HELENO (Brazil)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening A biography of the tragic life of one of Brazil’s greatest soccer players, Heleno de Freitas, starring  Rodrigo Santoro, one of Brazil’s most talented and famous actors.  Santoro was Raul Castro, in Steve Soderbergh’s CHE, was also in LION’S DEN by Pablo Trapero and starred in NOT BY CHANCE […]

SPUD (South Africa)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

U.S. Premiere – One Time Screening It’s South Africa 1990.  Two major events are about to happen: The release of Nelson Mandela and, more importantly, it’s Spud Milton’s first year at an elite boys only private boarding school.  Spud has his hands full trying to adapt to his new home.  Along the way Spud takes […]

SHUN LI & THE POET (Italy)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Shun Li, a young Chinese immigrant, leaves her job in a textile factory near Rome for a small town along the Venetian lagoon.  She’s driven by one burning desire – to somehow get her papers and bring her young son from China to join her.  The tavern where […]

PRIMA PRIMAVERA (Hungary)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Gábor, a middle-aged, simple-minded man, finds his life is suddenly thrown into chaos when his caregiver mother is shot in a bizarre bank robbery that he witnesses.  He forms an unlikely alliance with Joli, a no-nonsense Ukrainian girl from the underworld and they embark on a journey of […]

PARIS-MANHATTAN (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Alice is an offbeat pharmacist surrounded by a nice but dysfunctional family.  She’s still single to the great consternation of her parents.  She actually met the perfect man 20 years ago… but he married her sister!  Since then, no one has lived up to her expectations.  She takes […]

OUT IN THE DARK (Israel)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Coachella Valley Premiere - One Time Screening Special Guest – Writer/Director Michael Mayer Two young men, a Palestinian grad student and an Israeli lawyer, played by Nicholas Jacob and Michael Aloni, meet and fall in love amidst personal and political intrigue in this striking debut feature from Israeli director Michael Mayer.  Rarely has the emotional, human toll of the Israel-Palestine […]

COMING OF AGE / ANFANG 80 (Austria)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening A touching film about a unique couple in a society that ignores the elderly.  A love story about Rosa & Bruno, people in their 80s, who had considered themselves cut off from life until they suddenly experience what it’s like to live and love again.  Against all odds, they […]

SPINNING PLATES (USA)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Special Guest:  Joseph Levy – Director / Writer / Producer / Editor SPINNING PLATES is a documentary about three extraordinary restaurants and the incredible people who make them what they are.  A cutting-edge restaurant named the seventh-best in the world whose chef must battle a life-threatening obstacle to pursue his passion.  A 150-year-old family […]

CLARA (Germany)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Clara Schumann” wears the mantle of a period love story with attractive distinction — touted as the tale of the feverish ménage-a-trois between 19th-century composers Clara, her husband, Robert Schumann and his protege Johannes Brahms.  The film, as one might expect, contains some extraordinary musical moments.  Clara’s sexist encounters […]

GREENWICH VILLAGE: MUSIC THAT DEFINED A GENERATION (Canada)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

West Coast Premiere – One Time Screening Explore the music scene in Greenwich Village in the 60′s and early 70′s.  A film about a new generation of singers and songwriters, including Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Don McLean, Carly Simon and others who helped develop political folk music, which tackled issues including civil liberties and […]

EL CUERPO / THE BODY (Spain)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

West Coast Premiere – One Time Screening A night watchman is accidentally killed while fleeing from the morgue where he worked.  When the police arrive to take stock, they discover that the corpse of a young woman has mysteriously disappeared from the morgue without leaving any trace.  Inspector Jaime Pena (José Coronado) investigates the strange event […]

ZAYTOUN (Feature – Israel, UK) & LUCY (Short)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Coachella Valley Premiere - Sneak Preview ZAYTOUN Showing with short "LUCY" -  Guest, Libby Blood, Director/Writer In 1982, amid the Lebanese Civil War, Israeli pilot Yoni (Stephen Dorff) is shot down over Beirut and is taken prisoner by inhabitants of a Palestinian refugee camp.  Among the captors is ten-year-old Fahed, whose father obsessively tends to […]

CHASING BEAUTY (USA)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Coachella Valley Premiere - One Time Screening Special Guests - Director, Brent Huff & Model, Hoyt Richards CHASING BEAUTY provides a rare glimpse into the intriguing and complex world of modeling.  Behind the glossy covers of Vogue and Glamour lie the rarely talked about, uncensored stories of what models endure and sacrifice to become a top model.  […]

A PERFECT LIFE / LA VITA FACILE (Italy)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

West Coast Premiere - One Time Screening Luca Manzi, an Italian doctor who has abandoned life in Rome to work in a ramshackle hospital in rural Kenya, is surprised to hear that his life-long friend Mario Tirelli is coming to Kenya and assist him with the hospital. Mario enjoys the trappings of wealth and success that […]

FREE FALL (Germany)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

On a weekend police-training course, Marc meets fellow officer, Kay, and begins to develop feelings for him. Kay is spontaneous and a little illicit, which is not Marc's day-to- day life. Back at home though, Marc thinks nothing of it-until Kay is transferred to his unit. Torn between his love for his pregnant girlfriend Bettina […]

MATTERHORN (The Netherlands)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Coachella Valley Premiere - One Time Screening Devout Calvinist widower Fred leads a respectable, utterly boring life.  Suddenly Theo arrives, a mentally impaired adult, mental age about five.  Fred starts enjoying 'fathering' again, becomes protective and even defends him against bully urchins and the pretentious bigot sexton.  When Theo asks to 'wed' Fred, both grumpy men's […]

WAYS TO LIVE FOREVER (UK)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Coachella Valley Premiere - One Time Screening Like most inquisitive boys, 12 year old Sam wants to know about UFO's, horror movies, ghosts and girls.  Sam also has Leukemia and although the adults in his life don't want him to dwell on it, Sam wants to know everything about his disease and death, a possibility he […]

A PERFECT MAN (USA)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Coachella Valley Premiere  - One Time Screening Set in Amsterdam, the film centers around James, a successful architect and troubled man who finds the answers to his questions about women in an over-the-phone relationship with Nina.  When the pair finally meet, James finds that Nina is not what he expected.   Writers: Larry Brand, Peter […]

BUDDIES / COLEGAS (Brazil)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Coachella Valley Premiere - One Time Screening COLEGAS (BUDDIES) is a road movie that shows the simple things in life in a poetic light through the eyes of three young people with Down Syndrome, who love movies and work at the video library of the institution where they have always lived.  Inspired by the movie "Thelma […]

AFTERMATH (Poland)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Inspired by true events.  Franek and Jozek Kalina, sons of a poor farmer, are brothers from a small village in central Poland. Franek immigrated to the United States in the 80’s, and cut all ties with his family.  Only when Jozek’s wife arrives in the US, without explanation, does Franek finally return to his homeland. […]

SOME VELVET MORNING (USA)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

West 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 States

Official 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 States

COACHELLA 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 States

Native 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 States

Official 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 States

COACHELLA 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 States

COACHELLA 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 States

COACHELLA 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 States

WEST 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 States

COACHELLA 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 States

U.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 States

WEST 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 States

COACHELLA 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 States

COACHELLA 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 States

  COACHELLA 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 States

Ale 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 States

Bruno, 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 States

COACHELLA 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 States

COACHELLA 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 States

US 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 States

Eleni, 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 […]

WELCOME TO KUTSHER’S: THE LAST CATSKILLS RESORT (USA)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

One of the legendary Borscht Belt hotels during its heyday, Kutsher's was family-owned and operated for over 100 years.  Exploring the full Dirty Dancing-era Catskills experience— and how it changed American pop culture in the comedy, sports and vacation industries— this award-winning documentary captures a last glimpse of a lost world as it disappears before […]

24 DAYS (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

For Israeli audiences, this scenario may sound horrifyingly familiar.  A young man is kidnapped and brutally tortured.  Except this didn’t happen this summer, but eight years ago – and in Paris.  The victim was Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Parisian Jew whose murder has come to symbolize the rise of anti-Semitism in modern-day France. January 20, 2006. […]

MATEO (Columbia)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Official Best Film submission for 2015 Academy Awards When the healing power of art weakens violence in Colombia. Mateo, 16, collects extortion money on behalf of his uncle and uses his pay to help out his mother, who grudgingly accepts the ill-gotten money out of need.  They live by themselves in the poor, violent neighbourhoods […]

THE LAST MENTSCH (Germany)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE Marcus (MARIO ADORF) is a survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz.  His survival strategy after the war was creating a new identity for himself in Germany, one without Jewish friends or ties.  Now faced with his own mortality, he suddenly decides he wants to be buried in a Jewish cemetery.  To his surprise, he must […]

