Siskel Film Center, 164 N State Street, 60601, Chicago

If you missed it at last year’s Chicago International Film Festival, here’s your chance!

Carolina Cavalli returns to Chicago for the screening of her film The Kidnapping of Arabella on July 30 at 6:00 PM. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to see her in person as she participates in a post-screening Q&A moderated by Christy LeMaster, Associate Director of Programming (Siskel Film Center).

Synopsis 

Holly spends days at her dead-end job fantasizing about holes in the space-time continuum and wondering where her life went wrong. When she meets Arabella, a seven-year-old rebel hoping to run away from her self-absorbed author father, Holly becomes convinced their meeting is a cosmic sign, and that Arabella is, in fact, her past self sent back for a second chance. The two embark on an unconventional road trip between two lost souls who might be exactly what the other needs.

In Italian with English subtitles

2025, Italy, 108 mins 

Friends of the Institute are eligible to purchase discounted tickets online using the code siskelpartner at checkout!

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