Schedule of Events February 7, 2025 8:30 p.m: Close Up "Neither a documentary nor a drama but a provocative, unconventional merging of the two, a meditation on perplexities of justice, social inequity, and personal identity that also subtly…

Schedule Of Events: Thursday February 1, 2024 6:15pm - Celluloid Underground After the Iranian Revolution, a movie collector in Tehran hid thousands of films to prevent their destruction by the new Islamic regime. Despite arrest and torture, he…

For the first time in north America, the Festival of Films from Iran was founded at the Gene Siskel Film Center Chicago in 1989, thanks to the openness and support of Barbara Scharres (Gene Siskel Film Center Director of Programming, 1988-2020) who…