LA RAFLE / The Roundup (France)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Co-sponsored with Tolerance Education Center Special Guest: Jacques Silvan, who lived this experience Long a taboo subject in France, the infamous Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup is brought to stirring life in this gripping...
BEAUTIFUL DARLING (USA)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Born James Slattery in Massapequa, Long Island, in 1944, Candy Darling transformed herself into a stunning blonde actress who in the mid-Sixties became an active player in New York’s “downtown”...
FIRST ASSIGNMENT / Il Primo Incarico (Italy)
West Coast Premiere One Time Screening Enthusiastically received at Venice Film Festival, Francesco Cecere’s exquisite drama follows Nena (Isabella Ragonese), a young teacher who is posted to a provincial Puglian town where she struggles to connect with the...
TOMBOY (France)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Laure is 10 years old. Laure is a tomboy. On her arrival in a new neighborhood, she lets Lisa and her crowd believe that she is a boy. Truth...
DOWN FOR LIFE (USA)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time ScreeningWatts, Los Angeles. One day in the life of a 15-year-old Latina gang leader. She discovers that leaving the gang is...
AN ORDINARY COUPLE (USA)
Coachella Valley Premiere One Time Screening 1:30 pm co-sponsored with CINEMA DIVERSE GUESTS: Jay Gianuko – Director/Writer Producer, Susan Barnes – Writer/Producer/Editor, Orin Kennedy and Bernardo Puccio An Ordinary Couple is a romantic and uplifting...
RAPT / Abduction (France)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time ScreeningIndustrialist executive Stanislas Graff (Yvan Attal) unapologetically leads a Parisian high-life, gambling away fortunes and enjoying trysts in a stunning,...
FIVE TIME CHAMPION (USA) and SING, SING, SING! (USA)
FIVE TIME CHAMPION Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time...
CIRCUMSTANCE (France, USA, Iran, Lebanon)
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SHAHADA / Faith (Germany)
West Coast Premiere One Time Screening The fates of three German-born Muslims in Berlin collide as they struggle to find their place between faith and modern life in contemporary western society, caught at a crossroads where alluring liberated lifestyles conflict...
SERVICE ENTRANCE / Les femmes du 6ème étage (France)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Conservative and tyrannical Jean-Louis Joubert, played by Fabrice Luchini...
HEY, BOO: HARPER LEE & TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (USA)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time ScreeningThe untold story behind a great American novel. “To Kill a Mockingbird” was the first and only novel by a young woman from the South. It became one of the biggest best-sellers of all time and she...
CHAMELEON (Hungary)
Gábor, aided by his partner in crime and childhood best friend, has the perfect scam. He targets lonely women, researches them thoroughly and then becomes their perfect suitor—only to leave them at the altar after having cleaned out their bank accounts. Writers:...
MY PERESTROIKA (Russia) and GOOD MEN (USA)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time ScreeningsFeature and Short FilmSpecial Guests: Mark Rydell & Brian ConnorsMY PERESTROIKA: When the USSR broke apart in 1991, a generation of young people faced a new realm of possibilities....
I MISS YOU (Argentina/Mexico)
Southern California Premiere – One Time Screening In the 1970s, Argentina was ruled by a ruthless military regime that waged a so-called dirty war leaving some 30,000 suspected communists missing. Inspired by actual events in the director’s...
SHORT’S SHOWCASE #2 – 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. ...
OLD CATS / GATOS VOEJOS (Chile)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening OLD CATS is an emotionally wrought drama between an elderly woman named Isadora (Bélgica Castro) and her daughter Rosario (Claudia Celedón). Isadora and her husband are being pressured by...
THE ROBBER (Germany)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Based upon a true story, a champion marathoner leads a double life as a serial bank robber, sprinting between fixes (and away from police cavalcades) as many as three times a day. A lean, visceral...
TO DIE LIKE A MAN (Portugal)
Portuguese entry Academy Award, Best Foreign Film 2011 João Pedro Rodrigues’ latest, a hit at both Cannes and the New York Film Festival, is a mystical melodrama that tells the tragicomic tale of a transsexual who is stuck between her junkie boyfriend’s desire...
THE WORLD IS BIG AND SALVATION LURKS AROUND THE CORNER (Germany)
A story about a Bulgarian boy who grows up to be a German man. After a car accident Alex can’t even remember his name. In an attempt to cure him from amnesia, his grandfather, Bai Dan (Miki Manojlovic, IRINA PALM), comes over to Germany and organizes a...
THE MATCHMAKER (Israel)
Director Avi Nesher re-creates Israel during the summer of 1968 in this poignant, engrossing coming-of-age story. Teenager Arik Burstein is the son of a survivor who never talks about his past. When he gets a summer job working as a kind of detective for matchmaker...
ARMY OF CRIME (France)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening In Robert Guédiguian’s taut, internationally acclaimed thriller, set during the French Resistance, Armenian poet Missak Manouchian (Simon Abkarian) and his French wife (Virginie Ledoyen) lead a ragtag...Donate Today!
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