Today at the Chicago International Film Festival: ‘Embers’

The Chicago International Film Festival continues through Oct. 29 at AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois.

“EMBERS” (U.S.): Among fest scripts based on amnesia, this sci-fi indie shot in Gary imagines a near-future dystopia where retrograde and anterograde amnesia afflict humanity. Upon waking every morning, no one — with two exceptions living in an underground cache of high culture — can remember who they are or what they did the day before. Director Claire Carre and co-writer/producer Charles Spano artfully design five story lines for a tragic take on the loss of self-knowledge. 1 p.m. Oct. 17; 11 a.m. Oct. 25.