ATTILA MARCEL (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Paul is a sweet man-child, raised - and smothered - by his two eccentric aunts in Paris since the death of his parents when he was a toddler. Now thirty-three, he still does not speak. He does express himself through colorful suits that would challenge any Wes Anderson character in nerd chic. […]

THE GILDED CAGE (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

WEST COAST PREMIERE For 30 years Maria & José Ribeiro have been living In an upscale Paris neighborhood,in the cozy little concièrge’s apartment of a handsome 19th century building. This Portuguese émigré couple are universally liked: Maria is a diligent housekeeper, and José is a skilled handyman. They are so highly appreciated and well integrated, […]

THE FINISHERS (Belgium/France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

WEST COAST PREMIERE In a bid to bond with his father, Julien challenges him to participate with him in the Ironman race in Nice. The catch? Seventeen-year-old Paul (Fabien Héraud) has congenital palsy. His distant father is a former Ironman competitor, now unemployed and aimless, and Paul becomes inspired by a real-life family in Massachusetts […]

MARSHLAND (Spain)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE The Spanish deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters - both detectives in the homicide division -to investigate the cases. With deep divisions in their ideology, detectives Juan and Pedro must put aside their differences if they […]

ROCK THE CASBAH (France/Morocco)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE When successful entrepreneur and businessman Moulay Hassan (Omar Sharif) dies, in accordance with Muslim tradition, his family reunites at their home in Tangiers to spend three days sharing their memories and grieving his loss.  Sparks start to fly when prodigal daughter Sofia (Morjana Alaoui) jets in from New York.  The youngest of three […]

LAYOVER (USA) – in French

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE FILMMAKER GUESTS JOSHUA CALDWELL, (WRITER/DIRECTOR) TRAVIS OBERLANDER, (PRODUCER) Simone, a young Parisian on her way to Singapore to get engaged, is forced to spend the night in Los Angeles when her connecting flight is canceled.  After contacting her old friend Juliette, the two head out for a night of fun with some of […]

HIPPOCRATES – Diary of a French Doctor (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Closing night of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Critics’ Week, Hippocrates, Diary of a French Doctor is a darkly comic portrait of a Paris hospital as seen through the eyes of a young intern, Benjamin, played by Vincent Lacoste (Eden), who begins his internship at the hospital ward run by his father.  Confident and […]

THE TOWER (Germany)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

WEST COAST PREMIERE “A devastating German television mini-series about life in East Germany in the 1980s as experienced by a cultured family in suburban Dresden. A sweeping overview of a society that operates on fear, secrecy and duplicity. The Tower reminds us that the slogan “the personal is political” applies more than ever in a […]

BEREAVE (USA) – Guest: Writer/Director George Giovanis

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

SPECIAL GUEST WRITER/DIRECTOR, GEORGE GIOVANIS  Coachella Valley Premiere Fatally ill Garvey thinks he has figured out how to die alone. But when his beloved wife Evelyn goes missing on their anniversary he must live to save her.  Jane Seymour, Malcolm McDowell, and Keith Carradine star in this character-driven romance about the love & loss of […]

EADWEARD (Canada)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE EADWEARD is the perfect movie to play both at a film festival and an art museum. It recounts the endeavors of the real-life Eadweard Muybridge, whose 19th-century photographic methods would serve as a template for what became movies. It is also a visually captivating film, beautifully shot by cinematographer Tony Mirza. Muybridge, […]

LIZ IN SEPTEMBER (Venezuela)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

CO-SPONSOR with CINEMA DIVERSE Based on the classic lesbian play, LAST SUMMER AT BLUEFISH COVE, the drama, LIZ IN SEPTEMBER stars Latina lesbian supermodel Patricia Velasquez and is brought to the screen by esteemed Venezuelan director Fina Torres (WOMAN ON TOP). Every year, Liz (Velasquez), a hardcore party girl and womanizer, celebrates her birthday with […]

DEAREST (Hong Kong / China)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

  COACHELLA VALLEY  PREMIERE Shenzhen, southern China. When their 3-year old son Tianpeng goes missing, Tian Wen-jun and his ex-wife, Lu Xiao-juan, find their ordinary lives thrown into complete turmoil. Overwhelmed with guilt, they struggle to cope with the neverending nightmare that most people would be unable to comprehend. They comb through half the country […]

THE FOOL / DURAK (Russia)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE The lives of hundreds of the dregs of society are at stake in this stark, grotesque portrait of a new Russia on the verge of catastrophe. Investigating a maintenance problem in a decaying provincial housing project, plumber and engineering student Dima (Artyom Bystrov) discovers two massive cracks running the length of the […]

TO LIFE! (Germany)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE When young drifter Jonas (Max Riemelt) begins a friendship with ageing and isolated Ruth (Hannelore Elsner), their two lives become intimately intertwined.  Raised in postwar Germany, Ruth, an ex-cabaret Yiddish performer with a suppressed life force, is struggling with moving into a retirement complex.  Wandering throughout the city doing menial jobs, young […]

MISS VIOLENCE (Turkey)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE On the day of her birthday, eleven-year-old Angeliki jumps off the balcony and falls to her death with a smile on her face. While the police and Social Services try to discover the reason for this apparent suicide, Angeliki’s family keep insisting that it was an accident. What is the secret that […]

YELLOW EYES OF THE CROCODILES (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Directed by Cécile TELERMAN Synopsis Based on the runaway bestseller, Katherine Pancol’s novel The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles – Editions Albin Michel. When her chronically unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with his mistress, Joséphine Cortès is left in an unhappy state of affairs. The mother of two […]

GITEL (Russia & Lithuania)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

WEST COAST PREMIERE It’s 1969. Intelligent & witty concert violinist, Gitel Bargman (Marija Korenkaitettr), lives in a Kuybyshev apartment.  To the outsider, she has everything, but Gitel hides a secret.  A survivor of the Holocaust, she is haunted not only by painful memories of the past, but also by the ghosts of her two sisters who […]

L’AFFAIRE SK1 (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

WEST COAST PREMIERE One of the most shocking events of the last two decades of the 20th century. SK1 is French police slang for “Serial Killer 1,” the codename given in the 1990s to a rapist and murderer who preyed on young women in Paris.  Nicknamed “The Beast of Bastille,” the culprit, later identified as […]

ALREADY TOMORROW IN HONG KONG (Hong Kong)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE   An attraction forms when a Chinese American girl visiting Hong Kong for the first time meets an American expat who shows her the way, but timing may not quite be on their side.  A walk and talk romance set in the beautiful city of Hong Kong, the film asks the question - […]

ALL CATS ARE GREY (Belgium)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE Paul is a detective in his forties. Dorothy, almost 16, is going through a serious identity crisis. Paul lives on the fringe of Brussels’ self-righteous society, while Dorothy has grown up in its heart.  They probably never would have spoken if one day Dorothy hadn't decided to come knocking at his door. […]

RENDEZ-VOUS (Netherlands)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Simone, her husband Eric and their two children move to the dilapidated farmhouse in France that she has inherited. Her dream is to turn the house into a bed and breakfast. As the hectic pace of the rebuilding gets underway, she gets caught up in the romance and chaos of it all.  […]

EVERY FACE HAS A NAME (Sweden)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE Director Magnus Gertten tracks down and interviews survivors from German concentration camps seen in a 35mm archival film reel showing their arrival at the harbor of Malmo, Sweden, on April 28, 1945. The group includes Jews from all over Europe, Norwegian prisoners of war, Polish mothers and children, members of the French […]

HIGH STRUNG – Special DFS Fundraiser Screening – GUESTS

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Tickets ($8 students, $15 adults) available now at Camelot's Box Office or on-line at http://highstrung.eventbrite.com MEET THE FILMMAKERS! One Time Screening in the Coachella Valley Director/Writer - MICHAEL DAMIAN Writer/Producer - JANEEN DAMIAN and select CAST MEMBERS including KEENAN KAMPA  Ruby Adams is a dancer from the Midwest on scholarship, living her first day in New York […]

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THE PROSECUTOR, THE DEFENDER, THE FATHER & HIS SON (Bulgaria)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

WEST COAST PREMIERE Inspired by True Events The Hague, The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: Two ambitious lawyers face each other in the trial of Milorad Krstic, who's accused of committing war crimes as a commander in the Bosnian war. The defender, Mikhail Finn, has managed to refute all the accusations against his […]

WHERE THE ROAD RUNS OUT (South Africa/Equatorial Guinea) – GUESTS

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE SPECIAL GUESTS:  RUDOLF BUITENDACH – Editor, Director, Producer STELIO SAVANTE – Actor George, a scientist living in Rotterdam is growing wary of the world of academia. The sudden death of an old friend is the incentive he needs to return to his African roots where he takes over a dilapidated field station in the […]

