Reeling Film Fest

10/10/2026

Announcing this year's Jury Award-winning short films! 🏆🥳⁠
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JURY AWARD: BEST SHORT⁠
WHAT DO YOU SEEK IN THE DARK? directed by Tossaphon Rianting⁠
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JURY AWARD: BEST NARRATIVE SHORT⁠
NEVER NEVER directed by John Sheedy⁠
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JURY AWARD: BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT⁠
DREAM HOMES directed by Michael J. Bullock and Michael Cukr

10/09/2026

We're excited to OFFICIALLY announce our Jury Awards! Swipe to see the winners of our two features categories and read our jurors' statements about each film! 🏆🏳️‍🌈🎬⁠
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Jury Award: Best Narrative Feature⁠
MERMAID directed by Fia Sophia Perera⁠
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Jury Award: Best Documentary Feature⁠
THE PRADO & THE MOON directed by Cayetana H. Cuyás⁠
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Stay tuned for our shorts winners!

10/07/2026

We can't get over what a great year we had at Reeling44. So, let's reminisce on some of YOUR favorite films from this year's lineup. 🏆⁠
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Audience Award: Best Narrative Feature⁠
LA BOLA NEGRA directed by Los Javis (Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi)⁠
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Audience Award: Best Documentary Feature⁠
LAST DANCE AT THE SUNDANCE STOMPEDE directed by Graham Clayton-Chance⁠
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Audience Award: Best Short Film⁠
WE ARE NOT UNICORNS directed by Valentina Y Quintero⁠
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Stay tuned for Jury Award announcements!

09/27/2026

the last screening of Reeling44 starts in 20 minutes! we’re celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Celluloid Closet with a sold out audience and we wouldn’t want to end the festival any other way 🎬

09/26/2026

last night at Reeling44 🤠 we screened “Last Dance at the Sundance Stompede” to (another) sold out crowd—then we took the party to the parking lot and line danced under the Chicago stars!

thanks to Second City Country Dance Association Firebrand & Charlie’s Chicago 🤠 for making this idea come to life, q***r folks coming together for a night of film, dancing, and new friends—yee haw y’all

09/22/2026

a special message from the writer/director of the film kicking off day 6! lindsay calleran of CAITY !

we can’t say for sure cos the video got cut off but we think the next sentence was going to be “umm why don’t you get your crew together and come see it tonight and get in line at 6:15”

…guess we’ll never know. TICKETS IN BIO!!

09/21/2026

https://news.wttw.com/2026/09/17/lgbtq-film-festival-and-stand-comedy-4-arts-picks-your-week

Every Thursday, WTTW News newsletter producer Josh Terry highlights his picks for the week’s must-see cultural events.

09/21/2026

In this dark, quirky black comedy, a bisexual sign maker’s humdrum life is thrown into surreal chaos when a woman claiming to be his birth mother (Liza Weil, GILMORE GIRLS) and a mysterious bounty hunter lead him through a series of bizarre encounters in a Lynchian desert town.

09/21/2026

Amid a swirl of despondency and desire, a sudden disappearance disrupts an all-consuming romance in a hypnotic meditation on love, youth, and impermanence that marks filmmaker MJ Strasburger as a striking new cinematic voice.

09/20/2026

Day 4 is here! we’ve got lots of love, lots of fantasy, and things get a little triple x rated at night 😏

get your tickets & make it a Sunday meant just for the cinema! 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in biiioooooo!