2024 - Screenings
THE OLD OAK (U.K.)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesJan 20, 2024 ::: The future for the last remaining pub, The Old Oak, in a village of Northeast England, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed. Houses are cheap and available, thus making it an ideal location for Syrian refugees.
CINEMA FRANCAIS PS – NOTRE-DAME ON FIRE
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesFeb 2, 2024 ::: A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019. $15 tkts for sale. A short film will precede the feature.
CINEMA FRANCAIS PS – Day 2 (three films)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesFebruary 3, 2024 ::: TICKETS $15 EACH FILM will be available on Cinema Francais website and at the door.
www.CinemaFrancaisPS.com
CINEMA FRANCAIS PS – DAY 3 (three films)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesFebruary 4, 2024 ::: TICKETS $15 EACH FILM ON WEBSITE AND AT THE DOOR
www.CinemaFrancaisPS.com
WINNERS (Iran)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesFebruary 10, 2024 ::: Nine-year-old Yahya and his friend Leyla find a precious gold statue. Sharing a passion for cinema, Yahya's boss Naser Khan (Reza Naji) decides to help them find the owner.
PERFECT STRANGERS – Israel
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesFebruary 17, 2024 ::: Seven childhood friends meet up for dinner on the night of an eclipse. During which they play a game where whatever call, text and message they get on their phone must be shared with everyone and soon discover, no one is who they say they are.
DRIFT (Greece / U.S.)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesMar 2, 2024 ::: Jacqueline escapes her war-torn country to a Greek island. She meets an unmoored tour guide and the two become close as they each find hope in the other. From the producers of CALL ME BY YOUR NAME and NOMADLAND.
THE-FILM-MAKER – THE LISA AZUELOS STORY (USA) showing with GANEF (U.K.) and NOWHERE (Armenia)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesMar 16, 2024 ::: Filmmaker Lisa Azuelos (L.O.L, Comme t’y es belle, Dalida) is the subject of a new documentary by David Serero. Retrace her journey from her origins to behind the scenes present day. Showing with 2 shorts; GANEF and NOWHERE.
STARRING JERRY AS HIMSELF (U.S.A.)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesApr 6 2024 ::: STARRING JERRY AS HIMSELF - A family documents how their immigrant father Jerry, a recently divorced and retired Florida man, was recruited by the Chinese police to be an undercover agent.
SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN (Iran)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesApr 27, 2024 ::: SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN Follows a female student in Tehran who acted in self-defense against a rapist To get a pardon after seven years in prison, she would have to retract her testimony.
JUST THE TWO OF US / L’amour et les forêts (France)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesMay 4, 2024 ::: JUST THE TWO OF US - Follows Blanche (Virginie Efira) , who meets Greg (Melvil Poupaud) and believes he is the one. However, she soon finds herself caught up in a toxic relationship with a possessive and dangerous man.
SLOW (Lithuania / Spain / Sweden)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesMay 25, 2024 ::: There's more than one way to love. This is the matter facing dancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas, who meet and form a beautiful bond.
HOW TO COME ALIVE WITH NORMAN MAILER
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesJune 1, 2024 ::: The life and times of an American icon, from his formative years in Brooklyn through his career as a preeminent cultural voice. featuring never before seen footage of Norman Mailer and interviews with his family
THE RAPTURE / Le Ravissement (France)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesJune 15, 2024 ::: In this evocative, enigmatic psychological thriller, an unhappy, lonely Parisian midwife tells a foolish lie and then has to live with the consequences.
EIN GANZES LEBEN / A WHOLE LIFE (Austria)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesJuly 6, 2024 ::: At the turn of the 20th century, a young orphan named Andreas Egger is sent to a remote mountain village where he will spend most of his life. Over eight decades, his life will be marked by poverty, loss, war and violence, but also moments of bliss and love.
AVENUE OF THE GIANTS (U.S.A.)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesJuly 20, 2024 ::: A 74-year-old man carrying a traumatic secret befriends an isolated teenager in an emotional story of multigenerational healing.
LET ME GO / LAISSEZ-MOI (Switzerland)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesAugust 3, 2024 ::: Every Tuesday, a neighbor takes care of Claudine’s son while she goes to a mountain hotel to meet men passing through. When one of them decides to extend his stay for her, Claudine is confused and finds herself dreaming of another life
HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (USA)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesAugust 17, 2024 ::: In this supernatural epic slapstick action-comedy, a drunken applejack salesman is thrust into the frigid wilderness and has to trap his way out to survive. Will he go from Zero to Hero, become North America’s greatest fur trapper, and defeat HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS?
ALL SHALL BE WELL – Hong Kong / China
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesSeptember 7, 2024 :::: Angie and Pat have been together for over four decades but after Pat's unexpected death, Angie finds herself at the mercy of Pat's family as she struggles to retain her dignity and the home that both had shared for over thirty years.
YOUNG HEARTS (Belgium/Netherlands)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesSeptember 21, 2024 :::: Elias develops feelings for his new neighbor Alexander. He soon realizes he's falling in love for the first time.
THE BLOND BOY FROM THE CASBAR / Le petit blond de la casbah- France, Algeria
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesOct 5, 2024 ::: Follow the childhood of filmmaker Antoine Lisner as he travels to Algiers to present a feature-length film, accompanied by his son, who is the same age Antoine was when he left Algeria in 1962.
SALLYWOOD (USA)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesOctober 19, 2024 ::: Inspired by his childhood idol movie star Sally Kirkland, 20-something Zach upends his small town life, moves to Hollywood, and becomes her assistant. Overflowing with Hollywood shenanigans!
THE WALL STREET BOY, KIPKEMBOI (Kenya)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesNovember 16, 2024 ::::: With his life in jeopardy and jail almost a certainty, one question remains, how could a farm boy bring down the global financial system and how far is the international world order willing to go to silence his story?
