THREE WORLDS (France)
One Time Screening Al, a young man from a modest background, is ten days away from marrying the daughter of his boss, along with succeeding him as the head of the car dealership where Al has been working for most of his life. Coming back drunk from his...
FIREWORKS WEDNESDAY (Iran)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time ScreeningAll of Tehran is preparing to celebrate Chaharshanbe-Soori, or the festival of fire, which falls on the last Tuesday night before...
MY BEST ENEMY (Austria)
One Time Screening Suspense, betrayal, romance and...
LITTLE ROSE (Poland)
One Time ScreeningA true story about divided loyalties and misguided love play out against a...
THE DAY I WAS NOT BORN (Germany)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time ScreeningIn Buenos Aires, 31-year-old Maria runs up against a long-kept family secret whose origins go back to the time of the Argentinean...
MELTING AWAY (Israel)
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THE END IS MY BEGINNING (Germany)
U.S. PREMIERE – One Time ScreeningA father, a son and the great journey of life. Tiziano Terzani, long-time Spiegel...
TEDDY BEAR (Denmark)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Dennis, a 38-year-old bodybuilder, would really like to find true...
A QUIET LIFE / Una Vita Tranquilla (Germany)
West Coast Premiere – One Time ScreeningChef Rosario seems to live his life as a restaurant owner with a new wife and a little son in Germany but is...
BREATHING (Austria)
One Time ScreeningMasterful directorial debut from Austrian...
TONY CURTIS: DRIVEN TO STARDOM (France)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time ScreeningA true rags-to-riches story! This fitting tribute to one of the 20th century’s most iconic leading men spans from Curtis’s tough and humble...
NATURAL SELECTION (USA)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time ScreeningLinda (Rachel Harris), a barren Christian housewife, leads a sheltered existence. Her world is turned upside-down when she discovers that...
KADDISH FOR MY FRIEND (Germany)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time ScreeningMuslim teen Ali Messalam and his family move into Berlin’s Kreuzberg area, where he is pressured by his friends to vandalize the...
GOD’S FIDDLER: JASCHA HEIFETZ (USA)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time ScreeningNot since Paganini had...
FREE MEN (France)
West Coast Premiere – One Time Screening In German-occupied Paris, a young unemployed Algerian named Younes...
THE CHRISTIAN LICORICE STORE (USA)
West Coast Premiere – One Time Screening Special Guest: James Frawley, award...
ELENA (Russia)
One Time Screening Elena and Vladimir are an older couple, they come from different backgrounds. Vladimir is a wealthy and cold man, Elena comes from a modest milieu and is a docile wife. They have met late in life and each one has children from previous marriages....
HOSPITALITE / Kantai (Japan) + short film MISTFORTUNE
West Coast Premiere – One Time Screening Mikio Kobayashi lives quietly with his wife, daughter, and divorced sister in downtown Tokyo, where xenophobic neighbors insist on them participating in community meetings, and the most exciting thing to happen is the...
REMEMBRANCE / Die Verlorene Zeit (Germany)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Inspired by actual events, REMEMBRANCE depicts a remarkable love story that blossomed in the terror and squalor of a Nazi...
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING: THE LOOK (Germany/France)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening A biographical study of legendary actress Charlotte Rampling, told through her own conversations with artist friends and collaborators, including Peter Lindbergh, Paul Auster, and Juergen Teller. Intercut with...
VINCENT WANTS TO SEA (Germany)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Vincent (Florian David Fitz) suffers from Tourette’s Syndrome and, after his mother’s death, is...
LA FEE / THE FAIRY (France & Belgium)
West Coast Premiere – One Time Screening Belgium-based trio Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy follow their acclaimed ICEBERG and RUMBA with...
LA RAFLE / The Roundup (France)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Co-sponsored with Tolerance Education Center Special Guest: Jacques Silvan, who lived this experience Long a taboo subject in France, the infamous Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup is brought to stirring life in this gripping...
BEAUTIFUL DARLING (USA)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Born James Slattery in Massapequa, Long Island, in 1944, Candy Darling transformed herself into a stunning blonde actress who in the mid-Sixties became an active player in New York’s “downtown”...
FIRST ASSIGNMENT / Il Primo Incarico (Italy)
West Coast Premiere One Time Screening Enthusiastically received at Venice Film Festival, Francesco Cecere’s exquisite drama follows Nena (Isabella Ragonese), a young teacher who is posted to a provincial Puglian town where she struggles to connect with the...
TOMBOY (France)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Laure is 10 years old. Laure is a tomboy. On her arrival in a new neighborhood, she lets Lisa and her crowd believe that she is a boy. Truth...
DOWN FOR LIFE (USA)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time ScreeningWatts, Los Angeles. One day in the life of a 15-year-old Latina gang leader. She discovers that leaving the gang is...
AN ORDINARY COUPLE (USA)
Coachella Valley Premiere One Time Screening 1:30 pm co-sponsored with CINEMA DIVERSE GUESTS: Jay Gianuko – Director/Writer Producer, Susan Barnes – Writer/Producer/Editor, Orin Kennedy and Bernardo Puccio An Ordinary Couple is a romantic and uplifting...
RAPT / Abduction (France)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time ScreeningIndustrialist executive Stanislas Graff (Yvan Attal) unapologetically leads a Parisian high-life, gambling away fortunes and enjoying trysts in a stunning,...
FIVE TIME CHAMPION (USA) and SING, SING, SING! (USA)
FIVE TIME CHAMPION Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time...
CIRCUMSTANCE (France, USA, Iran, Lebanon)
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SHAHADA / Faith (Germany)
West Coast Premiere One Time Screening The fates of three German-born Muslims in Berlin collide as they struggle to find their place between faith and modern life in contemporary western society, caught at a crossroads where alluring liberated lifestyles conflict...
SERVICE ENTRANCE / Les femmes du 6ème étage (France)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Conservative and tyrannical Jean-Louis Joubert, played by Fabrice Luchini...
HEY, BOO: HARPER LEE & TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (USA)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time ScreeningThe untold story behind a great American novel. “To Kill a Mockingbird” was the first and only novel by a young woman from the South. It became one of the biggest best-sellers of all time and she...
CHAMELEON (Hungary)
Gábor, aided by his partner in crime and childhood best friend, has the perfect scam. He targets lonely women, researches them thoroughly and then becomes their perfect suitor—only to leave them at the altar after having cleaned out their bank accounts. Writers:...Donate Today!
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