Editing Ebertfest

{{short description|American film festival}}
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'''Ebertfest''' is an annual [[film festival]] held every April in [[Champaign, Illinois|Champaign]], [[Illinois]], United States, organized by the [[UIUC College of Media|College of Media]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://media.illinois.edu/ebert |title=The Roger Ebert Center |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=media.illinois.edu |publisher=University of Illinois College of Media |access-date=19 May 2016 |archive-date=May 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180512055527/https://media.illinois.edu/ebert |url-status=dead }}</ref> at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign|University of Illinois]]. [[Roger Ebert]], the TV and ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' [[Film criticism|film critic]], was a native of the adjoining town of [[Urbana, Illinois]], and is an alumnus of the University.<ref name="milestones">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=April 5, 2013 |title=Milestones in the life of Roger Ebert |url=http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2013-04-05/milestones-life-roger-ebert.html |newspaper=News-Gazette |location=Champaign, Illinois |access-date=19 May 2016}}</ref> Founded in 1999 as '''Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival''', this event is the only long-running film festival created by a critic.<ref name="milestones" /><ref>{{cite journal |last=Bordwell |first=David |date=May–June 2013 |title=The Fifth Estate: How Roger Ebert personified the critic as conversationalist |journal=Film Comment |volume=49 |issue=3 |pages=12–13}}</ref> Despite Ebert's death in 2013,<ref name="milestones" /> the festival continues to operate based on Ebert's notes and vision for the kinds of films he championed.<ref name="vision">{{cite web |url=http://www.ebertfest.com/PDFs/2015EbertProgram.pdf |title=Festival remains true to Ebert's vision |last1=Kohn |first1=Nate |date=April 2015 |website=ebertfest.com |page=11 |access-date=6 June 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509071842/http://ebertfest.com/PDFs/2015EbertProgram.pdf |archive-date=9 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Caro |first=Mark |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-ebert-website-caro-20140110-column.html |title=Chaz Ebert's mission goes on |date=January 12, 2014 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |access-date=8 June 2016}}</ref>

The 2020 festival was postponed due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|coronavirus pandemic]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/festivals/ebertfest-2021-to-take-place-september-8-11 |title=Ebertfest Film Festival Announces Newly Revised Dates: September 8-11, 2021 |last=Ebert |first=Chaz |author-link=Chaz Ebert |date=August 12, 2020 |website=RogerEbert.com |access-date=February 5, 2021}}</ref> The 22nd edition of the event was rescheduled three times, eventually opening on April 20, 2022.<ref>{{cite news |last=D'Alessio |first=Jeff |date=August 26, 2021 |title=Ebertfest 22 pushed back to April 2022 |url=https://www.news-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/film-television/ebertfest-22-pushed-back-to-april-2022/article_16bd28b0-e175-58fe-99ff-7afbeb7372e7.html |work=The News-Gazette |location=Champaign, Illinois |access-date=August 28, 2021}}</ref>

== Origins ==
The festival is a direct descendant<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dailyillini.com/uncategorized/2013/04/08/the-history-of-roger-eberts-famed-film-festival/ |title=The history of Roger Ebert's famed film festival |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=April 8, 2013 |website=Daily Illini |access-date=20 May 2016}}</ref> of a program put on at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1997 called Cyberfest which used the supposed birthday of [[HAL 9000|HAL]] (the computer in the film ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'') to highlight the University's involvement in the history of computers and computing.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.boraski.com/obelisk/cyberfest/s_1997hal.html |title=1997: The Coming of HAL |last1=Wurth |first1=Julie |date=1997 |website=boraski.com |publisher=Obelisk: The Cyberfest Newssite |access-date=20 May 2016}}</ref> The film was to be shown as part of Cyberfest, Roger Ebert had agreed to host and actor [[Gary Lockwood]] was a special guest.<ref name=HAL>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/1997/03/cyberfest-celebrates-hal-in-urbana/ |title=Cyberfest Celebrates HAL in Urbana |last1=Kestenbaum |first1=David S. |date=March 17, 1997 |magazine=Wired |access-date=20 May 2016}}</ref>

It was suggested that the film should ideally be shown as it was originally, in 70&nbsp;mm format. The original plan{{citation needed|date=May 2016}} was to have the screening at the University's performing arts center but time constraints vs. the need to install projection equipment and elaborate six channel sound made this impossible. Someone suggested looking at the [[Virginia Theatre (Champaign)|Virginia Theatre]], as 70&nbsp;mm films had been shown there in the past. At this point the theatre was in the hands of a local live theatre group and had not run films since sold by a theatre chain. All concerned were pleasantly surprised to learn the chain had left behind not only what is reputed to be the finest 35/70&nbsp;mm projector made but also the screen and speakers. The rest of the equipment was brought in for the special showing which went perfectly.

== Venue ==
Since its inception in 1999, Ebertfest has been held at the [[Virginia Theatre (Champaign)|Virginia Theatre]], an old-time movie palace in Champaign built in 1921 and listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Emerick |first=Laura |date=May 1, 2006 |title=A community for cinema: Ebert and fans give bypassed movies an avid audience |newspaper=Chicago Sun Times |edition=Final |page=39}}</ref><ref name="milestones" /> The theatre is now owned by the [[Champaign Park District]]. Ebert spoke of having attended films at the Virginia while growing up in Champaign-Urbana and attending the University.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ebertfest.com/PDFs/2011EbertProgram.pdf |title=Renovations bring local treasure back to life |last1=Silverberg |first1=Melissa |date=April 2011 |website=ebertfest.com |page=15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509063304/http://ebertfest.com/PDFs/2011EbertProgram.pdf |archive-date=9 May 2016 |access-date=22 May 2016}}</ref> It was Ebert's intention that all festival attendees see all of the films in a single theatre in order to create a sense of community among film lovers.<ref name="show">{{cite news |url=http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2006-04-26/show.html |title=On with the show |last1=Merli |first1=Melissa |date=April 26, 2006 |website=News-Gazette |location=Champaign, Illinois |access-date=10 July 2016}}</ref>

In 2014, a bronze [[statue of Roger Ebert]] was unveiled outside of the Virginia Theatre as tribute to both Ebert and Ebertfest.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ebertfest.com/PDFs/2014EbertProgram.pdf |title=Life-size statue commemorates Ebert |last1=Weber |first1=Ryan |date=April 2014 |website=ebertfest.com |page=17 |access-date=6 June 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509114015/http://ebertfest.com/PDFs/2014EbertProgram.pdf |archive-date=9 May 2016}}</ref>

=== Growth ===
Through donations, the Virginia has been able to fully equip its projection and sound system with a second projector, the latest in digital sound equipment and top quality lenses.<ref name="FAQ1">{{cite web |url=http://www.ebertfest.com/faq.html |title=FAQs/General Festival Questions |website=eberfest.com |access-date=22 May 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527192426/http://www.ebertfest.com/faq.html |archive-date=27 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ebertfest.com/PDFs/2014EbertProgram.pdf |title=Sponsors |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=April 2014 |website=ebertfest.com |page=84 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509114015/http://ebertfest.com/PDFs/2014EbertProgram.pdf |archive-date=9 May 2016 |access-date=22 May 2016}}</ref> The theatre's screen is 56 feet wide by 23 feet high, with a viewable image of up to 50 feet wide x 21½ feet high. The main speakers sit directly behind the screen during film presentations and are augmented by 36 surround sound speakers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thevirginia.org/venue-information/venue-rentals/#screen |title=Venue Rentals |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=thevirginia.org |publisher=Champaign Park District |access-date=21 April 2017}}</ref>

Instrumental in these upgrades has been notable [[Chicago]]-based projection expert James Bond who doubles as one of the projectionists during the festival.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ebertfest.com/PDFs/2014EbertProgram.pdf |title=Welcome to Ebertfest! |last1=Ebert |first1=Chaz |date=April 2014 |website=ebertfest.com |page=7 |access-date=6 June 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509114015/http://ebertfest.com/PDFs/2014EbertProgram.pdf |archive-date=9 May 2016}}</ref>

=== Capacity ===
Since 2013, the Virginia Theatre has a seating capacity of 1,463.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thevirginia.org/history/ |title=The Virginia Experience |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=thevirginia.org |publisher=Champaign Park District |access-date=21 May 2016}}</ref> The theatre was closed from 2012 until April 2013 for renovations that included replacing all of the seats. Capacity dropped from about 1,550<ref name="champions" /> to 1,463 but the new seats are more comfortable and the theatre offers wheelchair and companion access.<ref>{{cite news |last=Vorel |first=Jim |date=May 24, 2012 |title=Champaign's Virginia Theatre begins final phase of renovation |url=http://herald-review.com/entertainment/local/champaign-s-virginia-theatre-begins-final-phase-of-renovation/article_28ab0c3a-a5cb-11e1-a916-0019bb2963f4.html |newspaper=Herald & Review |location=Decatur, Illinois |access-date=21 May 2016}}</ref>

== Name change ==
In April 2007, it was announced that beginning in 2008 with the tenth festival "Overlooked" would be dropped from the name and subsequent events would be known as "'''Roger Ebert's Film Festival'''",<ref>{{cite news |last=Emerick |first=Laura |date=30 April 2007 |title='Overlooked' becomes a lovefest … |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times |edition=Final |page=Features, 53}}</ref> but commonly referred to as simply Ebertfest. This did not necessarily indicate any change in the philosophy or theme<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/206513 |title=Passes for 10th Ebert film fest, no longer 'overlooked', go on sale Nov.1 |last1=Chamberlain |first1=Craig |date=15 October 2007 |website=news.illinois.edu |publisher=Illinois News Bureau |access-date=21 May 2016}}</ref> but simply eliminated the need to explain when current or even unreleased films were included which had sometimes been the case. They had sometimes been jokingly referred to as "pre-overlooked."<ref>{{cite news |last=Emerick |first=Laura |date=25 April 2005 |title=Ebert's overlooked films get a shot |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times |page=Features, 62}}</ref>

== Selection criteria ==
Unlike typical film festivals, Ebertfest does not accept submissions.<ref name="FAQ2">{{cite web |url=http://www.ebertfest.com/faq.html |title=FAQs/Film Selection and Submissions |website=eberfest.com |access-date=22 May 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527192426/http://www.ebertfest.com/faq.html |archive-date=27 May 2016}}</ref> Roger Ebert selected films for the festival which in his opinion are excellent, but have been overlooked by the public or by film distribution companies. All films were selected from those that Ebert saw in the course of his normal reviewing work.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ebertfest.com/faq.html |title=FAQs/Film Selection and Submissions |website=eberfest.com |access-date=4 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120417174609/http://www.ebertfest.com/faq.html |archive-date=April 17, 2012}}</ref> Since Ebert's death, all films have been selected by the Festival Committee.<ref name="FAQ2" />

The original purpose of the Overlooked Film Festival, as reflected in the name, was to showcase films that had not been given enough attention by the public, film critics, or even distributors.<ref name="overlooked">{{cite news |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=18 April 1999 |title=Take another look: Ebert fest focuses on films that deserve wider exposure |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times |edition=Late Sports Final |page=Showcase, 4}}</ref> Ebert had cheerfully admitted that he could bend the definition of "overlooked" to accommodate any film that he would like to include,<ref>{{cite news |last=Emerick |first=Laura |date=30 April 2001 |title=A movie lover's fantasy |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times |edition=Late Sports Final |page=Features, 31}}</ref> since entire genres and formats can be overlooked as well as individual films.<ref name="Mission">{{cite web |url=http://www.ebertfest.com/about.html |title=About Ebertfest/Mission |website=ebertfest.com |access-date=21 May 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229103019/http://www.ebertfest.com/about.html |archive-date=29 December 2016}}</ref> The selection philosophy is expected to continue, but with the name change there will no longer be a need to come up with a pretext for including any film.

=== 70 mm ===
For many years, the festival opened with a film in the [[70 mm film|70 mm format]].<ref name="pirates">{{cite news |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=25 March 2004 |title=Outgoing MPAA chief gets one last shot at pirates at U. of I. film fest |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times |page=Features, 49}}</ref> The films may be major releases, like ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' or ''[[Patton (film)|Patton]]'', or less well-known, like 2005's showing of the French film ''[[Playtime]].''<ref name="filmlist">{{cite web |url=http://www.ebertfest.com/six/films99to05.html |title=A Complete List of All The Films Shown at Roger Ebert's Film Festival 1999–2005 |website=ebertfest.com |access-date=21 May 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302225207/http://ebertfest.com/six/films99to05.html |archive-date=2 March 2017}}</ref> These films were all chosen primarily due to their use of the 70&nbsp;mm process, which Ebert felt was overlooked.<ref name="Mission" />

=== Silent film ===
Each year a [[silent film]] is shown with live orchestral accompaniment. The films selected are generally well-known (for example, ''[[Nosferatu]]''),<ref name="filmlist" /> but Ebert felt that silent films in general are overlooked by the majority of moviegoers.<ref name="overlooked" /> The festival also strives to include a musical film for the same reason.<ref name="pirates" /> Performers providing live accompaniment have included the [[Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra]] and the [[Alloy Orchestra]].

== Festival format ==
Twelve to fourteen films are presented at each festival, opening with a single film on a Wednesday night and concluding with a single movie the following Sunday. On each day during the interim three or four films are presented. As of 2019, the format excluded the Sunday screening.<ref name="Pieper3">{{cite news |last=Pieper |first=Frank |date=April 13, 2019 |title=Ebertfest 2019 Day 3: Our Favorite Moments |url=http://www.news-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/local/2019-04-13/ebertfest-2019-day-3-our-favorite-moments.html |work=News-Gazette |location=Champaign, Illinois |access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>

For the first eight festivals, before each screening Roger Ebert would make a few introductory remarks. After the film was shown he would have a discussion on stage with the filmmakers or others connected with the film,<ref>{{cite news |last=Zwecker |first=Bill |date=1 April 2002 |title=A second chance for some first-rate films |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times |page=Features, 32}}</ref> sometimes hosting a brief panel discussion.

