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January 2013

HELENO (Brazil)

January 19, 2013 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 (DFS 7/18/2009).  He was in other major films such as, “I Love You Phillip Morris” with Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor, ‘300’ as Xerces,  Fox…

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February 2013

SPUD (South Africa)

February 2, 2013 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 his first tentative steps along the path to manhood.  (The path it seems could be a rather long road).  He is cursed with parents from well…

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SHUN LI & THE POET (Italy)

February 16, 2013 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 she works has always been the traditional meeting place of the local fishermen, and for years the handsome old Slav fisherman “The Poet” Bepi, an immigrant…

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March 2013

PRIMA PRIMAVERA (Hungary)

March 9, 2013 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 escape to a sanctuary he remembers from his childhood. Director:  János Edelényi Writers:  János Edelényi, Endre Hules Runtime:  90 min Genres:  Drama | Romance Distributor:…

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PARIS-MANHATTAN (France)

March 23, 2013 @ 9:00 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 refuge in Woody Allen movies.  In her day dreams, she has long talks with Allen, asking him about everything from love to work.  According to…

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April 2013

OUT IN THE DARK (Israel)

April 13, 2013 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 conflict been explored in such immediate, affecting and sensual detail. Director:  Michael Mayer Writers:  Michael Mayer, Yael Shafrir Runtime:  96 min. Genre:  Drama | Romance…

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May 2013

COMING OF AGE / ANFANG 80 (Austria)

May 4, 2013 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 prove that it’s never too late for new love and they enjoy the freedom that love brings.  Does happiness have an expiration date?  Or are…

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SPINNING PLATES (USA)

May 11, 2013 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 restaurant still standing only because of the unbreakable bond with its community.  A fledgling Mexican restaurant whose owners are risking everything just to survive and…

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June 2013

CLARA (Germany)

June 1, 2013 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 and feminist issues well-illustrate the oppression faced by 19th century women, even by those of immense talent, beauty, and renown. Writers:  Nicole-Lise Bernheim, Helma Sanders-Brahms…

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GREENWICH VILLAGE: MUSIC THAT DEFINED A GENERATION (Canada)

June 15, 2013 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 the war in Vietnam.  Through poignant interviews, rare archival footage and new live performances GREENWICH VILLAGE tells a story about community, courage and most importantly,…

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July 2013

EL CUERPO / THE BODY (Spain)

July 13, 2013 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 with the help of Álex Ulloa (Hugo Silva), the widower of the missing woman.  Opens in Miami and San Diego on July 12. Writers:  Oriol…

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August 2013

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

August 3, 2013 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 his prized, but sickly olive tree, refusing to replant it until they return to their ancestral land. Despite his deep-rooted hatred for Yoni, Fahed realizes…

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CHASING BEAUTY (USA)

August 17, 2013 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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.  CHASING BEAUTY examines body image and the psychological effects of the beauty business on young women and men. The film examines what it takes to…

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September 2013

A PERFECT LIFE / LA VITA FACILE (Italy)

September 7, 2013 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 life as a well-known surgeon have brought him and, from the moment of his arrival, it’s plain that his materialistic, impatient ethos will not serve…

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FREE FALL (Germany)

September 21, 2013 @ 9:00 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 and the rush of a completely new experience, his life spins increasingly out of control. As they deepen their affair, Marc becomes tangled in a…

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October 2013

MATTERHORN (The Netherlands)

October 19, 2013 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 darkest secrets and regrets have to be dealt with.  …. Summary written by KGF Vissers Country:  The Netherlands Run Time:  87 min Distributor:  Artsploitation Films…

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November 2013

WAYS TO LIVE FOREVER (UK)

November 2, 2013 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 might face. Together with his best friend, Felix, he embarks on a "scientific investigation" with questions, observations, evidence, reflections, and lists of all the things…

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A PERFECT MAN (USA)

November 16, 2013 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 Elkoff Director: Kees Van Oostrum Runtime: 95 min. Genre: Drama Country: USA, Netherlands Language: English Distributor: IFC Films Rating: N/R Starring: Jeanne Tripplehorn, Liev Schreiber,…

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December 2013

BUDDIES / COLEGAS (Brazil)

December 7, 2013 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 & Louise", they decide to run away using the gardener's old car to have a freedom experience. They travel to uncommon places in search for…

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AFTERMATH (Poland)

December 21, 2013 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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. Franek discovers that Jozek has been ostracized from the community, and constantly receives various threats. As Franek and Jozek struggle to rebuild their relationship, they…

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January 2014

SOME VELVET MORNING (USA)

January 18, 2014 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 in a long time." – The Playlist "Full of intelligent and witty twists and turns." – Screen International Writer | Director:  Neil LaBute Running time:  82 min.…

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February 2014

THE ROCKET (Australia /Laos)

February 1, 2014 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 and to enter the most lucrative but dangerous competition of the year: a rocket festival. Audience Award - AFI Festival, November 2013, L.A. Website and Trailer:   http://www.kinolorber.com/film.php?id=1474…

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THE MAJOR (Russia)

February 15, 2014 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 cold, snowy day, towards the hospital where his wife is giving birth, Sergey Sobolev (Denis Shvedov), a police major at a small city precinct, runs…

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REEL INJUN – Native American Festival – Invite

February 22, 2014 @ 9:00 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 of the Institute which has launched projects such as Four Sheets to the Wind, Sikumi, Miss Navajo, Shímásání, and Drunktown’s Finest.  Runningwater has also established filmmaker Labs in New Zealand and…

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March 2014

WHITE LIES (New Zealand)

March 1, 2014 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 life. But new laws are in force prohibiting unlicensed healers.  On a rare trip to the city, she is approached by Maraea (Rachel House), the…

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THE STURGEON QUEENS (USA), GUS (USA) and IN BED AT 10 PM (Israel)

