42nd Chicago International Film Festival

USA, October 6 - October 20 2005

The jury

Jan Aghed (Sweden), Frédéric Coquelin (France), Josefina Sartora (Argentina), Mihai Chirilov (Romania), Kim Linekin (Canada)

Awarded films

La Moustache by Emmanuel Carrère
(France, 2005, 87 mins)

Reports

The Absent Moustache By Jan Aghed by Jan Aghed
Death and Disenchantment By Mihai Chirilov by Mihai Chirilov
Character Sketches By Kim Linekin by Kim Linekin
Martyred Heroines By Josefina Sartora by Josefina Sartora
Letter from Chicago By Frédéric Coquelin by Frédéric Coquelin

At the oldest competitive film festival in North America, the members of our jury compose same time the official jury for the New Directors Competition, open to first and second time filmmakers.

First known as a film critic (for Positif) and a novelist, Emmanuel Carrère directed the documentary Return to Kotelnitch in 2003. This year he made his first feature, the very intriguing La Moustache (The Moustache), which received our prize in Chicago.