2010 Screenings | Desert Film Society

INHALE

Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening INHALE is a riveting thriller about a father ready to go to any lengths to save the life of his daughter. Dermot Mulroney (MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING) stars as Paul Stanton, a District Attorney who, with the...

THE RED MACHINE showing w/short GANDHI AT THE BAT – filmmaker guests

Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Filmmaker guests: Stephanie Argy, Alec Boehm, Cast & Crew Each DFS member may bring one complimentary guest Washington, DC, 1935: At the height of the Great Depression, Eddie Doyle (Donal...

CARANCHO

* Argentina's 2011 Submission for Academy Awards Best Foreign Film * Coachella Valley Premiere Each DFS member may bring one complimentary guest Thriller starring Sosa (Ricardo Darín, "The Secret in Their Eyes", "The...

SHORTS SHOWCASE – Select the Winners

Complimentary admission to all guests Screening of short films from around the world, submitted to SHORTS SHOWCASE. You and our audience will vote to select the winners. Complimentary admission & coffee, so please bring your friends. ...

DOS HERMANOS / BROTHER & SISTER

WEST COAST PREMIERE One Time Screening They are both alone. They need each other but, at the same time, they despise each other. Siblings Marcos and Susana are unable to heal the old wounds festering within them. Marcos's need to...

ANITA

Cochella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Each DFS member may bring one complimentary guest. Anita, a young woman with Down syndrome, lives with her devoted mother (the “Meryl Streep” of Argentina, Norma Aleandr) above the shop her late father...

WAITING FOR SUPERMAN – Sneak Preview – 7:30 PM (Cinemas Palme d’Or)

October 6, 2010 at 7:30 pm, Cinemas Palme d'Or (Complimentary tickets in advance. None will be for sale.) For a nation that proudly declared it would leave no child behind, America continues to do so at alarming rates. ...

HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT’S INFERNO

Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT’S INFERNO ”A dazzling evocation of what may be one of the greatest films never made” In 1964, famed director Henri-Georges Clouzo, (Wages of Fear, Diabolique,...

SASHA (note time change) 1:00 PM Screening

Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening "Young Sasha Petrovic, studious and musically talented, is the beloved child of his Montenegro-born parents, who run a pub adjacent to their home in Cologne. But he’s got a secret crush that’s...

CARMO, HIT THE ROAD

Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Marco is a lonely, handicapped, Spanish smuggler, driving through Brazil to sell out his cheap goods. When two bandits assault him and steal his load, he is miraculously saved by Carmo, a beautiful local girl who...

HIDEAWAY/LE REFUGE w/short BETRAYED

Coachella Valley Premiere Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she's pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse runs away to...

FRENCH GIGILO

Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Judith is an attractive, level-headed woman in her fifties. She lives alone and regularly treats herself to the sexual services of young men. That's how she meets Patrick, whose kindness and simplicity win her...

UNDERTOW / CONTRACORRIENTE – special guest: Writer/Director, Javier Fuentes-León

SPECIAL GUEST: WRITER/DIRECTOR JAVIER FUENTES-LEON * Peru’s Official Submission – Best Foreign Film – Academy Awards 2011 * Coachella Valley Premiere “With the measured patience of a seasoned filmmaker,...

HERE & THERE

Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening As a down-and-out musician barely surviving in New York, Robert has lost his mojo. An unexpected trip to Serbia offers a fresh angle in this tale about loneliness, cross-cultural connections and the...

CHAMACO with guest Kirk Harris – Rogue Arts

Chamaco is a timeless story told in the gritty world of boxing. Abner is trapped in the rough life of Mexico City. His escape? Boxing. Dr. Frank Irwin (Martin Sheen) and his son Jimmy (Kirk Harris), a pro boxer, come together to teach Abner that the heart fuels the...

A YEAR AGO IN WINTER

Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening A grieving woman commissions a painter to do a portrait of her children: her 22 year old daughter, and her 19 year-old son, who recently died in a tragic accident. Directed by Academy Award winner, Caroline...

MORTGAGE w/ STUDENT SHORTS

A comic drama that examines how far a young couple will go in order to save their house from confiscation. The two search for creative solutions to obtain the money, while each of them believes that his solution is saner. Directors: Tal Granit, Sharon Maymon...

ANGEL OF MINE w/short PLASTIC BAG

A psychological thriller that gives two of France's finest actresses’ roles to sink their teeth into. Catherine Frot – opposite Sandrine Bonnaire – plays a woman who finds herself stalking another family once she catches a glimpse of their...

SAVIORS IN THE NIGHT w/short TOYLAND

“Saviors in the Night” is based on the memories of Marga Spiegel. In her narrative, published in 1965, she describes how courageous farmers in southern Münsterland hid her, her husband and their little daughter from 1943 until 1945, thus saving them...

FLAME & CITRON

Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening FLAME AND CITRON tells the true story of Danish resistance to Nazi occupation during WWII. Flammen and Citronen were the code names for a legendary duo responsible for the deaths of countless Nazis and...

35 SHOTS OF RUM

Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening The soul of the story is the loving father-daughter bond the two have formed in the absence of a wife and mother. They are happy as they are, yet Lionel at times gently encourages his daughter's independence...