Oscar® Shortlisted Films

Oscar® Buzz: Shortfest!

We're bringing ShortFest to this year's Palm Springs International Film Festival! Explore some of the Oscar® shortlisted short films. Read More

20 Days in Mariupol

An audience favorite!

Among the first to show the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, director Mstyslav Chernov arrived in Mariupol in February 2022 with a team of fellow journalists and captured the humanitarian disaster brought by the siege. Read More

Running Time: 94

Amerikatsi

Join us for a post-screening Q&A on January 8 with director Michael A. Goorjian.

Charlie escapes the Armenian genocide as a boy by fleeing to the United States, but he returns as an adult and is arrested. He watches an Armenian couple from his prison cell, finally learning about his homeland. Read More

Running Time: 117

Beyond Utopia

A suspenseful look at the lengths people will go to gain freedom, Beyond Utopia follows various individuals as they attempt to flee North Korea, one of the most oppressive places on Earth, a land they grew up believing was a paradise. Read More

Running Time: 115

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

Join us for two encore screenings of PSIFF 2023's DESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY AND THE LEGEND OF MIDNIGHT COWBOY in celebration of the film making the Oscar© Shortlist for Documentaries! There will be a post-screening Q&A with producer Susan Margolin and Michael Childers on January 7. No Oscar®-winning film captured its... Read More

Running Time: 101

Fallen Leaves

Precise and intelligent, this bittersweet romance between two Helsinki loners (Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen, both irresistible) posits love as the means to transcend – or at least survive – the grim reality of living in a capitalist society. Read More

Running Time: 81

Four Daughters

FIPRESCI Prize for Best International Film.

In this highly inventive and moving documentary, professional actresses and real-life subjects collaborate to tell the true story of a Tunisian single mother of four whose two eldest daughters disappear after becoming radicalized by ISIS. Read More

Running Time: 107

Godland

The remote landscapes of Iceland in the late 19th century provide the backdrop for this stark and sumptuous epic that follows a Danish priest on a perilous, Sisyphean odyssey to establish a church on the country’s southeastern coast. Read More

Running Time: 143

Io Capitano

An audience favorite!

Matteo Garrone cements his status as one of cinema’s finest craftspeople with this harrowing and wondrous epic following two Senegalese teenagers who leave home for Europe on an adventure full of magic, mystery and danger across the Sahara Desert. Read More

Running Time: 121

The Monk and the Gun

An audience favorite! In this playful satire, the Bhutanese government holds a mock election to educate the locals about democracy after the king abdicates. Meanwhile, a monk is sent on a mysterious quest and crosses paths with an ensemble of colorful characters. Join us for post-screening Q&As with Director Pawo Choyning... Read More

Running Time: 107