Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom & Gay Chorus Deep South Win Audience Awards;
Beanpole Receives FIPRESCI Prize;
Bartosz Bielenia & Helena Zengel Receive FIPRESCI Acting Prizes;
Parasite Receives FIPRESCI Screenplay Prize;
Song Without a Name Receives New Voices New Visions Award;
Talking About Trees Receives Documentary Award;
Monos Receives Ibero-American Award;
Adam Receives Local Jury Award;
Corpus Christi Receives Young Cineastes Award;
Advocate Receives GoE Bridging The ...
The 31st annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will present Jamie Foxx with the Spotlight Award, Actor for his role in Just Mercy at its annual Film Awards Gala. The event, presented by American Express, sponsored by AT&T and Entertainment Tonight and hosted by Mary Hart, is scheduled for Thursday, January 2 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The festival runs January 2-13, 2020.
“In Just Mercy, Jamie ...
The 31st annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will present Adam Driver with the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor at its annual Film Awards Gala. The event, presented by American Express, sponsored by AT&T and Entertainment Tonight and hosted by Mary Hart, is scheduled for Thursday, January 2 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The festival runs January 2-13, 2020.
“This has been a career year for Adam Driver with...
The 31st annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) presented Quentin Tarantino with the Director of the Year Award for Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood at its annual Film Awards Gala. The event, presented by American Express, sponsored by AT&T and Entertainment Tonight and hosted by Mary Hart, is scheduled for Thursday, January 2 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The festival runs January 2-13, 2020.
“Quenti...
The 31st annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will present Cynthia Erivo with the Breakthrough Performance Award at its annual Film Awards Gala. The event, presented by American Express, sponsored by AT&T and Entertainment Tonight and hosted by Mary Hart, is scheduled for Thursday, January 2 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The festival runs January 2-13, 2020.
“Cynthia Erivo has been a sensation in her theatric...
Set in Sydney in 1959, Oscar®-nominated writer/director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy; Tender Mercies; Breaker Morant) takes us back to the heyday of glamorous upscale department stores, when a concierge met you at the door and clerks wore gloves. The story centers on 16-year-old, bookish, naive Lisa (Angourie Rice), who takes a job in the store at Christmas time and finds herself under the management and tutelage of Magda (Julia Ormond), a sophisticated postwar European immigrant wh...
The Etruscan Smile stars acclaimed British actor Brian Cox as Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island and travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory sees his life transformed through a newly found bond with his baby grandson.
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Shoplifters Receives FIPRESCI Prize;
Marcello Fonte and Joanna Kulig Receive FIPRESCI Acting Prizes;
Sofia Receives New Voices New Visions Award;
Ghost Fleet Receives The John Schlesinger Award; Carmen & Lola Receives CV Cine Award;
Dead Pigs Receives Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Award;
Eldorado Receives GoE Bridging The Borders Award
The 30th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) announced this year’s juried award winners at a luncheon...
Gab Taraboulsy’s engrossing portrait of pasta chef and “culinary storyteller” Evan Funke is both a dramatic look at the fraught lead-up to the opening of Funke’s Felix Trattoria in Venice, CA, and a celebration of the old-world techniques used by Funke and his team. Delicious!
When prodigious chef Evan Funke inexplicably walks away from his critically acclaimed restaurant his life and career are thrust into a dark vortex. Years later, still healing from the p...
The latest from Stijn Coninx, the director of Festival favorite Marina, is a riveting, real-life film noir based on a notorious crime spree that traumatized Belgian society from 1982 tp 1985, when the Brabant Killers topped the country’s most-wanted list.
November 9th, 1985, a gang carried out a bloody raid on the Delhaize Supermarket in Aalst, Belgium. The so-called Brabant Killers brutally murdered eight innocent people, among whom were Gilbert, Thérèse ...
...you can't die with a smile?
The Etruscan Smile stars acclaimed British actor Brian Cox as Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island and travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory sees his life transformed through a newly found bond with his baby grandson.
The film is looking for distribution. It is great.
Q&A after the film in Palm Springs Internat...
Director Karyn Kusama at the Q&A for her film Destroyer Movie starring Nicole Kidman
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Films for Sunday, January 13
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Our Struggles
Belgium • 2018 • 98 minutes
Director: Guillaume Senez
WORLD CINEMA NOW
Olivier’s life is turned upside down when his wife Laura leaves him and their children seemingly out of the blue. Guillaume Senez’s second feature paints a sensiti...
Riot
Australia • 2017 • 106 minutes
Director: Jeffrey Walker
QUEER CINEMA TODAY
Set in Sydney in the 1970s, this rousing drama takes us behind the scenes of the struggle for LGBTQ rights that culminated in the watershed and violent Mardi Gras celebration that became Australia’s Stonewall. It’s the Aussie When We Rise.
Friday, January 11 • 9:00 am • Camelot
Sunday, January 13 &b...
Join us for a very special screening in your neighborhood of Won't You Be My Neighbor, the documentary of Fred Rogers and the creation and national impact that Mister Roger's Neighborhood had on many generations throughout the years.
Synopsis: Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood was a landmark in children’s television, and Morgan Neville (Oscar®-winner for Twenty Feet from Stardom)’s heartfelt portrait more than does justice to the show’s beloved host, Fred Roger...
Join us for a special Talking Pictures screening of Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse followed by a conversation with Emmy nominated Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta FX)
Synopsis: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the creative minds behind The Lego Movie and 21 Jump Street, bring their unique sensibilities to a fresh version of a different Spider-Man Universe, with a groundbreaking visual style that’s the first of its kind. Spider-ManTM: Into the Spider-Verse introduces Brooklyn teen Mile...
PSIFF held a very special screening of 'The Wife' followed by a conversation with PSIFF Honoree Glenn Close.
Synopsis:
Critics are lauding Glenn Close for her subtle portrayal of the seemingly loyal wife of 40 years to a literary lion (Jonathan Pryce) named as the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Director Björn Runge’s deft and intelligent tragicomedy allows Close to shine.
Details:
January 4, 2019
9:00 AM
Palm Springs High School
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PSIFF held a very special screening of 'Can You Ever Forgive Me' starring PSIFF honoree Melissa McCarthy.
This Talking Pictures screening will feature a Q&A post film with Actor Richard E. Grant who co-stars with McCarthy.
Synopsis: Melissa McCarthy shines and surprises as the acerbic, heavy-drinking, down-on-her-luck Lee Israel, a writer who finds larcenous success forging and selling the letters of famous dead celebrities. A flamboyant Richard E. Grant gives ...
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PSIFF held a special screening of EIGHTH GRADE with guests Director Bo Burnham and actress Elsie Fisher
Synopsis:
Written and directed by comedian turned filmmaker Bo Burnham, EIGHTH GRADE is a widely acclaimed, heart-warming and ultra-realistic coming of age drama that centers around Kayla Day (Elsie Fisher) and the ups and downs of her last week of middle school.
Details:
January 5
Annenberg Theater
6:45pm
Screening + Conversation with Elsie Fisher and Bo Burnham
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