Film News: 2024 Chicago Underground Film Fest, Sep. 11-15, Opens with ‘No One Asked You’

Submitted by PatrickMcD on September 10, 2024 - 7:37am

CHICAGO – The longest running underground film festival in the world kicks off its 31st Edition on Wednesday, September 11th, 2024. The Chicago Underground Film Festival opens with “No One Asked You” at the Gene Siskel Film Center. For tickets and info, click CUFF31.

A global champion of the underground scene, the Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF) showcases and celebrates some of the most original films and video art being made today …all supplemented through screenings, panels, and nightly after-parties. After the Gene Siskel Center Opener, the Fest also has screenings in Chicago’s South Side at the Harper Theater in the Hyde Park neighborhood.

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“No One Asked You” features Comedian and disrupter extraordinaire Lizz Winstead (co-creator of The Daily Show) and her team of activists crisscross the U.S. to support abortion clinic staff and bust stigma. Pop culture icons and next-gen comics fuel this six-year road film activating small-town folks to rebuild vandalized clinics, exposing wrongdoer politicians, domestic terrorists, and media neglect as the race to the bottom ensues.

Another highlight is the Closing Night’s “Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction),” a debut documentary from Marianna Milhorat that is a portrait of contemporary wildlife conservation that reflects on empathy, agency, and the role of hope in the midst of a sixth mass extinction. The film will also screen at the Gene Siskel Film Center. For the rest of the CUFF31, click the schedule link above or below.

The 31st Edition of the Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF) will run September 11th-15th, 2024. For a complete overview. schedule and information on after parties, click here.