After Ebert lost his speaking voice due to cancer, starting with the ninth festival in 2007, his wife [[Chaz Ebert|Chaz]] assumed many of the hosting duties.<ref>{{cite news |last=Merli |first=Melissa |date=25 April 2007 |title=Ebert will have best seat in the house |url=http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2007-04-25/ebert-will-have-best-seat-house.html |newspaper=News-Gazette |location=Champaign, Illinois |access-date=21 May 2016}}</ref> Post-show panels are led by his "Far-Flung Correspondents" or other respected film professionals, such as film historian [[David Bordwell]] and film critic [[Christy Lemire]].<ref>Chamberlain, Craig. [http://news.illinois.edu/news/13/0322ebertfest_sked.html "'Days of Heaven,' Tilda Swinton and Jack Black all part of 2013 'Ebertfest'"], "University of Illinois News Bureau", 22 March 2013.</ref>

On April 4, 2013, Ebert died after a long battle with cancer.<ref>{{cite news |last=Steinberg |first=Neil |url=http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/17320958-418/roger-ebert-dies-at-70-after-battle-with-cancer.html |title=Roger Ebert dead at 70 after battle with cancer |newspaper=The Chicago Sun Times |date=April 4, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216070113/http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/17320958/roger-ebert-dies-at-70-after-battle-with-cancer.html |archive-date=December 16, 2014}}</ref> Despite his death, the film festival went along as scheduled, simultaneously acting as a tribute to Ebert's legacy.<ref>{{cite news |first=Alison |last=Marcotte |url=http://www.dailyillini.com/news/local/article_4e120996-9fea-11e2-9cfc-001a4bcf6878.html |title=Ebertfest to continue as tribute to film critic |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130725072617/http://www.dailyillini.com/news/local/article_4e120996-9fea-11e2-9cfc-001a4bcf6878.html |archivedate=2013-07-25 |newspaper=The Daily Illini |date=8 April 2013}}</ref> At the opening of the 15th annual Ebertfest, it was announced by Ebert's wife, Chaz, that his alma mater, the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]], will be establishing a new Film Studies program within the College of Media in honor of his legacy. The program will be funded in part by a $1 million grant from Ebert and his wife to the University. The non-degree program will be both a collection of film-related seminars and classes as well as a platform for Ebertfest to continue.<ref>{{cite news |first=Lewis |last=Lazare |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2013/04/18/roger-ebert-film-studies-program-for.html |title=Roger Ebert film studies program for University of Illinois |newspaper=Chicago Business Journal |date=18 April 2013}}</ref>

=== Festival guests ===
Since its inception, many film directors, actors, producers, cinematographers and other crew members, as well as studio executives have been invited to participate in Ebertfest. Examples include [[Werner Herzog]],<ref name="champions">{{cite news |last=Emerick |first=Laura |date=26 April 2004 |title=The champions of 'overlooked' cinema |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times |page=Features, 58}}</ref> [[Spike Lee]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Wood |first=Paul |date=April 26, 2014 |title=Spike Lee Q and A |url=http://www.news-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/local/2014-04-26/spike-lee-q-and.html |newspaper=News-Gazette |location=Champaign, Illinois |access-date=4 June 2016}}</ref> and [[Tilda Swinton]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Merli |first=Melissa |date=April 20, 2013 |title=Enthusiast Tilda Swinton: Everyone at Ebertfest cut from same cloth |url=http://www.news-gazette.com/blogs/art-and-about/2013-04/enthusiast-tilda-swinton-everyone-ebertfest-cut-same-cloth.html |newspaper=News-Gazette |location=Champaign, Illinois |access-date=4 June 2016}}</ref>

For the tenth Ebertfest in 2010, many of the international invited guests were unable to attend due to the [[2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull|volcanic eruptions]] in Iceland that disrupted air travel in Europe.<ref name="thumb">{{cite news |last=Merli |first=Melissa |date=April 23, 2010 |title=Ebertfest notebook: Of volcanoes, unbreakable thumbs, heroes and more |url=http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2010-04-23/ebertfest-notebook-volcanoes-unbreakable-thumbs-heroes-and-more.html |newspaper=News-Gazette |location=Champaign, Illinois |access-date=23 May 2016}}</ref>

For the 2022 festival, actor [[Gilbert Gottfried]] was scheduled to appear as a panelist to discuss the documentary film about him, ''[[Gilbert (film)|Gilbert]]''.<ref name="Chaz">{{cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/festivals/ebertfest-2022-to-welcome-guillermo-del-toro-terry-zwigoff-ramin-bahrani-and-more |title=From Guillermo and Gottfried to the Golden Arm, Ebertfest 2022 is Back in Full Swing |last=Ebert |first=Chaz |date=March 31, 2022 |website=RogerEbert.com |access-date=May 8, 2022}}</ref><ref name="Bureau">{{cite web |url=https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/322560300 |title=From Gottfried to 'Golden Arm,' Ebertfest back in full swing |date=March 31, 2022 |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Illinois News Bureau |publisher=University of Illinois |access-date=May 8, 2022}}</ref> In the aftermath of his death on April 12, 2022, Ebertfest announced it was dedicating the event to the memories of Gottfried and [[Sidney Poitier]].<ref name="Ebertfest 2022 Announces Complete Lineup, Will Be Dedicated to Sidney Poitier and Gilbert Gottfried">{{cite web |title=Ebertfest 2022 Announces Complete Lineup, Will Be Dedicated to Sidney Poitier and Gilbert Gottfried |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/festivals/ebertfest-2022-announces-complete-lineup-sidney-poitier-gilbert-gottfried |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=April 15, 2022 |access-date=April 17, 2022 |website=RogerEbert.com}}</ref>

=== Awards ===
As a non-competitive film festival,<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Festival & market listings |newspaper=Variety |location=Los Angeles, California |date=August 26, 2002 |page=Special supplement: Film Fest Guide, p. 37}}</ref><ref name="show" /> Ebertfest does not have jury or audience awards. But beginning with the sixth festival in 2004, all invited guests have been given an award originally referred to by Ebert as the Order of the Silver Thumb,<ref name="champions" /> but subsequently known as the Golden Thumb Award.<ref>{{cite news |last=Merli |first=Melissa |date=March 16, 2005 |title=The stars come out at Ebertfest |url=http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2005-03-16/stars-come-out-ebertfest.html |newspaper=News-Gazette |location=Champaign, Illinois |access-date=1 June 2016}}</ref> The Golden Thumb trophy is a casting of Roger Ebert's [[Thumbs signal|thumb in the up position]], made by the [[R.S. Owens & Company]], which is the same business that makes the Oscar statuette.<ref name="thumb" />

The first Roger Ebert Humanitarian Award was presented in 2016 to co-directors Andrew Young and Stephen Apkon for their documentary film ''[[Disturbing the Peace (2016 film)|Disturbing the Peace]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Merli |first=Melissa |date=April 16, 2016 |title=Middle East conflict gives rise to work, doc of peace |url=http://www.news-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/local/2016-04-16/middle-east-conflict-gives-rise-work-doc-peace.html |newspaper=News-Gazette |location=Champaign, Illinois |access-date=1 June 2016}}</ref> The film focuses on the work of [[Combatants for Peace]], a group of former Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters who put down their weapons and began working together for peace in the region.

In 2017, the second Ebert Humanitarian Award was presented to [[Norman Lear]] for "a lifetime of empathy".<ref>{{cite news |last=Merli |first=Melissa |date=April 23, 2017 |title=Ebertfest: Television titan Norman Lear wows audience |url=http://www.news-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/local/2017-04-23/ebertfest-television-titan-norman-lear-wows-audience.html |newspaper=News-Gazette |location=Champaign, Illinois |access-date=28 April 2017}}</ref> Lear was the first person to receive the award, because the 2016 award was given to the film ''Disturbing the Peace''. Lear was a special guest at the 2017 festival, to screen the documentary about his life.

In 2019, the third Ebert Humanitarian Award was presented to [[Morgan Neville]] for his film ''[[Won't You Be My Neighbor? (film)|Won't You Be My Neighbor?]]''.<ref name="Pieper">{{cite news |last=Pieper |first=Frank |date=April 14, 2019 |title=Ebertfest 2019 Day 4: Everyone was quite neighborly |url=http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2019-04-14/ebertfest-2019-day-4-everyone-was-quite-neighborly.html |work=News-Gazette |location=Champaign, Illinois |access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref> That same year, Chaz Ebert presented the first-ever Ebertfest Icon Award to Rita Coburn Whack for the documentary film she co-directed about poet and civil rights activist [[Maya Angelou]], titled ''Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise''.<ref name="Pieper2">{{cite news |last=Pieper |first=Frank |date=April 15, 2019 |title=Ebertfest 2019 Finale: Our Favorite Moments |url=http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2019-04-15/ebertfest-2019-finale-our-favorite-moments.html |work=News-Gazette |location=Champaign, Illinois |access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>

=== Academic panel discussions ===
Co-sponsored by the University of Illinois College of Media, every Ebertfest since its inception has included panel discussions with invited festival guests and scholars from academia, covering a variety of film-related topics.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ebertfest.com/archives.html |title=Festival archives |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=ebertfest.com |access-date=8 June 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527135922/http://www.ebertfest.com/archives.html |archive-date=27 May 2016}}</ref> These discussions are free and open to the public, and are held in the mornings during the festival. From 1999 to 2016, the panels were held on the University of Illinois campus. Beginning in 2017, the panel discussions are held in a hotel close to the Virginia Theatre.<ref name="scoop">{{cite news |url=http://www.news-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/local/2017-04-09/scoop-ebertfest.html |title=The scoop on Ebertfest |last1=Merli |first1=Melissa |date=April 9, 2017 |website=News-Gazette |location=Champaign, Illinois |access-date=10 April 2017}}</ref>

=== Live streaming ===
Beginning in 2010, the panel discussions, film introductions, and post-film discussions/question and answer sessions with festival guests have been streamed live, and then archived on [https://www.youtube.com/user/Ebertfest Ebertfest's YouTube channel].

=== Admission ===
Festival goers can purchase tickets to individual shows or full-festival passes. The number of passes sold is limited to 1,000 with the remainder of seats allotted for individual tickets or sponsors.<ref name="tickets">{{cite web |url=http://www.ebertfest.com/generalinfo.html |title=General Information/Ticket Policy |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=ebertfest.com |access-date=6 June 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527135907/http://www.ebertfest.com/generalinfo.html |archive-date=27 May 2016}}</ref> As passholders do not necessarily attend every show, it is often possible to obtain tickets at the last minute after empty seats are counted. At every festival since 2002, all patrons waiting in line for sold-out films were able to gain entry to the theatre.<ref name="tickets" />

Passes for the first Ebertfest in 1999 cost $30, and individual film tickets were $5.<ref name="overlooked" /> In 2016, passes cost $150, and individual film tickets were $15.<ref>{{cite news |last=Merli |first=Melissa |date=April 5, 2016 |title=Linklater sends movie and its stars to Ebertfest |url=http://www.news-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/local/2016-04-05/linklater-sends-movie-and-its-stars-ebertfest.html |newspaper=News-Gazette |location=Champaign, Illinois |access-date=6 June 2016}}</ref> In 2023, passes cost $200 and individual film tickets were $20.<ref name="Chaz" />

The first sell-out of passes was in 2004.<ref>{{cite news |last=Merli |first=Melissa |date=April 21, 2004 |title=Ebert film festival a sellout for first time |url=http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2004-04-21/ebert-film-festival-sellout-first-time.html |newspaper=News-Gazette |location=Champaign, Illinois |access-date=6 June 2016}}</ref>

== Festival administration ==
Festival founder, programmer and host, 1999<ref name="one">{{cite web |url=http://ebertfest.com/one/information.htm |title=You're invited to Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=April 1999 |website=ebertfest.com |access-date=8 June 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160618032232/http://ebertfest.com/one/information.htm |archive-date=18 June 2016}}</ref>–2012: [[Roger Ebert]]

Festival producer, 1999<ref name="one" />–2006:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ebertfest.com/who.html |title=Festival Who's Who: Festival staff |website=eberfest.com |access-date=8 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060408133112/http://www.ebertfest.com/who.html |archive-date=April 8, 2006}}</ref> Nancy Casey

Festival producer and host, 2007<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ebertfest.com/who.html |title=Festival Who's Who: Festival staff |website=eberfest.com |access-date=8 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070420231754/http://www.ebertfest.com/who.html |archive-date=April 20, 2007}}</ref>–present: Chaz Ebert

Festival director, 1999<ref name="one" />–present: Nate Kohn

== Films ==
The following is a complete list of films presented at Ebertfest.

===2025===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ebertfest.com/2025-films |title=2025 Film Schedule| website=ebertfest.com |date=2025 |access-date=April 16, 2025}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[The Searchers]]'''''
| [[John Ford]]
| 1956
| [[John Wayne]], [[Jeffrey Hunter]], [[Vera Miles]], [[Ward Bond]], [[Natalie Wood]]
| Post-film Q&A included Eric Pierson, film scholar
|-
| '''''[[Megalopolis (film)|Megalopolis]]'''''
| [[Francis Ford Coppola]]
| 2024 
| [[Adam Driver]], [[Giancarlo Esposito]]
| Post-film Q&A included Coppola live on a video call and [[Michael Barker (film distributor)|Michael Barker]]
|-
| '''''[[Desperately Seeking Susan]]'''''
| [[Susan Seidelman]]
| 1984 
| [[Rosanna Arquette]], [[Aidan Quinn]], [[Madonna]]
| Post-film Q&A included Seidelman and Arquette
|-
| '''''[[Harlan County, USA]]''''' (documentary)
| [[Barbara Kopple]]
| 1976
| various Kentucky mine workers
| Post-film Q&A included Kopple
|-
| '''''[[His Three Daughters]]'''''
| [[Azazel Jacobs]]
| 2023
| [[Carrie Coon]], [[Natasha Lyonne]], [[Elizabeth Olsen]]
| Post-film Q&A included Jacobs
|-
| '''''[[A Little Prayer]]'''''
| [[Angus MacLachlan]]
| 2023
| [[David Strathairn]], [[Jane Levy]], [[Celia Weston]]
| Post-film Q&A included MacLachlan
|-
| '''''[[I'm Still Here (2024 film)|I'm Still Here]]'''''
| [[Walter Salles]]
| 2024
| [[Fernanda Torres]], [[Selton Mello]], [[Fernanda Montenegro]]
| Post-film Q&A included a panel of film critics
|-
| '''''[[Rumours (2024 film)|Rumours]]'''''
| [[Guy Maddin]], [[Evan Johnson (filmmaker)|Evan Johnson]], [[Galen Johnson (filmmaker)|Galen Johnson]]
| 2024
| [[Cate Blanchette]], [[Roy Dupuis]], [[Denis Ménochet]], [[Nikki Amuka-Bird]], [[Rolando Ravello]], [[Takehiro Hira]], [[Zlatko Burić]], [[Alicia Vikander]]
| Post-film Q&A included Maddin live on a video call
|-
| '''''[[The Adventures of Prince Achmed]]'''''
| [[Lotte Reiniger]]
| 1926
| silent silhouette animated feature film
| The [[Alloy Orchestra|Anvil Orchestra]] provided musical accompaniment
|-
| '''''Color Book'''''
| David Fortune
| 2024
| [[Will Catlett|William Catlett]], Jeremiah Daniels
| Post-film Q&A included Fortune, Kiah Clingman (producer), Catlett, Daniels and Daniels's parents
|-
| '''''[[Touch (2024 film)|Touch]]'''''
| [[Baltasar Kormákur]]
| 2024
| [[Egill Ólafsson]], Palmi Kormákur, [[Yoko Narahashi]]
| post-film Q&A guests TBA
|-
| '''''[[The Hangover]]'''''
| [[Todd Phillips]]
| 2009
| [[Bradley Cooper]], [[Ed Helms]], [[Zach Galifianakis]]
| Post-film Q&A included [[Scott Budnick (film producer)|Scott Budnick]], executive producer
|-
|}  

