PLAYGROUND / UN MONDE (Belgium)
Won prizes in seven categories at Belgium’s MAGRITTE AWARDS (focused on French language Belgium films) on Saturday, February 12, 2022. PLAYGROUND was Belgium’s Oscar best international film entry this year, making it into the long-list but not the final...
CONFETTI – China/USA
* * * N O T E D A T E C H A N G E * * * 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...
NIGHT DOCTOR / Médecin de nuit (France)
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, His life is chaotic. Torn between his wife and his...
IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE (South Korea)
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. Over the course of one day in Seoul, via various encounters—including with her younger sister; a shopkeeper who lives...
SECRET NAME / La place d’une autre (France)
Trailer: https://www.filmaffinity.com/es/film553075.html The Young French Cinema program, presented by Unifrance and Villa Albertine, once again shines the spotlight on new generation French filmmakers whose works offer a combination of visually innovative approaches...
THE DAZZLED / LES ÉBLOUIS (France)
Trailer: http://inter.pyramidefilms.com/pyramidefilms-international-catalogue/the-dazzled.html THE DAZZLED is a selection from ‘Tales of Europe’, a curated touring program dedicated to supporting the circulation of prestigious European films and is...
BLACK BOX / Boite noire (France)
Matthieu is a young and talented black box analyst on a mission to solve the reason behind the deadly crash of a brand new aircraft. Yet, when the case is closed by authorities, Matthieu cannot help but sense there is something wrong with the evidence. As he listens...
YOU WILL REMEMBER ME (Canada)
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, even if he believes he still has a lot to say. Edouard’s...
PAUL NEWMAN, BEHIND BLUE EYES! (France) + 2 shorts
His beauty, masculinity and intelligence, and of course the color of his eyes, have followed Paul Newman throughout his life. Annoyed by the incessant references to his apparent sex appeal, the actor did everything he could to change the perception of him as a...
THE WEASELS TALE / (El cuento de las comadrejas)
New Comic Thriller “The Weasel’s Tale” From Oscar-Winning Director of “The Secret in Their Eyes” Juan Jose Campanella 85% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes “Old-fashioned fare with an up-to-date edge…enjoyably over-the-top.”...
THERE ARE NO LIONS IN TEL AVIV (Israel)
The story of the chief Rabbi of the Jewish community of Copenhagen, who would become to be known as Rabbi Dolittle Arriving in Tel Aviv in 1936, Max Shorenstein left his honorable position, in order to fulfill a longtime dream: to build a zoo and teach the children of...
CONVICTION (France | Belgium)
Une intime conviction is based on a real-life case. This French courtroom thriller brings together law professor Jacques Viguier (Laurent Lucas) a man accused of killing his wife and Nora, obsessed with proving his innocence. As a juror at Jacques Viguier’s trial,...Welcome
Special Notice:Effective 04/10/2023 Covid Guidelines: Seating is socially distanced so please allow a two-seat buffer between parties and do not sit directly behind anyone. Masks are no longer required, but recommended, Free to DFS members. Guests pay $15 cash at...
BEST OF DORIEN B. (Flanders)
BEST OF DORIEN B. West Coast Premiere 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...
THE KEEPER (U.K., Germany)
THE KEEPER Southern California Premiere The true story of Bert Trautmann, German POW and English soccer star. A heartfelt movie of romance and redemption following WW2. The Keeper tells the extraordinary love story between a young English woman and a German PoW, who...
THE GIRL IN THE FOG (Italy)
DFS members were given access to this film on 4/18/2020. 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,...
HOW ABOUT ADOLF? (Germany)
DFS members will receive an E-mail link on SA, 4/25 to enable them to watch this film. WHAT ABOUT ADOLF? – Germany – 91 min – Comedy Southern California Premiere “What’s in a name?” Shakespeare’s lofty question takes on new life in this savage...
SILENT REVOLUTION (Germany)
DFS members will receive an E-mail link on SA, May 16 to enable them to watch this film. 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...
THE PERFECT NANNY / CHANSON DOUCE (France)
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...
MRS G – Israel (plus 3 shorts)
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...
WHEN HITLER STOLE PINK RABBIT (Germany & Switzerland)
DFS Members will be sent a link on 7/11 to watch this film. Suppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your noticing it became dangerous for some people to live in your country. Suppose you found, to your complete surprise, that your own father was...
WHEN I BECAME A BUTTERFLY – Iran
Based on true events, a meek woman in an unhappy marriage and her emotionally distant son have to cover up her husband’s accidental death while avoiding his mother, employer, and drug dealer. She must get a job and learn to drive, to keep up the act to find a better...
MY DOG STUPID / Mon chien stupide (France & Belgium)
MY DOG STUPID is based on the short story of the same name written by novelist John Fante published in 1985 and translated into French in 1987.. The film is a bitter sweet comedy about a middle-age couple, whose already poor marital bliss is being challenged by the...
OH MERCY! (France)
Based upon a true murder case where during a somber Christmas season, a French-Algerian detective is investigating the fatal strangulation of a poor, elderly woman in her apartment with suspicion falling on her next-door neighbors. Starring Roschdy Zem and Léa...
AFRICAN VIOLET (Iran)
Middle-aged Shokoo (Fatemeh Motamed Arya) finds out that ex-husband, Fereydoun, has been placed in a nursing home by their children. She, and second husband Reza, decide to take care of Fereydoun themselves in their own home. In doing so, however, this new situation...
THE INVISIBLE WITNESS (Italy)
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...
EMMA PEETERS (Belgium)
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...
THE ORCHESTRA CLASS (France)
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...
DEAR FREDY (Israel)
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,...
SINK OR SWIM (France/Belgium)
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...
GASPARD AT THE WEDDING (France/Belgium)
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...
MY POLISH HONEYMOON (France)
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,...
SIR (India)
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...
DYING FOR A CHILD (France)
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...
LEONA (Mexico)
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...Donate Today!
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