Palm Springs

Fest to Open on January 6 with the World Premiere of Paramount Pictures’ “80 For Brady” with Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Rita Moreno and Lily Tomlin Scheduled to Attend;  

Fest to Close with “The Lost King,” Screen World Premiere of “Shot in the Arm,” and Films Featuring Juliette Binoche, LeVar Burton, Eugenio Derbez, Colin Farrell, Jim Gaffigan, 

Luca Guadagino, Mia Hansen-Løve, Lasse Hallström, Sally Hawkins, Anna Kendrick, Udo Kier, Vicky Krieps, Eva Longoria, Lena Olin, Ray Romano, Tim Roth, Rhea Seehorn, Léa Seydoux, 

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Paul Weitz, Olivia Wilde, Stephen Williams, Alex Wolff and More!

Complete Line-up Includes 35 International Feature Film Oscar Submissions, Talking Pictures, New Voices New Visions, Modern Masters, True Stories and World Cinema Now!

Palm Springs, CA (December 6, 2022) – The 34th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) announced that the festival’s opening night will be the World Premiere of 80 For Brady directed by Kyle Marvin, on Friday, January 6. The festival will close with The Lost King, directed by Stephen Frears on Sunday, January 15. The festival will screen 134 films from 64 countries, including 27 premieres (2 World, 12 North American, 1 International and 13 U.S.) from January 5-16, 2023. The line-up includes 35 of the International Feature Film Oscar® Submissions along with Talking Pictures, New Voices New Visions, Modern Masters, Queer Cinema, Cine Latino, True Stories, World Cinema Now, and more.  

OPENING AND CLOSING SCREENINGS  

PSIFF will open with the Paramount Pictures film 80 For Brady on Friday, January 6 at the Richards Center for the Arts. The film’s stars are expected to attend Opening Night including Academy Award® nominee Lily Tomlin, Academy Award® winner Jane Fonda, Academy Award® winner Rita Moreno and Academy Award® winner Sally Field, along with additional cast members. The film is inspired by the true story of four best friends living life to the fullest when they take a wild trip to the 2017 Super Bowl LI to see their hero Tom Brady play. 7-time Super Bowl Champion Tom Brady is a producer and will appear in the film. 80 For Brady is in-theaters February 3, 2023. 

The festival will close with The Lost King on Sunday, January 15. The Warner Bros. Pictures film stars Sally Hawkins, Shonagh Price, Helen Katamba and Lewis Macleod. The film follows an ambitious writer and amateur historian guided by instinct and spectral visions, who defies the academic establishment to unearth Richard III's long-missing remains in a Leicester car park.  

Highlights for this year includes the World Premiere of documentary Shot in the Arm with director Scott Hamilton Kennedy and subject Neil deGrasse Tyson scheduled to attend. Other films with guests include Alice, Darling with Anna Kendrick; The Banshees of Inisherin with Colin Farrell; Chevalier with director Stephen Williams; Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy with director Nancy Buirski and Michael Childers; the North American Premiere of Hilma with director Lasse Hallström and actress Lena Olin; Linoleum with director Colin West and actors Jim Gaffigan and Rhea Seehorn; the US Premiere of Moving On with director Paul Weitz; the North American Premiere of My Neighbor Adolf with Udo Kier; the North American Premiere of Racist Trees with directors Sara Newens and Mina T. Son; and Somewhere in Queens with Ray Romano which he stars in and directs.  

“We are beyond excited to welcome back our beloved audience and filmmakers in Palm Springs. We’re especially thrilled to be joined by all four leads of 80 For Brady. The film is brimming with joy and heart, and it’s a perfect film to kick off our 34th edition,” said Artistic Director Lili Rodriguez. “Our programmers have dedicated almost a year to scouting the world for the films that make up this edition. It is our most thematically diverse year yet and I don’t believe you’ll find two movies that are alike. From light entertainment for casual nights out to urgent commentaries that beg for post-screening conversation and beyond, the cinema is there to capture it all.” 