IN HARMONY (France) Showing w/short THE MAN WHO SHOT HOLLYWOOD (USA)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Marc Guermont used to be a very much sought after horse stuntman in films.  One day unfortunately, he had a bad fall from his mount during the shooting of a historical movie. And not only has he become a paraplegic but his insurance company tries to rip him off into the bargain.  Two good reasons […]

MORGENTHAU (USA)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

WEST COAST PREMIERE Good Fortune: Three Men, Three Generations, One Fight MORGENTHAU tells the story of one American family whose careers reveal new perspectives on the social and political shifts in the twentieth century. From fighting for international action against the genocide of Armenians, through the efforts to rescue Jews during the Holocaust despite political […]

WAITING (India) Showing w/short AND THEN, VIOLENCE (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Tara, a young wife, is alone in a strange city after her husband suffered a serious head injury on a work trip. He lingers in a coma while doctors wait for the swelling in his brain to subside. Alone at night, she turns to the only other person in the hospital cafeteria […]

FAMILIENFEST (Germany)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

U.S. PREMIERE One Time Screening It’s the 70th birthday of Hannes Westhoff and his family (his first and second wives and his children) gather for the weekend in his villa.  Without consideration for losses, their mutual taunts, accusations & aversions run free.  They dig deep into old wounds until an unexpected message changes everything. Starring: Hannelore […]

MY KING / MON ROI (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

PREVIEW Tony (Emmanuelle Bercot, in a performance that won her the Best Actress Award at Cannes) and Georgio (Vincent Cassel) are an odd match—or so Tony’s brother Solal (Louis Garrel) thinks when she tells him that they’re falling quickly, recklessly in love.  Director Maïwenn’s 4th feature captures the couple’s tempestuous 10-year relationship, in retrospect, as […]

FEVER AT DAWN (Israel/Hungary)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Based on the novel of the true story of writer/director Péter Gárdos’ parents, FEVER AT DAWN journals an unlikely love affair between two Hungarian Holocaust survivors recuperating in Sweden.  Twenty-five year old Miklós has been given six months to live and wants nothing more than to find love.  He sets out to […]

DON’T CALL ME SON (Brazil)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

WEST COAST PREMIERE "Tall, dark, androgynously handsome, Pierre wears eyeliner and a black lace g-string, while having sex with both boys and girls. The confusion only goes deeper when the teenager’s single, working-class mom is arrested for having stolen him at birth. Thanks to the wonders of DNA, he’s returned to his biological parents: bourgeois, […]

JERRY LEWIS: THE MAN BEHIND THE CLOWN – CALIFORNIA PREMIERE + 2 shorts

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

JERRY LEWIS: THE MAN BEHIND THE CLOWN  CALIFORNIA PREMIERE Since the early days, Jerry Lewis – in the line of Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel – had the masses laughing with his visual gags, pantomime sketches and signature slapstick humor. Yet Lewis was far more than just a clown. He was also a groundbreaking filmmaker whose […]

SUMMERTIME (France) Co-Sponsor w/Cinema Diverse

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Sensual and elegant, Catherine Corsini’s SUMMERTIME follows Carole and Delphine as they fall in love against the backdrop of early feminist activism in 1971 France.  After living in the city, Delphine is called home to help with her family farm in the countryside and is forced to choose between her responsibility to […]

2 NIGHTS TILL MORNING (Lithuania/Finland) and THE OPPOSITE OF A FAIRY TALE (USA short)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

THE OPPOSITE OF A FAIRY TALE West Coast Preview A Film Lab and AAFL TV Production By Jennifer Betit Yen Guests:  Timothy Yang, Bruce Yang, Collin Heald and Ryan Heald   Benefit to combat Elder Abuse ($15.00 at the door) When Celeste, a kind social worker, meets Josephine, an elderly patient in a nursing home, […]

THE FRONTIER (USA)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

THE FRONTIER WEST COAST PREMIERE Laine, (Jocelin Donahue), a young woman on the run from the law, turns up at The Frontier, a dust-caked motel on the outskirts of Phoenix. With deep bruises on her neck and blood on her hands she’s looking for a place to clean up and maybe lie low for a […]

TRUMAN (Spain/Argentina)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

TRUMAN Advanced Screening The latest feature from Spanish director Cesc Gay is a tender and honest portrayal of a man facing his own mortality, and of the companionship that sustains him in this most trying of times. Starring Ricardo Darin ("The Secret in Their Eyes", "Nine Queens", "Wild Tales", "The Aura") and Javier Cámara ("Talk […]

SABENA HIJACKING- MY VERSION (Israel)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

  Coachella Valley Premiere SABENA HIJACKING: MY VERSION is a nerve-racking reenactment of a true story.  On May 8, 1972, the Palestinian group Black September seized control of Sabena Flight 971 shortly after takeoff from Vienna en route to Tel Aviv. The next day, Israeli Special Forces launched a daring operation to rescue the passengers […]

THE NEW LIFE OF PAUL SNEIJDER (Québec, Canada)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

WEST COAST PREMIERE Paul needs a dramatic change and quits his steady job.  During his many walks and encounters in the city parks, he becomes a dog walker.  If Paul can survive the wacky canines and their equally crazy owners, the cold Canadian winter and his wife’s strange obsession for organic chicken, he might be […]

DOLORES (Germany) showing with JOE’S VIOLIN (USA)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

  DOLORES California Premiere Georg Letterer is an introvert modeler, who builds detail-obsessed prototypes. He receives an order from famous Hollywood actress Dolores Moor to make a model of her extravagant villa. This is the opportunity for Georg to escape from suburban dreariness and the perfidious psychological terror of his brother. He tirelessly works on […]

HANDS OF A MOTHER / Die Hände meiner Mutter (Germany)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

GUEST:  FLORIAN EICHINGER  (Writer/Director)  At a family gathering, Markus, an almost 40-year-old doting father, is reminded of his ugly childhood when his 4-year-old son is slightly injured while alone with his grandmother. Writer|Director:  Florian Eichinger Genre:  Drama Running Time:  106 minutes Distributor:  Media Luna Country:  Germany Language:  German w|English Subtitles Rating:  N|R Starring: Andreas Döhler, […]

CENTER OF MY WORLD (Germany)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

When Phil returns home from summer camp he finds that his mother and twin sister, aren't speaking to one another. Unwilling to confront his family during the last of the summer holidays, Phil escapes to hang out with his best friend.  As the school year begins, a new student arrives, the handsome and mysterious Nicholas.  […]

THE DAUGHTER (Australia)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

WEST COAST PREMIERE The first film from one of Australia's greatest theater director's, is at once a brilliant re-imagining of Henrik Ibsen's THE WILD DUCK and a startling, absorbing work of art in its own right. Starring Paul Schneider, Geoffrey Rush and Sam Neill. After a fifteen-year absence, Christian (Paul Schneider) returns home to rural […]

THE ORIGIN OF VIOLENCE (France/Germany)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Nathan Fabre, a young Catholic teacher, while working on his thesis about French resistance to the Nazis during World War II, discovers a photograph of a prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp whose resemblance to his father is uncanny.  Yet when he mentions this to his father, it is brushed off as a […]

A KID (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

CALIFORNIA PREMIERE Mathieu, a Parisian, is 33, but he has never met his father. His late mother always told him that he was the result of a casual encounter. One day, Mathieu receives a call telling him that his father was Canadian, and that he had just passed away. He also discovers that he has two step brothers and […]

THE TEACHER (Czech Republic | Slovakia)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Set in Bratislava during the final decade of communism, THE TEACHER examines the abuse of power at a middle school. Zuzana Maurery, named best actress at Karlovy Vary, plays a terrifying instructor who heads the local Communist party and uses her pupils to manipulate their parents for her own personal benefit. Director: Jan Hrebejk Writer: […]

THE COUNTRY DOCTOR (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Southern California Premiere Rolling off HIPPOCRATES, doctor-turned-filmmaker Thomas Lilti delves once again into the medical world with THE COUNTRY DOCTOR. The social dramedy stars Francois Cluzet (“Intouchables”, “Tell No One’) as a devoted and revered countryside doctor whose life gets rocked by a middle-age woman who has come from the city hospital to earn her […]

SANCTUARY / Freistatt (Germany)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

U.S. PREMIERE “May 1968: Rolling Stones, bell-bottoms, mini-skirts, sexual revolution, protests against the Vietnam War… While Germany sets off for a new era of freedom, rebellious fourteen-year-old Wolfgang gets sent to Freistatt, a foster home for difficult children.  There he shall be “educated” to become a decent boy.  Wolfgang puts up a determined resistance against the […]

ADVENTURES OF MAX & LEON (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

WEST COAST PREMIERE “Max & Leon is the first feature film from the stars of the French TV sensation The Palmashow: the creation of stand-up comedians Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais.  In this epic WW2 comedy—in the vein of La Grande Vadrouille (which was for 40 years the most popular French film in the history […]

