The Palm Springs Canon
Opening the vaults on 30 years of great PSIFF movies. Enjoy these free film screenings made possible in part by Desert Care Network.
There is no charge, but these events are ticketed. See you at the movies!
Nobody Knows
Inspired by a true story of abandonment, Nobody Knows gently reveals the intimate world of four children hidden away in a Tokyo apartment over the course of a year. Another masterful film from director Hirokazu Kore-eda, ( Shoplifters , also in this year’s festival). (PSIFF 2005) Free community screening sponsored by Desert... Read More
Running Time: 141
The Orphanage
Juan Antonio Bayona’s accomplished first feature is a chiller playing for high emotional stakes. Produced by Guillermo del Toro, the Latin doyen of contemporary horror, the film is a right-up-to-date spin on del Toro‘s staple concerns of childhood fantasy and troubled female characters. (PSIFF 2008) Free community screening... Read More
Running Time: 105
Raise the Red Lantern
As ravishing and exotic as Zhang Yimou’s earlier works (Red Sorghum and Ju Dou, 1991 PSIFF), Raise the Red Lantern revels in the twists and turns that human fate can take, focusing on the labyrinthine complexities that divide the four wives of an aging patriarch in 1920s China. (PSIFF 1992) Free community screening sponsored by... Read More
Running Time: 125
A Separation
Tense and dramatically complex, formally dense and morally challenging, this is writer/director Asghar Farhadi’s strongest work yet. The provocative plot casts a revealing light on contemporary Iranian society as it takes on issues of gender, class, justice and honor. (PSIFF 2012) Free community screening sponsored by Desert... Read More
Running Time: 123
Shaolin Soccer
Director, writer and lead actor, Stephen Chow is one of Chinese cinema’s greatest comedic talents. Equally prolific and outrageous, he had become a sensation in Hong Kong due to his raw ingenuity, his exaggerated pantomimes and absurdist humor, which make Shaolin Soccer a visually exciting mix of genre-bending belly laughs and... Read More
Running Time: 113
Sound of Noise
Sound of Noise is a delightful comic cocktail of modern city symphony, police procedural and love story. With complex and wackily staged musical numbers, the feature debut of Swedish directors Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson hits notes corresponding to silly, racous and rhapsodic. (PSIFF 2011) Free community... Read More
Running Time: 102
Strictly Ballroom
Baz Luhrmann's debut film (featured in the New Voices New Visions category here in 1993) offers up dazzling dance routines and a sweet and comedic love story that's sure to have you falling in love. Strictly Ballroom is strictly sensational. (PSIFF 1993) Free community screening sponsored by Desert Care Network. Read More
Running Time: 94
Tears of the Black Tiger
Take one Spaghetti Western, add a pinch of 1940s gangster films and a liberal dose of romance and loss and you have the ingredients for this highly stylized and original love story that entertains from start to finish. (PSIFF 2002) Free community screening sponsored by Desert Care Network. Read More
Running Time: 110
The Triplets of Belleville
This deliciously inventive comedic animated feature boasting nostalgia and universal humor among its many charms, revolves around the enterprising Madame Souza and her grandson Champion, who has a gift for bicycle racing. (PSIFF 2004) Free community screening sponsored by Desert Care Network. Read More
Running Time: 78
Wild Tales
Wild Tales lives up to its name and then some, packing six absurdly taut, funny and emotionally charged short films into its running time. The common theme is revenge, and it’s delivered with a wicked sense of humor that’s befitting of the film’s producers, Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar. (PSIFF 2015) Free community screening... Read More
Running Time: 122