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Coachella Valley Premiere Five aging friends decide to pool their resources for their golden years and move in together in Stéphane Robelin’s crowd-pleasing comedy, starring Jane Fonda (in her first French-language film since Godard’s 1972 Tout Va …
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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 …
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 the Persian New Year. On this auspicious evening, Rouhi (Taraneh …
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Suspense, betrayal, romance and reversed identities are the ingredients that make up MY BEST ENEMY. A handsomely mounted WWII thriller about a missing Michelangelo painting, the ambitions of a housekeeper’s “Arian” son and his wealthy …
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A true story about divided loyalties and misguided love play out against a backdrop of escalating political unrest in 1967 communist Poland. Security police colonel Rozek enlists his sexy yet naive girlfriend, Kamila, to …
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening
In Buenos Aires, 31-year-old Maria runs up against a long-kept family secret whose origins go back to the time of the Argentinean military dictatorship. In German, English and Spanish
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This heartfelt drama follows the story of a family drawn into crisis after the parents discover their child is secretly a cross-dresser and kick him out of the house. …
U.S. PREMIERE – One Time Screening
A father, a son and the great journey of life. Tiziano Terzani, long-time Spiegel magazine Asia correspondent and renowned author, invites his son Folco to his retreat, a small mountain village …
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Dennis, a 38-year-old bodybuilder, would really like to find true love. He has never had a girlfriend and lives alone with his mother in a suburb of Copenhagen. When his …
West Coast Premiere – One Time Screening
Chef Rosario seems to live his life as a restaurant owner with a new wife and a little son in Germany but is suddenly haunted by his mafia past when his grown up …
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Masterful directorial debut from Austrian actor Karl Markovics is about a young parolee’s struggles outside of prison and trying to build a new life while being unable to deal with his guilt. The odds are against …
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A 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 beginnings in the Bronx to his most striking movie …
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 her dying husband has a 23-year old illegitimate son named Raymond living …
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Muslim teen Ali Messalam and his family move into Berlin’s Kreuzberg area, where he is pressured by his friends to vandalize the apartment of his elderly, feisty Russian neighbor, Alexander Zamskoy. To …
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Not since Paganini had there been such a magician on the violin. Filmed in St. Petersburg, Russia; Vilnius, Lithuania; and in Heifetz’s own rebuilt studio in Los Angeles, GOD’S FIDDLER: JASCHA …
West Coast Premiere – One Time Screening In German-occupied Paris, a young unemployed Algerian named Younes (played by break-out star, Tahar Rahim) earns his living as a black marketeer. Arrested by the French police but given a chance to …
West Coast Premiere – One Time Screening
Special Guest: James Frawley, award winning directorIn this ultra-trendy 1971 satire, a golden-boy tennis player in search of Life’s meaning is corrupted by Hollywood, public adulation, and the temptation to …
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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 …
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 …
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Inspired by actual events, REMEMBRANCE depicts a remarkable love story that blossomed in the terror and squalor of a Nazi concentration camp in 1944 Poland. Spanning three decades, a Polish partisan and German …
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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 footage from some of Rampling’s …
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Vincent (Florian David Fitz) suffers from Tourette’s Syndrome and, after his mother’s death, is institutionalized by his father (Heino Ferch – DOWNFALL, THE BAADER MEINHOF-COMPLEX). He later escapes with two fellow patients — an anorexic named …
West Coast Premiere – One Time Screening
Belgium-based trio Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy follow their acclaimed ICEBERG and RUMBA with another Tati-inspired, candy-colored romp: this time, a charmingly off-kilter adventure about a hotel clerk who falls …
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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 drama …
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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” scene. In her …
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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 local children …
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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 or dare ? …
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Watts, Los Angeles. One day in the life of a 15-year-old Latina gang leader. She discovers that leaving the gang is more difficult than joining it. Made in cinéma vérité style, the …
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 documentary following two extraordinary men, …
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, modern apartment purchased just for such occasions.
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FIVE TIME CHAMPION Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Set and filmed in Austin and Smithville, Texas, a teen-age boy, abandoned by his father, discovers what it means to be a man. A film about the complicated nature …
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Winner of the Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Maryam Keshavarz’s debut film is a lush, innovative coming-of-age story set in the underground art scene of Tehran. Iranian teenager Atafeh and her best …
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 …
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Conservative and tyrannical Jean-Louis Joubert, played by Fabrice Luchini (“Potiche,” “My Father’s Guests”, “Molière”), is unhappily married to Suzanne, a neurotic Parisian socialite (Sandrine Kiberlain, “Mademoiselle Chambon”, “A Self-Made Hero,” “For Sale”). Enter …
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 …
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 …
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time ScreeningsFeature and Short FilmSpecial Guests: Mark Rydell & Brian ConnorsMY PERESTROIKA: When the USSR broke apart in 1991, a generation of young people faced a new realm of possibilities. An intimate …
Southern California Premiere – One Time Screening
In the 1970s, Argentina was ruled by a ruthless military regime that waged a so-called dirty war leaving some 30,000 suspected communists missing. Inspired by actual events in the director’s life, I MISS YOU is …
Complimentary admission to all guests
Screening of short films from around the world, submitted to SHORTS SHOWCASE. You and our audience will vote to select the winners. Complimentary admission & coffee, so please bring your friends.