AWARDS BUZZ – BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM SUBMISSIONS  

This section is selected by Festival programmers as the strongest entries in this year’s Academy Awards® race and will screen 35 official submissions from the Best International Feature Film category. A special jury of international film critics will review these films to present the FIPRESCI Award for Best International Feature Film of the Year, as well as Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay in this category.  

Ajoomma (Singapore) Director He Shuming  

Alcarràs (Spain) Director Carla Simón  

All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany) Director Edward Berger  

Argentina, 1985 (Argentina) Director Santiago Mitre  

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Mexico) Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu  

Beautiful Beings (Iceland) Director Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson  

Blanquita (Chile) Director Fernando Guzzoni  

The Blue Caftan (Morocco) Director Maryam Touzani  

Cairo Conspiracy (Sweden) Director Tarik Saleh  

Cinema Sabaya (Israel) Director Orit Fouks Rotem  

Close (Belgium) Director Lukas Dhont  

Corsage (Austria) Director Marie Kreutzer  

Darkling (Serbia) Director Dušan Milić (U.S. Premiere)  

Decision to Leave (South Korea) Director Park Chan-wook  

EO (Poland) Director Jerzy Skolimowski  

Eternal Spring (Canada) Director Jason Loftus  

The Happiest Man in the World (North Macedonia) Director Teona Strugar Mitevska (U.S. Premiere)  

Holy Spider (Denmark) Director Ali Abbasi  

Il Boemo (Czech Republic) Director Petr Václav (U.S. Premiere)  

Joyland (Pakistan) Director Saim Sadiq  

Kalev (Estonia) Director Ove Musting  

Klondike (Ukraine) Director Maryna Er Gorbach  

Last Film Show (India) Director Pan Nalin  

Mars One (Brazil) Director Gabriel Martins  

Mediterranean Fever (Palestine) Director Maha Haj  

Nostalgia (Italy) Director Mario Martone  

The Quiet Girl (Ireland) Director Colm Bairéad  

Return to Seoul (Cambodia) Director Davy Chou  

Saint Omer (France) Director Alice Diop  

Under the Fig Trees (Tunisia) Director Erige Sehiri  

Utama (Bolivia) Director Alejandro Loayza Grisi  

Victim (Slovakia) Director Michal Blaško  

War Sailor (Norway) Director Gunnar Vikene (U.S. Premiere)  

World War III (Iran) Director Houman Seyyedi  

You Won't Be Alone (Australia) Director Goran Stolevski  

TALKING PICTURES

The Talking Pictures program includes in-depth discussions with directors, writers and actors from the year’s top titles. The following film selected for this year’s program with guests attending are: 

Alice, Darling (Canada/USA) with actress Anna Kendrick  

Chevalier (USA) with director Stephen Williams 

The Banshees of Inisherin (Ireland/UK/USA) with actor Colin Farrell 

Moving On (USA) with director Paul Weitz and producer Andrew Miano 

MODERN MASTERS  

New films, classic auteurs.  

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (USA) Director Laura Poitras  

Broker (South Korea) Director Hirokazu Koreeda  

A Compassionate Spy (USA/UK) Director Steve James  

Hilma (Sweden) Director Lasse Hallström (North American Premiere)  

No Bears (Iran) Director Jafar Panahi  

One Fine Morning (France/UK/Germany) Director Mia Hansen-Løve  

R.M.N (Romania/France/Belgium/Sweden) Director Cristian Mungiu  

Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams (Italy) Director Luca Guadagnino  

Tori and Lokita (Belgium/France) Director Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne   

NEW VOICES NEW VISIONS  

Unique viewpoints from first- and second-time directors.  

