website should have refused to publish… It just happens that he’s the one who wrote it.
The Outsiders, From Inside. Campfire tells tells the story of a 42-years old widow and her two teenage daughters who try to survive in the Jerusalem of 1981. Read Necati Sönmez' review.
Forgiveness and Acceptance. Diego Lerer reflects on two themes that filled the films seen by the jury and wonders: do they only express what the filmmakers believe, or also what the festival's programmers are trying to tell us ?
Road Movies are movies that arise from being on the road. Belinda van de Graaf talks to Benoît Deléphine and Gustave Kervern, the makers of the road movie Aaltra who went from France to Finland in wheelchairs.

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