Events

Time and Location

October 17th-20th
Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago, IL)
AMC NEWCITY 14 (Chicago, IL)

About

We are extremely honored to co-present with the 60th Chicago International Film Festival this tribute and retrospective of Hirokazu Kore-eda, who will be joining us in Chicago.

The Chicago International Film Festival has enjoyed a longstanding relationship with the masterful Kore-eda Hirokazu dating to his debut feature Maborosi, which won the Gold Hugo for Best Film in 1995. Since then, the Festival has presented much of Kore-eda’s work, with his films playing to great critical acclaim and garnering favor with our audiences—his most recent Festival title, 2023’s Monster, won the Gold Q-Hugo in our OutLook Competition. We are excited to welcome and pay tribute to Kore-eda, a true icon on the world cinema stage, a creative force whose prolific output has sensitively explored universal themes of family, memory, loss, and joy with unparalleled artistry and keen insight.

For more info and tickets, please visit: Kore-eda Hirokazu

Tribute to Kore-eda Hirokazu

Nobody Knows screening and Career Achievement Award presentation
Friday, October 18 at 7:30pm | Gene Siskel Film Center

Born in 1962 in Tokyo, Japan, Kore-eda Hirokazu graduated from Waseda University and joined TV Man Union, where he directed several prize-winning documentary programs. In 1995, he made his feature directorial debut with Maborosi, which became a festival favorite, winning the 52nd Venice International Film Festival’s Golden Osella and the Chicago International Film Festival’s Gold Hugo.

More international acclaim followed for such films as After Life (1998), which was released in more than 30 countries. Distance (2001) screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, while his fourth feature, Nobody Knows (2004), garnered much attention for Yagira Yuya, the youngest person to ever receive Cannes’ Best Actor Award. Like Father, Like Son (2013) won the Jury Prize at Cannes. Then, in 2018, Kore-eda won Cannes’ highest award, the Palme d’Or, with his film Shoplifters, which was also nominated for the 91st Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

His first feature shot outside Japan, The Truth with Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche, served as the opening film in competition at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. In 2022, his first Korean film, Broker, won the Ecumenical Jury Prize and a Best Actor award for Song Kang-ho — the first such award for a Korean actor — at Cannes. In 2023, his latest feature, Monster, won the Queer Palme and writer Yuji Sakamoto the Best Screenplay Award at Cannes.

The Festival is honored to pay tribute to this visionary talent with the Career Achievement Award.

Retrospective Screenings

Director Kore-eda is scheduled to attend every screening.

Afterlife　Thurs, Oct 17 @ 5:30pm (CDT)
After the Storm　 Fri, Oct 18 @ 2:00pm(CDT)
Nobody Knows　Fri, Oct 18 @ 7:30pm (CDT)
Like Father, Like Son　Sat, Oct 19 @ 11:30am (CDT)
Shoplifters　Sat, Oct 19 @ 2:45pm (CDT)
Broker　Sun, Oct 20 @ 1:45pm (CDT)

This event is co-presented by the Japan Foundation, New York and the 60th Chicago International Film Festival.