Inspired by Eric Klineberg’s book, Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Helfand (BLUE VINYL) takes a hard, personal, and often quirky look at the inequity of natural disaster, beginning with her family’s own...

For decades, Chicago was renowned as “Candy Capital of the World,” home to the giants Brach, Mars, Ferrara, and Wrigley, and scores of mid-sized and small family-owned companies. Those glory days are largely gone, but, against that background, filmmaker Lahey...

First-time director Shawky weaves a heartwarming but unsentimental tale of the scarred aging leper Beshay (Gamal) and the ten-year-old homeless orphan boy Obama (Abdelhafiz), who attaches himself to the older man one day and refuses to leave. Surrogate father and...