ROSALIE BLUM (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

U.S. Premiere   Based on the award-winning series of graphic novels by Camille Jourdy, Julien Rappeneau’s enchanting directorial debut ROSALIE BLUM is a warm, witty and impeccably performed comedy about a random encounter that has unexpected and far-reaching consequences. Thirty-something Vincent Machot (indelibly played by Kyan Khojandi) is a hairdresser, like his father before him.  Life […]

EMPTY SPACE (USA) showing with: THE MANY SAD FATES OF MR. TOLEDANO

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

EMPTY SPACE Southern California Premiere   “Tom, an overweight young man, takes refuge at his grandmother's cabin in rural Protection, IL, in an attempt to bury the years of being bullied and feeling rejected.  While in town, he meets a precocious blind girl named Lilly, who shows him how to be accepted and loved.  Tender, […]

HAROLD AND LILLIAN: A HOLLYWOOD LOVE STORY (USA)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

 “Movie fans know the work of Harold and Lillian Michelson, even if they don’t recognize the names.  Working largely uncredited in the Hollywood system, storyboard artist Harold and film researcher Lillian left an indelible mark on classics by Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Mel Brooks, Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski and many more.  Through an engaging mix […]

MIDNIGHT RETURN: STORY OF BILLY HAYES & TURKEY – with guests

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

  Join us for an EXCLUSIVE Q&A screening of Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey at Camelot Theaters! After his ingenious escape from a Turkish prison in 1975, Billy Hayes arrived home to a hero’s welcome, instant celebrity and within a week had a book and movie deal for his story. From the moment […]

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HOMECOMING /Blóðberg (Iceland)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Gunnar, a sociologist in his fifties who has written countless self-help books, lives in a beautiful house with Dísa, his wife of thirty years. Despite his expertise, their relationship is on the rocks and their attitude towards one another is becoming increasingly resentful and bitter. Their 25-year-old son and only child, David, comes back from […]

TIGER THEORY (Czech Republic)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Jan (Jiří Bartoška), a veterinarian, has had enough. The last drop was the death of his father-in-law who, just like him, ran out of strength and patience. Everything in his life, old age and finally even his death, the manner and the place of his grave, had always been decided by the grandmother (Iva Janžurová). […]

EL ACOMPANANTE / THE COMPANION (Panama)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Academy Award submission for Best Foreign Language Film: Cuba: ‘The Companion’  NOTE:  Start time is 9:30 AM.  Co-Sponsor with CINEMA DIVERSE 1988, Cuba, those infected with HIV or suffering from AIDS were given free room, board and medical treatment at a beautiful facility called “Los Cocos”. Except for the criminals who shared prison cells, the […]

SILENT HEART (Denmark)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

California Premiere   Three generations of a family have gathered at the matriarch’s (Ghita Nørby) house for the weekend. Terminally ill, she wants them to bid her a final farewell, having decided to end her life come Sunday. Sisters Sanne (Danica Curcic) and Heidi  (Paprika Steen) have accepted her desire to die before her disease […]

THE TESTAMENT (Israel)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Based upon a book and facts, THE TESTAMENT is about Yoel, a meticulous historian, in the midst of a widely covered legal battle with powerful forces in Austria, concerning a brutal massacre of Jews that took place toward the end of WWII in the village of Lendsorf. An influential family of industrialists on whose land […]

HARMONIA (Israel) Showing with ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE (USA)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

  COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE HARMONIA is a modern adaptation of the mythological triangle between the childless Abraham and Sarah and young Hagar. Sarah is the harpist of the Jerusalem Philharmonic; Abraham is its almighty conductor. When Hagar, a young horn player from East Jerusalem joins the Western Side Orchestra, she bonds with Sarah and a […]

SECOND TIME AROUND (Canada) Showing with THE FINAL SHOW (USA)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Katherine Mitchell wasn’t looking for love a second time, not at her age, and certainly not with the cranky Isaac Shapiro.  Despite the nosy bunch of seniors in the residence where Katherine convalesces after breaking her hip, she and Isaac warm to each other over their shared love of music.   But family problems and unforeseen […]

DARK FORTUNE /Finisteres gluck’ (Switzerland)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE DARK FORTUNE is the prize-winning adaptation of Lukas Hartmann’s novel about the aftershocks of a family tragedy.  In the midst of a heated argument their car crashes in a mountain tunnel where four out of five family members are killed, including both parents.  Only the youngest son survives, 8-year-old Yves.  Later that […]

TAMARA (Venezuela) with Filmmaker Guests

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

EXPECTED GUESTS: ELIA SCHNEIDER - Director & Writer JOSEPH NOVOA - Producer JOEL NOVOA - Second Unity Director & Screenwriter IBI SCHNEIDER - Associate Producer LUIS FERNANDEZ - Lead Actor The film is based upon the real life of Teo, a distinguished, prominent and outstanding lawyer, with a four-year marriage and two small children, who […]

KING OF PEKING (China)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE A Comedy/Drama set in 1998.  Big Wong and Little Wong are a close-knit father-son duo. Together, they travel with their mobile cinema, projecting Hollywood movies to local villagers, but easy money comes with its own price tag. KING OF PEKiNG explores father and son relationships, morality, and what it means to be […]

INSYRIATED / IN SYRIA (Lebanon)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Trapped inside her house in a city under siege, Oum Yazan, mother of three, turned her flat into a safe harbor for her family and neighbors, trying to protect them from the war outside. When bombs threaten to destroy the building, when snipers turn the courtyards into deadly zones, and burglars break in to claim their dreadful bounties, maintaining […]

BIG SONIA (USA)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

For years, Sonia Warshawski (91) has been an inspirational public speaker at schools and prisons, where her stories of surviving the Holocaust as a teenager have inspired countless people. When Sonia is served an eviction notice for her iconic tailor shop, she's confronted with an agonizing decision: either open up a new shop, or relocate. […]

AN ACT OF DEFIANCE (South Africa)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Dutch filmmaker Jean van de Velde captures a dark period in South Africa's recent history, skillfully balancing a nail-biting political thriller with spectacular courtroom intrigue, while paying tribute to the legendary figures who fought to end segregation and corruption in their country. In apartheid-ruled South Africa, a renowned lawyer, Bram Fischer, struggles […]

WRONG LIGHT (Thailand)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE   A charismatic activist leads a globally-regarded NGO that provides shelter and education for girls rescued from brothels in Northern Thailand.  As the filmmakers meet the girls and their families, discrepancies begin to emerge and their story takes an unexpected turn. Directors: Dave Adams, Josie Swantek Genre:  Documentary Running time:  78 minutes […]

HUMOR ME (USA)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE   A heartfelt father-son comedy about a struggling playwright who is forced to move in with his joke-telling dad in a New Jersey retirement community and learns, as his father often says, "life's going to happen, whether you smile or not.". Cast:  Jemaine Clement, Elliott Gould, Ingrid Michaelson, Bebe Neuworth & Annie […]

DEDE (Georgia/Qatar)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

West Coast Premiere 1992.  Dina lives in a remote village high in the Georgian mountains where century old traditions rule day to day life.  Her grandfather has arranged for her to marry, but when handsome Gegi returns from war, she falls in love with him and they elope, trampling on traditional Svaneti culture.  Her refusal to […]

GRAND PROMISE / LA GRAN PROMESA (Mexico)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE A young man must—as a last resort—kidnap his own newborn daughter to prevent her custody from falling into the wrong hands.  Outrunning the authorities, he sacrifices his citizenship and career by retreating to Europe after leaving his child in the care of his close friends in Mexico.  Decades later, he must find […]

HOLY FAMILY (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

U.S. PREMIERE   The story of a traditional Catholic family in northern France, part of society but subject to all its changes. A wealthy family with close ties to a church that is facing up to the modernizing approach of Pope Francis.  Madeleine de Waquin-Fournier is head of the clan, while Charles, a brilliant young […]

STREAKER / FLITZER (Switzerland)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

 STREAKER (FLITZER) by Peter Luisi Strip and Run 1970’s-style streaking is alive and well in Switzerland.  In order to get out of a financial crisis, high school teacher Balz Naef (53) starts an illegal sports betting business, recruiting and training streakers  – people who run naked through a football field.  He has people placing bets on how […]

THE LAST SUIT (Spain/Argentina)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

An aging Jewish tailor leaves his life in Argentina to embark on a journey back through time and halfway around the world, in the bittersweet road movie THE LAST SUIT. Eighty-eight-year-old Holocaust survivor Abraham Bursztein (Miguel Ángel Solá) is about to be put out to pasture by his children, who have sold his house in the […]