March 15, 2014 @ 9:30 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 Lower East Side, Russ & Daughters, which opened its doors in 1914. Produced to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the store, see interviews with…

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April 2014

JIMMY P.: PSYCHOTHERAPY OF A PLAINS INDIAN (France – in English)

April 5, 2014 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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, a Blackfoot Indian and World War II veteran suffering from what initially seems like severe posttraumatic stress, and Mathieu Amalric as Devereux, a Hungarian Jew…

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May 2014

POUR UNE FEMME/FOR A WOMAN (France)

May 3, 2014 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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. The young couple met in the concentration camps during World War II, later moving to France to start their new life together. Soon, Anne's research…

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JE M’APPELLE HMMM…. /MY NAME IS HMMM… (France)

May 17, 2014 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 is going on. A field trip, the girl disappears... she has found refuge in a truck, an initiatory journey, a chance meeting, new encounters, a…

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June 2014

NAOMI / HITPARTZUT X (Israel, France)

June 7, 2014 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 quintessentially overprotective mother, this edgy film successfully combines suspense and human nature in the best traditions of Alfred Hitchcock and the Coen Brothers." … San…

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WHERE I BELONG (UK & Austria)

June 28, 2014 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 Austria during the war to escape the Nazi oppression. Since then, despite poverty and loneliness, she has always kept the faith that better days would…

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July 2014

MAGNIFICA PRESENZA / A MAGNIFICENT HAUNTING (Italy)

July 19, 2014 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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. His initial reaction is to ignore the seven and a half annoying residents, and then tries everything he can to get rid of them, to…

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August 2014

FOUR OF A KIND (Australia)

August 2, 2014 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 the most. " … beneath its deceptively simple surface lies an emotionally lacerating psychological whodunit of unusual complexity" Paul Harris, FILM BUFFS FORECAST ‘ Fine…

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MY GERMAN FRIEND (Germany & Argentina)

August 16, 2014 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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, one Jewish, and one German, are neighbors. The film is a story about their children's lifetime close relationship. In her new film, MY GERMAN FREND,…

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September 2014

BRASSERIE ROMANTIEK (Belgium)

September 6, 2014 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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  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, Rose, Mia, approaching 30 and thinking of suicide, and shy clerk, Walter. The lust-inducing menu in Brasserie Romantique, makes the audience salivate, is comprised so:…

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MIA (Argentina) co-sponsor w/CINEMA DIVERSE

September 20, 2014 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 quits, and in frustration, the father throws a mysterious cardboard box into the trash.  Ale takes the box containing the personal effects & journal of…

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October 2014

CLOSED SEASON /ENDE DER SCHONZEIT (Germany)

October 11, 2014 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 story from 1942 with the young man. During the war, while fleeing to Switzerland to escape the Nazis, Avi was saved by the brutish, hard-working…

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November 2014

A WOLF AT THE DOOR (Brazil)

November 1, 2014 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 (Milhem Cortaz) to the station for questioning. There Bernardo confesses his extra-marital affair with Rosa (Leandra Leal), whom detectives believe to be involved in the…

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PAULETTE (France)

November 15, 2014 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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:  French w |English Subtitles Rated R for drug content and language Starring: Bernadette Lafont, Carmen Maura, Dominique Lavanant, Françoise Bertin, André Penvern FESTIVALS:  Festa do…

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December 2014

QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM (Romania)

December 6, 2014 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 new theorem to be published in an American journal.  With practiced insidiousness, the Securitate start their investigation, led by Voican (Florin Piersic, Jr.) who sets…

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A PLACE CALLED HOME (Serbia/Greece)

December 20, 2014 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 her father. But when she reaches home, nothing she finds is as she expects. Nina, a woman from Serbia, is living with Kyriakos, looking after…

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January 2015

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

January 24, 2015 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 our eyes. The Catskills resorts were not only a Jewish refuge and family vacation paradise, they also gave birth to American stand-up comedy, the NBA…

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February 2015

24 DAYS (France)

February 7, 2015 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.  After dinner with his family, Ilan Halimi called an attractive girl he had met at work and made plans to meet her for coffee. Ilan…

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MATEO (Columbia)

February 21, 2015 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 alongside the Magdalena River valley in Colombia. To prove his worth, Mateo agrees to infiltrate a local theatre group in order to uncover its members’…

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March 2015

THE LAST MENTSCH (Germany)

March 14, 2015 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 first prove that he is actually a Jew.  But with all his family gone and no remaining records, he has no evidence, save for the…

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ATTILA MARCEL (France)

March 21, 2015 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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. Paul's aunts have only one dream for him: to win piano competitions. Although Paul practices dutifully, he remains unfulfilled until he submits to the interventions…

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April 2015

THE GILDED CAGE (France)

April 25, 2015 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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, that when they have a chance to fulfill their dream to return to Portugal and live a comfortable life, nobody wants to see the Ribeiros…

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May 2015

THE FINISHERS (Belgium/France)

May 2, 2015 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 who competed in the competition. Writer| Director: Nils Tavernier Running Time: 86 minutes Genre: Family Drama|Sport Distributor: Pathe International Country: France Language: French w/English subtitles…

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MARSHLAND (Spain)

May 30, 2015 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 are to successfully hunt down a killer who for years has terrorized a community in the shadow of general disregard for women rooted in a…

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June 2015

ROCK THE CASBAH (France/Morocco)

June 13, 2015 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 sisters, Sofia has made a new life for herself as an actress in America.  Her return provides the opportunity to settle some scores with her…

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LAYOVER (USA) – in French

June 27, 2015 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 Juliette's friends.  When Juliette leaves the club with a stranger, Simone finds herself alone, downtown with no ride.  The arrival of a handsome and mysterious…

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July 2015

HIPPOCRATES – Diary of a French Doctor (France)

July 18, 2015 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 determined that he will quickly become a successful doctor, Vincent soon realizes that the reality of the medical world is a lot grimmer than what…