Runtime: Approx 90 minutes. …
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OLD CATS is an emotionally wrought drama between an elderly woman named Isadora (Bélgica Castro) and her daughter Rosario (Claudia Celedón). Isadora and her husband are
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Based upon a true story, a champion marathoner leads a double life as a serial bank robber, sprinting between fixes (and away from police cavalcades) as many as three times a day. A …
Portuguese entry Academy Award, Best Foreign Film 2011
João Pedro Rodrigues’ latest, a hit at both Cannes and the New York Film Festival, is a mystical melodrama that tells the tragicomic tale of a transsexual who is stuck between her junkie …
A story about a Bulgarian boy who grows up to be a German man. After a car accident Alex can’t even remember his name. In an attempt to cure him from amnesia, his grandfather, Bai Dan (Miki Manojlovic, IRINA PALM), …
Director Avi Nesher re-creates Israel during the summer of 1968 in this poignant, engrossing coming-of-age story. Teenager Arik Burstein is the son of a survivor who never talks about his past. When he gets a summer job working as a …
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In Robert Guédiguian’s taut, internationally acclaimed thriller, set during the French Resistance, Armenian poet Missak Manouchian (Simon Abkarian) and his French wife (Virginie Ledoyen) lead a ragtag assortment of volunteers — Jews, Poles, Hungarians, …
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INHALE is a riveting thriller about a father ready to go to any lengths to save the life of his daughter. Dermot Mulroney (MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING) stars as Paul Stanton, a District …
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Filmmaker guests: Stephanie Argy, Alec Boehm, Cast & Crew
Each DFS member may bring one complimentary guest
Washington, DC, 1935: At the height of the Great Depression, Eddie Doyle (Donal Thoms-Cappello), an ace …
* Argentina's 2011 Submission for Academy Awards Best Foreign Film *
Coachella Valley Premiere
Each DFS member may bring one complimentary guest
Thriller starring Sosa (Ricardo Darín, "The Secret in Their Eyes", "The Aura", "Nine Queens") as an ambulance-chasing personal injury …
Complimentary admission to all guests
Screening of short films from around the world, submitted to SHORTS SHOWCASE. You and our audience will vote to select the winners. Complimentary admission & coffee, so please bring your friends.
Runtime: Approx 90 minutes.
Shorts Showcase…
WEST COAST PREMIERE
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They are both alone. They need each other but, at the same time, they despise each other. Siblings Marcos and Susana are unable to heal the old wounds festering within them. Marcos's need to …
Cochella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening
Each DFS member may bring one complimentary guest.
Anita, a young woman with Down syndrome, lives with her devoted mother (the “Meryl Streep” of Argentina, Norma Aleandr) above the shop her late father …
October 6, 2010 at 7:30 pm,
Cinemas Palme d'Or (Complimentary tickets in advance. None will be for sale.) …
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HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT’S INFERNO
”A dazzling evocation of what may be one of the greatest films never made”
In 1964, famed director Henri-Georges Clouzo, (Wages of Fear, Diabolique, etc.), began work on …
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"Young Sasha Petrovic, studious and musically talented, is the beloved child of his Montenegro-born parents, who run a pub adjacent to their home in Cologne. But he’s got a secret crush that’s about …
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Marco is a lonely, handicapped, Spanish smuggler, driving through Brazil to sell out his cheap goods. When two bandits assault him and steal his load, he is miraculously saved by Carmo, a beautiful …
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Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she's pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse runs away to a …
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Judith is an attractive, level-headed woman in her fifties. She lives alone and regularly treats herself to the sexual services of young men. That's how she meets Patrick, whose kindness and simplicity win …
SPECIAL GUEST: WRITER/DIRECTOR JAVIER FUENTES-LEON
* Peru’s Official Submission – Best Foreign Film – Academy Awards 2011 *
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“With the measured patience of a seasoned filmmaker, writer/director Javier Fuentes Leon’s feature debut is a haunting tribute to the power …
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As a down-and-out musician barely surviving in New York, Robert has lost his mojo. An unexpected trip to Serbia offers a fresh angle in this tale about loneliness, cross-cultural connections and the …
Chamaco is a timeless story told in the gritty world of boxing. Abner is trapped in the rough life of Mexico City. His escape? Boxing. Dr. Frank Irwin (Martin Sheen) and his son Jimmy (Kirk Harris), a pro boxer, come …
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A grieving woman commissions a painter to do a portrait of her children: her 22 year old daughter, and her 19 year-old son, who recently died in a tragic accident. Directed by Academy Award …
A comic drama that examines how far a young couple will go in order to save their house from confiscation. The two search for creative solutions to obtain the money, while each of them believes that his solution is saner.…
A psychological thriller that gives two of France's finest actresses’ roles to sink their teeth into. Catherine Frot – opposite Sandrine Bonnaire – plays a woman who finds herself stalking another family once she catches a glimpse of their young…
“Saviors in the Night” is based on the memories of Marga Spiegel. In her narrative, published in 1965, she describes how courageous farmers in southern Münsterland hid her, her husband and their little daughter from 1943 until 1945, thus saving…
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FLAME AND CITRON tells the true story of Danish resistance to Nazi occupation during WWII. Flammen and Citronen were the code names for a legendary duo responsible for the deaths of countless Nazis …
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The soul of the story is the loving father-daughter bond the two have formed in the absence of a wife and mother. They are happy as they are, yet Lionel at times gently …
Sneak Preview to DFS MembersFebruary 10, 2010 @ 7:30 PM
Regal Rancho Mirage 1672-999 Dinah Shore DriveRancho Mirage, CA 92270…
in addition to a test market screening of "HELPLESS" (10 mins) w/Special Guest, Brent Huff -View Trailer-
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José finds out that Nora, the woman he'd been married to for 30 years and then divorced, has died. The rabbi explains to …
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“Still Walking” observes a family reunion at the seaside home of a strait-laced retired doctor and his wife; events are seen through the eyes of their self-effacing grown-up son, Ryo, a recently unemployed …
