The Festival opens on Thursday, April 16, with the Chicago premiere of It Would Be Night in Caracas (Aún es de noche en Caracas), a powerful 2025 drama directed by Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugás, and concludes on Monday, April 27, with the Chicago premiere of the Ecuadorian comedy The Dog, My Father and Us (Nosotros, mi papá y el perro), directed by Pablo Arturo Suárez.