2023 - Screenings
PLAYING THROUGH (USA)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesJanuary 21, 2023 ::: Playing Through is a feature-length fictional film honoring the life and legacy of Ann Gregory, a pioneering female athlete and civil rights advocate.
CAROL OF THE BELLS / Shchedryk (Ukraine / Poland)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesMarch 4, 2023 ::: Immortalized as one of the most scintillating and enlightening Christmas songs, "Carol of the Bells," adapted from a popular Ukrainian folk melody, came to represent the spirit of brotherhood and unity all over the world.
THE NIGHT OF THE 12TH / La Nuit du 12 (France/Belgium)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesMarch 11, 2023 ::: Just announced 6 Cesar Awards, including best picture & best actors. It is said that every investigator has a crime that haunts them, a case that hurts him more than the others, without him necessarily knowing why. For Yohan that case is the murder of Clara
MORE THAN A ROLL WITH A HOLE showing with THE ART OF SILENCE
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesMar 25, 2023 ::: The bagel has a fascinating past explored in this short British documentary.
THE ART OF SILENCE showing with MORE THAN A ROLL WITH A HOLE
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesMarch 25, 2023 ::: THE ART OF SILENCE showing with MORE THAN A ROLL WITH A HOLE. The first feature documentary about the world-famous mime artist Marcel Marceau.
A FAMILY FOR 1640 DAYS (France)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesApril 8, 2023 :::
FOR MY COUNTRY (France)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesFebruary 18, 2023 ::: Based upon the writer/director's true story, this film is about his brother, a police officer who dies during an initiation process at a French military school.
ANGRY ANNIE / ANNIE COLIERE (France)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesMay 6, 2023 ::: A countryside village in France, 1974. When she accidentally becomes pregnant, Annie, a working mother of two teenagers, meets with the Movement for the Liberation of Abortion and Contraception (MLAC); doctors ....
BARREN (Israel)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesMay 27, 2023 ::: Feigi & Naftali are a young childless ultraorthodox couple living with his parents.
TWO TICKETS TO GREECE (France / Greece)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesJune 3, 2023 ::: Recently divorced Blandine and her former best friend take the trip they dreamed of as teenagers. Starring Laure Calamy, Olivia Côte, Kristin Scott Thomas.
La syndicaliste (France)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesJune 10, 2023 ::: A thriller investigation set in the world of nuclear power and politics, starring Isabelle Huppert.
CHILDREN OF NOBODY (Israel)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesJuly 1, 2023 ::: Story of boys living on the fringes of Israeli society - boys in distress who were ejected, expelled or fled their homes.
THE OWNERS / VLASTNICI (Czechia)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesJuly 15, 2023 ::: A curious cast of characters, all of whom own apartments in the same block somewhere in Prague, and charts their progress as they attempt to tolerate each others’ presence long enough to take some important decisions about the building’s future
NEZOUH (Syria)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesAugust 5, 2023 ::: NEZOUH is a 2022 British-Syrian-French drama film written and directed by Soudade Kaadan. The film premiered in the Horizons Extra section of the 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival, winning the Audience Award. This gentle film suggests that accounts of life during wartime in Syria can be about matters other than death – namely hope, love, teenage reverie, and the comedy of family life.
MORE THAN EVER / PLUS QUE JAUAIS (France, Norway, U.K.)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesAugust 19, 2023 ::: Starring Vicky Krieps, Gaspard Ulliel, What do the dying owe the living, and vice versa? This question is explored through the story of Hélène and Mathieu, a couple with a loving bond who must confront Hélène’s life-threatening illness.
RADICAL WOLFE (U.S.) – Documentary
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesSept 2, 2023 ::: RADICAL WOLFE Based on Michael Lewis' "Vanity Fair" profile of the New Journalism pioneer, author of THE RIGHT STUFF and BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES.
LIE WITH ME (France)
Sep 23 2023 ::: An author returns to his hometown of Cognac for the first time in 35 years to help promote a distillery and also to face the memories of his first love.
THREE NIGHTS A WEEK (France) / Trois nuits par semaine
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesSep 30, 2023 ::: Presented by Desert Film Society and the Palm Springs Cultural Center - Cinema Diverse.
A CUP OF COFFEE AND NEW SHOES ON (Albania)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesOct 7, 2023 ::: An emotional drama about identical deaf-mute twin brothers who discover they suffer from a genetic disease that will also progressively and irreversibly make them blind.
MOTHER VALLEY / LA NUIT DU VERRE D’EAU
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesOct 21, 2023 ::: Showing with I CAN"T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE
A LA BELLE ETOILE / SUGAR AND STARS
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesNov 4, 2023 ::: Since he was a kid, Yazid has one big passion, pastry making
BONNIE (U.S.)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesNov. 18 ::: A portrait of legendary casting director Bonnie Timmermann who discovered Sean Penn, Brian Cox and many others. An homage to the craft of acting.
THE CRIME IS MINE (France)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesDec 2, 2023 - THE CRIME IS MINE - In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer.
ALL TO PLAY FOR / Rien À Perdre (France)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesDec 16, 2023 ::: ALL TO PLAY FOR - The drama stars Virginie Efira alongside Jean-Luc Vincent and Félix Lefebvre, and tells the story of Sylvie, a mother faced with her son's placement in a foster home.
