EIN GANZES LEBEN (Austria)
At the turn of the 20th century, the young orphan Andreas is sent to live with his ruthless uncle on a farm in a remote valley; a valley that Andreas will only leave once in his life. Treated not as family but as a worker, Andreas endures a childhood without...
SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN (Iran)
Tehran, July 2007: Reyhaneh Jabarri, 19, has a business meeting with a new client. When he locks her in the apartment and attempts to rape her, she reacts in self-defense by stabbing him. Later that day, she is arrested for murder, and her trial results in a...
THE-FILM-MAKER – THE LISA AZUELOS STORY (USA) showing with GANEF (U.K.) and NOWHERE (Armenia)
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. The film features a stellar cast, including François Cluzet, Michèle Laroque, Alexandra Lamy,...
WINNERS (Iran)
In a small provincial Iranian town, the children work hard to support their families. One day nine-year-old Yahya and his friend Leyla find a precious gold statue. As the authorities search for the lost treasure, sharing Yahya’s passion for cinema, Yahya’s boss...
PERFECT STRANGERS – Israel
Seven childhood friends with a lot of shared history and experiences, and a mutual death from their past, meet for dinner to watch a rare lunar eclipse. Their standard bourgeois encounter takes an unexpected turn when they start playing a game that’ll change...
THE OLD OAK (U.K.)
The Old Oak is the last pub standing in a once thriving mining village in northern England, a gathering space for a community that has fallen on hard times. There is growing anger, resentment, and a lack of hope among the residents, but the pub and its...
LIE WITH ME (France)
This film is a centerpiece film at Palm Springs 2023 CINEMA DIVERSE. An author returns to his hometown of Cognac for the first time in 35 years to help promote a distillery. He is also there to face the memories of his first love. The people & places he returns...
THREE NIGHTS A WEEK (France) / Trois nuits par semaine
NOTE: This film has been rescheduled to SA, Sep 30 at our regular time. While volunteering at a public-health clinic alongside his girlfriend, 29-years-old Baptiste first meets Cookie Kunty, a young drag queen from the Parisian scene, who immediately...
UNTIL TOMORROW / Juste une nuit (Iran)
Fereshteh has to hide her illegitimate baby for one night from her parents who turn up for a surprise visit. Her friend Atefeh helps her. They embark on an odyssey during which they must carefully weigh up who their allies are. UNTIL TOMORROW is a selection...
ALL TO PLAY FOR / Rien À Perdre (France)
Barmaid Sylvie is a single mom living with her two sons, Sofiane and Jean-Jacques. One night, Sofiane is injured while being alone in the flat which results in placing him in a foster home. Sylvie is determined to bring her son back home. Starring Cesar Winner /...
THE CRIME IS MINE (France)
In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend Pauline, a young unemployed lawyer, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defense. A new life of fame and...
A LA BELLE ETOILE / SUGAR AND STARS
Since he was a kid, Yazid has one big passion, pastry making. Raised between foster homes and group homes, the young man will try to make his dream come true: to work with the greatest pastry chefs and become the best. Genre: Comedy/Drama Run time: 110 min...
MOTHER VALLEY / LA NUIT DU VERRE D’EAU
Lebanon, 1958. A civil war rages. A young mother and model wife, Layla, spends the summer with her family in a remote village in the Christian mountains. It’s wedding season but her two younger sisters, Eva and Nada, have no desire to follow in Layla’s footsteps by...
A CUP OF COFFEE AND NEW SHOES ON (Albania)
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. They are confronted with their changing relationship to the world. Based upon a true story. The...
MORE THAN EVER / PLUS QUE JAUAIS (France, Norway, U.K.)
Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread, Bergman Island and Corsage) plays Hélène, a 33-year old woman diagnosed with a rare illness that sees her faced with existential decisions as she grapples with the uncertainty of the future. A decision to travel to Norway alone, Hélène...
NEZOUH (Syria)
14-year-old Zeina and her family are the last to have stayed in their besieged hometown of Damascus in Syria. A missile rips a giant hole in their home, exposing them to the outside world. When a rope is mysteriously lowered into the hole, Zeina gets her first taste...
THE OWNERS / VLASTNICI (Czechia)
Written and directed by Jiří Havelka, based on his own award-winning stage play, Vlastníci presents us with 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...
La syndicaliste (France)
LA SYNDICALISTE is the true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert), the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistle-blower, denouncing top-secret deals that shook the French nuclear sector. Alone against the world,...
TWO TICKETS TO GREECE (France / Greece)
Genre: Comedy Run time: 111 min Country: France / Greece Language: French w/English subtitles Premiere: West Coast Director: Marc Fitoussi Principal Cast: Laure Calamy, Olivia Côte, Kristin Scott Thomas Distributor: Greenich Sexual references, nudity, coarse...
BARREN (Israel)
Feigi and Naftali are a young childless ultraorthodox couple living with Naftali’s parents. A couple struggling with infertility. Naftali travels overseas to pray for a child at Rabbi Nachman’s grave, leaving his wife Feigi with Rabbi Eliyahu, a guest who claims to...
ANGRY ANNIE / ANNIE COLIERE (France)
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 and women who perform illegal abortions in the...
A FAMILY FOR 1640 DAYS (France)
Inspired by his own family history, Fabien Gorgeart‘s heartfelt, heartbreaking second feature focuses on an excruciating period of transition in one family’s life. Anna, her husband and their two young sons are told they must gradually, definitively, hand 6-year-old...
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. With gestures and facial expressions alone he touched and inspired people around the globe. But the tragic background of his mime acts has long remained hidden. As a teenager, Marceau had...
CAROL OF THE BELLS / Shchedryk (Ukraine / Poland)
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 peaceful and neighborly...
FOR MY COUNTRY (France)
FOR MY COUNTRY is a selection from ‘Tales of Europe’, a curated touring program dedicated to supporting the circulation of prestigious European films and is supported by Europa International and Europa Cinemas, A young officer of Algerian origin, tragically loses his...
PLAYING THROUGH (USA)
Playing Through is a feature-length fictional film honoring the life and legacy of Ann Gregory, a pioneering female athlete and civil rights advocate. Late in her career, Ann Gregory finds the courage to be the first woman of color to enter the USGA Women’s...
PEACE BY CHOCOLATE – Ukraine Fundraiser
Jonathan Keijser’s narrative feature film debut, PEACE BY CHOCOLATE, is based on an inspiring true story of a family who immigrated to Canada after their chocolate factory was bombed in the Syrian war. It had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2021....
FAREWELL MR. HAFFMANN (France)
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...
SKIES OF LEBANON / SOUS LE CIEL D’ALICE (France)
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,...
LA CIVIL / Mexico
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...
PEACEFUL / DE SON VIVANT (France/Belgium)
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...
ON THE EDGE / Entre la vie et la mort (Belgium/France)
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...
HAUTE COUTURE (France)
Esther 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. She sees in her the opportunity to...
FULL TIME / A plein temps (France) – (Southern CA Premiere)
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...
MADELEINE COLLINS – France (Southern CA Premiere)
Genre: Psychological Thriller Run Time: 102 minutes Country: France/Belgium/Switzerland Language: French with English subtitles Premiere: Southern California Director: Antoine Barraud Principal Cast: Virginie Efira, Quim Gutierrez, Bruno Salomone &...Donate Today!
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