===2024===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ebertfest.com/archive/2024/node/424 |title=2024 Film Schedule| website=ebertfest.com |access-date=April 23, 2024}}</ref><ref name="NG2024">{{cite news |title=Roger Ebert's Film Festival |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=April 16, 2024 |newspaper=The News-Gazette |location=Champaign, Illinois |page=A-7}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[Star 80]]'''''
| [[Bob Fosse]]
| 1983
| [[Mariel Hemingway]], [[Eric Roberts]], [[Cliff Robertson]], [[Carroll Baker]], [[Roger Rees]], [[David Clennon]] 
| Post-film Q&A included Roberts; Hemingway was scheduled to appear but was unable to attend
|-
| '''''The Light of Truth: Richard Hunt's Monument to Ida B. Wells''''' (documentary)
| Rana Segal
| 2024 
| [[Richard Hunt (sculptor)|Richard Hunt]]
| Post-film Q&A included Segal
|-
| ''''' Conducting Life ''''' (short documentary)
| Diane Moore
| 2022 
| [[Roderick Cox (conductor)|Roderick Cox]]
| Post-film Q&A included Moore and film subject Cox
|-
| '''''[[Stony Island (film)|Stony Island]]'''''
| [[Andrew Davis (director)|Andrew Davis]]
| 1978
| [[Richie Davis (musician)|Richard Davis]]
| Post-film Q&A included Andrew and Richard Davis, followed by a performance by Richard Davis' band
|-
| '''''[[The Teacher's Lounge]]'''''
| [[İlker Çatak]]
| 2013
| [[Leonie Benesch]], Leonard Stettnisch, [[Eva Löbau]]
| Post-film Q&A included [[Michael Barker (film distributor)|Michael Barker]], co-president of [[Sony Pictures Classics]]
|-
| '''''[[Cookie's Fortune]]'''''
| [[Robert Altman]]
| 1999
| [[Glenn Close]], [[Julianne Moore]], [[Liv Tyler]], [[Chris O'Donnell]], [[Charles S. Dutton]], [[Patricia Neal]]
| Post-film Q&A included a panel of film critics and scholars
|-
| '''''[[Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind]]'''''
| [[Michel Gondry]]
| 2004
| [[Jim Carrey]], [[Kate Winslet]], [[Kirsten Dunst]], [[Mark Ruffalo]], [[Elijah Wood]], [[Tom Wilkinson]]
| Post-film Q&A included a panel of film critics and scholars
|-
| '''''[[Little Richard: I Am Everything]]'''''
| Lisa Cortés
| 2023
| [[Little Richard]]
| Post-film Q&A included director and producer Cortés
|-
| '''''[[The Best Man (1999 film)|The Best Man]]'''''
| [[Malcolm D. Lee]]
| 1999
| [[Taye Diggs]], [[Nia Long]]
| Post-film Q&A included director and writer Lee
|-
| '''''[[Blackmail (1929 film)|Blackmail]]''''' (silent version)
| [[Alfred Hitchcock]]
| 1929
| [[Anny Ondra]], [[John Longden]], [[Cyril Ritchard]]
| The [[Alloy Orchestra|Anvil Orchestra]] provided musical accompaniment; post-film Q&A included Orchestra musician Terry Donahue
|-
| '''''Omoiyari: A Song Film by Kishi Bashi'''''
| [[Kishi Bashi]], Justin Taylor Smith
| 2022
| [[Kishi Bashi]]
| Post-film Q&A included co-director and subject Bashi
|-
| ''''' [[Albany Road]] '''''
| [[Christine Swanson]]
| 2024
| [[Renée Elise Goldsberry]], [[Lynn Whitfield]]
|World premiere; post-film Q&A included director and writer Swanson, producer Michael Swanson and actors Goldsberry and Whitfield
|-
| '''''[[Man on the Moon (film)|Man on the Moon]]'''''
| [[Miloš Forman]]
| 1999
| [[Jim Carrey]], [[Danny DeVito]], [[Courtney Love]], [[Paul Giamatti]]
| Post-film Q&A included writers [[Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski]]
|-
|}

===2023===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ebertfest.com/archive/2023/node/424 |title=Ebertfest: 2023 Film Schedule| website=www.ebertfest.com|access-date=April 23, 2024}}</ref><ref name="Rogerdotcom">{{cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/festivals/ebertfest-2023-announces-full-line-up-including-guests-lawrence-bender-mykelti-williamson-michael-morris-and-more |title=Ebertfest 2023 Announces Full Lineup Including Guests Lawrence Bender, Mykelti Williamson, Michael Morris and More |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=March 28, 2023 |website=RogerEbert.com |access-date=April 1, 2023}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[Nine Days (film)|Nine Days]]'''''
| Edson Oda
| 2020
| [[Winston Duke]], [[Benedict Wong]], [[Zazie Beetz]], [[Tony Hale]] and [[Bill Skarsgård]]
| Post-film Q&A included Oda and [[Jason Michael Berman]], producer
|-
| '''''[[Tokyo Story]]'''''
| [[Yasujirō Ozu]]
| 1953 
|[[Chishū Ryū]], [[Chieko Higashiyama]], [[Setsuko Hara]] and [[Haruko Sugimura]]
| Post-film Q&A included film critic [[Michael Phillips (critic)|Michael Phillips]]
|-
| '''''[[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari]]'''''
| [[Robert Wiene]]
| 1920
| [[Werner Krauss]], [[Conrad Veidt]]
| The Anvil Orchestra provided musical accompaniment; post-film Q&A included film critic [[Michael Phillips (critic)|Michael Phillips]] and professor Todd Rendleman
|-
| '''''[[My Name is Sara]]'''''
| Steven Oritt
| 2019
| Zuzanna Surowy, {{ill|Eryk Lubos|pl}} and [[Michalina Olszańska]]
| Post-film Q&A included Oritt, executive producer Mickey Shapiro (son of the film's title character), and Holocaust survivor William Gingold
|-
| '''''[[American Folk]]'''''
| [[David Heinz]]
| 2017
| [[Joe Purdy]], [[Amber Rubarth]]
| Post-film Q&A included Heinz and Rubarth
|-
|'''''[[To Leslie]]'''''
| [[Michael Morris (director)|Michael Morris]]
| 2022
| [[Andrea Riseborough]]
| Post-film Q&A included Morris
|-
| '''''Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands'''''
| Rita Coburn
| 2022
| [[Marian Anderson]]
| Post-film Q&A included Coburn and producer Brenda Robinson; musical performance by student Viveca Richards 
|-
| '''''In & Of Itself'''''
| [[Frank Oz]]
| 2020
| [[Derek DelGaudio]] 
| Theatrical premiere. Pre-taped introduction by executive producer [[Stephen Colbert]]; post-film Q&A included Oz, DelGaudio, and producers Jake Friedman and Vanessa Lauren
|-
| '''''Team Dream''''' (short documentary)
| [[Luchina Fisher]]
| 2022
| Madeline Murphy Rabb, Ann E. Smith
| Post-film Q&A included Fisher, Rabb, Smith and coach Derrick Q. Milligan
|-
| '''''Club Alli''''' (short)
| Justen Turner and Julien Turner
| 2020
| 
| Post-film Q&A included the Turner Brothers and Max Libman, director of the CU International Film Festival 
|-
| '''''[[Fresh (1994 film)|Fresh]]'''''
| [[Boaz Yakin]]
| 1994
| [[Sean Nelson (actor)|Sean Nelson]], [[Giancarlo Esposito]], [[Samuel L. Jackson]] and [[N'Bushe Wright]]
| Post-film Q&A included producer [[Lawrence Bender]]
|-
| '''''[[Wings of Desire]]'''''
| [[Wim Wenders]]
| 1987
| [[Bruno Ganz]], [[Solveig Dommartin]]
| Post-film Q&A included [[Michael Barker (film distributor)|Michael Barker]], and Wenders via video call
|-
| '''''[[Forrest Gump]]'''''
| [[Robert Zemeckis]]
| 1994
| [[Tom Hanks]], [[Robin Wright]], [[Gary Sinise]], [[Mykelti Williamson]] and [[Sally Field]]
| Post-film Q&A included Williamson
|-
|}

===2022===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ebertfest.com/archive/2022/node/424 |title=Ebertfest: 2022 Film Schedule |website=www.ebertfest.com |access-date=December 23, 2022}}</ref><ref name="Bureau" /><ref name="Fagerholm">{{cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/festivals/ebertfest-2022-recap-a-golden-homecoming |title=Ebertfest 2022 Recap: A Golden Homecoming |last=Fagerholm |first=Matt |date=April 27, 2022 |website=RogerEbert.com |access-date=May 10, 2022}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[Summer of Soul]]'''''
| [[Questlove|Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson]]
| 2021
| various artists
| Pre-film musical performance by [[Eef Barzelay]] performing his song "Roger Ebert"; post-film musical performance included Tammy McCann and local bands Aplustrodamus and Ther'Up.Y
|-
| '''''[[The Phantom of the Open]]'''''
| [[Craig Roberts]]
| 2021
| [[Mark Rylance]], [[Sally Hawkins]]
| Post-film Q&A included film executive [[Michael Barker (film distributor)|Michael Barker]] and Champaign film critics Chuck Koplinski and Pam Powell
|-
| '''''[[The 39 Steps (1935 film)|The 39 Steps]]'''''
| [[Alfred Hitchcock]]
| 1935
| [[Robert Donat]], [[Madeleine Carroll]]
| Post-film Q&A included Michael Barker, film critic [[Michael Phillips (critic)|Michael Phillips]] and [[Ramin Bahrani]]
|-
| '''''[[Gilbert (film)|Gilbert]]'''''
| Neil Berkeley
| 2017
| [[Gilbert Gottfried]]
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include Gottfried and Berkeley; as a result of Gottfried's death nine days prior, the post-film discussion included Berkeley, [[Terry Zwigoff]], executive producer Chris Kelly, and Gottfried's wife Dara via video call
|-
| '''''[[French Exit (2020 film)|French Exit]]'''''
| [[Azazel Jacobs]]
| 2020
| [[Michelle Pfeiffer]], [[Lucas Hedges]]
| Post-film Q&A included Jacobs and Michael Barker
|-
| '''''Lifeline''''' (short)
| Jason Delane Lee and Yvonne Huff Lee
| 
| 
| 
|-
|'''''[[Passing (film)|Passing]]'''''
| [[Rebecca Hall]]
| 2021
| [[Tessa Thompson]], [[Ruth Negga]]
| Post-film Q&A included [[Chaz Ebert]], executive producer Brenda Robinson, and Yvonne Huff Lee
|-
| '''''[[Golden Arm (film)|Golden Arm]]'''''
| Maureen Bharoocha
| 2020
| [[Mary Holland]], [[Betsy Sodaro]], [[Dot-Marie Jones]]
| Post-film Q&A included screenwriters Anne Marie Allison and Jenna Milly 
|-
| '''''[[The White Tiger (2021 film)|The White Tiger]]'''''
| [[Ramin Bahrani]]
| 2021
| [[Adarsh Gourav]], [[Priyanka Chopra|Priyanka Chopra-Jonas]], [[Rajkummar Rao]] 
| Post-film Q&A included Bahrani and film critics Brian Tallerico and Nick Allen
|-
| '''''[[Ghost World (film)|Ghost World]]'''''
| [[Terry Zwigoff]]
| 2001
| [[Thora Birch]], [[Scarlett Johansson]]
| Post-film Q&A included Zwigoff and Birch
|-
| '''''[[Siren of the Tropics]]'''''
| Mario Nalpas, [[Henri Étiévant]] 
| 1927
| [[Josephine Baker]]
| Renee Baker and 10 members of the Chicago Modern Orchestra played live accompaniment; post-film Q&A included scholar Douglas A. Williams, Baker, Michael Phillips and Chaz Ebert
|-
| '''''[[Krisha]]'''''
| [[Trey Edward Shults]]
| 2015
| [[Krisha Fairchild]], Robyn Fairchild, [[Bill Wise]]
| Post-film Q&A included Fairchild, film critic [[Nell Minow]], Joseph Omo-Osagie and Eric Pierson
|-
| '''''Soy Cubana'''''
| Jeremy Ungar, Ivaylo Getov
| 2021
| Vocal Vidas
| Post-film Q&A included Ungar and producer Robin Ungar; post-film performance by Tito Carillo and the University of Illinois Latin Jazz Ensemble
|-
| '''''[[Nightmare Alley (2021 film)|Nightmare Alley]]'''''
| [[Guillermo del Toro]]
| 2021
| [[Bradley Cooper]], [[Cate Blanchett]], [[Toni Collette]], [[Willem Dafoe]]
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include del Toro but he was unable to attend in person; a pre-taped introduction and post-film Q&A with del Toro and co-writer Kim Morgan with Chaz Ebert and Nate Kohn followed
|-
|}

===2019===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ebertfest.com/archive/2019/node/424 |title=Ebertfest: 2019 Film Schedule |website=www.ebertfest.com |access-date=April 1, 2022}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[Amazing Grace (2018 film)|Amazing Grace]]'''''
| [[Sydney Pollack]]; Alan Elliott (realizer and producer)
| 2018
| [[Aretha Franklin]]
| Post-film Q&A included Elliott, Tirrell D. Whittley (producer), and a performance by The Martin Luther King Jr. Community Choir of Champaign-Urbana
|-
| '''''[[Cœur fidèle]]'''''
| [[Jean Epstein]]
| 1923
| [[Gina Manès]], [[Léon Mathot]], [[Edmond Van Daële]]
| [[Alloy Orchestra]] played live accompaniment. Post-film Q&A included two members of the Alloy Orchestra, and [[Michael Phillips (critic)|Michael Phillips]] (film critic)
|-
| '''''[[Rachel Getting Married]]'''''
| [[Jonathan Demme]]
| 2008
| [[Anne Hathaway]], [[Rosemarie DeWitt]], [[Bill Irwin]], [[Debra Winger]]
| Post-film Q&A included [[Michael Barker (film distributor)|Michael Barker]], Stephen Apkon, and [[Nell Minow]] (film critic)
|-
| '''''[[Bound (1996 film)|Bound]]'''''
| [[The Wachowskis]]
| 1996
| [[Jennifer Tilly]], [[Gina Gershon]], [[Joe Pantoliano]]
| Post-film Q&A included Tilly and Gershon
|-
|'''''[[Cold War (2018 film)|Cold War]]'''''
| [[Paweł Pawlikowski]]
| 2018
| [[Joanna Kulig]], [[Tomasz Kot]]
| Post-film Q&A included Michael Phillips and [[Carla Renata]] (film critics)
|-
| '''''[[Cane River (film)|Cane River]]'''''
| Horace B. Jenkins
| 1982
|Richard Romain, Tommye Myrick
| Post-film Q&A included Myrick and Sacha and Dominique Jenkins (children of director)
|-
| '''''[[A Year of the Quiet Sun]]'''''
| [[Krzysztof Zanussi]]
| 1984
| [[Maja Komorowska]], [[Scott Wilson (actor)|Scott Wilson]]
| Post-film Q&A included Komoroska and Heavenly Wilson (widow of lead male actor)
|-
| '''''[[Romy and Michele's High School Reunion]]'''''
| [[David Mirkin]]
| 1997
| [[Mira Sorvino]], [[Lisa Kudrow]]
| Post-film Q&A included Mirkin
|-
| '''''Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise'''''
| Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack
| 2016
| [[Maya Angelou]]
| Post-film Q&A included Coburn
|-
| '''''[[Won't You Be My Neighbor? (film)|Won't You Be My Neighbor?]]'''''
| [[Morgan Neville]]
| 2018
| [[Fred Rogers]]
| Post-film Q&A included Neville
|-
| '''''[[Almost Famous]]'''''
| [[Cameron Crowe]]
| 2000
| [[Billy Crudup]], [[Frances McDormand]], [[Patrick Fugit]], [[Kate Hudson]]
| Post-film Q&A included [[Richard Roeper]] (film critic)
|-
| '''''[[Sideways]]'''''
| [[Alexander Payne]]
| 2004
| [[Paul Giamatti]], [[Thomas Haden Church]], [[Virginia Madsen]]
| Post-film Q&A included Richard Roeper and Madsen via video call
|-
|}