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (USA) Director Aitch Alberto (U.S. Premiere)  

Butterfly Vision (Ukraine/Czech Republic/Croatia/Sweden) Director Maksim Nakonechnyi (U.S. Premiere)  

The Damned Don’t Cry (France/Belgium/Morocco) Director Fyzal Boulifa (North American Premiere)  

How to Blow Up a Pipeline (USA) Director Daniel Goldhaber  

Love According to Dalva (Belgium/France) Director Emmanuelle Nicot  

Our Father, the Devil (USA) Director Ellie Foumbi  

Riceboy Sleeps (Canada) Director Anthony Shim 

Snow and the Bear (Turkey/Germany/Serbia) Director Selcen Ergun (U.S. Premiere)  

Susie Searches (USA/UK) Director Sophie Kargman (U.S. Premiere)  

TRUE STORIES  

Non-fiction filmmaking at its most urgent and illuminating.  

1341 Frames of Love and War (Israel) Director Ran Tal  

All That Breathes (India/UK) Director Shaunak Sen  

Anxious Nation (USA) Director Vanessa Roth, Laura Morton  

The Art of Eating: The Life of M.F.K. Fisher (USA) Director Gregory M. Bezat  

Bella (USA) Director Bridget Murnane  

Body Parts (USA) Filmmakers Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Helen Hood Scheer 

Born in Chicago (USA) Director Bob Sarles, John Anderson  

Butterfly in the Sky (USA) Director Bradford Thomason, Brett Whitcomb  

The Caviar Connection (France) Director Benoît Bringer  

Crows Are White (Japan/Ireland/USA) Director Ahsen Nadeem  

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (USA) Director Nancy Buirski  

The Grab (USA) Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite  

I Like It Here (USA) Director Ralph Arlyck  

Lakota Nation vs. United States (USA) Director Jesse Short Bull, Laura Tomaselli  

Lift (USA) Director David Petersen  

Liquor Store Dreams (USA) Director So Yun Um  

Of Medicine and Miracles (USA) Director Ross Kauffman  

Roberta (USA) Director Antonino D’Ambrosio  

Shot in the Arm (USA) Director Scott Hamilton Kennedy (World Premiere)  

Split at the Root (USA) Director Linda Goldstein Knowlton  

Subject (USA) Director Camilla Hall, Jennifer Tiexiera  

The Thief Collector (USA) Director Allison Otto  

To Kill a Tiger (Canada) Director Nisha Pahuja (International Premiere)  

Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb (USA) Director Lizzie Gottlieb   

CINE LATINO  

Latin American/Latinx Stories  

Chile '76 (Chile/USA) Director Manuela Martelli  

Huesera (Mexico/Peru) Director Michelle Garza Cervera  

I Have Electric Dreams (Belgium/France/Costa Rica) Director Valentina Maurel (North American Premiere)  

Sublime (Argentina) Director Mariano Biasin  

The Substitute (Argentina/Italy/France/Spain/Mexico) Director Diego Lerman  

QUEER CINEMA TODAY & THE GAYLA  

Poignant, heartfelt and insightful stories from the LGBTQ community. 

1946: The Mistranslation that Shifted Culture (USA/Canada) Director Sharon “Rocky” Roggio  

Casa Susanna (USA) Director Sebastien Lifshitz  

Eismayer (Austria) Director David Wagner (North American Premiere)  

Esther Newton Made Me Gay (USA) Director Jean Carlomusto  

Gayla! Screening – God Save the Queens (USA) Director Jordan Danger  

Gayla! Screening – Mama Bears (USA) Director Daresha Kyi  

My Emptiness and I (Spain) Director Adrián Silvestre  

Nelly & Nadine (Sweden/Belgium/Norway) Director Magnus Gertten  

Punch (New Zealand/USA) Director Welby Ings (North American Premiere)  

Winter Boy (France) Director Christophe Honoré  

You Can Live Forever (Canada) Director Mark Slutsky, Sarah Watts  

WORLD CINEMA NOW  

Travel the world without leaving your seat.  