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August 2015

THE TOWER (Germany)

August 8, 2015 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 world where privacy has all but vanished, and any intrusion can be justified in the interests of security." - Stephen Holden, The New York Times…

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

August 22, 2015 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 live. Writer|Director:  Evangelos Giovanis, George Giovanis Running Time:  99 min Genre:  Drama | Romance Distributor:  Multicom Entertainment Country:  USA Language:  English Rating:  N|R Official Website…

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September 2015

EADWEARD (Canada)

September 12, 2015 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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, played by Michael Eklund, is an obsessive observer of motion: horses galloping, humans jumping. In the 1880s, he took more than 100,000 photographs as part…

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LIZ IN SEPTEMBER (Venezuela)

September 19, 2015 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 her friends at a Caribbean beach retreat. This year is different. When a young woman outsider arrives, Liz’s friends dare her to seduce her. But…

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October 2015

DEAREST (Hong Kong / China)

October 3, 2015 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 in search of their child but to no avail. The waiting is the hardest thing to endure but they persevere, clinging to the faintest glimmer…

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THE FOOL / DURAK (Russia)

October 17, 2015 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 building. Convinced that the building is about to collapse, he rushes to alert the mayor, who is celebrating her birthday with a drunken crowd. The…

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November 2015

TO LIFE! (Germany)

November 7, 2015 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 Jonas tries to avoid being tied down.  Mixed with flashbacks of Ruth’s sultry Yiddish musical performances, AUF DAS LEBEN! TO LIFE! follows the two as…

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MISS VIOLENCE (Turkey)

November 21, 2015 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 young Angeliki took with her? Writers:   Alexandros Avranas, Kostas Peroulis Director : Alexandros Avranas Running Time:   98 minutes Genre: Drama Distributor:  Elle Driver Country:  Greece…

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December 2015

YELLOW EYES OF THE CROCODILES (France)

December 5, 2015 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 – confident, beautiful teenage Hortense and shy, babyish Zoé – is forced to maintain a stable family life while making ends meet on her meager…

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GITEL (Russia & Lithuania)

December 19, 2015 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 perished in an extermination camp.  Unable to escape her past, Gitel cannot embrace her future.  One night she meets Lev, a quiet man who struggles…

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January 2016

L’AFFAIRE SK1 (France)

January 16, 2016 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 Guy Georges, was not the country's first serial killer, though he was the first to be caught via DNA analysis. Writers: Frédéric Tellier, David Oelhoffen,…

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February 2016

ALREADY TOMORROW IN HONG KONG (Hong Kong)

February 6, 2016 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 - what happens when you meet the right person at the wrong time? Writer|Director:  Emily Ting Running Time:  78 minutes Genre:  Comedy|Romance Distributor:  Gravitas Ventures Country:…

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ALL CATS ARE GREY (Belgium)

February 20, 2016 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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. She's heard he’s a detective and she wants him to help her find her biological father. Writer|Director:  Savina Dellicour Running Time:   84 minutes Genre: Drama…

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March 2016

RENDEZ-VOUS (Netherlands)

March 12, 2016 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.  Losing sight of her goals, she must find her way back to the dreams and ambitions which brought her there in the first place. From…

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EVERY FACE HAS A NAME (Sweden)

March 19, 2016 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 resistance and British spies.  Set against this background is today's footage of refugees crossing the Mediterranean to a new beginning in Europe. In the archive…

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HIGH STRUNG – Special DFS Fundraiser Screening – GUESTS

March 24, 2016 @ 7:00 pm to approx. 9:45 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 City. Johnnie Blackwell is a British musician, playing for money in the subway tunnels. Ruby’s world is classical and disciplined; Johnnie’s is improvisational and street-smart.…

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April 2016

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

April 16, 2016 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 client. Convinced of Krstic's guilt, Catherine Lagrange, the prosecutor, summons a young man with incriminating evidence against Krstic. He claims to have been abandoned by…

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May 2016

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

May 7, 2016 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 jungle of Equatorial Guinea. There he meets an orphan boy with a sunny disposition who opens George's wary eyes to this colorful place. The boy…

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

May 21, 2016 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 for Marc to feel bitter and enraged.  Needless to say that Marc resolutely waits for the coming of his insurance "advisor".  But when the latter…

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June 2016

MORGENTHAU (USA)

June 4, 2016 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 obstruction and on to the struggle to reduce street crime and prosecute white collar corruption in the financial capital of the world, the trajectory of…

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

June 18, 2016 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 for comfort, Shiv, who can sympathize with Tara’s situation - his own wife has been in a coma for eight months following a stroke. Writer|Director:…

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July 2016

FAMILIENFEST (Germany)

July 9, 2016 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 Elsner (Last Mentsch, To Life!, Cherry Blossoms),  Günther Maria Halmer (Gandhi, Sophie's Choice),  Michaela May,  Lars Eidinger, (Clouds of Sila Maria), Jördis Triebel,  Barnaby Metschurat, Marc Hosemann and Nele Mueller-Stöfen Writer|Director:…

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August 2016

MY KING / MON ROI (France)

August 6, 2016 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 a string of flash points - eruptions, betrayals, tender reconciliations, and life-altering decisions. Maïwenn’s impressive new film is one of French Cinema’s most memorable recent…

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FEVER AT DAWN (Israel/Hungary)

August 20, 2016 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 find a wife by writing letters to 117 Hungarian women who are also recovering in Sweden.  The response of 19-year-old Lilli captures his heart and…

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September 2016

DON’T CALL ME SON (Brazil)

September 10, 2016 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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, straight-laced and thrilled to have him back -- at least until he joins them at a bowling alley in a zebra-print mini dress. The turmoil…

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

September 17, 2016 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 unquenchable curiosity led him to write, produce, stage and direct many of the films he appeared in, resulting in such adored classics as The Bellboy,…

