Chicago Critics Film Festival

Schedule:

4:00pm - Power - 85 minutes
Directed by Yance Ford
Driven to contain threats to social order, American policing has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, it can be described by one word: power

6:00pm - National Anthem - 99 minutes
Directed by Luke Gilford
A 21-year-old construction worker in New Mexico joins a community of queer rodeo performers in search of their own version of the American dream.

8:30pm - Ghostlight With Guests - 110 minutes
Directed by Alex Thompson & Kelly O’Sullivan
Dan (Keith Kupferer), a melancholic middle-aged construction worker grieving a family tragedy. Cut off from his devoted wife, Sharon (Tara Mallen), and talented but troubled daughter, Daisy (Katherine Mallen Kupferer), Dan finds comfort and community in a misfit company of amateur actors. While moonlighting in a low-rent production of Shakespeare’s most protean tragedy, Dan is forced to confront his buried emotions.

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