=== 2018 ===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ebertfest.com/archive/2018/node/424 |title=2018 Film Schedule |website=www.ebertfest.com |access-date=6 April 2019}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[The Fugitive (1993 film)|The Fugitive]]'''''
| [[Andrew Davis (director)|Andrew Davis]]
| 1993
| [[Harrison Ford]], [[Tommy Lee Jones]], [[Sela Ward]]
| Post-film Q&A included Davis
|-
| '''''[[Interstellar (film)|Interstellar]]'''''
| [[Christopher Nolan]]
| 2014
| [[Matthew McConaughey]], [[Anne Hathaway]], [[Jessica Chastain]]
| Post-film Q&A included scientists [[Miguel Alcubierre]] and Brand Fortner
|-
| '''''[[Selena (film)|Selena]]'''''
| [[Gregory Nava]]
| 1997
| [[Jennifer Lopez]], [[Edward James Olmos]]
| Post-film Q&A included Nava
|-
| '''''[[Belle (2013 film)|Belle]]'''''
| [[Amma Asante]]
| 2013
| [[Gugu Mbatha-Raw]], [[Tom Wilkinson]], [[Miranda Richardson]], [[Penelope Wilton]], [[Sam Reid (actor)|Sam Reid]], [[Matthew Goode]], [[Emily Watson]]
| Post-film Q&A included Asante
|-
|'''''[[Columbus (2017 film)|Columbus]]'''''
| [[Kogonada]]
| 2017
| [[John Cho]], [[Haley Lu Richardson]], [[Parker Posey]]
| Post-film Q&A included Kogonada and producers Bill Harnisch, Andrew Miano, [[Ruth Ann Harnisch]], and Danielle Renfrew Behrens
|-
| '''''[[A Page of Madness]]'''''
| [[Teinosuke Kinugasa]]
| 1926
| [[Masao Inoue (actor)|Masao Inoue]], Ayako Iijima, Yoshie Nakagawa
| [[Alloy Orchestra]] played live accompaniment. Post-film Q&A included two members of the Alloy Orchestra
|-
| '''''[[American Splendor (film)|American Splendor]]'''''
| [[Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini]]
| 2003
| [[Paul Giamatti]], [[Hope Davis]], [[Judah Friedlander]]
| Post-film Q&A included Berman, Pulcini, and producer [[Ted Hope]]
|-
| '''''[[13th (film)|13th]]'''''
| [[Ava DuVernay]]
| 2016
| documentary film
| Post-film Q&A included DuVernay
|-
| '''''[[Daughters of the Dust]]'''''
| [[Julie Dash]]
| 1991
| Cora Lee Day, Barbara O, Alva Rogers
| Post-film Q&A included Dash
|-
| '''''[[Rambling Rose (film)|Rambling Rose]]'''''
| [[Martha Coolidge]]
| 1991
| [[Laura Dern]], [[Robert Duvall]], [[Diane Ladd]]
| Post-film Q&A included Coolidge
|-
| '''''[[The Big Lebowski]]'''''
| [[Coen brothers|Joel and Ethan Coen]]
| 1998
| [[Jeff Bridges]], [[John Goodman]], [[Julianne Moore]], [[Steve Buscemi]]
| Post-film Q&A included film subject [[Jeff Dowd]]
|-
| '''''[[Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World]]'''''
| [[Catherine Bainbridge]] and Alfonso Maiorana
| 2017
| documentary film
| Post-film Q&A included Maiorana and [[Pura Fé]]. Live performance by Pura Fé followed the discussion.
|-
|}

=== 2017 ===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ebertfest.com/archive/2017/node/424 |title=2017 Film Schedule |website=www.ebertfest.com |access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[Hair (film)|Hair]]'''''
| [[Miloš Forman]]
| 1979
| [[John Savage (actor)|John Savage]], [[Treat Williams]], [[Beverly D'Angelo]]
| Post-film Q&A included Michael Hausman (first assistant director) and [[Michael Butler (producer)|Michael Butler]] (producer)
|-
| '''''[[Hysteria (2011 film)]]'''''
| [[Tanya Wexler]]
| 2011
| [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]], [[Hugh Dancy]], [[Rupert Everett]]
| Post-film Q&A included Wexler and Dancy
|-
| '''''[[To Sleep with Anger]]'''''
| [[Charles Burnett (director)|Charles Burnett]]
| 1990
| [[Danny Glover]], Paul Butler, [[Mary Alice]]
| Post-film Q&A included Burnett and special guest [[Robert Townsend (actor)|Robert Townsend]]
|-
| '''''[[The Handmaiden]]'''''
| [[Park Chan-wook]]
| 2016
| [[Kim Min-hee (actress, born 1982)|Kim Min-hee]], [[Kim Tae-ri]], [[Ha Jung-woo]], [[Cho Jin-woong]]
| Post-film Q&A included a panel of film critics
|-
| '''''July and Half of August''''' (short)
| Brandeaux Tourville
| 2017
| [[Annika Marks]], [[Robert Baker (actor)|Robert Baker]]
| Pre-film introduction included Sheila O'Malley (writer)
|-
| '''''[[They Call Us Monsters]]'''''
| Ben Lear
| 2016
|
| Post-film Q&A included Lear and Sasha Alpert (producer)
|-
| '''''[[Variety (1925 film)|Varieté]]'''''
| [[E. A. Dupont|Ewald Andre Dupont]]
| 1924
| [[Emil Jannings]], [[Maly Delschaft]], [[Lya De Putti]]
| [[Alloy Orchestra]] played live accompaniment. Post-film Q&A included film historian Richard Neupert
|-
| '''''[[Elle (film)|Elle]]'''''
| [[Paul Verhoeven]]
| 2016
| [[Isabelle Huppert]], [[Laurent Lafitte]], [[Anne Consigny]]
| Post-film Q&A included Huppert
|-
| '''''Mind/Game: The Unquiet Journey of Chamique Holdsclaw'''''
| Rick Goldsmith
| 2015
| [[Chamique Holdsclaw]], [[Metta World Peace|Ron Artest]], [[Glenn Close]]
| Post-film Q&A included Goldsmith
|-
| '''''[[Pleasantville (film)|Pleasantville]]'''''
| [[Gary Ross]]
| 1998
| [[Tobey Maguire]], [[Reese Witherspoon]], [[Joan Allen]], [[William H. Macy]], [[Jeff Daniels]]
| Post-film Q&A included Ross
|-
| '''''Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You'''''
| [[Heidi Ewing]], [[Rachel Grady]]
| 2016
| [[Norman Lear]], [[John Amos]], [[Bea Arthur]]
| Post-film Q&A included Lear, Grady, and Brent Miller (producer). Ewing was scheduled to appear but she was unable to attend.
|-
| '''''[[Being There]]'''''
| [[Hal Ashby]]
| 1979
| [[Peter Sellers]], [[Shirley MacLaine]], [[Melvyn Douglas]]
| Post-film Q&A included [[Caleb Deschanel]] (cinematographer)
|-
| '''''[[De-Lovely]]'''''
| [[Irwin Winkler]]
| 2004
| [[Kevin Kline]], [[Ashley Judd]]
| Post-film Q&A included Winkler, his son [[Charles Winkler]] (producer) plus special musical guests [[Jimmy Demers]] and [[Donnie Demers]]
|}

=== 2016 ===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu/eighteen/schedule.html |title=Festival Schedule 2016 |website=archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu |access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[Everybody Wants Some!! (film)|Everybody Wants Some!!]]'''''
| [[Richard Linklater]]
| 2016
| [[Blake Jenner]], [[Tyler Hoechlin]], [[Ryan Guzman]]
| Free student screening on University of Illinois campus. Post-film Q&A included Stephen Feder (executive producer), [[Glen Powell]] (actor), and Juston Street (actor)
|-
| '''''[[Crimson Peak]]'''''
| [[Guillermo del Toro]]
| 2015
| [[Mia Wasikowska]], [[Jessica Chastain]], [[Tom Hiddleston]]
| Post-film Q&A included del Toro
|-
| '''''[[Grandma (2015 film)|Grandma]]'''''
| [[Paul Weitz (filmmaker)|Paul Weitz]]
| 2015
| [[Lily Tomlin]], [[Julia Garner]], [[Marcia Gay Harden]]
| Post-film Q&A included Weitz and Andrew Miano (producer)
|-
| '''''[[Northfork]]'''''
| [[Michael Polish]]
| 2003
| [[James Woods]], [[Nick Nolte]], [[Daryl Hannah]], [[Anthony Edwards (actor)|Anthony Edwards]]
| Post-film Q&A included Polish
|-
| '''''[[The Third Man]]'''''
| [[Carol Reed]]
| 1949
| [[Joseph Cotten]], [[Orson Welles]], [[Alida Valli]]
| Post-film Q&A included Angela Allen (script supervisor)
|-
| '''''[[Disturbing the Peace (2016 film)|Disturbing the Peace]]'''''
| Stephen Apkon, Andrew Young
| 2016
| [[Chen Alon]], [[Sulaiman Khatib]]
| Special premiere. Post-film Q&A included Apkon, Young, Alon, Khatib, and Marcina Hale (story consultant)
|-
| | '''''[[L'Inhumaine]]'''''
| [[Marcel L'Herbier]]
| 1924
| [[Georgette Leblanc]], [[Jaque Catelain]], [[Philippe Hériat]]
| [[Alloy Orchestra]] played live accompaniment. Post-film Q&A included two members of the Alloy Orchestra
|-
| '''''[[Eve's Bayou]]'''''
| [[Kasi Lemmons]]
| 1997
| [[Samuel L. Jackson]], [[Lynn Whitfield]], [[Jurnee Smollett-Bell|Jurnee Smollett]]
| Post-film Q&A included Lemmons
|-
| '''''Force of Destiny'''''
| [[Paul Cox (director)|Paul Cox]]
| 2015
| [[David Wenham]], [[Shahana Goswami]], [[Jacqueline McKenzie]]
| U.S. premiere. Post-film Q&A included Cox
|-
| '''''Radical Grace'''''
| Rebecca Parrish
| 2015
| [[Simone Campbell|Sister Simone Campbell]], Sister Jean Hughes, [[Christine Schenk|Sister Chris Schenk]]
| Post-film Q&A included Parrish, Nicole Bernardi-Reis (producer), [[Heather McIntosh]] (composer), and [[Michael Pfleger|Father Michael Pfleger]] (social activist)
|-
| '''''[[Love & Mercy (film)|Love & Mercy]]'''''
| [[Bill Pohlad]]
| 2014
| [[John Cusack]], [[Paul Dano]], [[Paul Giamatti]], [[Elizabeth Banks]]
| Post-film Q&A included panel of film critics
|-
| '''''[[Blow Out]]'''''
| [[Brian De Palma]]
| 1981
| [[John Travolta]], [[Nancy Allen (actress)|Nancy Allen]], [[John Lithgow]]
| Post-film Q&A included Allen
|-
| '''''[[Body and Soul (1925 film)|Body and Soul]]'''''
| [[Oscar Micheaux]]
| 1925
| [[Paul Robeson]], [[Mercedes Gilbert]], Julia Theresa Russell
| Renee Baker and the Chicago Modern Orchestra Project played live accompaniment, composed by Baker. Post-film Q&A included Baker
|-
|}

=== 2015 ===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu/seventeen/schedule.html |title=Festival Schedule 2015 |website=archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu |access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[Goodbye to Language]]'''''
| [[Jean-Luc Godard]]
| 2014
| Héloise Godet, Kamel Abdeli, Richard Chevalier
| Post-film Q&A included Godet
|-
| '''''[[A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence]]'''''
| [[Roy Andersson]]
| 2014
| Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom, Viktor Gyllenberg
| Post-film Q&A included Johan Carlsson (producer)
|-
| '''''[[Moving Midway]]'''''
| [[Godfrey Cheshire]]
| 2008
| [[Godfrey Cheshire]], Robert Hinton
| Post-film Q&A included Cheshire, plus Hinton via video call
|-
| '''''[[The End of the Tour]]'''''
| [[James Ponsoldt]]
| 2015
| [[Jason Segel]], [[Jesse Eisenberg]], [[Ron Livingston]]
| Post-film Q&A included Ponsoldt and Segel
|-
| '''''[[Girlhood (film)|Girlhood]]'''''
| [[Céline Sciamma]]
| 2014
| [[Karidja Touré]], [[Assa Sylla]], Lindsay Karamoh
| Post-film Q&A included Héloise Godet
|-
| '''''[[The Son of the Sheik]]'''''
| [[George Fitzmaurice]]
| 1926
| [[Rudolph Valentino]], [[Vilma Bánky]], [[George Fawcett]]
| [[Alloy Orchestra]] played live accompaniment. Post-film Q&A included two members of the Alloy Orchestra
|-
| '''''[[A Bronx Tale]]'''''
| [[Robert De Niro]]
| 1993
| [[Robert De Niro]], [[Chazz Palminteri]], [[Lillo Brancato, Jr.]]
| Post-film Q&A included Palminteri, Jon Kilik (producer), [[Richard Roeper]] (critic) and [[Leonard Maltin]] (critic)
|-
| '''''[[Wild Tales (film)|Wild Tales]]'''''
| [[Damián Szifrón]]
| 2014
| [[Darío Grandinetti]], María Marull, [[Julieta Zylberberg]]
| Post-film Q&A included Zylberberg, Javier Braier (casting director), plus Szifrón via video call
|-
| '''''[[Ida (film)|Ida]]'''''
| [[Paweł Pawlikowski]]
| 2013
| [[Agata Kulesza]], [[Agata Trzebuchowska]], [[Dawid Ogrodnik]]
| Post-film Q&A included panel of film critics
|-
| '''''[[The Motel Life (film)|The Motel Life]]'''''
| Alan Polsky, [[Gabe Polsky]]
| 2012
| [[Emile Hirsch]], [[Stephen Dorff]], [[Dakota Fanning]], [[Kris Kristofferson]]
| Post-film Q&A included Alan Polsky
|-
| '''''[[99 Homes]]'''''
| [[Ramin Bahrani]]
| 2014
| [[Andrew Garfield]], [[Michael Shannon]], [[Laura Dern]]
| Post-film Q&A included Bahrani and [[Noah Lomax]] (actor)
|-
| '''''[[Seymour: An Introduction (film)|Seymour: An Introduction]]'''''
| [[Ethan Hawke]]
| 2014
| [[Seymour Bernstein]], Jiyang Chen, Ethan Hawke
| Post-film Q&A included Bernstein, Andrew Harvey (activist), and [[Leonard Maltin]] (critic)
|-
|}