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SUMMERTIME (France) Co-Sponsor w/Cinema Diverse

September 24, 2016 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 them and the life of love she had in Paris with Carole.  An enlightening tale about the infatuation of first love and its universal themes.…

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October 2016

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

October 15, 2016 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 two develop a close friendship. Soon, her family comes to visit and it becomes apparent that Josephine has fallen victim to one of America’s…

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November 2016

THE FRONTIER (USA)

November 12, 2016 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 while. She is offered a job by Luanne, (Kelly Lynch), the owner, and hoping to lose herself in the obscurity of the place, accepts it.…

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TRUMAN (Spain/Argentina)

November 19, 2016 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 to Her", "Torremolinos 73", "Living is Easy with Eyes Closed").   Writers:  Cesc Gay, Tomàs Aragay Director:  Cesc Gay Genres:  Comedy | Drama Running Time:…

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December 2016

SABENA HIJACKING- MY VERSION (Israel)

December 3, 2016 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 and retake the plane.  Includes an interview with the sole surviving hijacker.  Nominated for the Israeli Best Documentary Film Academy Award. Director:  Rani Sa'ar Writer:  Moshe…

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THE NEW LIFE OF PAUL SNEIJDER (Québec, Canada)

December 17, 2016 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 on a journey to self-recovery. Genre:  Drama | Dark Humour Cast:  Géraldine Pailhas, Thierry Lhermitte, Guillaume Cyr & Gabriel Sabourin Director:  Thomas Vincent Music:  Philippe Deshaies,…

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January 2017

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

January 21, 2017 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 the detailed model and simultaneously falls for the unattainable Dolores. One day Georg discovers an unusual power: He is able to influence the physical reality…

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February 2017

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

February 4, 2017 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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, Jessica Schwarz, Katrin Pollitt, Heiko Pinkowski FESTIVALS: Germany: Filmfest Munich!, Munich International Film Festival, Oldenburg Film Festival, Hamburg Film Festival; Estonia, Tallinn Black Nights; USA:…

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CENTER OF MY WORLD (Germany)

February 25, 2017 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.  Infatuated, Phil watches his crush and is thrilled when Nicholas returns his feelings. Writer| Director:  Jakob M. Erwa Genre:  Drama Running time:  115 min. Distributor:…

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March 2017

THE DAUGHTER (Australia)

March 11, 2017 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 New South Wales for the marriage of his father, Henry (Geoffrey Rush), the wealthy owner of the local mill that's been the economic bedrock of…

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THE ORIGIN OF VIOLENCE (France/Germany)

March 18, 2017 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 coincidence.  As Nathan digs deeper and learns more, he tries to understand the origin of the violence he finds within himself and those around him.…

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April 2017

A KID (France)

April 8, 2017 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 decides to go to the funeral in order to meet them. But once in Montreal, he realizes that nobody is aware of his existence or even interested…

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THE TEACHER (Czech Republic | Slovakia)

April 22, 2017 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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: Petr Jarchovský Genre: Comedy|Drama Running time: 102 minutes Distributor: Film Movement Country : Slovakia|Czech Republic Language: Slovak w|English subtitles Rating: N|R Stars: Zuzana Mauréry, Zuzana…

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May 2017

THE COUNTRY DOCTOR (France)

May 6, 2017 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 chops. Challenging each other with opposite views on medicine, the pair eventually bond and learn from one another. Writer|Director:  Thomas Lilti Genre:  Comedy | Drama…

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SANCTUARY / Freistatt (Germany)

May 20, 2017 @ 9:15 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 brutal working conditions and the perfidious education methods of the wardens; he doesn’t allow them to get him down.  But for how long can he…

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June 2017

ADVENTURES OF MAX & LEON (France)

June 3, 2017 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 of France)—our two heroes, Max and Léon, will try by all means possible to avoid going into battle … which leads the duo into a…

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ROSALIE BLUM (France)

June 10, 2017 @ 9:20 am to approx. 11:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 rotates around work, his overbearing mother who lives in the apartment upstairs, and a womanising cousin constantly trying to set him up.  But one morning…

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July 2017

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

July 8, 2017 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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, funny and dramatic, the film shows characters not often depicted onscreen as leads, in a unique coming of age story.”  …  emptyspacethemovie.com   Director:  James…

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HAROLD AND LILLIAN: A HOLLYWOOD LOVE STORY (USA)

July 22, 2017 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 of love letters, film clips and candid conversations with Harold and Lillian, Danny DeVito, Mel Brooks, Francis Ford Coppola and others, this deeply engaging documentary…

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

July 24, 2017 @ 7:30 pm to approx. 10:00 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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  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 it stunned the world at the Cannes Film Festival in 1978, 'Midnight Express' cemented its place in film history as an artistic and financial success,…

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August 2017

HOMECOMING /Blóðberg (Iceland)

August 12, 2017 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 a holiday with a new girlfriend, Sunna. Sunna is pretty, smart, polite and on the face of it, the perfect daughter in law. However, on…

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September 2017

TIGER THEORY (Czech Republic)

September 9, 2017 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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). She never listened to any of his wishes and desires in good faith that only she knows what is best for him. And so, quite…

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EL ACOMPANANTE / THE COMPANION (Panama)

September 23, 2017 @ 9:30 am to approx. 12:00 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 patients shared apartments with other patients. These apartments were so comfortable that some healthy people wanted to have AIDS so they could live in such…

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October 2017

SILENT HEART (Denmark)

October 7, 2017 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 worsens, but as the weekend progresses, their mother’s decision becomes increasingly hard to deal with, and old conflicts bubble up. August’s emotional meditation on life,…

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THE TESTAMENT (Israel)

October 28, 2017 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 the murder took place, is planning to build a real estate project on the very same land. Yoel suspects that their aim is to bury…

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November 2017

HARMONIA (Israel) Showing with ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE (USA)