LIGHT OF HOPE (Spain)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Based on the true story of Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011) and her female co-workers who saved the lives of almost 600 infants in World War II. In the early 1940's, refugees from all over Europe seek shelter in South Western France, escaping persecution from the Nazis and from Franco's regime in Spain. Among them, there are […]

THE SAMUEL PROJECT (USA) GUESTS

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Guests: Ryan Ochoa, Marc Fusco and Steve Weinberger   Eli, an outcast teen, played by Ochoa, who dreams of becoming an artist, connects with his isolated grandfather Samuel, a dry cleaner portrayed by Linden,  for the first time.  Eli uncovers his grandfather's surprising past, when he makes his grandpa the subject of an animated art […]

THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH (United Kingdom)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

The film centers on a random act of theft that has put Tom Hammond's life into a tailspin.  Stolen from his bookshop is Tom's most treasured possession, a photograph of him with his son Luke...their last moment of shared happiness.  THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH is set between London in 2003, and a dark night in 1988 […]

SLIPAWAY (USA) GUESTS

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

  COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Filmmaker Guests:  Julia Butler, Writer/Director Elaine Partnow, Lead Actress  SLIPAWAY is a touching and thought-provoking film, shot on a vintage sailboat in the middle of the ocean.   A spiritual journey of compassion, redemption and unconditional friendship between two solitary souls at opposite ends of life.  It has traveled the world, […]

BENEATH THE SILENCE (Israel)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

1973.  Six years after returning from the Six Day War with a battle shock, Menashe realizes he will never be the man he used to be before the war.  He can’t communicate with his surroundings, and spends his days driving away in his red track for long hours.  The young family he created collapses due to his lack of communication […]

EVERY ACT OF LIFE (USA)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

PLEASE NOTE:  The starting time for this film ONLY is 9:30 AM.  Doors will unlock at 9:00.   Few if any living playwrights have been as successful for as long as Terrence McNally. Nearing his ninth decade his body of work includes:  Master Class, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Ragtime, Full Monty, The Ritz, Corpus Christi, […]

CATCH THE WIND (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Edith sees her life turned upside down when the factory where she has always worked is relocated to Tangiers, leaving the workers with a choice between unemployment and moving to Morocco to keep their jobs.  Estranged from her son and without any ties, Edith is the only one to take up the factory's offer.  While […]

BAD GENIUS (Thailand)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Playing on the Thai obsession with academic achievement and test taking, Bad Genius is a comedic heist thriller that plays out in a prestigious high school.  Genius student Lynn arrives on a full scholarship.  When her friend Grace needs a few test answers, Lynn helps her out, leading to an elaborate cheating scheme to help […]

DJAM (France-Greece-Turkey) and WINK (USA)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Djam, a young Greek woman, is sent to Istanbul by her uncle Kakourgos, a former sailor with a passion for Rebetiko, to find a rare part that will repair their boat.  In Istanbul, she encounters Avril, a nineteen-year-old French girl, alone and without any money, who came to Turkey as a voluntary worker with refugees.  […]

WHILE WE LIVE (Denmark)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Inspired by true events, "While We Live" follows four people in Northern Denmark and how their fates intertwine in a tragic accident.  When Kristian travels to his hometown Gribskov to visit his stepdad, who has fallen terminally ill, he learns that everyone still blames him for a tragic accident that tore the family apart, five […]

LAS HEREDERAS /THE HEIRESSES (Paraguay)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Paraguay's Official 2019 Academy Award Submission   Chela and Chiquita, both descended from wealthy families in Asunción, Paraguay, have been together for over 30 years. Recently their financial situation has worsened and they begin selling off their inherited possessions. When their debts lead to Chiquita being imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face […]

ZAGROS (Belgium)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Kurdish shepherd Zagros is stunned to learn that his family has accused his wife of infidelity and that she has fled with their daughter.  Convinced of her innocence, Zagros leaves his family and joins his wife in the west.  While trying to adjust to a new life in a strange city, he begins doubting her. […]

TAZZEKA (Morocco/France) Showing with PRESTIGE INGREDIENTS

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Growing up in the Moroccan village of Tazzeka, Elias learned the secrets of traditional Moroccan cuisine from his grandmother who raised him.  Years later, meeting a top Paris chef and a young woman named Salma inspires him to leave home. In Paris, Elias faces unstable work and financial hardship as an undocumented immigrant. But he […]

RETURN OF THE HERO/LE RETOUR DU HEROS (France/Belgium)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

France, 1809 and the dashing Capitaine Charles-Grégoire Neuville has just become engaged to the young Pauline when he is called away to the front. He promises that he will write every day, but he does not. The impressionable Pauline hysterically falls ill with pneumonia. He is, after all, her first love and there is little […]

CHILDREN OF THE LIE /Un Mensonge Oublié (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

A week before her wedding, Agathe Plichard, a pretty young woman of mixed race, is found drowned in the Creuse river. The police treat the case as an accident but her fiancé, Felix Bricourt, is convinced she was murdered. He decides to investigate by himself, despite the wishes of his family, a wealthy dynasty of […]

POINT DEFIANCE (USA) Filmmaker Guests

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Filmmaker Guests:  Justin Foia, Director/Writer and Timothy Foia, Writer “A bachelor’s beautiful, isolated home becomes a hostile prison when his troubled brother returns from military duty in Afghanistan, forcing them to unearth their violent past before another dark secret is buried.”  … Shoreline Entertainment Writer|Director: Justin Foia Writer|Producer: Timothy Foia Genre: Action|Thriller Running Time: 100 minutes Distributor: […]

HER WORD AGAINST HIS (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Laura has a promising career as a young auctioneer, but her life looks set to fall apart when she's the victim of a rape. The rapist is a well-known and respected gallery owner, and the assault takes place after a cocktail party. Laura knows it's unlikely she'll be believed if she files a complaint. But […]

IMPERFECT AGE (Italy)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

WEST COAST PREMIERE Camilla is a seventeen year old who has the dream of becoming a dancer, despite her mother's concerns.  One day in dance she meets Sara, an aspiring dancer like her, and her life will never be the same. Director: Ulisse Lendaro Writer: Cosimo Calamini Genre: Drama Distributor: Intramovies S.r.l. Running Time: 96 […]

ME AGAINST THE WORLD (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Unemployed Audrey is not a fighter. She lives alone with her 16 year-old-son, Enzo, a smart young boy in sport studies. One day he finds himself fighting for his life after taking a certain medication. While the doctors refuse to confirm the link between the drug and his condition, Audrey fights to sort right from […]

BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHE (USA)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Guest - Dr. Drake Stutesman* Narrated by Jodie Foster, Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché is a documentary about the first female filmmaker, exploring the heights of fame and financial success she achieved before she was shut out from the very industry she helped create. Guy-Blaché started her career as a secretary to Léon […]

DEATH IN THE SOUL (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

A hideous crime, an even worse truth. Marc Lagnier confesses to the murder of his adored son, but refuses to explain. He's guilty and that's that: no need to look any further for a culprit. Tristan Delmas, an ambitious young lawyer, is appointed to defend Marc against the latter's will. Seeking the truth, Tristan looks […]

LEONA (Mexico)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

LEONA is an intimate, insightful, and moving film that tells the story of a young Jewish woman from Mexico City who finds herself torn between her family and her forbidden love. Ripe with all the drama and interpersonal conflicts of a Jane Austen novel, watching her negotiate the labyrinth of familial pressure, religious precedent, and […]

DYING FOR A CHILD (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

US PREMIERE The body of Florence Varthy, daughter of a well-known entrepreneur, is found dead in her garage. Over the last few months, Florence and her partner, unable to have a child of their own, had faked her pregnancy and arranged for a surrogate mother, which is illegal in France.  Their plan was going off […]

SIR (India)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Ratna works as domestic live-in help with Ashwin, a man from a wealthy family. Although Ashwin seems to have it all, Ratna can sense that he has given up on his dreams and is somewhat lost… On the other hand, Ratna who seems to have nothing, is full of hope and works determinedly towards her […]

MY POLISH HONEYMOON (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Anna and Adam, a young Parisian couple with Jewish origins, are about to travel to Poland for the first time.  Technically speaking this will be their honeymoon.  They will attend a ceremony in memory of the Jewish community in the village of Adam's grandfather, which was destroyed 75 years ago. Adam is not really enthusiastic, […]

THE CITIZEN (Hungary)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

In his late fifties Wilson, whose family was killed during an outbreak of civil war in Guinea-Bissau, enters Europe as a political refugee and settles for a sedate life as a security guard in a Budapest shopping center. Wilson's main desire is to acquire Hungarian citizenship. The story follows Wilson as he attempts to find […]

GASPARD AT THE WEDDING (France/Belgium)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE Shortly after their chance meeting, Gaspard asks Laura if she will accompany him to his family home and pose as his girlfriend at his father’s second wedding. At this point, viewers will probably assume they’re dealing with a familiar and delightful trope of romantic comedy: the fake couple will become a real […]