=== 2014 ===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu/sixteen/schedule.html |title=Festival Schedule 2014 |website=archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu |access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974 film)|The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three]]'''''
| [[Joseph Sargent]]
| 1974
| [[Walter Matthau]], [[Robert Shaw (actor)|Robert Shaw]], [[Martin Balsam]]
| Free student screening on University of Illinois campus. Post-film Q&A included [[Patton Oswalt]]
|-
| '''''[[Life Itself (2014 film)|Life Itself]]'''''
| [[Steve James (producer)|Steve James]]
| 2014
| [[Roger Ebert]], Chaz Ebert, [[Gene Siskel]]
| Post-film Q&A included James and Chaz Ebert
|-
| '''''[[Museum Hours]]'''''
| [[Jem Cohen]]
| 2012
| [[Mary Margaret O’Hara]], Bobby Sommer, Ela Piplits
| Post-film Q&A included Cohen
|-
| '''''[[Short Term 12]]'''''
| [[Destin Daniel Cretton|Destin Cretton]]
| 2013
| [[Brie Larson]], [[John Gallagher, Jr.]], Frantz Turner
| Post-film Q&A included Larson
|-
| '''''[[Young Adult (film)|Young Adult]]'''''
| [[Jason Reitman]]
| 2011
| [[Charlize Theron]], [[Patton Oswalt]], [[Patrick Wilson]]
| Post-film Q&A included Oswalt
|-
| '''''[[He Who Gets Slapped (film)|He Who Gets Slapped]]'''''
| [[Victor Sjöström]]
| 1924
| [[Lon Chaney]], [[Norma Shearer]], [[John Gilbert (actor)|John Gilbert]]
| 2011 restoration. [[Alloy Orchestra]] played live accompaniment. Post-film Q&A included two members of the Alloy Orchestra
|-.
| '''''[[Capote (film)|Capote]]'''''
| [[Bennett Miller]]
| 2004
| [[Philip Seymour Hoffman]], [[Catherine Keener]], [[Clifton Collins, Jr.]]
| Pre-film introduction included [[Michael Barker (film distributor)|Michael Barker]] (distributor)
|-
| '''''[[Do The Right Thing]]'''''
| [[Spike Lee]]
| 1989
| [[Danny Aiello]], [[Ossie Davis]], [[Ruby Dee]], Spike Lee
| Post-film Q&A included Lee
|-
| '''''[[Wadjda]]'''''
| [[Haifaa Al-Mansour]]
| 2012
| Waad Mohammed, [[Reem Abdullah]], Abdullrahman Al Gohani
| Post-film Q&A included Al-Mansour
|-
| '''''[[A Simple Life]]'''''
| [[Ann Hui]]
| 2011
| [[Andy Lau]], [[Deanie Ip]], [[Paul Chun]], Fuli Wang
| Post-film Q&A included Hui
|-
| '''''[[Goodbye Solo]]'''''
| [[Ramin Bahrani]]
| 2008
| [[Souleymane Sy Savane]], [[Red West]], Diana Franco Galindo
| Post-film Q&A included Bahrani
|-
| '''''[[Born on the Fourth of July (film)|Born on the Fourth of July]]'''''
| [[Oliver Stone]]
| 1989
| [[Tom Cruise]], [[Willem Dafoe]], [[Raymond J. Barry]], [[Caroline Kava]]
| Post-film Q&A included Stone
|-
| '''''[[James Booker#Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker|Bayou Maharajah]]'''''
| Lily Keber
| 2013
| [[James Booker]], [[Dr. John]], [[Harry Connick, Jr.]]
| Post-film Q&A included Keber, [[Henry Butler]]
|-
|}

=== 2013 ===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu/fifteen/schedule.html |title=Festival Schedule 2013 |website=archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu |access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[Days of Heaven]]'''''
| [[Terrence Malick]]
| 1978
| [[Richard Gere]], [[Brooke Adams (actress)|Brooke Adams]], [[Sam Shepard]], [[Linda Manz]]
| Post-film Q&A included [[Haskell Wexler]] (cinematographer)
|-
| '''''I Remember''''' (short)
| Grace Wang
| 2012
| Lily Huang, Chris Chang
| Pre-film introduction included Wang and June Kim (director of photography)
|-
| '''''[[Vincent (1987 film)|Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh]]'''''
| [[Paul Cox (director)|Paul Cox]]
| 1989
| [[John Hurt]], [[Marika Rivera]], Gabriella Trsek
|
|-
| '''''To Music''''' (short)
| Sophie Kohn, Feike Santbergen
| 2013
| [[Paul Cox (director)|Paul Cox]], Roger Glanville-Hicks, Henriett Tunyogi, [[Tamás Vásáry]]
| Pre-film introduction included Kohn and Santbergen
|-
| '''''[[In the Family (2011 film)|In the Family]]'''''
| [[Patrick Wang]]
| 2012
| Sebastian Banes, Patrick Wang, [[Trevor St. John]]
| Post-film Q&A included Wang and St. John
|-
| '''''[[Bernie (2011 film)|Bernie]]'''''
| [[Richard Linklater]]
| 2011
| [[Jack Black]], [[Shirley MacLaine]], [[Matthew McConaughey]]
| Post-film Q&A included Linklater and Black (via conference call)
|-
| '''''[[Oslo, August 31st]]'''''
| [[Joachim Trier]]
| 2011
| [[Anders Danielsen Lie]]
| Post-film Q&A included Trier
|-
| '''''[[The Ballad of Narayama (1958 film)|The Ballad of Narayama]]'''''
| [[Keisuke Kinoshita]]
| 1958
| [[Kinuyo Tanaka]], Teiji Takahashi, [[Yūko Mochizuki]]
| Post-film Q&A included [[David Bordwell]] (film historian)
|-
| '''''[[Julia (2008 film)|Julia]]'''''
| [[Erick Zonca]]
| 2008
| [[Tilda Swinton]], [[Aidan Gould]], [[Saul Rubinek]], [[Kate del Castillo]]
| Post-film Q&A included Swinton
|-
| '''''[[Blancanieves]]'''''
| [[Pablo Berger]]
| 2012
| [[Maribel Verdú]]
| Post-film Q&A included Berger
|-
| '''''[[Kumaré]]'''''
| [[Vikram Gandhi]]
| 2011
| Vikram Gandhi
| Post-film Q&A included Gandhi
|-
| '''''[[Escape from Tomorrow]]'''''
| Randy Moore
| 2013
| [[Roy Abramsohn]], Elena Schuber, Katelynn Rodriguez, [[Annet Mahendru]], Danielle Safady, Alison Lees-Taylor
| Post-film Q&A included Moore, Soojin Chung (producer), Abramsohn, Schuber, Mahendru
|-
| '''''[[The Spectacular Now]]'''''
| [[James Ponsoldt]]
| 2013
| [[Miles Teller]], [[Shailene Woodley]], [[Brie Larson]], [[Jennifer Jason Leigh]], [[Mary Elizabeth Winstead]], [[Kyle Chandler]]
| Post-film Q&A included Ponsoldt and Woodley
|-
| '''''Not Yet Begun to Fight'''''
| Sabrina Lee, Shasta Grenier
| 2012
| Navy SEAL Elliott Miller, Sgt. Erik Goodge, Col. Eric Hastings
| Post-film Q&A included Lee and Goodge
|-
|}

=== 2012 ===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu/fourteen/schedule.html |title=Festival Schedule 2012 |website=archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu |access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[Joe Versus the Volcano]]'''''
| [[John Patrick Shanley]]
| 1990
| [[Tom Hanks]], [[Meg Ryan]], [[Lloyd Bridges]], [[Abe Vigoda]]
| Post-film Q&A included [[Stephen Goldblatt]] (director of photography)
|-
| '''''The Truth About Beauty & Blogs''''' (short)
| Rosalyn Coleman Williams
| 2011
| Kelechie Ezie
| Post-film Q&A included Kelechie Ezie, also writer and co-producer
|-
| '''''Phunny Business: A Black Comedy'''''
| John Davies
| 2011
| [[Raymond Lambert]]
| Post-film Q&A included John Davies, Reid Brody (producer), [[Raymond Lambert]] (also writer and producer), [[Ali LeRoi]] (comedian featured in film)
|-
| '''''[[Big Fan]]'''''
| [[Robert D. Siegel|Robert Siegel]]
| 2009
| [[Patton Oswalt]], [[Kevin Corrigan]], [[Michael Rapaport]]
| Post-film Q&A included Robert Siegel. Patton Oswalt was scheduled to attend, as well as introduce a public screening of [[Kind Hearts and Coronets]], but was detained by filming commitments
|-
| '''''[[Kinyarwanda (film)|Kinyarwanda]]'''''
| Alrick Brown
| 2011
| Hassan Kabera, [[Edouard Bamporiki]], Cassandra Freeman
| Post-film Q&A included Alrick Brown, Ishmael Ntihabose (actor and executive producer), Darren Dean (producer), Tommy Oliver (producer), Deatra Harris (producer)
|-
| '''''[[Terri (film)|Terri]]'''''
| [[Azazel Jacobs]]
| 2011
| [[Jacob Wysocki]]
| Post-film Q&A included [[Azazel Jacobs]] and Jacob Wysocki
|-
| '''''[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2296881/ On Borrowed Time]'''''
| [[David Bradbury (filmmaker)|David Bradbury]]
| 2011
| [[Paul Cox (director)|Paul Cox]]
| [[Paul Cox (director)|Paul Cox]]
|-
| '''''Wild AND Weird: The Alloy Orchestra Plays 10 Fascinating and Innovative Films 1906–1926'''''
|
| 1906–1926
|
| [[Alloy Orchestra]] played live accompaniment
|-
| '''''[[A Separation]]'''''
| [[Asghar Farhadi]]
| 2011
| Peyman Mouadi, [[Leila Hatami]], [[Sareh Bayat]], [[Shahab Hosseini]], Sarina Farhadi
| Peyman Mouadi was scheduled to attend but did not. The post-film Q&A, moderated by blogger [[Nell Minow]], included Paul Cox, blogger Omer Mozaffar and distributor [[Michael Barker (film distributor)|Michael Barker]]
|-
| '''''[[Higher Ground (film)|Higher Ground]]'''''
| [[Vera Farmiga]]
| 2011
| [[Vera Farmiga]], [[Joshua Leonard]], [[Norbert Leo Butz]], [[Donna Murphy]]
| Post-film Q&A included writer Carolyn S. Briggs, who based the film on her memoir ''This Dark World'', with blogger [[Nell Minow]]
|-
| '''''Patang (The Kite)'''''
| [[Prashant Bhargava]]
| 2011
| [[Seema Biswas]], [[Nawazuddin Siddiqui]]
| Post-film Q&A included [[Prashant Bhargava]], Vijay Bhargava (executive producer), James Townsend (writer), [[Seema Biswas]], [[Nawazuddin Siddiqui]]
|-
| '''''[[Take Shelter]]'''''
| [[Jeff Nichols]]
| 2011
| [[Michael Shannon]], [[Jessica Chastain]]
| Post-film Q&A included Jeff Nichols, Michael Shannon and distributor Michael Barker
|-
| '''''[[Citizen Kane]]'''''
| [[Orson Welles]]
| 1941
| [[Orson Welles]], [[Joseph Cotten]], [[Dorothy Comingore]], [[Ruth Warrick]]
| The film was shown using Roger Ebert's commentary track, recorded in 2006 (before Ebert lost his voice). The post-show Q&A featured scholar [[David Bordwell]] with audio commentary producer Jeffrey Lerner. Chaz Ebert was visibly moved, stating that although she had seen the film, she had never heard the commentary track, and felt lucky to hear her husband's voice again in the Virginia Theatre
|-
|}

=== 2011 ===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu/thirteen/schedule.html |title=Festival Schedule 2011 |website=archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu |access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[Metropolis (1927 film)|Metropolis]]'''''
| [[Fritz Lang]]
| 1927
| [[Brigitte Helm]], [[Gustav Fröhlich]], [[Alfred Abel]], [[Rudolf Klein-Rogge]]
| 2010 restoration. [[Alloy Orchestra]] played live accompaniment
|-
| '''''[[Natural Selection (2011 film)|Natural Selection]]'''''
| Robbie Pickering
| 2010
| [[Rachael Harris]]
| Post-film Q&A included Robbie Pickering and Rachael Harris
|-
| '''''[[Umberto D]]'''''
| [[Vittorio De Sica]]
| 1952
| [[Carlo Battisti]]
| Post-film Q&A included Ignatiy Vishnevetsky and Omer Mozaffar
|-
| '''''[[My Dog Tulip]]'''''
| [[Paul Fierlinger]] and Sandra Schuette Fierlinger
| 2010
| [[Christopher Plummer]] (narrator)
| Post-film Q&A included Paul Fierlinger and Sandra Schuette Fierlinger
|-
| '''''[[Tiny Furniture]]'''''
| [[Lena Dunham]]
| 2010
| [[Lena Dunham]], [[Laurie Simmons]], [[Grace Dunham]], [[Alex Karpovsky]], [[David Call]]
| Post-film Q&A included David Call and distributor Ryan Werner
|-
| '''''[[45365]]'''''
| Turner Ross and Bill Ross IV
| 2009
| Townspeople of [[Sidney, Ohio]]
| Post-film Q&A included Turner Ross and Bill Ross IV
|-
| '''''[[Me & Orson Welles]]'''''
| [[Richard Linklater]]
| 2009
| [[Christian McKay]], [[Claire Danes]], [[Zac Efron]]
| Post-film Q&A included Richard Linklater
|-
| '''''[[Only You (1994 film)|Only You]]'''''
| [[Norman Jewison]]
| 1994
| [[Robert Downey, Jr.]], [[Marisa Tomei]], [[Bonnie Hunt]]
| Post-film Q&A included Norman Jewison
|-
| '''''[[A Small Act]]'''''
| [[Jennifer Arnold]]
| 2010
| Chris Mburu, Jane Wanjiru Muigai, Hilde Back
| Post-film Q&A included Jennifer Arnold, Hilde Back and producer Patti Lee
|-
| '''''[[Life Above All]]'''''
| [[Oliver Schmitz]]
| 2010
| Khomotso Manyaka, Keaobaka Makanyane, Harriet Lenabe
| Post-film Q&A included Oliver Schmitz, Khomotso Manyaka and [[Michael Barker (film distributor)|Michael Barker]]
|-
| '''''[[Leaves of Grass (film)|Leaves of Grass]]'''''
| [[Tim Blake Nelson]]
| 2009
| [[Edward Norton]], [[Tim Blake Nelson]], [[Susan Sarandon]]
| Post-film Q&A included Tim Blake Nelson
|-
| '''''[[I Am Love (film)|I Am Love]]'''''
| [[Luca Guadagnino]]
| 2010
| [[Tilda Swinton]], Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, [[Marisa Berenson]]
| Post-film Q&A included Tilda Swinton and Michael Barker
|-
| '''''[[Louder Than a Bomb (film)|Louder Than a Bomb]]'''''
| Jon Siskel and Greg Jacobs
| 2010
| Kevin Coval, Adam Gottlieb, Elizabeth Graf, Kevin Harris and other students
| Post-film Q&A included Jon Siskel, Greg Jacobs, founder and artistic director Kevin Coval and Steinmetz High School poets Lamar Jorden, Charles Smith, She'Kira McNight, Kevin Harris and Jésus Lark
|-
|}