November 11, 2017 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 unique friendship evolves between the two women. Hagar, feeling Sarah’s pain from not having children, offers to have a baby for her from Abraham, shaking…

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

November 18, 2017 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 illness threaten both their blossoming relationship and Katherine’s lifelong dream of going to the opera in Milan. Director:  Leon Marr Starring:  Linda Thorson and Stuart…

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December 2017

DARK FORTUNE /Finisteres gluck’ (Switzerland)

December 9, 2017 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 night, psychologist Eliane Hess receives an emergency summons to visit Yves in the hospital.  As she struggles to break the shocking news, the boy's aunt…

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TAMARA (Venezuela) with Filmmaker Guests

December 16, 2017 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 decides to turn his world upside down and accomplish his longtime secret: to change his body and become a woman.  TAMARA graphically depicts both the…

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January 2018

KING OF PEKING (China)

January 20, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 an example to others.   Writer|Director:  Sam Voutas Genre:  Drama|Comedy Running Time:  88 minutes Distributor:  Peking Pictures Country:  China/Australia/USA Language:  Mandarin with English subtitles Rating:…

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February 2018

INSYRIATED / IN SYRIA (Lebanon)

February 10, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 the thin balance of routine inside the walls becomes a matter of life and death. Writer|Director: Philippe Van Leeuw Genre: Drama|War Running Time: 85 minutes Distributor: Film…

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BIG SONIA (USA)

February 24, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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. Ironically, Sonia’s shop is the last open business in an otherwise desolate Kansas City mall. For a woman who admits she stays busy “to keep…

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March 2018

AN ACT OF DEFIANCE (South Africa)

March 10, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 to hide his secret affiliation to the nation's chief resistance movement as he takes on defending a group of its arrested members, including its leader,…

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WRONG LIGHT (Thailand)

March 24, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 Distributor:  CINEMA GUILD Country:  Thailand | USA Language:  Thai w|English Subtitles, English Rating:  N|R   FESTIVALS:  USA: Cleveland International Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Louisiana…

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April 2018

HUMOR ME (USA)

April 14, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 Potts. Genre:  Comedy Running Time:  93 min Distributors:  Menemsha Films and The Festival Agency Director: Sam Hoffman Screenplay: Sam Hoffman Language: English language Editor: Paul…

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DEDE (Georgia/Qatar)

April 28, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 abide by Tradition will cost her more than she could imagine…   Writers:  Mariam Khatchvani | Vladimer Katcharava Director:  Mariam Khatchvani Genre:  Drama Running Time:…

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May 2018

GRAND PROMISE / LA GRAN PROMESA (Mexico)

May 5, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 a way home—whatever the cost. Writers: Jorge Ramírez Suárez|Klaas Bense Director|Producer:  Jorge Ramirez Suarez (Rabbit on the Moon”) Cinematographer:  Martin Boege Screenwriter:  Jorge Ramirez-Suarez, Klaas…

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HOLY FAMILY (France)

May 19, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 priest with a bright future ahead of him, falls in love with a novice nun. Genre:  Drama Running Time:  85 min. Director(s) : Marion Sarrault Author(s)…

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June 2018

STREAKER / FLITZER (Switzerland)

June 2, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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 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 long streakers can last on the soccer field before being taken off by security.  While he and his team help streaking become the new trend sport,…

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July 2018

THE LAST SUIT (Spain/Argentina)

July 7, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 suburbs of Buenos Aires and booked him into a retirement home. Refusing to bow to family pressure, he sets off on an adventure from which…

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LIGHT OF HOPE (Spain)

July 21, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 countless women, some of them pregnant, and their little children. The camps are in horrendous shape with refugees holding out with no protection from the…

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August 2018

THE SAMUEL PROJECT (USA) GUESTS

August 4, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 project for school.    Starring Ryan Ochoa (Disney xD's PAIR OF KINGS, Nickelodeon's iCARLY, THE PERFECT GAME), Liza Lapira (CRAZY STUPID LOVE) and the iconic Hal Linden (BARNEY MILLER). …

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THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH (United Kingdom)

August 11, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 when Pan Am 103 was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie.  Starring and directed by Danny Huston.  .... Written By The Works Film Group Genre:  Drama…

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SLIPAWAY (USA) GUESTS

August 18, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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, winning 23 international film festivals, over 20 nominations, and it was shortlisted by the Academy for an Award consideration. Starring:  Elaine Partnow and Jesse Pepe…

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September 2018

BENEATH THE SILENCE (Israel)

September 8, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 with his wife, Daphna, and their little son, Shlomi. At a time when PTSD is still not recognized as a medical condition, Daphna, his wife,…

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EVERY ACT OF LIFE (USA)

September 22, 2018 @ 9:15 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Love! Valour! Compassion! and Frankie & Johnny in the Claire de Lune, to name just a few.  But his life offstage…

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October 2018

CATCH THE WIND (France)

October 6, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 her first days in the new factory and an unknown country are far from easy, she soon makes friends with Mina, the owner of the…

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BAD GENIUS (Thailand)

October 20, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 out other rich-kid students.  Soon busted and having lost her scholarship, there is nothing else for Lynn to do but plan to crack the international U.S. university…

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November 2018

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

November 3, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.  Djam, generous, cheeky, unpredictable, and free-spirited, takes Avril under her wing on the way to Mytilene.  A journey filled with encounters, music, sharing, and hope.…

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WHILE WE LIVE (Denmark)

November 17, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 years earlier.  Emotions and conflicts resurface as Kristian faces his ex-girlfriend and their child in a final attempt to, by his stepfathers dying request, reunite…

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December 2018

LAS HEREDERAS /THE HEIRESSES (Paraguay)

December 8, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 a new reality.   As Chela settles into her new life, she encounters the much younger Angy, forging a fresh and invigorating new connection. Chela finally…

