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Chicago International

Indie Film Festival

HERITAGE | LIBERTY | EQUALITY

The launch edition of the Chicago International Indie Film Festival (CIIFF 2021) wishes to focus the spotlight on the heritage of Indigenous peoples as well as on swing jazz whose birthplace is Chicago. In accordance with the former, film submissions open on Oct 11, on the occasion of the Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

 

Award Winners

    ABRAHAM LINCOLN AWARD FOR BEST FILM ON LIBERTY
    Boxed — Wanjiru Njendu (USA) | 00:06:09

    BEST DOCUMENTARY ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
    Mata — Fábio Nascimento, Ingrid Fadnes (Brazil) | 01:19:08

    SPECIAL MENTION — DOCUMENTARY ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (shared)
    Return to the Lost Eden — Adriano Zecca (Switzerland) | 00:55:00
    paSta’ay — Chin-Fa Chen (Taiwan) | 00:59:50

    BEST FEATURE FILM (shared)
    Beyblade girl — Andong Deng (China) | 02:09:00
    Kala (The Unwanted) — Rohith VS (India) | 02:10:00

    BEST SHORT FICTION
    Mordisquitos (Nibbler) — Ignacio Rodó (Spain) | 00:14:58

    BEST ANIMATION
    Krasnoludki — Roman Burmakov (Belarus) | 00:04:49

    BEST FULL LENGTH DOCUMENTRY
    We Are All In This Together — Daniel Troia (USA) | 01:10:00

    SPECIAL MENTION — BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY BY STUDENTS
    Eyes — Zachary Goodwin, Flynn Harris, Alex Flanagan, Alex Kumph (USA) | 00:06:24

    SPECIAL MENTION — DIRECTORIAL VISION
    When We Are Familiar Stranger, Close But Untouchable — Dong Jun (China) | 00:18:00

    SPECIAL MENTION — BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
    Come close to me — Pablo Fidanza (Argentina) | 00:18:06

    Nominations

    Crazy District — Orest Smylanetz (Ukraine) | 00:02:23
    Exploring the Pacific Northwest — Ian A. Nelson (USA) | 01:04:44
    Fullmoon Above the Graveyard — Marseli Sumarno (Indonesia) | 00:09:51
    Litany for the Goddess — Ensadi Joko Santoso (Indonesia) | 00:15:00
    My Daughter Yoshiko — Brian Blum (USA) | 00:15:00
    Nipalensis: When Nature Goes Wrong — José Luis Rodríguez | 00:25:00
    Sound of Pain — Vijeesh Mani (India) | 01:50:00
    The Nature of the Flame — Mike Messier (USA) | 00:07:46
    The Promenade — Nico Falcone Georgiadis (Sweden) | 00:15:41
    The Seed of Hope — Nando Morra (Italy) | 00:17:00
    Wind Spirits — Shelby F. Elwood (USA) | 00:13:46

    The 2021 edition of the Chicago International Indie Film Festival was a hybrid one. Only select films were screened at the venue.

    Official Selection

      10 Minutes of Glory (Bulgaria) — Peter Chiviyski | 00:05:48
      A Conversation with E — Esabella Anna Karena Strickland, Taylor Mitchell, Skylar A (Canada) | 00:05:03
      A Sweet Life — Melihat özdoğan Ağgül (Turkey) | 00:08:26
      AI La Artificial Intelligence La (Pass) — Carlo Christian Spano (China) | 01:21:26
      Akwaaba the Awakening — Sybil D. Jatta (USA) | 01:30:00
      Ampersand — Jaime Herrera Jr. (USA) | 00:37:58
      Ananta Yatra (The Eternal Journey) — Sunil Pandey (Nepal) | 00:14:51
      Between — Andre Ben Birken, Takis Panas (Portugal) | 00:22:00
      Cleanse — Patrick T Peni (South Africa) | 00:10:27
      Days of Ignorance — Abolfazl Tajik (Iran) | 00:19:00
      Dear Destiny — Brian Mack (USA) | 00:05:13
      Devil Preferred Espresso — Klaus Hoefs (Germany) | 00:03:00
      DOM — Francesco Galli (Italy) | 00:14:59
      Eloise Lou — Marc Baradat (France) | 00:23:10
      If I Can’t Have You — Peter Poulos, Matt Santia (USA) | 01:25:56
      Just Like Water — Manos Triantafillakis (Greece) | 00:12:54
      Kingdom of Ruins — Zhang Hailong (China) | 00:29:00
      Le Printemps Debout (France) | 01:32:00
      Leo — Treal Walker (USA) | 01:22:00
      Lunch With Leslie — Sharon Genshaft (USA) | 00:26:27
      Mixed Juice — Jayan Mulangad (USA) | 00:12:27
      Noir Brothers — Daniele Gangemi (Italy) | 00:09:31
      On / Off — Nicolas P. Villarreal (Argentina) | 00:07:00
      Perenne — Roberto Garo (Mexico) | 00:15:00
      Reckoning with The Primal Wound — Rebecca Autumn Sansom (USA) | 01:31:12
      Sasneham Johnson — Vinayakumar Pala (India) | 00:16:00
      Shade of (Baby) Pink — Neelima Gudavalli (India) | 00:32:54
      Stray — Wanjiru Njendu (USA) | 00:02:30
      Sunna — Ali Kaygısız (Turkey) | 00:19:09
      The Blue Rose — Tijuana Layne (Canada) | 00:46:56
      The Forest Where the Letter Blooms — G. Kishor (India) | 00:27:27
      The Last Day of the Dinosaurs — Yang Wu (USA) | 00:01:09
      The Light — Nader Ghadessi (Iran) | 00:05:30
      The Microscopic World of a Grain of Sand — Wu Xianghua (China) | 01:59:11
      The Path of Pins — Thibaud Cahen (France) | 00:12:48
      The Ribbon — 00:04:25 (USA) |
      The Sound of the Waves — Anthony Bertaud (France) | 00:11:00
      The Voices — Vadim Moskalenko (Russian Federation) | 00:08:36
      There’s A Method to My Madness — Angelina Turska (Ukraine) | 00:14:01
      Toy — Rita Shagray (Romania) | 00:10:50
      Worried About the Matches? — Angelina Turska | 00:15:25
      🦷Thank You For Your Teeth🦷 — George ve Gänæaard, Horia Cucută | 00:02:30

      Congrats to all

      Festival attendees: we hope you had a great time.

      PRESS: if photographs are needed, please call.

      Official Venue

      ShowPlace ICON at Roosevelt Collection

      1011 South Delano Court, Chicago, Illinois – 60605, USA

       

      Organizations

      Chicago International Indie Film Festival is open in the near future to associating with societies working for the promotion of the arts and culture.

      For queries, please contact

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