=== 2010 ===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu/twelve/Schedule.html |title=Festival Schedule 2010 |website=archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu |access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[Pink Floyd – The Wall]]'''''
| [[Alan Parker]]
| 1982
| [[Bob Geldof]], [[Christine Hargreaves]], [[James Laurenson]]
| Post-film Q&A included panel of film critics. Roger Ebert spoke using computer voice software after the showing.
|-
| '''''[[You, the Living]]'''''
| [[Roy Andersson]]
| 2007
| Elisabeth Helander, [[Jugge Nohall]], Jessika Lundberg
| Lundberg and Johan Carlsson (production manager) were scheduled to appear but did not due to travel problems. Post-film Q&A included panel of film critics
|-
| '''''[[Munyurangabo]]'''''
| [[Lee Isaac Chung]]
| 2007
| Jeff Rutagengwa, Eric Ndorunkundiye, Jean Marie Vianney Nkurikiyinka
| Post-film Q&A included Chung, Sam Anderson (co-writer & producer), Jenny Lund (co-producer)
|-
| '''''[[The New Age (film)|The New Age]]'''''
| [[Michael Tolkin]]
| 1994
| [[Peter Weller]], [[Judy Davis]], [[Patrick Bauchau]]
| Post-film Q&A included Tolkin
|-
| '''''[[Apocalypse Now Redux|Apocalypse Now/Redux]]'''''
| [[Francis Ford Coppola]]
| 2001
| [[Martin Sheen]], [[Marlon Brando]], [[Robert Duvall]]
| Extended version of the 1979 film. [[Walter Murch]] (sound design & film editor) was scheduled to appear but did not due to travel problems. Post-film Q&A included panel of film critics
|-
| '''''[[Departures (2008 film)|Departures]]'''''
| [[Yōjirō Takita]]
| 2008
| [[Masahiro Motoki]], [[Ryōko Hirosue]], [[Tsutomu Yamazaki]]
| Post-film Q&A included Takita
|-
| | '''''[[Man with a Movie Camera]]'''''
| [[Dziga Vertov]]
| 1929
| [[Mikhail Kaufman]]
| 2010 restoration. [[Alloy Orchestra]] played live accompaniment. Post-film Q&A included two members of the Alloy Orchestra
|-
| '''''[[Synecdoche, New York]]'''''
| [[Charlie Kaufman]]
| 2008
| [[Philip Seymour Hoffman]], [[Samantha Morton]], [[Michelle Williams (actress)|Michelle Williams]]
| Pre-film introduction by [[Roger Ebert]] using speech software on computer. Post-film Q&A included Kaufman and Anthony Bregman (producer)
|-
| '''''[[I Capture the Castle (film)|I Capture the Castle]]'''''
| [[Tim Fywell]]
| 2003
| [[Romola Garai]], [[Rose Byrne]], [[Bill Nighy]]
| Nighy was scheduled to appear but did not due to travel problems. Post-film Q&A included panel of film critics
|-
| '''''Vincent: A Life In Color'''''
| Jennifer Burns
| 2008
| Vincent P. Falk
| Post-film Q&A included Burns and Falk
|-
| '''''[[Trucker (film)|Trucker]]'''''
| James Mottern
| 2008
| [[Michelle Monaghan]], [[Nathan Fillion]], [[Benjamin Bratt]]
| Post-film Q&A included Mottern and Monaghan
|-
| '''''[[Barfly (film)|Barfly]]'''''
| [[Barbet Schroeder]]
| 1987
| [[Mickey Rourke]], [[Faye Dunaway]], [[Alice Krige]]
| Post-film Q&A included Schroeder
|-
| '''''Song Sung Blue'''''
| Greg Kohs
| 2008
| Mike Sardina, Claire Sardina
| Post film Q&A included Kohs and Claire Sardina
|-
|}

=== 2009 ===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu/eleven/Schedule09.html |title=Festival Schedule 2009 |website=archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu |access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[Woodstock (film)|Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music, The Director's Cut]]'''''
| [[Michael Wadleigh]]
| 1994
| [[Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young|Crosby, Stills & Nash]], [[The Who]], [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[Joan Baez]]
| Extended version of the 1970 film. Post-film Q&A included Wadleigh, Dale Bell (producer), [[Jocko Marcellino]] (musician)
|-
| '''''[[My Winnipeg]]'''''
| [[Guy Maddin]]
| 2007
| [[Darcy Fehr]], [[Ann Savage]], [[Louis Negin]]
| Post-film Q&A included Maddin
|-
| '''''[[Chop Shop (film)|Chop Shop]]'''''
| [[Ramin Bahrani]]
| 2007
| Alejandro Polanco, Isamar Gonzales, Rob Sowulski
| Post-film Q&A included Bahrani
|-
| '''''[[Trouble the Water]]'''''
| [[Tia Lessin]], [[Carl Deal]]
| 2008
| Kimberly Rivers Roberts, Scott Roberts
| Post-film Q&A included Lessin, Deal, K. Roberts, and S. Roberts
|-
| '''''Begging Naked'''''
| Karen Gehres
| 2007
| Elise Bainbridge Hill, Sally Roth
| Post-film Q&A included Gehres
|-
| '''''[[The Last Command (1928 film)|The Last Command]]'''''
| [[Josef von Sternberg]]
| 1928
| [[Emil Jannings]], [[Evelyn Brent]], [[William Powell]]
| [[Alloy Orchestra]] played live accompaniment. Post-film Q&A included all three members of the Alloy Orchestra
|-
| | '''''[[Frozen River]]'''''
| [[Courtney Hunt]]
| 2008
| [[Melissa Leo]], [[Misty Upham]], [[Charlie McDermott]]
| Post-film Q&A included Hunt and Upham
|-
| '''''[[The Fall (2006 film)|The Fall]]'''''
| [[Tarsem Singh]]
| 2006
| [[Lee Pace]], Catinca Untaru, [[Justine Waddell]]
| Post-film Q&A included Untaru
|-
| '''''[[Sita Sings The Blues]]'''''
| [[Nina Paley]]
| 2008
| Sanjiv Jhaveri, [[Nina Paley]], Deepti Gupta
| Post-film Q&A included Paley
|-
| '''''[[Nothing but the Truth (2008 American film)|Nothing But The Truth]]'''''
| [[Rod Lurie]]
| 2008
| [[Kate Beckinsale]], [[Matt Dillon]], [[Vera Farmiga]]
| Post-film Q&A included Lurie and Dillon
|-
| '''''[[Let the Right One In (film)|Let The Right One In]]'''''
| [[Tomas Alfredson]]
| 2008
| [[Kåre Hedebrant]], [[Lina Leandersson]], [[Per Ragnar]]
| Post-film Q&A included Carl Molinder (producer)
|-
| '''''[[Baraka (film)|Baraka]]'''''
| [[Ron Fricke]]
| 1992
| n/a
| Post film Q&A included Fricke and Mark Magidson (producer)
|-
|}

=== 2008 ===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu/ten/Schedule.html |title=Festival Schedule 2008 |website=archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu |access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[Hamlet (1996 film)|Hamlet]]'''''
| [[Kenneth Branagh]]
| 1996
| [[Kenneth Branagh]], [[Julie Christie]], [[Derek Jacobi]]
| Post-film Q&A included actors [[Timothy Spall]] and [[Rufus Sewell]]
|-
| '''''[[Delirious (2006 film)|Delirious]]'''''
| [[Tom DiCillo]]
| 2006
| [[Steve Buscemi]], [[Michael Pitt]], [[Alison Lohman]]
| Post-film Q&A included DiCillo
|-
| '''''[[Yes (film)|Yes]]'''''
| [[Sally Potter]]
| 2004
| [[Joan Allen]], [[Simon Abkarian]], [[Sam Neill]]
| Post-film Q&A included John Penotti (executive producer)
|-
| '''''Citizen Cohl: The Untold Story''''' (short)
| [[Barry Avrich]]
| 2008
| Barry Avrich, [[Murray Cohl|Dusty Cohl]], Michael Cohl
| Post-film Q&A included Avrich
|-
| '''''[[Canvas (2006 film)|Canvas]]'''''
| [[Joseph Greco]]
| 2006
| [[Joe Pantoliano]], [[Marcia Gay Harden]], [[Devon Gearhart]]
| Post-film Q&A included Greco, Pantoliano, Adam Hammel (producer), Bill Erfurth (producer)
|-
| '''''[[Shotgun Stories]]'''''
| [[Jeff Nichols]]
| 2007
| [[Michael Shannon]], Douglas Ligon
| Post-film Q&A included Nichols
|-
| '''''[[Underworld (1927 film)|Underworld]]'''''
| [[Josef von Sternberg]]
| 1927
| [[Clive Brook]], [[Evelyn Brent]], [[George Bancroft (actor)|George Bancroft]], [[Larry Semon]]
| [[Alloy Orchestra]] played live accompaniment. Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include members of the Alloy Orchestra
|-
| | '''''[[The Real Dirt on Farmer John]]'''''
| [[Taggart Siegel]]
| 2005
| John Peterson, Anna Nielsen, John Edwards
| Post-film Q&A included Siegel and Peterson
|-
| '''''[[Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters]]'''''
| [[Paul Schrader]]
| 1985
| [[Ken Ogata]], Masayuki Shionoya
| Post-film Q&A included Schrader and [[Eiko Ishioka]] (costume designer)
|-
| '''''[[Hulk (film)|Hulk]]'''''
| [[Ang Lee]]
| 2003
| [[Eric Bana]], [[Jennifer Connelly]], [[Sam Elliott]]
| Post-film Q&A included Lee
|-
| '''''[[The Band's Visit]]'''''
| [[Eran Kolirin]]
| 2007
| [[Sasson Gabai]], [[Ronit Elkabetz]], [[Saleh Bakri]]
| Post-film Q&A included Kolirin
|-
| '''''[[Housekeeping (film)|Housekeeping]]'''''
| [[Bill Forsyth]]
| 1987
| [[Christine Lahti]], Sara Walker, Andrea Burchill
| Post-film Q&A included Forsyth and Lahti
|-
| '''''[[The Cell (film)|The Cell]]'''''
| [[Tarsem Singh]]
| 2000
| [[Jennifer Lopez]], [[Vince Vaughn]], [[Vincent D'Onofrio]]
| Post film Q&A included Singh, [[Eiko Ishioka]] (costume designer), and Nico Soultanakis (producer)
|-
| '''''[[Romance & Cigarettes]]'''''
| [[John Turturro]]
| 2005
| [[James Gandolfini]], [[Susan Sarandon]], [[Kate Winslet]]
| Post film Q&A [[Aida Turturro]] (actor) and Tricia Brouk (choreographer)
|-
|}

=== 2007 ===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu/nine/Schedule.html |title=Festival Schedule 2007 |website=archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu |access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[Gattaca]]'''''
| [[Andrew Niccol]]
| 1997
| [[Ethan Hawke]], [[Uma Thurman]]
| Post-film Q&A included [[Michael Shamberg]] (producer)
|-
| '''''[[The Weather Man]]'''''
| [[Gore Verbinski]]
| 2005
| [[Nicolas Cage]], [[Hope Davis]], [[Michael Caine]]
| Post-film Q&A included [[Steven Conrad]] (writer) and [[Gil Bellows]] (actor)
|-
| '''''[[Moolaadé]]'''''
| [[Ousmane Sembène]]
| 2004
| [[Fatoumata Coulibaly]], [[Hélène Diarra|Maimouna Hélène Diarra]], Salimata Traoré
| Post-film Q&A included Coulibaly and Samba Gadjigo (professor)
|-
| '''''[[Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (film)|Perfume: The Story of a Murderer]]'''''
| [[Tom Tykwer]]
| 2006
| [[Ben Whishaw]], [[Alan Rickman]], [[Rachel Hurd-Wood]], [[Dustin Hoffman]]
| Post-film Q&A included Rickman
|-
| '''''[[Sadie Thompson (film)|Sadie Thompson]]'''''
| [[Raoul Walsh]]
| 1928
| [[Gloria Swanson]], [[Lionel Barrymore]]
| [[Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra]] played live accompaniment. Post-film Q&A included [[David Bordwell]] (film scholar), Steven Larsen (conductor), and Joseph Turrin (composer)
|-
| '''''[[Come Early Morning]]'''''
| [[Joey Lauren Adams]]
| 2006
| [[Ashley Judd]], [[Jeffrey Donovan]]
| Post-film Q&A included Adams and [[Scott Wilson (actor)|Scott Wilson]] (actor)
|-
| '''''[[La Dolce Vita]]'''''
| [[Federico Fellini]]
| 1960
| [[Marcello Mastroianni]], [[Anita Ekberg]], [[Anouk Aimée]]
| Post-film Q&A included [[Michael Barker (film distributor)|Michael Barker]] (producer & distributor) and Jacqueline Reich (professor)
|-
| | '''''Freddie Mercury: the Untold Story'''''
| [[Rudi Dolezal]], [[Hannes Rossacher]]
| 2000
| [[Freddie Mercury]], Jer Bulsara, Kashmira Cooke
| Post-film Q&A included Dolezal
|-
| '''''[[Holes (film)|Holes]]'''''
| [[Andrew Davis (director)|Andrew Davis]]
| 2003
| [[Shia LaBeouf]], [[Sigourney Weaver]], [[Jon Voight]]
| Post-film Q&A included Davis
|-
| '''''[[Man of Flowers]]'''''
| [[Paul Cox (director)|Paul Cox]]
| 1983
| [[Norman Kaye]], [[Alyson Best]], [[Chris Haywood]]
| Post-film Q&A included Cox and [[Werner Herzog]] (actor)
|-
| '''''[[Stroszek]]'''''
| [[Werner Herzog]]
| 1977
| [[Bruno Schleinstein|Bruno S.]], [[Eva Mattes]], [[Clemens Scheitz]]
| Post-film Q&A included Herzog
|-
| '''''[[Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus]]'''''
| Andrew Douglas
| 2003
| [[Jim White (guitarist)|Jim White]], [[Harry Crews]], [[Johnny Dowd]]
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include Douglas and White
|-
| '''''[[Beyond the Valley of the Dolls]]'''''
| [[Russ Meyer]]
| 1970
| [[Dolly Read]], [[Cynthia Myers]], Marcia McBroom
| Post film Q&A included [[Strawberry Alarm Clock]] (band) and was scheduled to include McBroom and Peter Sobcynski (critic)
|-
|}