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ZAGROS (Belgium)

December 15, 2018 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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. Starring:  Feyyaz Duman, Halima Ilter, Daria Hachem Mohamed Gulli, Brader Musiki, Suat Usta Director:  Sahim Omar Kalifa Writers:  Sahim Omar Kalifa, Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem Genre:…

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January 2019

TAZZEKA (Morocco/France) Showing with PRESTIGE INGREDIENTS

January 19, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 also finds friendship with Souleymane, who helps revive his passion for cooking. Running Time:   95 min Director:  Jean-Philippe Gaud From:  France | Morocco Language:  Arabic | French…

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February 2019

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

February 9, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 news from the war front. The doctor warns she will not get better unless she has a will to live.  Her sister writes letters on…

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CHILDREN OF THE LIE /Un Mensonge Oublié (France)

February 23, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 the region. Won over by Felix’s resolve, police inspector Carole Levasseur also decides to find out the truth. The murder of an independent journalist changes…

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March 2019

POINT DEFIANCE (USA) Filmmaker Guests

March 9, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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: Shoreline Entertainment Country: USA Language: English Rating: N|R but does include violence and profanity Starring: Derek Phillips (Friday Night Lights), Josh Crotty (Scandal), Sara Butler…

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HER WORD AGAINST HIS (France)

March 23, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 that same night the gallery owner's wife is murdered at home, and the husband is a suspect. Laura can retaliate by not providing him w/an…

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April 2019

IMPERFECT AGE (Italy)

April 13, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 minutes Country: Italy Language: Italian w|English Subtitles Rating: N|R Starring: Ulisse Lendaro, Marina Occhionero, Paola Calliari, Anna Valle, Anita Kravos, Enrico Cavicchioli FESTIVALS: Scottsdale International…

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ME AGAINST THE WORLD (France)

April 27, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 wrong in a world she knows nothing about, and where she will probably lose more than her battle to reveal the truth… Director(s) : Thierry BINISTI…

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May 2019

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

May 4, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 Gaumont and in 1896, at 23, was inspired to make her own film called La Fée aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy), one of the first narrative films…

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DEATH IN THE SOUL (France)

May 18, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 into the Lagnier family, revealing dark zones and things unspoken. He also realises his investigation keeps crossing a police search for the murderer of young…

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June 2019

LEONA (Mexico)

June 8, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 her own burgeoning sentiment is both painful and beautiful – there are no easy choices to be made and the viewer travels back and forth…

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DYING FOR A CHILD (France)

June 29, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 without a hitch … until the birth of the baby. Writer(s): Daniel Tonachella, Sarah Levy | Based on Guy Des Cars’s Novel: The Surrogate Mother…

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July 2019

SIR (India)

July 13, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 dream. As these two worlds collide and the two individuals connect, the barriers between them seem only more insurmountable…  mk2 Films “An intelligent romance within…

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MY POLISH HONEYMOON (France)

July 27, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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, but sees it as an occasion to spend some quality time with his wife, away from their baby boy.  Anna, on the other hand, is…

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August 2019

THE CITIZEN (Hungary)

August 10, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 his place in Hungarian society in his daily life, at work, with Mari, a history teacher who helps him study for the citizenship and Shirin,…

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GASPARD AT THE WEDDING (France/Belgium)

August 31, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 one, and everyone will live happily ever after.  And while that isn’t altogether false, Antony Cordier’s Gaspard at the Wedding is a far more surprising…

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September 2019

SINK OR SWIM (France/Belgium)

September 14, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 off of his unemployment and depression. As he gets to know his fellow swimmers, played by Guillaume Canet, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Hugues Anglade, and Philippe Katerine,…

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DEAR FREDY (Israel)

September 21, 2019 @ 9:30 am to approx. 11:00 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 Republic which was conquered by the Nazis.  He began activities in the Czech Republic as a sports teacher in Jewish youth club, and soon became…

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October 2019

THE ORCHESTRA CLASS (France)

October 5, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 in Rimsky-Korsakov’s  Cheherazade at the Paris Philharmonic at the end of the school year seems beyond impossible.  Yet as he gets to know the kids…

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THE COMING BACK OUT BALL MOVIE (Australia)

October 19, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 time that is rapidly changing for the LGBTIQ+ community around the world, we witness some of our cast experiencing acceptance and love for the very…

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November 2019

LOVE IN SUSPENDERS (Israel)

November 2, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 all sorts of emotional, funny struggles. They get closer, break up, get back together and fight again, until ultimately their love wins out. Shlomo Bar-Aba gives…

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MURER – ANATOMY OF A TRIAL (Austria, Luxembourg)

November 16, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 residents called him the “Butcher of Vilnius.” Solely 600 of the 80,000 Jews who originally lived there survived Nazi rule. Survivors came from around the…

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THREE DAYS AND A LIFE / TROIS JOURS ET UNE VIE

November 22, 2019 @ 7:15 pm to approx. 9:45 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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$13.00

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 a child, and a big ravaging storm.  This drama/suspense stars Pablo Pauly, Sandrine Bonnaire, Charles Berling, Margot Bancilhon, Philippe Torreton and Dimitri Storoge.  The director, Nicolas Boukhrief…

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REMI, NOBODY’S BOY / REMI SANS FAMILLE

November 23, 2019 @ 1:30 pm to approx. 3:30 pm
$13.00

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 mysterious itinerant musician. Has its sides, he will learn the harsh life of acrobat and sing to win his bread. Accompanied by the faithful dog…

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LITTLE TICKLES / LES CHATOUILLES showing with LITTLE HANDS

November 23, 2019 @ 4:30 pm to approx. 6:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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$13.00

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 trying to deal with her past.   Nominated for 5 César Awards, winning Best Supporting Actress & Best Adapted Screenplay.  Nominated for 3 Globes de Cristal Awards, 2 Lumiere…

