2014 - Screenings
SOME VELVET MORNING (USA)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesWest Coast Premiere Stanley Tucci stars as a man who surprises his former mistress (Alice Eve), claiming to have left his wife. Before too long, a dark history between the two has come into focus. "This film is an emotional see-saw... I am in awe of it." – Film.com "LaBute hasn't made something this unforgettable […]
THE ROCKET (Australia /Laos)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesOfficial submission for 2014 Academy Award, Best Foreign Film. A boy who is believed to bring bad luck leads his family (and a couple of ragged misfits) through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey through a land scarred by war, the boy builds a giant rocket to prove he's not cursed […]
THE MAJOR (Russia)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesCOACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Coachella Valley Premiere There’s no way back, once you cross the line Playing out over the course of one day, The Major is a gripping drama that sees screenwriter-director Yuri Bykov deliver an indicting criticism of police corruption and the collateral damage it leaves behind. Speeding down a rural road on a […]
REEL INJUN – Native American Festival – Invite
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesNative American Film Fest invites Desert Film Society members as their complimentary guests at a 9:30AM screening. SPECIAL GUEST: N. Bird Runningwater Director, Native American and Indigenous Program – Sundance Institute Born of the Cheyenne and Mescalero Apache peoples, Runningwater was reared on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico. He has overseen the Native Lab […]
WHITE LIES (New Zealand)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesOfficial Academy Award submission from New Zealand for '2014 Best Foreign Film' White Lies is a story about the nature of identity: those who deny it and those who strive to protect it. Paraiti (Whirimako Black) is a medicine woman. She is the healer and midwife of her rural, tribal people - she believes in […]
THE STURGEON QUEENS (USA), GUS (USA) and IN BED AT 10 PM (Israel)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesCOACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERES STURGEON QUEENS: 100-year-old Hattie Russ Gold and her sister, 92-year-old Anne Russ Federman, have life stories that hit all the key notes of the New York Jewish immigrant experience: hardwork, humor, romance, and a little tsuris. Hattie and Anne are the surviving daughters of the famed lox and herring emporium on the […]
JIMMY P.: PSYCHOTHERAPY OF A PLAINS INDIAN (France – in English)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesCOACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE In the late 1940s, at the progressive Menninger Clinic, two mavericks bonded, not simply as therapist and patient, but as friends united by their personal experiences as outsiders. Arnaud Desplechin’s extraordinarily intelligent and moving adaptation of Georges Devereux’s landmark work of ethnographicpsychoanalysis stars Benecio Del Toro as the titular Jimmy P, […]
POUR UNE FEMME/FOR A WOMAN (France)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesCOACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Anne has a very active imagination, only natural for a writer. But in her mid-thirties, she still knows practically nothing of her own family's past. After her mother's death, Anne discovers old photos and letters that convince her to take a closer look at the life of her parents, Michael and Léna. […]
JE M’APPELLE HMMM…. /MY NAME IS HMMM… (France)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesWEST COAST PREMIERE French fashion designer and film producer Agnes Trouble makes her directorial and screenwriting debut under the pseudonym agnès b. with fictional JE M’APPELLE HMMM... Dark and designed to unsettle. An 11 year old runaway, the oldest daughter of three. An absent mother, an abusive father, a grandmother too pure to imagine what […]
NAOMI / HITPARTZUT X (Israel, France)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesCOACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Ilan Ben Natan, a 58-year-old Astrophysics Professor, is obsessively in love with his young wife, Naomi. When Ilan discovers that his deepest fears have come true – Naomi has a lover – he is unable to control himself. He stalks and confronts the lover. "A film about guilt, love, devotion and a […]
WHERE I BELONG (UK & Austria)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesU.S. PREMIERE WHERE I BELONG is a riveting historical drama that portrays the power of love and forgiveness during even the darkest of times. Rosemarie is a hard working young woman living in a small English town in the 1950's with her father. They had lost their home and way of life as they fled […]
MAGNIFICA PRESENZA / A MAGNIFICENT HAUNTING (Italy)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesWEST COAST PREMIERE Twenty eight year old Pietro, a lonely soul who works night-shifts in a bakery, has just moved to Rome into a beautiful and crucially low rent apartment. He soon starts noticing objects have been moved and strange noises are coming from empty rooms. It becomes clear that he is not living alone. […]
FOUR OF A KIND (Australia)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesCOACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Lies. Betrayal. Blackmail. Murder. Four different women, each with a well-hidden secret they are coaxed, tricked or forced into revealing. Through a veil of lies all four flirt with the truth as they experience betrayal, ambition, loneliness, pain and anger. But the lies they tell themselves might be the ones that hurt […]
MY GERMAN FRIEND (Germany & Argentina)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesCOACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE After the war, Nazis and Jews alike fled to Argentina to escape war crime tribunals and the horrendous persecution of the past, respectively. Each brings with them an intense dislike of the other, trying their best to begin new lives, but the ghosts of the past sometimes never let go. Two families, […]
BRASSERIE ROMANTIEK (Belgium)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesCOACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Forty-something Pascaline runs a brasserie and her stylish dining room is fully booked for Valentine's Day. She thinks she's prepared everything. But how could she expect that an old flame from 20 years ago would suddenly reappear. Her other diners must also cope with the unexpected - 50 year-old, bored housewife, […]
MIA (Argentina) co-sponsor w/CINEMA DIVERSE
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesAle is a beautiful transgender cartonera who lives on the city’s edge, in a shantytown for the gay and transgender homeless. She gathers refuse and cardboard on the Buenos Aires streets to make a living. One night Ale sees 10-year old Julia being forced back inside her house by the maid and her father. The maid […]
CLOSED SEASON /ENDE DER SCHONZEIT (Germany)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesBruno, a young German entomology student, travels to an Israeli kibbutz, but he is not seeking a romantic experience in the young Zionist state, nor will he make any scientific discoveries. Before her death, Bruno’s mother told him to deliver a letter to Avi, a German-born Jewish member of the kibbutz. Reluctantly, Avi shares his […]
A WOLF AT THE DOOR (Brazil)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesCOACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Set in Rio de Janeiro, "A Wolf at the Door" is an absorbing & challanging thriller about a kidnapped child and the terror of the parents left behind. When Sylvia (Fabíula Nascimento) discovers her 6 yr old daughter has been picked up at school by an unknown woman, police summon her husband Bernardo […]
PAULETTE (France)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesCOACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE In this amusing fairytale, based upon true events, cranky and racist Paulette lives alone in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension she can no longer make ends meet. Writers: Laurie Aubanel, Jérôme Enrico Director: Jérôme Enrico Running Time: 87 min. Genre: Comedy | Crime Distributor: Cohen Media Group Country: France Language: […]
QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM (Romania)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesUS Premiere at NEW DIRECTORS / NEW FILMS FESTIVAL -New York, March 2014. Romania, mid-1980's, Sorin (Sorin Leoveanu) a gifted mathematician whose career advancement is blocked because he is not a member of the Communist party, comes to the attention of the security services after he secretly arranges for an academic paper on his […]
A PLACE CALLED HOME (Serbia/Greece)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesEleni, a professor of cardiology in London, has been estranged from her father, Kyriakos, for many years. Kyriakos has never forgiven her for leaving her country. When Eleni’s husband, Harris, is posted to China on an open-ended contract, she realizes the danger of a new uprooting and decides to visit Greece and make peace with […]