=== 2006 ===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu/eight/FestivalSchedule.html |title=Festival Schedule 2006 |website=archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu |access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[My Fair Lady (film)|My Fair Lady]]'''''
| [[George Cukor]]
| 1964
| [[Audrey Hepburn]], [[Rex Harrison]]
| 1994 restoration. Post-film Q&A included [[Marni Nixon]] (singing voice), [[Robert A. Harris]] (film restorer), [[James C. Katz|Jim Katz]] (restorer/producer)
|-
| '''''[[Man Push Cart]]'''''
| [[Ramin Bahrani]]
| 2005
| Ahmad Razvi, [[Leticia Dolera]], Charles Daniel Sandoval
| Post-film Q&A included Bahrani and Razvi
|-
| '''''[[Duane Hopwood]]'''''
| [[Matt Mulhern]]
| 2005
| [[David Schwimmer]], [[Janeane Garofalo]]
| Post-film Q&A included Mulhern
|-
| '''''[[Spartan (film)|Spartan]]'''''
| [[David Mamet]]
| 2004
| [[Val Kilmer]], [[Derek Luke (actor)|Derek Luke]], [[William H. Macy]], [[Kristen Bell]]
| Post-film Q&A included [[David Bordwell]] (film scholar)
|-
| '''''Somebodies'''''
| Hadjii
| 2006
| Kaira Whitehead, Tyler Craig, Patt Brown, Nard Holston
| Post-film Q&A included Hadjii, Whitehead, Nate Kohn (co-producer), Pam Kohn (co-producer)
|-
| '''''[[The Eagle (1925 film)|The Eagle]]'''''
| [[Clarence Brown]]
| 1925
| [[Rudolph Valentino]], [[Vilma Bánky]], [[Louise Dresser]]
| [[Alloy Orchestra]] played live accompaniment. Post-film Q&A included a panel of film professors
|-
| '''''[[Ripley's Game]]'''''
| [[Liliana Cavani]]
| 2002
| [[John Malkovich]], [[Dougray Scott]], [[Ray Winstone]], [[Lena Headey]]
| Post-film Q&A included Malkovich and Russell Smith (executive producer)
|-
| '''''[[Millions (2004 film)|Millions]]'''''
| [[Danny Boyle]]
| 2004
| [[Alex Etel]], Lewis McGibbon, [[James Nesbitt]], [[Daisy Donovan]]
| Post-film Q&A included a panel of local children
|-
| '''''[[Claire Dolan]]'''''
| [[Lodge Kerrigan]]
| 1998
| [[Katrin Cartlidge]], [[Vincent D'Onofrio]], [[Colm Meaney]]
| Post-film Q&A included Kerrigan
|-
| '''''[[Junebug (film)|Junebug]]'''''
| [[Phil Morrison (director)|Phil Morrison]]
| 2005
| [[Embeth Davidtz]], [[Amy Adams]], [[Ben McKenzie|Benjamin McKenzie]], [[Scott Wilson (actor)|Scott Wilson]]
| Post-film Q&A included Morrison, Wilson, and [[Michael Barker (film distributor)|Michael Barker]] (distributor)
|-
| '''''[[Bad Santa]]'''''
| [[Terry Zwigoff]]
| 2003
| [[Billy Bob Thornton]], [[Bernie Mac]], [[Lauren Graham]]
| Director's personal print of the film that included unreleased material. Post-film Q&A included Zwigoff
|-
| '''''[[U-Carmen eKhayelitsha]]'''''
| [[Mark Dornford-May]]
| 2005
| Pauline Malefane, Andile Tshoni, Lungelwa Blou
| Post-film Q&A included Dornford-May and Malefane
|-
|}

=== 2005 ===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu/seven/film_schedule.htm |title=Film Schedule: Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival, April 20-24, 2005 |website=archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu |access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[Playtime]]'''''
| [[Jacques Tati]]
| 1967
| [[Jacques Tati]], Barbara Dennek
| Post-film Q&A included [[Jonathan Rosenbaum]] (film critic)
|-
| '''''[[Murderball (film)|Murderball]]'''''
| [[Henry Alex Rubin]], [[Dana Adam Shapiro]]
| 2005
| [[Joe Soares]], Keith Cavill, [[Mark Zupan (athlete)|Mark Zupan]]
| Post-film Q&A included Rubin, Shapiro, Zupan, Soares, and Jeff Mandel (producer)
|-
| '''''[[The Heart of the World]]''''' (short)
| [[Guy Maddin]]
| 2000
| Leslie Bais, Caelum Vatnsdal, Shaun Balbar
| Post-film Q&A included Maddin and Jonathan Sehring (producer)
|-
| '''''[[The Saddest Music in the World]]'''''
| [[Guy Maddin]]
| 2003
| [[Isabella Rossellini]], [[Mark McKinney]], [[Maria de Medeiros]]
| Post-film Q&A included Maddin and Jonathan Sehring (producer)
|-
| '''''[[After Dark, My Sweet]]'''''
| [[James Foley (director)|James Foley]]
| 1990
| [[Jason Patric]], [[Rachel Ward]], [[Bruce Dern]]
| Post-film Q&A included Patric
|-
| '''''[[Yesterday (2004 film)|Yesterday]]'''''
| [[Darrell Roodt]]
| 2004
| [[Leleti Khumalo]], Lihle Mvelase, Kenneth Khambula
| Post-film Q&A included Roodt
|-
| '''''[[The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film)|The Phantom of the Opera]]'''''
| [[Rupert Julian]]
| 1925
| [[Lon Chaney, Sr.|Lon Chaney]], [[Mary Philbin]], [[Norman Kerry]]
| [[Alloy Orchestra]] played live accompaniment. Post-film Q&A included members of the Alloy Orchestra and [[Jonathan Rosenbaum]] (film critic)
|-
| '''''[[Baadasssss!]]'''''
| [[Mario Van Peebles]]
| 2003
| [[Mario Van Peebles]], [[Nia Long]], [[Joy Bryant]]
| Post-film Q&A included Van Peebles
|-
| '''''[[The Secret of Roan Inish]]'''''
| [[John Sayles]]
| 1994
| Jeni Courtney, [[Eileen Colgan]], Richard Sheridan
| Post-film Q&A included Sayles and [[Maggie Renzi]] (producer)
|-
| '''''[[Primer (film)|Primer]]'''''
| [[Shane Carruth]]
| 2004
| [[Shane Carruth]], [[David Sullivan (actor)|David Sullivan]]
| Post-film Q&A included Carruth
|-
| '''''[[Map of the Human Heart]]'''''
| [[Vincent Ward (director)|Vincent Ward]]
| 1993
| [[Jason Scott Lee]], [[Anne Parillaud]], [[Patrick Bergin]]
| Post-film Q&A included Ward and Lee
|-
| '''''[[Me and You and Everyone We Know]]'''''
| [[Miranda July]]
| 2005
| [[John Hawkes (actor)|John Hawkes]], Miranda July, Miles Thompson
| Post-film Q&A included July and Jonathan Sehring (producer)
|-
| '''''[[Taal (film)|Taal]]'''''
| [[Subhash Ghai]]
| 1999
| [[Anil Kapoor]], [[Akshaye Khanna]], [[Aishwarya Rai]] Bachchan
| Post-film Q&A included Ghai and [[Gerson da Cunha]] (film journalist)
|-
|}

=== 2004 ===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu/six/films_announce.htm |title=Overview of this year's Films: Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival, April 21-25, 2004 |website=archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu |access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]'''''
| [[David Lean]]
| 1962
| [[Peter O'Toole]], [[Alec Guinness]], [[Anthony Quinn]]
| 1989 restoration. Pre-film introduction included [[Jack Valenti]] (head of MPAA). Post-film Q&A included [[Robert A. Harris|Robert Harris]] (film restorer) and [[Anne V. Coates|Anne Coates]] (film editor)
|-
| '''''[[Tarnation (2003 film)|Tarnation]]'''''
| [[Jonathan Caouette]]
| 2003
| [[Jonathan Caouette]], Renee Leblanc, Adolph Davis
| Post-film Q&A included Caouette
|-
| '''''[[The Son (2002 film)|The Son]]'''''
| [[Dardenne brothers|Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne]]
| 2002
| [[Olivier Gourmet]], Morgan Marinne, Isabella Soupart
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include Dan Talbot (art film distributor)
|-
| '''''[[Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored]]'''''
| [[Tim Reid]]
| 1995
| [[Al Freeman Jr.]], [[Phylicia Rashad]], [[Leon Robinson|Leon]]
| Post-film Q&A included Tim Reid
|-
| '''''[[Tully (2000 film)|Tully]]'''''
| Hilary Birmingham
| 2000
| [[Glenn Fitzgerald]], [[Anson Mount]], Bob Burrus, [[Julianne Nicholson]]
| Post-film Q&A included Birmingham and Mount
|-
| '''''The Scapegoat''''' (short)
| Darren Ng
| 2003
| Darren Ng, Scott Honey, Cassandra Chan
| Post-film Q&A included Ng and [[Jeffrey Vance]] (film historian)
|-
| '''''[[The General (1926 film)|The General]]'''''
| [[Clyde Bruckman]], [[Buster Keaton]]
| 1926
| [[Buster Keaton]], [[Marion Mack]]
| [[Alloy Orchestra]] played live accompaniment. Post-film Q&A included Darren Ng and [[Jeffrey Vance]] (film historian)
|-
| '''''[[El Norte (film)|El Norte]]'''''
| [[Gregory Nava]]
| 1983
| [[Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez]], [[David Villalpando]]
| Post-film Q&A included Nava and [[Anna Thomas]] (producer)
|-
| '''''[[My Dog Skip (film)|My Dog Skip]]'''''
| [[Jay Russell]]
| 2000
| [[Frankie Muniz]], [[Diane Lane]], [[Kevin Bacon]], [[Luke Wilson]]
| Post-film Q&A included Russell, [[Moose (dog)|Enzo]] (dog actor), and Larry Madrid (dog trainer)
|-
| '''''[[Gates of Heaven]]'''''
| [[Errol Morris]]
| 1978
| Floyd McClure, Cal Harberts, Florence Rasmussen
| Post-film Q&A included Morris
|-
| '''''[[People I Know]]'''''
| [[Daniel Algrant|Dan Algrant]]
| 2002
| [[Al Pacino]], [[Kim Basinger]], [[Téa Leoni]]
| Post-film Q&A included Algrant, [[Bobby Zarem]] (publicist), and Pacino via telephone
|-
| '''''[[Invincible (2001 drama film)|Invincible]]'''''
| [[Werner Herzog]]
| 2001
| [[Tim Roth]], [[Jouko Ahola]], [[Anna Gourari]]
| Post-film Q&A included Herzog
|-
| '''''Louie Bluie'''''
| [[Terry Zwigoff]]
| 1985
| [[Howard Armstrong (musician)|Howard Armstrong]], [[Ted Bogan]], Jay Lynch
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include Barbara Ward Armstrong (wife of subject)
|-
| '''''Sweet Old Song'''''
| Leah Mahan
| 2002
| [[Howard Armstrong (musician)|Howard Armstrong]], Ray DeForest, Bob Frank
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include Mahan and Barbara Ward Armstrong (wife of subject)
|-
|}

=== 2003 ===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu/five/films.htm |title=Film Schedule |website=archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu |access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[The Right Stuff (film)|The Right Stuff]]'''''
| [[Philip Kaufman]]
| 1983
| [[Sam Shepard]], [[Ed Harris]], [[Scott Glenn]]
|  Post-film Q&A included [[Scott Wilson (actor)|Scott Wilson]], [[Veronica Cartwright]], and [[Donald Moffat]] (actors)
|-
| '''''Stone Reader'''''
| Mark Moskowitz
| 2002
| Carl Brandt, [[Frank Conroy (author)|Frank Conroy]], [[Bruce Dobler]]
| Post-film Q&A included Moskowitz, [[Dow Mossman]] (film subject), and Jeff Lipsky (film distributor)
|-
| '''''[[The Grey Car|The Grey Automobile]]'''''
| Enrique Rosas
| 1919
| Joaquin Coss, Juan de Homs, Manuel de los Rios
| Performance based on the Japanese Benshi tradition of live actors narrating silent films. Post-film Q&A included Claudio Valdés Kuri (theatre director), Irene Akiko Iida (actress), and Ernesto Gómez Santana (pianist)
|-
| '''''[[Your Friends & Neighbors (film)|Your Friends and Neighbors]]'''''
| [[Neil LaBute]]
| 1998
| [[Amy Brenneman]], [[Aaron Eckhart]], [[Catherine Keener]]
| Post-film Q&A included LaBute
|-
| '''''[[Blood and Wine]]'''''
| [[Bob Rafelson]]
| 1996
| [[Jack Nicholson]], [[Stephen Dorff]], [[Jennifer Lopez]]
| Post-film Q&A included Rafelson
|-
| '''''[[Medium Cool]]'''''
| [[Haskell Wexler]]
| 1969
| [[Robert Forster]], [[Verna Bloom]], [[Peter Bonerz]]
| Post-film Q&A included Wexler
|-
| '''''[[What's Cooking? (film)|What's Cooking?]]'''''
| [[Gurinder Chadha]]
| 2000
| [[Joan Chen]], [[Juliana Margulies]], [[Mercedes Ruehl]], [[Kyra Sedgwick]], [[Alfre Woodard]]
| Post-film Q&A included Chaz Ebert
|-
| '''''[[The Black Pirate]]'''''
| [[Albert Parker (director)|Albert Parker]]
| 1926
| [[Douglas Fairbanks]], [[Billie Dove]], [[Tempe Pigott]]
| [[Alloy Orchestra]] played live accompaniment.
|-
| '''''[[L.627]]'''''
| [[Bertrand Tavernier]]
| 1992
| [[Didier Bezace]], [[Jean-Paul Comart]], Charlotte Kady
| Post-film Q&A included Tavernier
|-
| '''''The Golden Age of Silent Comedy'''''
| Presented by the Silent Movie Theatre Co.
| n/a
| [[Harold Lloyd]] in '''''[[Never Weaken]]''''', [[Our Gang|The Little Rascals]] in '''''[[Saturday's Lesson]]''''', [[Buster Keaton]] in '''''[[The Scarecrow (1920 film)|The Scarecrow]]''''', [[Charley Chase]] in '''''[[Mighty Like a Moose]]''''', [[Charlie Chaplin]] in '''''[[Kid Auto Races at Venice|Kid Auto Races]]''''', and the [[Felix the Cat]] cartoon '''''Felix Finds ‘Em Fickle'''''
| Presentation included a vaudeville opening act, followed by six comedy short films. Dena Mora played organ and piano. Post-film Q&A included Charlie Lustman (theatre owner) and Mora
|-
| '''''[[Shall We Dance? (1996 film)|Shall We Dance?]]'''''
| [[Masayuki Suo]]
| 1996
| [[Kōji Yakusho]], [[Tamiyo Kusakari]], [[Naoto Takenaka]]
| Post-film Q&A included [[David Bordwell]] (film historian)
|-
| '''''[[Charlotte Sometimes (film)|Charlotte Sometimes]]'''''
| [[Eric Byler]]
| 2002
| [[Jacqueline Kim]], [[Eugenia Yuan]], Michael Idemoto
| Launch festival release. Post-film Q&A included Byler, Kim, Idemoto, and [[John Bard Manulis|John Manulis]] (executive producer)
|-
| '''''[[Thirteen Conversations About One Thing|13 Conversations About One Thing]]'''''
| [[Jill Sprecher]]
| 2001
| [[Alan Arkin]], [[John Turturro]], [[Matthew McConaughey]], [[Clea DuVall]]
| Post-film Q&A included Jill Sprecher and Karen Sprecher (writer)
|-
| '''''[[Singin' in the Rain]]'''''
| [[Stanley Donen]], [[Gene Kelly]]
| 1952
| [[Gene Kelly]], [[Donald O'Connor]], [[Debbie Reynolds]]
| Post-film Q&A included O'Connor
|-
|}