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

November 23, 2019 @ 7:30 pm to approx. 9:45 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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$13.00

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 social workers managing Théo’s case (Sandrine Kiberlain and Clotilde Mollet), the care and vigilance required for Théo’s foster father (Gilles Lellouche) to properly nurture him…

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SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE / DEUX MOI

November 24, 2019 @ 11:00 am to approx. 3:00 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 hyper connected world where one would think meeting someone would be easier.  Two individuals, two different paths.  Without knowing it, they take two roads that…

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AMANDA

November 24, 2019 @ 2:00 pm to approx. 4:00 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 of placidity is brutally ruptured, and a grief-stricken David must assume new responsibility for Amanda as a potential guardian.  With an understated directorial touch, Hers…

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DEERSKIN / LE DAIM showing with THE VILLA / LES GRACIUSES

November 24, 2019 @ 5:00 pm to approx. 6:45 pm
$13.00

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 Dujardin is hilarious and unhinged, as a psychopath so infatuated with his new jacket that he decides it should be the only one in the world. …

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December 2019

EMMA PEETERS (Belgium)

December 14, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 home employee who will help her in her reckless endeavor.  By dint of hard work to hide their respective feelings, it seems they may succeed…

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THE INVISIBLE WITNESS (Italy)

December 21, 2019 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
$15.00

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 never lost a trial, to decide the defensive strategy.  The two only have three hours to prepare the case, discredit a key witness who’s accusing…

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January 2020

BEST OF DORIEN B. (Flanders)

January 18, 2020 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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February 2020

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

February 1, 2020 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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RAFAËL (Netherlands, Belgium, Croatia)

February 8, 2020 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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BALLOON (Germany)

February 22, 2020 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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..

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March 2020

THE KEEPER (U.K., Germany)

March 7, 2020 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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THOSE WHO REMAINED (Hungary)

March 14, 2020 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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April 2020

THE GIRL IN THE FOG (Italy)

April 4, 2020 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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HOW ABOUT ADOLF? (Germany)

April 25, 2020 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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May 2020

SILENT REVOLUTION (Germany)

May 16, 2020 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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June 2020

THE PERFECT NANNY / CHANSON DOUCE (France)

June 6, 2020 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 think they’ve found the perfect nanny for their son and daughter. But as the couple and the nanny become more dependent on one another, jealousy,…

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AMIA – ARCHIVAL SCREENING NIGHT

June 13, 2020 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.  

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MRS G – Israel (plus 3 shorts)

June 27, 2020 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 crisis – from surviving the Holocaust, establishing a small factory in Israel, to her phenomenal success abroad. The film follows Mrs. G’s incredible creativeness along…

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July 2020

WHEN HITLER STOLE PINK RABBIT (Germany & Switzerland)

July 11, 2020 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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THE PICTURE OF HIS LIFE (Israel, U.S., Canada)

July 25, 2020 @ 1:00 am to approx. 11:30 pm

UPDATE to our schedule. 24 hour links will be e-mailed to DFS members on July 25, 2020.

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August 2020

THERE ARE NO LIONS IN TEL AVIV (Israel)

August 8, 2020

On August 8 Desert Film Society members will receive a 24 hour link to watch this film at home.

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PETER FALK VS COLUMBO (France)

August 22, 2020 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm

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.

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September 2020

WHEN I BECAME A BUTTERFLY – Iran

September 12, 2020
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States

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

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SUBLET – U.S. / Israel

September 20, 2020

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.

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

September 26, 2020
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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October 2020

OH MERCY! (France)

October 10, 2020

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

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CONVICTION (France | Belgium)

October 24, 2020

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

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November 2020

AFRICAN VIOLET (Iran)

November 14, 2020

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

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WHITE LIE (Canada)

November 21, 2020

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.

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December 2020

BREAKING BREAD (Israel)

December 5, 2020

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.

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THE WEASELS TALE / (El cuento de las comadrejas)

December 12, 2020

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. 

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BEYOND THE HORIZON / Le Milieu de l’horizon

December 19, 2020

On Dec 19 Desert Film Society will e-mail members a 24 hour link.

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October 2021

LUZZU (Malta)

October 2, 2021 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:00 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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CURVEBALL (Germany)

October 16, 2021 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:00 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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November 2021

PERSIAN LESSONS (Russia, Germany, Belarus)

November 6, 2021 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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IRMI (USA)

November 20, 2021 @ 10:00 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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December 2021

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

December 4, 2021 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:00 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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YOU WILL REMEMBER ME (Canada)

December 18, 2021 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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January 2022

THE AUTOMAT (U.S.)

January 29, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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February 2022

THE DAZZLED / LES ÉBLOUIS (France)

February 12, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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BLACK BOX / Boite noire (France)

February 26, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:15 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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March 2022

OUT OF EXILE (USA)

March 5, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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PLAYGROUND / UN MONDE (Belgium)

March 19, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 11:30 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States

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

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April 2022

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

April 2, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:00 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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CONFETTI – China/USA

April 16, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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May 2022

PEACE BY CHOCOLATE – Ukraine Fundraiser

May 7, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:00 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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$15.00

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.

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NIGHT DOCTOR / Médecin de nuit (France)

May 21, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.   

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June 2022

IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE (South Korea)

June 4, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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. 

