2023 Blow-up Arthouse Film Festival.

Festival events:

  • Notification Date: October 31, 2023
  • Screening and Awards ceremony: January 15-17, 2024, 6 PM - 11 PM.
  • Screening Venue: Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State, Chicago
  • This year we invited 83 projects for live screening
  • Fimmakers and their guests have Free admission. Please RSVP by December 15 via email.
  • Screening Program
  • Programs and Workshops

Quick Links

  • Marks of Honor (Laurels)
  • Blowup IMDB awards page
  • If you won an award
  • Screener formats
  • Festival Status Guide
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    Category

    Winner

    Animation - Norman McLaren Award There is exactly enough time (Austria)
    Documentary Feature - Dziga Vertov Award AAR (USA )
    Best Documentary Short: Lumière Brothers Award Salvage (USA )
    Feature Film - Antonioni Award Phi 1.618 (Canada)
    Narrative Short (USA) - Charlie Chaplin Award The Strawberry Jam (USA)
    Experimental - Luis Buñuel Award Turbulence (Germany)
    Student Film - VGIK Award A Sweetness of Lapse (USA)
    TV/Web Series 5:32 (Kazakhstan)
    Music Video, Music Film - Bob Fosse Award Abandon (USA)
    Best Screeplay - Tonino Guerra Award Daniel Hill: Beth + Jeremy and Steve (USA)