In addition to hosting Chicago premieres from internationally lauded filmmakers, every year the European Union Film Festival spotlights active directors who aren't especially well-known here because their work is either too modest, too strange, or too culturally specific to attract U.S. distributors. I enjoy catching up with these filmmakers as much as the famous ones—sometimes it's nice to chart a director's maturation on his or her own terms, without having to contend with a backlog of criticism.…
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