SINK OR SWIM (France/Belgium)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

With buoyant energy, Gilles Lellouche choreographs and directs a stellar ensemble in pursuit of grace and discarded dreams—that is, a group of varyingly coordinated middle-aged men who find an outlet in synchronized swimming. Bertrand (Mathieu Amalric, soulful yet understated) is the newbie to the group, having signed up on a whim to take his mind […]

DEAR FREDY (Israel)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Co-Sponsor with CINEMA DIVERSE. Please note film will start promptly at 9:30 AM   A Heroic Gay Jewish Sportsman Who Ended Up in Auschwitz Fredy Hirsch was born in Germany, a proud Jew and openly gay man he was 19 years old when the Nuremberg Laws were published, he fled from Germany to the Czech […]

THE ORCHESTRA CLASS (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

WEST COAST PREMIERE When violinist Simon Daoud is hired to teach the violin to a class of unruly junior high school students in an immigrant suburb of Paris, his first instinct is to run back to his rarefied world of classical string quartets.  His mission to teach these twelve loudmouths to perform the violin parts […]

THE COMING BACK OUT BALL MOVIE (Australia)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

CALIFORNIA PREMIERE "THE COMING BACK OUT BALL MOVIE" is an observational feature documentary that follows a group of older LGBTIQ+ people, who have been invited to attend a Ball celebrating their gender and sexual identity.  Faced with the complexities of ageing and isolation, these extraordinary people seize each day with determination and humor.  In a […]

LOVE IN SUSPENDERS (Israel)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

So it happens that Tammy (Nitza Saul), a 64 year old widow who constantly deals with the memory of her loving late husband, meets Beno (Yehuda Barken), a 70 year old sarcastic lone wolf widower - and the two fall in love. From their first unfortunate encounter, when Tammy hits Beno with her car, Tammy and Beno experience […]

MURER – ANATOMY OF A TRIAL (Austria, Luxembourg)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE On the basis of original records, MURER – ANATOMY OF A TRIAL reconstructs the 1963 proceedings against Franz Murer, a wealthy Austrian farmer with a sterling reputation, that took place in Graz. This respected local politician and family man was in charge of the Vilnius ghetto from 1941 to 1943, where its […]

THREE DAYS AND A LIFE / TROIS JOURS ET UNE VIE

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

THREE DAYS AND A LIFE (TROIS JOURS ET UNE VIE) – 120 min Master crime writer Pierre Lemaitre's own adaptation of his haunting novel.  It's Christmas 1999, in a peaceful little village in the Ardennes.  The life of a young boy named Antoine will soon be devastated by three tragic events : the death of a dog, the vanishing of […]

$13.00

REMI, NOBODY’S BOY / REMI SANS FAMILLE

REMI, NOBODY’S BOY (REMI SANS FAMILLE) – 105 min This is the adaptation of Hector Malot's French novel Sans famille (1878). The adventures of the young Rémi, an orphan, collected by the gentle Madam Barberin. At the age of 10 years, he is snatched from his adoptive mother and entrusted to the signor Vitalis, a […]

$13.00

LITTLE TICKLES / LES CHATOUILLES showing with LITTLE HANDS

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

LITTLE TICKLES (LES CHATOUILLES) – 103 min Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw.  Why should she distrust a friend of her parents' who offers to "tickle" her?  Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while […]

$13.00

IN SAFE HANDS / PUPILLE showing with UPSET BODY / CORPS CONTRARIE

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

IN SAFE HANDS (PUPILLE) – 110 min Jeanne Herry crafts a story stemming from a delicate two-and-a-half-month state of limbo for a newborn child, Théo, who becomes a ward of the state after his mother gives him up for adoption at birth. In Safe Hands choreographs parallel strands of action: the search for potential parents undertaken by the […]

$13.00

SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE / DEUX MOI

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE (DEUX MOI) – 110 min Two lonely neighbors would be perfect for each other if only they could overcome their individual hang-ups and stop substituting computer screens for real connections.  She multiplies dates on social networks that lead nowhere while he struggles to meet anyone.  Both are victims of this loneliness of big cities, in a […]

$13.00

AMANDA

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

AMANDA – 107 min Vincent Lacoste leads Mikhaël Hers’s poignant new feature about trauma and its aftershocks.  At first, David (Lacoste) is just beginning to figure out life in his early twenties, helping his sister (Ophélia Kolb) raise her 7-year-old daughter, Amanda (Isaure Multrier), and gently initiating a romance with a pianist (Stacy Martin, Nymphomaniac).   This era […]

$13.00

DEERSKIN / LE DAIM showing with THE VILLA / LES GRACIUSES

DEERSKIN (LE DAIM) – 77 min Georges, 44 years old, and his vintage, fringed, deerskin jacket have a plan.  His obsession with his designer deerskin jacket causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime.  French comedy film directed by Quentin Dupieux opened to enthusiastic reviews in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.  Charismatic Jean […]

$13.00

EMMA PEETERS (Belgium)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Southern California Premiere Emma Peeters will soon be 35 and has yet to accomplish something.  After years of hardship in Paris in trying to become an actress, an idea strikes her fancy: bringing her days to an end in a week’s time, on her birthday.  In the process Emma meets Alex Bodart, a fanciful funeral […]

THE INVISIBLE WITNESS (Italy)

Adriano wakes up in a hotel room next to the dead body of his lover, Laura.  The door is locked from the inside and there is no evidence of anybody else in the room.  Despite he claims his innocence, the man is charged with murder and chooses Virginia Ferrara, a veteran criminal attorney who has […]

$15.00

BEST OF DORIEN B. (Flanders)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

January 18 @ 10:00 am | A thirty something married mother of two with a flourishing veterinary practice sees her hitherto settled life start to crumble all at once.  An unsentimental treatment and lots of wry humor balance out the chaos in a film where a woman must find herself again and all that is ‘best’ in her to escape the trap that life has pushed her into.

RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT (U.S.A.)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

February 1, 2020 – U.S. – 87 min – Documentary. For over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news twenty-four hours a day. A civil rights-era Communist radical who became fabulously wealthy and reclusive later in life, her obsession started with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979—at the dawn of the twenty-four hour news cycle. It ended on December 14, 2012 as the Sandy Hook massacre played on television while Marion passed away. In between, Marion filled 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing revolutions, wars, triumphs, catastrophes, bloopers, talk shows and commercials that show us how television shaped the world of today and in the process tell us who we were.

RAFAËL (Netherlands, Belgium, Croatia)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

February 8, 2020  – Drama / Romance / True Story - 106 min. The Arab Spring forces Tunisian Nazir, married to the pregnant Dutch hairdresser Kimmy, to escape to Europe, but he ends up in Lampedusa, imprisoned as an illegal refugee.  RAFAËL is a romantic drama about two lovers giving everything they have, just to try to be reunited for the birth of their son Rafaël.  It is a suspenseful story about borders, dreams, perseverance and love-transcending bureaucracy, borders and even prison walls.

BALLOON (Germany)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

February 22, 2020 - BALLOON – Germany – 128 min - Drama | Thriller.

Thuriingen, 1979. Based upon a true story of two families who worked on an audacious plan for more than two years: to flee East Germany in a homemade hot-air balloon- a nerve-wracking battle against the clock..

THE KEEPER (U.K., Germany)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

March 7, 2020. Drama, 113 minutes, United Kingdom, English. The extraordinary love story between a young English woman and a German POW, who together overcome prejudice, public hostility and personal tragedy. Based upon the true story of Bert Trautmann, German POW and English soccer star.

THOSE WHO REMAINED (Hungary)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

THIS MOVIE IS BEING RESCHEDULED. CHECK BACK LATER FOR NEW DATE. Drama - 88 min. The achingly tender connection between two Holocaust survivors of different ages. A rare post-Holocaust drama, Hungary's entry is a touching, tender tale of two Holocaust survivors — a 42-year-old doctor who lost his family in the camps and a 16-year-old girl traumatized by the brutality she has seen — whose chaste but deeply intimate connection saves them both.

THE GIRL IN THE FOG (Italy)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

This movie will be rescheduled. Check back later for new date. GIRL IN THE FOG – Italy – 128 min – Crime/Mystery

On her way to church in the hazy alpine village of Avechot, the quiet 15-year-old, Anna Lou, daughter of a religious couple, vanishes into thin air, never to return home.  To aid in the investigation of this puzzling case is summoned the fastidious Detective Vogel (Toni Servillo) with his questionable methods.