=== 2002 ===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu/four/filmlist.htm |title=Announcing Films for the Fourth Annual Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival: April 24-28, 2002 |website=archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu |access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[Patton (film)|Patton]]'''''
| [[Franklin J. Schaffner]]
| 1970
| [[George C. Scott]], [[Karl Malden]]
|  Post-film Q&A included Dr. Richard Vetter (developer of optical system for 70&nbsp;mm photography and projection)
|-
| '''''[[Hyènes]]'''''
| [[Djibril Diop Mambéty]]
| 1992
| Ami Kiakhate, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Mansour Diouf
|
|-
| '''''[[George Washington (film)|George Washington]]'''''
| [[David Gordon Green]]
| 2000
| Candace Evanofski, Donald Holden, Damian Jewan Lee
| Post-film Q&A included Green and Curtis Cotton III (actor)
|-
| '''''[[Wonder Boys (film)|Wonder Boys]]'''''
| [[Curtis Hanson]]
| 2000
| [[Michael Douglas]], [[Tobey Maguire]], [[Frances McDormand]]
| Post-film Q&A included [[Michael Chabon]] (novelist)
|-
| '''''[[A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (film)|A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries]]'''''
| [[James Ivory]]
| 1998
| [[Kris Kristofferson]], [[Barbara Hershey]], [[Leelee Sobieski]]
| Post-film Q&A included Kristofferson and [[Kaylie Jones]] (novelist)
|-
| '''''Kwik Stop'''''
| Michael Gilio
| 2001
| Michael Gilio, Lara Phillips, Rich Komenich
| Post-film Q&A included Gilio
|-
| '''''[[Two Women (1999 film)|Two Women]]'''''
| [[Tahmineh Milani]]
| 1999
| [[Niki Karimi]], [[Mohammad Reza Forutan]], [[Merila Zarei]]
| Post-film Q&A included Milani
|-
| '''''[[Innocence (2000 film)|Innocence]]'''''
| [[Paul Cox (director)|Paul Cox]]
| 2000
| [[Julia Blake]], [[Bud Tingwell]], Kristine Van Pellicom
| Post-film Q&A included Cox and [[Paul Grabowsky]] (composer)
|-
| '''''[[Grand Canyon (1991 film)|Grand Canyon]]'''''
| [[Lawrence Kasdan]]
| 1991
| [[Danny Glover]], [[Kevin Kline]], [[Steve Martin]]
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include [[Alfre Woodard]] (actor)
|-
| '''''[[Paperhouse (film)|Paperhouse]]'''''
| [[Bernard Rose (director)|Bernard Rose]]
| 1988
| Charlotte Burke, [[Ben Cross]], [[Glenne Headly]]
| Post-film Q&A included Rose
|-
| '''''[[Diamond Men]]'''''
| Dan Cohen
| 2000
| [[Robert Forster]], [[Donnie Wahlberg]]
| Post-film Q&A included Cohen and Forster
|-
| '''''[[Metropolis (1927 film)|Metropolis]]'''''
| [[Fritz Lang]]
| 1927
| [[Brigitte Helm]], [[Alfred Abel]], [[Gustav Fröhlich]]
| [[Alloy Orchestra]] played live accompaniment
|-
| '''''[[Metropolis (2001 film)|Metropolis]]'''''
| [[Rintaro]]
| 2001
| Yuka Imoto, Kei Kobayashi, [[Kōsei Tomita]],
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include Drew McWeeny (film critic)
|-
| '''''[[Say Amen, Somebody]]'''''
| George T. Nierenberg
| 1982
| [[Willie Mae Ford Smith]], [[Thomas A. Dorsey]], DeLois Barrett Campbell
| Post-film Q&A included Nierenberg and [[The Barrett Sisters]]
|-
|}

=== 2001 ===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu/three/3schedule.htm |title=Roger Ebert's 3rd Overlooked Film Festival Film Schedule |website=archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu |access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'''''
| [[Stanley Kubrick]]
| 1968
| [[Keir Dullea]], [[Gary Lockwood]]
| Post-film Q&A included Dullea and Sir [[Arthur C. Clarke]] (writer, via telephone from Sri Lanka)
|-
| '''''[[Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures]]'''''
| [[Jan Harlan]]
| 2001
| Katharina Kubrick, [[Malcolm McDowell]], [[Stanley Kubrick]]
| U.S. premiere. Post-film Q&A included Harlan
|-
| '''''[[Maryam (2002 film)|Maryam]]'''''
| Ramin Serry
| 2002
| Mariam Parris, David Ackert, [[Shaun Toub]]
| Post-film Q&A included Serry and Shauna Lyon (producer)
|-
| '''''[[Such a Long Journey (film)|Such a Long Journey]]'''''
| [[Sturla Gunnarsson]]
| 1998
| [[Roshan Seth]], [[Soni Razdan]], [[Om Puri]]
| Post-film Q&A included Gunnarsson
|-
| '''''[[Songs from the Second Floor]]'''''
| [[Roy Andersson]]
| 2000
| Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson, Bengt C.W. Carlsson
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include Nordh
|-
| '''''[[Panic (2000 film)|Panic]]'''''
| [[Henry Bromell]]
| 2000
| [[William H. Macy]], [[Neve Campbell]], [[Donald Sutherland]]
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include Bromell, but he was unable to attend due to illness
|-
| '''''[[Girl on the Bridge]]'''''
| [[Patrice Leconte]]
| 1999
| [[Vanessa Paradis]], [[Daniel Auteuil]]
| Post-film Q&A included Edwin Jahiel (film critic)
|-
| '''''Dragonflies, the Baby Cries''''' (short)
| Jane Gillooly
| 2000
| [[Jillian Wheeler]], Jessy Rowe
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include Gillooly
|-
| '''''[[Nosferatu]]'''''
| [[F. W. Murnau]]
| 1922
| [[Max Schreck]], [[Gustav von Wangenheim]], [[Greta Schröder]]
| [[Alloy Orchestra]] played live accompaniment. Post-film Q&A included members of the Alloy Orchestra
|-
| '''''[[3 Women]]'''''
| [[Robert Altman]]
| 1977
| [[Shelley Duvall]], [[Sissy Spacek]], [[Janice Rule]]
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include Rule
|-
| '''''[[The King of Masks]]'''''
| [[Wu Tianming]]
| 1996
| [[Zhu Xu]], Zhou Renying, Zhao Zhigang
| Post-film Q&A included Wu
|-
| '''''[[On the Ropes (1999 film)|On the Ropes]]'''''
| [[Nanette Burstein]], [[Brett Morgen]]
| 1999
| [[Sam Doumit]], Martin Goldman, Harry Keitt
| Post-film Q&A included Morgen and Tyrene Manson (subject, via telephone)
|-
| '''''[[Jesus' Son (film)|Jesus' Son]]'''''
| [[Alison Maclean]]
| 1999
| [[Billy Crudup]], [[Samantha Morton]], [[Denis Leary]], [[Holly Hunter]], [[Dennis Hopper]]
| Post-film Q&A included Crudup, and was scheduled to include Maclean, [[Elizabeth Cuthrell]] (producer and writer), and David Urrutia (producer and writer)
|-
| '''''[[A Simple Plan (film)|A Simple Plan]]'''''
| [[Sam Raimi]]
| 1998
| [[Bill Paxton]], [[Billy Bob Thornton]], [[Bridget Fonda]]
| Post-film Q&A included Paxton
|-
| '''''[[Everyone Says I Love You]]'''''
| [[Woody Allen]]
| 1996
| [[Alan Alda]], [[Goldie Hawn]], [[Julia Roberts]]
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include [[Jean Doumanian]] (producer) and [[Billy Crudup]]
|-
|}

=== 2000 ===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu/two/2films.htm |title=Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival Take 2: Films & Schedule |website=archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu |access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[Sidewalk Stories]]'''''
| [[Charles Lane (filmmaker)|Charles Lane]]
| 1989
| Charles Lane, Nicole Alysia, Tom Alpern
| Post-film Q&A included Lane
|-
| '''''[[Grave of the Fireflies]]'''''
| [[Isao Takahata]]
| 1988
| Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Akemi Yamaguchi
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include Richard J. Leskosky and [[Greg Dean Schmitz]] (film critics)
|-
| '''''[[American Movie]]'''''
| [[Chris Smith (filmmaker)|Chris Smith]]
| 1999
| [[Mark Borchardt]], [[Mike Schank]], Tom Schimmels
| Post-film Q&A included Smith, [[Sarah Price (filmmaker)|Sarah Price]] (producer), and Borchardt
|-
| '''''[[Coven (1997 film)|Coven]]''''' (short)
| [[Mark Borchardt]]
| 2000
| Mark Borchardt, Tom Schimmels, Miriam Frost
| Post-film Q&A included Borchardt
|-
| '''''[[Legacy (2000 film)|Legacy]]'''''
| [[Tod Lending]]
| 2000
| Alaissa Collins, Marquis Collins, Nickcole Collins
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include Lending and Nickcole Collins (film subject)
|-
| '''''[[The Terrorist (1997 film)|The Terrorist]]'''''
| [[Santosh Sivan]]
| 1998
| [[Ayesha Dharker]], K. Krishna, Sonu Sisupal
| Post-film Q&A included Dharker and Mark Burton (executive producer)
|-
| '''''[[The Castle (1997 Australian film)|The Castle]]'''''
| [[Rob Sitch]]
| 1997
| [[Michael Caton]], [[Anne Tenney]], [[Stephen Curry (comedian)|Stephen Curry]]
| Post-film Q&A included Sitch and Michael Hirsh (producer)
|-
| '''''[[A Woman's Tale]]'''''
| [[Paul Cox (director)|Paul Cox]]
| 1991
| [[Sheila Florance]], [[Gosia Dobrowolska]], [[Norman Kaye]]
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include Cox
|-
| '''''[[Children of Heaven]]'''''
| [[Majid Majidi]]
| 1997
| Amir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Seddiqi
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include [[Godfrey Cheshire]] (film critic)
|-
| '''''[[The Last Laugh (1924 film)|The Last Laugh]]'''''
| [[F. W. Murnau]]
| 1924
| [[Emil Jannings]], [[Maly Delschaft]], [[Max Hiller]]
| Concrete Orchestra played live accompaniment. Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include Edwin Jahiel (film critic)
|-
| '''''[[Un Chien Andalou]]'''''
| [[Luis Buñuel]]
| 1929
| [[Pierre Batcheff]], [[Simone Mareuil]], Luis Buñuel, [[Salvador Dalí]]
| Concrete Orchestra played live accompaniment. Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include Edwin Jahiel (film critic)
|-
| '''''[[Déjà Vu (1997 film)|Déjà vu]]'''''
| [[Henry Jaglom]]
| 1997
| [[Stephen Dillane]], [[Victoria Foyt]], [[Vanessa Redgrave]]
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include Jaglom and Foyt
|-
| '''''[[Dark City (1998 film)|Dark City]]'''''
| [[Alex Proyas]]
| 1998
| [[Rufus Sewell]], [[Kiefer Sutherland]], [[Jennifer Connelly]]
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include Proyas (via telephone)
|-
| '''''[[Oklahoma! (film)|Oklahoma!]]'''''
| [[Fred Zinnemann]]
| 1955
| [[Gordon MacRae]], [[Shirley Jones]], [[Gloria Grahame]]
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include [[Tim Zinnemann]] (son of film director)
|-
|}

=== 1999 ===
Festival schedule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu/one/schedule.htm |title=Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival: Screening Schedule |website=archive.ebertfest.media.illinois.edu |access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"|Title
! style="width:20%;"|Director
! style="width:5%;"|Year
! style="width:20%;"|Starring
! style="width:35%;"|Notes
|-
| '''''[[Dance Me to My Song]]'''''
| [[Rolf de Heer]]
| 1998
| Heather Rose, [[John Brumpton]], Joey Kennedy
| Post-film Q&A included Rose
|-
| '''''Thirteen'''''
| David D. Williams
| 1997
| Hermine Douglas, Brandon Flynn Wells, Alan Douglas
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include Williams
|-
| '''''[[Household Saints]]'''''
| [[Nancy Savoca]]
| 1993
| [[Tracey Ullman]], [[Vincent D'Onofrio]], [[Lili Taylor]]
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include Savoca and [[Richard Guay (film producer)|Richard Guay]] (producer and co-writer)
|-
| '''''[[Battleship Potemkin]]'''''
| [[Sergei Eisenstein]]
| 1925
| [[Aleksandr Antonov (actor)|Aleksandr Antonov]], Vladimir Barsky, [[Grigori Aleksandrov]]
| Concrete Orchestra played live accompaniment
|-
| '''''[[Maborosi]]'''''
| [[Hirokazu Koreeda]]
| 1995
| [[Makiko Esumi]], Takashi Naitō, [[Tadanobu Asano]]
|
|-
| '''''[[Surrender Dorothy (film)|Surrender Dorothy]]'''''
| Kevin DiNovis
| 1998
| Peter Pryor, Kevin DiNovis, Jason Centeno
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include DiNovis
|-
| '''''[[Shiloh (film)|Shiloh]]'''''
| [[Chip Rosenbloom|Dale Rosenbloom]]
| 1996
| [[Michael Moriarty]], [[Scott Wilson (actor)|Scott Wilson]], [[Blake Heron]]
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include Rosenbloom, Wilson, and [[Carl Borack]] (producer)
|-
| '''''[[Hamsun (film)|Hamsun]]'''''
| [[Jan Troell]]
| 1996
| [[Max von Sydow]], [[Ghita Nørby]]
|
|-
| '''''[[Autumn Tale]]'''''
| [[Éric Rohmer]]
| 1998
| [[Béatrice Romand]], [[Marie Rivière]], Alain Libolt
|
|-
| '''''[[Tron]]'''''
| [[Steven Lisberger]]
| 1982
| [[Jeff Bridges]], [[Bruce Boxleitner]], [[David Warner (actor)|David Warner]]
| Post-film Q&A was scheduled to include Lisberger and Warner
|-
|}

== External links ==
*{{Official website|www.ebertfest.com}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080421100709/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/features/special/ebert/ Rotten Tomatoes feature from 2003, archived April 21, 2008]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070314033835/http://www.criticdoctor.com/frame/ebertfest.html Critic Doctor feature on Ebertfest 2001, archived March 14, 2007]

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