2025 - Screenings
JIPPIE NO MORE (Netherlands)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesJan 25, 2025::: A lively 16-year-old boy eagerly prepares for his older sister's wedding at their beloved grandfather's country house.
Cinema Francais PS – Opening film THE MARCHING BAND / En Fanfare + short – February 6 @ 7pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesFeb 6, 2025 ::: Thibaut is an internationally renowned conductor who travels the world who discovers the existence of a younger brother, Jimmy, who works in a school cafeteria.
JIM’S STORY / Le Roman de Jim (Drama) + short – 12:00 noon – CINEMA FRANCAIS (Day 2)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesFeb 7, 2025 ::: A family living in the Jura mountains who are torn apart following the return of the son's biological father.
ROBOT T-0 (CINEMA FRANCAIS) (Comedy/Adventure) + short 3:30 PM
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesFeb 7, 2025 ::: In a near future, Max and her daughter are selling stolen robots on the black market.
MY MOTHERLAND / Ma France à moi (France) CINEMA FRANCAIS
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesFeb 7, 2025 ::: She decides, against the advice of her family, led by her son, to take in Reza, a young Afghan broken by war and exodus
THE GOOD TEACHER + short (Cinema Francais) – 11:00 AM
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesFeb 9, 2025 ::: A young teacher is wrongfully accused of sexual misconduct by a teenage girl from his class
SHEPHERDS / Bergers (Cinema Francais) @ 2:00 PM
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesFeb 8, 2025 ::: A young Montreal advertising executive, converted to a Provençal shepherd, has various misadventures with a civil servant who has cavalierly quit her job.
ONCE UPON A TIME MICHEL LEGRAND /Il était une fois Michel Legrand (Cinema Francais) @ 5:00 PM + short
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesFeb 8, 2025 ::: Using never-before-seen archives and personal accounts, the film looks back on a lifetime dedicated to music, and the career of a man who served it masterfully to the very end.
RETRO THERAPY / Colocs de choc (Belgium | France | Canada) (CINEMA FRANCAIS) @ 11:00 AM
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesFeb 9, 2025 ::: Manon, an introverted 16-year-old teenager, finds herself forced to live with her unbearable grandmother Yvonne, a former feminist activist suffering from Dementia.
BOLERO – France/Belgium – 10 AM. (Film tested A-OK)
Feb 22, 2025 ::: In 1928 Paris, choreographer Ida Rubinstein commissions Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet.
ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY (USA)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesMarch 22, 2025 ::: A DNA test completely upends a woman's life, She embarks on a journey with her mother to find out who she is.
A WORLD APART / Un mondo a parte (Italy)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesApril 5, 2025 ::: Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Abruzzo National Park, Un Mondo a Parte follows veteran teacher Michele Cortese as he begins an unexpected chapter in his life.
NO CHAINS NO MASTERS (France)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesApr 26, 2025 ::: A gripping and deeply heartfelt dramatic thriller about slavery
THE PROPERTY (Israel/Poland)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesMay 3, 2025 ::: Regina and her granddaughter Mika embark on a journey to Poland to reclaim their family property seized during World War II.
SODA (Israel)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesMay 17, 2025 ::: In 1956, a seamstress arrives in a Holocaust survivor community. Rumors surface about her past as Capo.
A MISSING PART / UNE PART MANQUANTE (France/Belgium)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesMay 31, 2025 :: Every day, Jay travels the length and breadth of Tokyo in his taxi, looking for his daughter Lily.
THE TIME IT TAKES / Il tempo che ci vuole (Italy / France)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesJun 14, 2025 :: Francesca Comencini’s autobiographical drama explores her relationship with her legendary filmmaker father, Luigi Comencini.
SUSPENDED TIME / HORS DU TEMPS (France)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesJune 28, 2025 ;::: Two couples try to maintain their sanity in the midst of extended Covid isolation in this tonally masterful dramedy from the great Olivier Assayas.
BLUE SUN PALACE (USA)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesJuly 12, 2025 ::: BLUE SUN PALACE - When tragedy strikes, an unexpected bond forms between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens
SHARI & LAMB CHOP (USA)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesJuly 26, 2025 ::: This heartfelt and entertaining doc charts the life, loves, and career hits and misses of the spunky perfectionist who forever changed the face of children’s television
THE TIES THAT BOND US / L’Attachement (France/Belgium)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesAug 9, 2025 ::: A moving, humanistic drama about love, family, connection and the unexpected turmoils of life.