HOW ABOUT ADOLF? (Germany)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

This movie will be rescheduled. Check back in May. HOW ABOUT ADOLF? – Germany – 91 min – Comedy

"What's in a name?" Shakespeare's lofty question takes on new life in this savage comedy-a breakout hit in Germany-which raucously lampoons contemporary German attitudes, guilt and denials of the Nazi past. When Thomas (Florian David Fitz), the black sheep of a progressive middle-class academic family, surprises his siblings with the news that he intends to name his son Adolf, petty carnage ensues as personal, ideological and sexual histories are unmasked in this scintillating dark comedy. A breakout German box office hit.

SILENT REVOLUTION (Germany)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

May 16, 2020 - SILENT REVOLUTION – Germany – 111 min – Drama/History

A gripping and true story set in 1956 in East Germany of a group of students who saw their life changed forever by a harmless human act of solidarity during the early stage of the Cold War, where freedom of thinking and integrity could make anyone an enemy of the state… or an ordinary hero. This is a film about the extraordinary courage of young individuals in a time of political oppression.

THE PERFECT NANNY / CHANSON DOUCE (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

DFS members will receive an E-mail link on 6/6 to enable them to watch this film.   Leila Slimani’s critically acclaimed, international bestseller “The Perfect Nanny” — aka “Chanson Douce” — is on the big screen. The story follows Myriam, a lawyer who decides to return to work after having children. She and her husband […]

AMIA – ARCHIVAL SCREENING NIGHT

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

On SA, June 13 Desert Film Society members will receive a link to view this film orig scheduled for May 2.   A video introduction will feature Melissa Dollman and Devin Orgeron.  

MRS G – Israel (plus 3 shorts)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

DFS members will receive an E-mail link on 6/27 to enable them to watch this film.   COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE MRS G. tells the story of Mrs. Lea Gottlieb, the legendary designer, founder and owner of the Gottex swimwear empire. Gottlieb was a woman full of contradictions who knew how to recover from periods of […]

WHEN HITLER STOLE PINK RABBIT (Germany & Switzerland)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

DFS Members will be sent a link on 7/11 to watch this film.  Oscar®-winner Caroline Link (All About Me, Nowhere in Africa) adapted Judith Kerr’s bestseller When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, a true story about parting, family cohesion, and optimism, for the screen.

PETER FALK VS COLUMBO (France)

On August 22, 2020 DFS members will receive an E-mail link to watch this.

For many, he is above all the fluffy and at the same time ingenious investigator who transfers the powerful to their luxury villas in a crumpled trench coat. But Peter Falk not only embodied Inspector Columbo, but also worked as an actor with directors such as Frank Capra, Sydney Pollack, John Cassavetes and Blake Edwards.

WHEN I BECAME A BUTTERFLY – Iran

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

On September 12, 2020 Desert Film Society members will be e-mailed a link to enable them to watch this Iranian thriller.

SUBLET – U.S. / Israel

Note because of Rosh Hashanah, this film will be sent to Desert Film Society members on SUNDAY.

A New York Times travel writer comes to Tel Aviv after suffering a tragedy.  The energy of the city & his relationship with a younger man brings him back to life.

MY DOG STUPID / Mon chien stupide (France & Belgium)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

On September 26, Desert Film Society members will receive an e-mail with a 24 hour link to enable them to watch MY DOG STUPID at home.

OH MERCY! (France)

On October 10, 2020 DFS members will be e-mailed a 24 hour link to watch this film at home.

AFRICAN VIOLET (Iran)

On November 14 DFS members will be e-mailed a 24 hour link to watch this film at home.

WHITE LIE (Canada)

Confirmed new date is Nov 21, 2020. WHITE LIE - Canada - 96 min. A character-driven psychological thriller film from the promising new Toronto-based directors Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas.

BREAKING BREAD (Israel)

On Dec 5, 2020 DFS members will be e-mailed a 24 hour link to watch this film at home. Founded by Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel—the first Muslim Arab to win Israel's MasterChef—the A-sham Arabic Food Festival is creating social change through food. At the Festival, Arab and Jewish Israeli chefs collaborate on delectable dishes, working together to transform traditional recipes. Celebrating their unique cultural heritages and their common love of food, the chefs prove that there is no space for religion and politics in the kitchen.

THE WEASELS TALE / (El cuento de las comadrejas)

On Dec 12, 2020 DFS members will be sent a 24 hour link to preview this film at home. The film is the story of a group of four long-time friends, including a used-to-be-famous actress, her now disabled husband and the writer of her greatest hits. They are retired from the movie business, forming an unusual family in a decaying mansion in the countryside outside of Buenos Aires. 

LUZZU (Malta)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

One-time screening on Oct 2, 2021. Camelot's doors unlock at 9:30. Film begins promptly at 10:00 AM. Tkts are free to 2021 DFS members. Non-members pay $10 at the door. Please check with us for latest health & safety policies. Masks & Proof of Vaccination are mandatory.

CURVEBALL (Germany)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

One-time screening, Palm Springs premiere, October 16, 2021. Camelot's doors unlock at 9:30 and the film begins promptly at 10:00 AM. Free to Desert Film Society members. Non-members $10 at the door. Please check with us to learn latest health & safety policies. Masks & Proof of Vaccination are mandatory.

PERSIAN LESSONS (Russia, Germany, Belarus)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

One-time screening on Nov 6, 2021. Camelot's doors unlock at 9:30 AM. Film begins promptly at 10:00 AM. Tkts are free to 2021 DFS members. Non-members pay $10 at the door. Please check with us for latest health & safety policies. Masks & Proof of Vaccination are mandatory.

IRMI (USA)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

One-time screening on Nov 20, 2021. Camelot's doors unlock at 9:30 AM. Film begins promptly at 10:00 AM. Tkts are free to 2021 DFS members. Non-members pay $10 at the door. Please check with us for latest health & safety policies. Masks & Proof of Vaccination are mandatory.

PAUL NEWMAN, BEHIND BLUE EYES! (France) + 2 shorts

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Dec 4, 2021, PAUL NEWMAN, BEHIND BLUE EYES. Doors at Camelot Theatre unlock at 9:30 AM. Film begins promptly at 10:00 AM. Tickets for sale in theatre lobby. Free to DFS members, Non-members $10 Please check w/us for latest health & safety policies. Masks & Proof of Vaccination are mandatory.

YOU WILL REMEMBER ME (Canada)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Dec 18, 2021 - Edouard (Remy Girard, Les Invasion Barbares), a public figure and retired History teacher, is slowly starting to lose his memory. Accustomed to speaking on all the stands, he must make himself more discreet, NOTE: Proof of both shots and masks are mandatory. No food or drinks in the building. Free to DFS members. Guests pay $10 cash or check at the door.

THE AUTOMAT (U.S.)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Jan 29, 2022: Covid Guidelines:  Photo ID, Proof of full vaccination including booster shot, Mandatory masks indoors, No food or beverages in the screening room .  Seating is socially distanced so please allow a two-seat buffer between parties and do not sit directly behind anyone.  Free to DFS members. Guests pay $12 cash at the door. Movie begins promptly at 10:00 AM. Doors unlock at 9:40.

THE DAZZLED / LES ÉBLOUIS (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Feb 12,, 2022 Covid Guidelines: Photo ID, Proof of full vaccination including booster shot, Mandatory masks indoors, No food or beverages in the screening room . Seating is socially distanced so please allow a two-seat buffer between parties and do not sit directly behind anyone. Free to DFS members. Guests pay $12 cash at the door. Movie begins promptly at 10:00 AM. Doors unlock at 9:40.

BLACK BOX / Boite noire (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Feb 26, 2022: BLACK BOX. Feb 12,, 2022 Covid Guidelines: Photo ID, Proof of full vaccination including booster shot, Mandatory masks indoors, No food or beverages in the screening room . Seating is socially distanced so please allow a two-seat buffer between parties and do not sit directly behind anyone. Free to DFS members. Guests pay $12 cash at the door. Movie begins promptly at 10:00 AM. Doors unlock at 9:40. Free to DFS members. Guests pay $12 cash at the door. Movie begins promptly at 10:00 AM. Doors unlock at 9:40.

OUT OF EXILE (USA)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Mar 5, 2022 Covid Guidelines: Photo ID, Proof of full vaccination including booster shot, No food or beverages in the screening room . Seating is socially distanced so please allow a two-seat buffer between parties and do not sit directly behind anyone. Free to DFS members. Guests pay $12 cash at the door. Movie begins promptly at 10:00 AM. Doors unlock at 9:40.

PLAYGROUND / UN MONDE (Belgium)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

March 19, 2022 PLAYGROUND - Belgium's official submission for 2022 Academy Award Best International Film was selected for the shortlist of 15.

SECRET NAME / La place d’une autre (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

April 2, 2022: SECRET NAME (France) Nelie escaped a miserable existence by becoming a frontline nurse in 1914. One day, she takes the identity of Rose, a young woman from a good family, who dies in front of her.