Back Then (Poland) Director Kinga Dębska  

The Beasts (Spain/France) Director Rodrigo Sorogoyen  

Before, Now & Then (Indonesia) Director Kamila Andini  

Burning Days (Turkey/France/Germany/Netherlands/Greece/Croatia) Director Emin Alper  

Concerned Citizen (Israel/USA) Director Idan Haguel  

Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous (France/Italy/Lebanon/Saudi Arabia/Qatar) Director Wissam Charaf (North American Premiere)  

Driving Madeleine (France) Director Christian Carion (U.S. Premiere)  

Emily (UK) Director Frances O’Connor (U.S. Premiere)  

Freaks Out (Italy/Belgium) Director Gabriele Mainetti  

Golden Years (Switzerland) Director Barbara Kulcsar (North American Premiere)  

Greener Pastures (Israel) Director Matan Guggenheim, Assaf Abiri (North American Premiere)  

Gyeong-ah's Daughter (South Korea) Director Kim Jung-eun  

Haute Couture (France) Director Sylvia Ohayon  

The Judgement (Netherlands/Germany) Director Sander Burger  

Juniper (New Zealand) Director Matthew J. Saville  

Linoleum (USA) Director Colin West  

Lullaby (Spain) Director Alauda Ruiz de Azúa  

Max, Min & Meowzaki (India) Director N Padmakumar (U.S. Premiere)  

Melchior the Apothecary (Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania/Germany) Director Elmo Nüganen  

My Neighbor Adolf (Israel/Colombia/Poland) Director Leonid Prudovsky (North American Premiere)  

My Sailor, My Love (Finland/Ireland) Director Klaus Härö  

Next Sohee (South Korea) Director July Jung  

The Origin of Evil (France/Canada) Director Sébastien Marnier  

Revoir Paris (France) Director Alice Winocour  

Simone: Woman of the Century (France) Director Olivier Dahan (U.S. Premiere)  

Somewhere in Queens (USA) Director Ray Romano  

Stonewalling (Japan/China) Director Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka  

The Storyteller (India) Director Anant Narayan Mahadevan (North American Premiere)  

Talia's Journey (Belgium/Senegal/Luxembourg) Director Christophe Rolin  

Viking (Canada) Director Stéphane Lafleur  

Where Life Begins (Italy) Director Stéphane Freiss  

Without Her (Iran/Germany) Director Arian Vazirdaftari (North American Premiere)  

The Word (Czech Republic/Slovakia/Poland) Director Beata Parkanová (U.S. Premiere)   

LOCAL SPOTLIGHT  

These films have been selected as part of the Local Spotlight program highlighting films from the Coachella Valley.  



Don’t Worry Darling (USA) Director Olivia Wilde  

Racist Trees (USA) Director Sara Newens, Mina T. Son (North American Premiere)  

Juried awards for films in-competition will be announced Sunday, January 15 for seven categories, including the FIPRESCI Prize for films in the International Feature Film Oscar® Submissions program; New Voices New Visions Award for unique viewpoints from first- and second-time directors; Best Documentary Award for compelling non-fiction filmmaking; Ibero-American Award for the best film from Latin America, Spain or Portugal; Local Jury Award for a film that promotes understanding and acceptance between people; Young Cineastes Award for a film chosen by our Youth Jury; and the Mozaik Bridging the Borders Award for a film that is successful in bringing the people of our world closer together.  

The complete line-up will be available online from December 6 at www.psfilmfest.org. Attached is a complete list of films selected for the festival. General tickets will go on sale December 22. 

About the Palm Springs International Film Society  

The Palm Springs International Film Society is a 501(c)(3) charitable non-profit organization whose mission is to cultivate and promote the art and science of film through education and cross-cultural awareness. The Film Society produces the Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) and Film Awards every January and Palm Springs ShortFest in June. In addition to curating the best in international cinema, PSIFF’s Film Awards has come to be known as the first stop on the campaign trail for the Academy Awards®, and our Oscar®-qualifying ShortFest is the largest short film festival and market in North America. Our festivals, year-round member screenings and educational programs manifest our organization’s mission by nurturing and encouraging new filmmaking talent, honoring the great masters of world cinema, and expanding audience horizons.