Main Venue: Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture
Closing Venue: Music Box Theatre
Filmspotting Fest returns with a curated lineup of films and special guests, bringing together critics, artists, and audiences for shared viewing experiences and live conversations. This year’s selections explore time not just as subject, but as something embedded in the storytelling — through anticipation, memory, and the way the past presses into the present.
Each screening is followed by a live conversation with special guests, moderated by the Filmspotting hosts.
SATURDAY, JUNE 27
Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture
2936 N. Southport Ave, Chicago
11:00 AM — Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
With critic and author Marya Gates
A real‑time portrait of a woman waiting for life‑altering news, Cléo from 5 to 7 unfolds across a single afternoon in Paris, transforming fleeting moments into profound self‑reckoning.
3:00 PM — Krisha (2015) — 10th Anniversary Screening
With writer/director Trey Edward Shults
A Thanksgiving gathering staged as a traumatic countdown, Krisha turns a single family holiday into a bracing study of how the past refuses to stay past.
6:00 PM — Filmspotting Family Meet & Greet
With Filmspotting and special guests
7:00 PM — Wet Hot American Summer (2001) — 25th Anniversary Screening
With actress Marguerite Moreau
A delirious act of comic time travel, Wet Hot American Summer looks back on youthful summers with absurd affection, turning nostalgia into something communal and joyous.
SUNDAY, JUNE 28
Music Box Theatre
3733 N. Southport Ave, Chicago
11:00 AM — The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) — 25th Anniversary Screening
With critic Michael Phillips
Wes Anderson’s melancholy comedy is a study of family, failure, and the long afterlife of childhood wounds.