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

June 18, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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July 2022

MADELEINE COLLINS – France (Southern CA Premiere)

July 9, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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BOULEVARD! A HOLLYWOOD STORY (Filmmaker guests)

July 23, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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August 2022

HAUTE COUTURE (France)

August 6, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:00 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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

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

August 20, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 the world explain what film preservation is and why it is needed. Our protagonists are custodians of film whose work behind the scenes safeguards the…

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September 2022

LA CIVIL / Mexico

September 10, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 – off the record – in exchange for information that she can provide as a local. Cielo’s collaboration with Lamarque will pull her into the…

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

September 17, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:15 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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 captivate the masses to this day? How did she achieve this? And what price did she pay? As this August we commemorate the 60th anniversary…

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PEACEFUL / DE SON VIVANT (France/Belgium)

September 24, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 time:  122 minutes Country:  France, Belgium Language:  French w/English subtitles Premiere:  Southern CA   Director:  Emmanuelle Bercot Writers:  Emmanuelle Bercot (screenplay) | Marcia Romano (screenplay) Producers:  François Kraus | Denis Pineau-Valencienne Composer:  Eric Neveux Cinematographer:  Yves…

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October 2022

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

October 8, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 years, will discover that he was involved in a bloody heist. While on the trail of his son’s murderers, Leo will be closely watched by…

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

October 22, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:15 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 wartime. Genre:  Romance / Drama / War Run time:  92 min Country:  France Languages:  French, Arabic, Italian with English subtitles Premiere:  Palm Springs Principal Cast: …

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November 2022

FATHER / OTAC (Serbia)

November 5, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 efforts and several appeals, the head of the social services centre refuses to return his children and his situation seems hopeless. But when Nikola discovers…

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SILHOUETTE SECRETS (United Kingdom / United States)

November 19, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:00 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 from a windswept seaside pier - on the north coast of Wales - to an Audi showroom in Houston, Texas, and finishes with an intriguing…

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December 2022

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

December 3, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 alienated many.  With never-before-seen archival material and new interviews with those who loved and loathed Trotter--who died from a stroke in 2013 at age 54--this…

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FAREWELL MR. HAFFMANN (France)

December 17, 2022 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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. But his own attempts to escape are thwarted, and Haffmann is forced to seek his assistant’s protection. It’s a risky proposition for both men, and…

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January 2023

PLAYING THROUGH (USA)

January 21, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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. 

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February 2023

UNTIL TOMORROW / Juste une nuit (Iran)

February 18, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:00 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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March 2023

CAROL OF THE BELLS / Shchedryk (Ukraine / Poland)

March 4, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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THE NIGHT OF THE 12TH / La Nuit du 12 (France/Belgium)

March 11, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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

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MORE THAN A ROLL WITH A HOLE showing with THE ART OF SILENCE

March 25, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 10:40 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States

Mar 25, 2023 ::: The bagel has a fascinating past explored in this short British documentary.

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THE ART OF SILENCE showing with MORE THAN A ROLL WITH A HOLE

March 25, 2023 @ 10:40 am to approx. 12:00 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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April 2023

A FAMILY FOR 1640 DAYS (France)

April 8, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:00 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States

April 8, 2023 :::

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FOR MY COUNTRY (France)

April 29, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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May 2023

ANGRY ANNIE / ANNIE COLIERE (France)

May 6, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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 ....

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BARREN (Israel)

May 27, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:00 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States

May 27, 2023 ::: Feigi & Naftali are a young childless ultraorthodox couple living with his parents.

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June 2023

TWO TICKETS TO GREECE (France / Greece)

June 3, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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La syndicaliste (France)

June 10, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States

June 10, 2023 ::: A thriller investigation set in the world of nuclear power and politics, starring Isabelle Huppert.

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July 2023

CHILDREN OF NOBODY (Israel)

July 1, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:00 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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THE OWNERS / VLASTNICI (Czechia)

July 15, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:00 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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

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August 2023

NEZOUH (Syria)

August 5, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:15 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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MORE THAN EVER / PLUS QUE JAUAIS (France, Norway, U.K.)

August 19, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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September 2023

RADICAL WOLFE (U.S.) – Documentary

September 2, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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LIE WITH ME (France)

September 23, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 11:30 am
$14.50

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.

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THREE NIGHTS A WEEK (France) / Trois nuits par semaine

September 30, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 11:50 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
US14.50

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

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October 2023

A CUP OF COFFEE AND NEW SHOES ON (Albania)

October 7, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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. 

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MOTHER VALLEY / LA NUIT DU VERRE D’EAU

October 21, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States

Oct 21, 2023 ::: Showing with I CAN"T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE

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

October 21, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 10:45 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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OCT 21, 2023 ::: I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE - THE JIMMY MCHUGH STORY : showing with MOTHER VALLEY. FILMMAKER GUESTS.

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November 2023

A LA BELLE ETOILE / SUGAR AND STARS

November 4, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States

Nov 4, 2023 ::: Since he was a kid, Yazid has one big passion, pastry making

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BONNIE (U.S.)

November 18, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 11:55 am
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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December 2023

THE CRIME IS MINE (France)

December 2, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:15 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
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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.

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ALL TO PLAY FOR / Rien À Perdre (France)

December 16, 2023 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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January 2024

THE OLD OAK (U.K.)

January 20 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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February 2024

CINEMA FRANCAIS PS – NOTRE-DAME ON FIRE

February 2 @ 7:00 pm to approx. 9:00 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States
$15.00

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.

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CINEMA FRANCAIS PS – Day 2 (three films)

February 3 @ 11:00 am to approx. 7:15 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States

February 3, 2024 ::: TICKETS $15 EACH FILM will be available on Cinema Francais website and at the door.
www.CinemaFrancaisPS.com

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CINEMA FRANCAIS PS – DAY 3 (three films)

February 4 @ 10:00 am to approx. 7:15 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 United States

February 4, 2024 ::: TICKETS $15 EACH FILM ON WEBSITE AND AT THE DOOR
www.CinemaFrancaisPS.com

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WINNERS (Iran)

February 10 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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PERFECT STRANGERS – Israel

February 17 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:00 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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March 2024

DRIFT (Greece / U.S.)

March 2 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:30 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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THE-FILM-MAKER – THE LISA AZUELOS STORY (USA) showing with GANEF (U.K.) and NOWHERE (Armenia)

March 16 @ 10:00 am to approx. 12:00 pm
Historic Camelot Theatre @ the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262 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.

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