CONFETTI – China/USA

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

April 16, 2022: CONFETTI. How far would a mother go to reverse her child’s fate?  Based on writer/director Ann Hu’s story, that’s the question facing Lan, who travels with her 9-year-old severely dyslexic daughter from their small town in China to New York City.  An immigrant experience combined w/ a mother-daughter story.

PEACE BY CHOCOLATE – Ukraine Fundraiser

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

May 7, 2022 - PEACE BY CHOCOLATE - UKRAINIAN FUNDRAISER Based on an incredible true story, this film is an inspiring narrative of working together and overcoming unimaginable hardship. After the bombing of his father's chocolate factory, a charming young Syrian refugee struggles to settle into his new small-town life, caught between following his dream and preserving his family's legacy.

$15.00

NIGHT DOCTOR / Médecin de nuit (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

May 21, 2022 - NIGHT DOCTOR - Mikaël is a doctor on night call.  He looks after patients from underprivileged neighborhoods, as well as those whom no one else wants to see: drug addicts, homeless people, those living in challenging areas,  Tonight, he has to reclaim control over his life.   

IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE (South Korea)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

June 4, 2022 - IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE. After years of living abroad, a middle-aged former actress (Lee Hye-young) has returned to Seoul to reconnect with her past and perhaps make amends. 

FULL TIME / A plein temps (France) – (Southern CA Premiere)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

June 18, 2022 - FULL TIME / A TEMPS PLEIN - Marie goes to great lengths to raise her two children in the countryside while keeping her job in a Parisian luxury hotel despite the daily commute to Paris. When she finally gets a job interview for a position she had long been hoping for, a national strike breaks out, paralyzing the public transport system. The fragile balance that Marie has established is jeopardized. Marie then sets off on a frantic race against time, at the risk of foundering.

MADELEINE COLLINS – France (Southern CA Premiere)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

July 9, 2022 - MADELEINE COLLINS Judith Fauvet (Virginie Efira, most recently acclaimed for her leading performance in Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta) leads a double life with two families: raising a daughter with one partner in Switzerland, and another two sons in France.

BOULEVARD! A HOLLYWOOD STORY (Filmmaker guests)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

July 23 - BOULEVARD! A HOLLYWOOD STORY (documentary) - Jeffrey Schwarz, Director, Producer, Editor in attendance. When Gloria Swanson, the iconic star of Sunset Boulevard, saw an opportunity to parlay her silent film glory into a new phase of her career, she began to envision a musical stage adaptation of her most famous film.

HAUTE COUTURE (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

August 6 - HAUTE COUTURE Esther (Nathalie Baye) is at the end of her career as Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by a 20 year old woman, Jade. Instead of calling the police she decides to take care of Jade

FILM, THE LIVING RECORD OF OUR MEMORY (Canada/Spain)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7mjM_X8cm4 Why are we still able to watch moving images captured over 125 years ago? As we move ever further into the digital age, our audiovisual heritage seems to be taken increasingly for granted. However, much of our filmed history and cinema has already been lost forever. Film archivists, curators, technicians and filmmakers from around […]

LA CIVIL / Mexico

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik3TEtfLyCU Cielo’s teenage daughter, Laura, is kidnapped in Northern Mexico. Despite paying several ransoms, Laura is not returned. When the authorities offer no support in the search, Cielo takes matters into her own hands. She finds help from Lamarque, a military man with an unconventional modus operandi, who agrees to assist her in her search […]

DREAM GIRL: THE MAKING OF MARILYN MONROE – France/USA

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

https://vimeo.com/734782432 . How did Marilyn Monroe become one of the greatest sex symbols of all time? What drove a prudish little Californian girl, who was not especially pretty nor exceptionally talented, to become this incredibly striking platinum blonde superstar? How did she become the icon capable of balancing innocence with raw sensuality, whilst continuing to […]

PEACEFUL / DE SON VIVANT (France/Belgium)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upCym_xcJfo A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor and a nurse fighting to do their job and bring them to acceptance. They have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to die while living. Genre:  Drama Run […]

ON THE EDGE / Entre la vie et la mort (Belgium/France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

  https://youtu.be/qrrN0YEumEU Brussels. Leo, a Spanish metro driver, while conducting his train and arriving at a station, sees a young man in distress on the edge of the platform. He recognizes his son Hugo right before he falls onto the rails and then dies at the hospital. Leo, who had not seen his son for […]

SKIES OF LEBANON / SOUS LE CIEL D’ALICE (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

https://vimeo.com/720308275 Starring the beloved Alba Rohrwacher and Wajdi Mouawad, the film combines live action with animation to create a vivid picture of Lebanon and is inspired by the family history of filmmaker Mazlo based on her grandmother’s stories of life during the Lebanese Civil War, Mazlo crafts a touching and heart-breaking story of love during […]

FATHER / OTAC (Serbia)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

https://vimeo.com/684844319 A small town in Serbia. Nikola, day laborer and father of two, is ordered to give up his children to social services after poverty and hunger drive his wife to commit a desperate act. Until he can provide adequate conditions for their upbringing, the children will be placed in foster care. Despite Nikola's best […]

SILHOUETTE SECRETS (United Kingdom / United States)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Silhouette Secrets is a documentary in which a modern-day silhouette artist takes a journey back in time to explore the history of his shadowy art, asking the question "Where did it come from?"  On the way he meets the world's fastest silhouette artist, who challenges him to a duel of scissors!  The journey takes him […]

LOVE, CHARLIE: THE RISE & FALL OF CHEF CHARLIE TROTTER

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9dYyg5VcvA Special Guest:  Rebecca Halpern, Director & Writer   In the 2000s, chef Charlie Trotter was the toast of Chicago, his eponymous restaurant one of the world's top fine-dining destinations.  A gastronomic revolutionary and a culinary bad-boy, Trotter paved the way for the likes of Anthony Bourdain and Gordon Ramsay, yet his tempestuous, competitive nature […]

FAREWELL MR. HAFFMANN (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynh8hXoLza8 Occupied Paris, 1941: all members of the Jewish community are instructed to come forward and identify themselves to authorities. Dedicated jeweler Joseph Haffmann (Auteuil), fearing the worst, arranges for his family to flee the city and offers his employee François Mercier (Gilles Lellouche) the chance to take over his store until the conflict subsides. […]

PLAYING THROUGH (USA)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

January 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. 

UNTIL TOMORROW / Juste une nuit (Iran)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Feb 18, 2023: In Tehran, a single young mother’s courage is tested when she resorts to desperate measures to hide her illegitimate child from her parents.

CAROL OF THE BELLS / Shchedryk (Ukraine / Poland)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

March 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 States

March 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 States

Mar 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 States

March 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 States

April 8, 2023 :::

FOR MY COUNTRY (France)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

February 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 States

May 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 States

May 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 States

June 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 States

June 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 States

July 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 States

July 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 States

August 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 States

August 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 States

Sept 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.

$14.50

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 States

Sep 30, 2023 ::: Presented by Desert Film Society and the Palm Springs Cultural Center - Cinema Diverse.

US14.50

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 States

Oct 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. 

I CAN’T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE: The Jimmy McHugh Story

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

OCT 21, 2023 ::: I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE - THE JIMMY MCHUGH STORY : showing with MOTHER VALLEY. FILMMAKER GUESTS.

MOTHER VALLEY / LA NUIT DU VERRE D’EAU

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Oct 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 States

Nov 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 States

Nov. 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 States

Dec 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 States

Dec 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.

THE OLD OAK (U.K.)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Jan 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 States

Feb 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.

$15.00

CINEMA FRANCAIS PS – Day 2 (three films)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

February 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 States

February 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 States

February 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 States

February 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 States

Mar 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 States

Mar 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 States

Apr 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 States

Apr 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 States

May 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 States

May 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 States

June 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 States

June 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 States

July 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 States

July 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 States

August 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 States

August 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 States

September 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 States

September 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 States

Oct 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 States

October 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 States

November 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?

SEMMELWEIS (Hungary)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Nov 23, 2024 :::: In 1847 a mysterious epidemic is raging in a maternity clinic in Vienna, while the doctor Ignác Semmelweis tries to defeat puerperal fever by going against all traditional theories.

THE SUCCESSOR / LE SUCCESSEUR

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Dec 7, 2024 ::: Follows a newly-announced artistic director of a famous fashion house, who after getting his expectations high, starts experiencing chest pain and discovers that he may have inherited much worse than his estranged father's weak heart.

MARCELLA

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Dec 21, 2024 ::: Marcella Hazan changed how we cook and eat Italian. Millions love her recipes -- now learn her amazing story.

JIPPIE NO MORE (Netherlands)

Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Jan 25, 2025::: A lively 16-year-old boy eagerly prepares for his older sister's wedding at their beloved grandfather's country house.

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Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

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Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States

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Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United States