Belgium
BRASSERIE ROMANTIEK (Belgium)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesCOACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Forty-something Pascaline runs a brasserie and her stylish dining room is fully booked for Valentine's Day. She thinks she's prepared everything. But how could she expect that an old flame from 20 years ago would suddenly reappear. Her other diners must also cope with the unexpected - 50 year-old, bored housewife, […]
THE FINISHERS (Belgium/France)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesWEST 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 […]
ALL CATS ARE GREY (Belgium)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesSOUTHERN 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. […]
ZAGROS (Belgium)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesKurdish 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. […]
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 StatesFrance, 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 […]
GASPARD AT THE WEDDING (France/Belgium)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesSOUTHERN 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 StatesWith 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 […]
EMMA PEETERS (Belgium)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesSouthern 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 […]
RAFAËL (Netherlands, Belgium, Croatia)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesFebruary 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.
CONVICTION (France | Belgium)
On October 24, 2020 Desert Film Society members will be e-mailed a 24 hour link to watch this film at home.
BEYOND THE HORIZON / Le Milieu de l’horizon
On Dec 19 Desert Film Society will e-mail members a 24 hour link.
PLAYGROUND / UN MONDE (Belgium)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesMarch 19, 2022 PLAYGROUND - Belgium's official submission for 2022 Academy Award Best International Film was selected for the shortlist of 15.
MADELEINE COLLINS – France (Southern CA Premiere)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesJuly 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.
PEACEFUL / DE SON VIVANT (France/Belgium)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United Stateshttps://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 Stateshttps://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 […]
THE NIGHT OF THE 12TH / La Nuit du 12 (France/Belgium)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesMarch 11, 2023 ::: Just announced 6 Cesar Awards, including best picture & best actors. It is said that every investigator has a crime that haunts them, a case that hurts him more than the others, without him necessarily knowing why. For Yohan that case is the murder of Clara
YOUNG HEARTS (Belgium/Netherlands)
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA, United StatesSeptember 21, 2024 :::: Elias develops feelings for his new neighbor Alexander. He soon realizes he's falling in love for the first time.
