The Chicago International Movies & Music Festival is an annual four-day showcase, now in its sixth year, celebrates the connection between music and movies. You’ll have the chance to see international film premieres, live concerts, DJ/VJ sets, Q&A’s, live score performances, exhibits and more. All CIMMFest events will take place in numerous venues centered around our city’s West Loop, Wicker Park, Bucktown and Logan Square neighborhoods.
Music Headliners
- CIMMfest & Silver Wrapper Presents: Yo La Tengo, May 1, Concord Music Hall
- CIMMfest & Silver Wrapper Presents: Escort, May 2, Concord Music Hall
- Bloodshot Records 20th Anniversary Showcase, May 3, Logan Square Auditorium
- CIMMfest & City Winery Present: Booker T., May 4, City Winery
Movie Highlights
- Battleship Potemkin – featuring Chicago rock vets Scott Lucas (Local H), Jimmy Chamberlin (The Smashing Pumpkins) and Matt Ulery (Loom) come together under the name Mary Shelley to collaborate on a live scoring event for this silent Russian cinema classic
- World Premiere of the feature We Grew Up Herestarring members of Chicago band Paper Thick Walls
- Johnny Thunders documentary Looking for Johnny
- Opening night feature is the tearjerker Butterfly Girlwith filmmaker Cary Bell in attendance
International Film Highlights
- U.S. Premiere of the animated Indian feature The World of Goopi and Bagha, based on a film by Satyajit Ray
- Documentary Led Zeppelin Played Here, about a legendary 1969 concert in a high school gym
- Chicago Premiere of the Serbia-set documentaryBrasslands, about the world’s largest trumpet competition, directed by a team of 10 ethnomusicologists
Festival pass, $75; individual movie tickets, $10
