| Opening film | 80 for Brady |
|---|---|
| Closing film | The Lost King |
| Location | Palm Springs, California, United States |
| Festival date | January 5–16, 2023 |
The 34th Palm Springs International Film Festival took place from January 5 to 16, 2023, in Palm Springs, California, United States. The festival opened with the world premiere of Kyle Marvin's comedy film 80 for Brady and closed with Stephen Frears' biographical film The Lost King . [1]
Throughout December 2022, several special awards were announced, which were presented at the Opening Gala on January 5, 2023, at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Actors Austin Butler and Danielle Deadwyler were honored with the Breakthrough Performance Award, for their performances in Elvis and for Till , respectively. [2] Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans received the Vanguard Award, Brendan Fraser received the Spotlight Award, Sarah Polley received the Director of the Year award for Women Talking and Viola Davis received the chairman's Award. [3] Desert Palm Achievement Awards were presented to Cate Blanchett for Tár and Colin Farrell for The Banshees of Inisherin , while Michelle Yeoh and Bill Nighy received the International Star Actress and International Star Actor awards respectively. [4] [3] [5]
The following day, on January 6, the Variety's 10 Directors to Watch brunch took place at the Parker Palm Springs, where four Creative Impact awards were presented: Creative Impact in Acting Award to Angela Bassett; Creative Impact in Screenwriting Award to Rian Johnson; Creative Impact in Directing Award to Baz Luhrmann; and Creative Impact in Breakthrough Performance Award to Brian Tyree Henry for Causeway . [6] [7] [8]
The juries consists of the following members: [9]
The films selected for each section are as follows: [1]
The following section consists of submissions for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards:
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the Talking Pictures section, each with discussion panels with their directors, writers and actors:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alice, Darling | Mary Nighy | United States, Canada | |
| Chevalier | Stephen Williams | United States | |
| The Banshees of Inisherin | Martin McDonagh | Ireland, United Kingdom, United States | |
| Moving On | Paul Weitz | United States | |
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the Modern Masters section, consisting of new films by well-established directors:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Laura Poitras | United States | |
| Broker | 브로커 | Hirokazu Kore-eda | South Korea |
| A Compassionate Spy | Steve James | United States, United Kingdom | |
| Hilma | Lasse Hallström | Sweden | |
| No Bears [a] | خرس نیست | Jafar Panahi | Iran |
| One Fine Morning | Un beau matin | Mia Hansen-Løve | France, United Kingdom, Germany |
| R.M.N. | Cristian Mungiu | Romania, France, Belgium, Sweden | |
| Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams | Luca Guadagnino | Italy | |
| Tori and Lokita | Tori et Lokita | Dardenne brothers | Belgium. France |
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the New Voices New Visions section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Aitch Alberto | United States | |
| Butterfly Vision | Бачення метелика | Maksim Nakonechnyi | Croatia, Czech Republic, Sweden, Ukraine |
| The Damned Don't Cry | Les damnés ne pleurent pas | Fyzal Boulifa | France, Belgium, Morocco |
| How to Blow Up a Pipeline | Daniel Goldhaber | United States | |
| Love According to Dalva | Dalva | Emmanuelle Nicot | Belgium, France |
| Our Father, the Devil | Ellie Foumbi | United States | |
| Riceboy Sleeps [b] | Anthony Shim | Canada | |
| Snow and the Bear | Kar ve Ayı | Selcen Ergun | Turkey, Germany, Serbia |
| Susie Searches | Sophie Kargman | United States, United Kingdom | |
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the True Stories section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1341 Frames of Love and War | 1341 Framim Mehamatzlema Shel Micha Bar-Am | Ran Tal | Israel |
| All That Breathes [c] | Shaunak Sen | India, United Kingdom | |
| Anxious Nation [b] | Vanessa Roth, Laura Morton | United States | |
| The Art of Eating: The Life of M.F.K. Fisher | Gregory M. Bezat | ||
| Bella | Bridget Murnane | ||
| Body Parts | Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Helen Hood Scheer | ||
| Born in Chicago | Bob Sarles, John Anderson | ||
| Butterfly in the Sky | Bradford Thomason, Brett Whitcomb | ||
| The Caviar Connection | La Caviar Connection | Benoît Bringer | France |
| Crows Are White | Ahsen Nadeem | Japan, Ireland, United States | |
| Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy | Nancy Buirski | United States | |
| The Grab | Gabriela Cowperthwaite | ||
| I Like It Here | Ralph Arlyck | ||
| Lakota Nation vs. United States | Jesse Short Bull, Laura Tomaselli | ||
| Lift | David Petersen | ||
| Liquor Store Dreams [c] [b] | So Yun Um | ||
| Of Medicine and Miracles | Ross Kauffman | ||
| Roberta | Antonino D'Ambrosio | ||
| Shot in the Arm | Scott Hamilton Kennedy | ||
| Split at the Root [c] | Linda Goldstein Knowlton | ||
| Subject | Camilla Hall, Jennifer Tiexiera | ||
| The Thief Collector | Allison Otto | ||
| To Kill a Tiger | Nisha Pahuja | Canada | |
| Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb | Lizzie Gottlieb | United States | |
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the Cine Latino section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Manuela Martelli | Chile, United States | |
| Huesera: The Bone Woman | Huesera | Michelle Garza Cervera | Mexico, Peru |
| I Have Electric Dreams | Tengo sueños eléctricos | Valentina Maurel | Costa Rica, Belgium, France |
| Sublime | Mariano Biasin | Argentina | |
| The Substitute | El suplente | Diego Lerman | Argentina, Italy, France, Spain, Mexico |
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the Queer Cinema Today section and The Gayla:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1946: The Mistranslation that Shifted Culture | Sharon "Rocky" Roggio | United States, Canada | |
| Casa Susanna | Sebastien Lifshitz | United States | |
| Eismayer | David Wagner | Austria | |
| Esther Newton Made Me Gay | Jean Carlomusto | United States | |
| God Save the Queens | Jordan Danger | ||
| Mama Bears [c] | Daresha Kyi | ||
| My Emptiness and I | Mi vacío y yo | Adrián Silvestre | Spain |
| Nelly & Nadine | Magnus Gertten | Sweden, Belgium, Norway | |
| Punch | Welby Ings | New Zealand, United States | |
| Winter Boy | Le Lycéen | Christophe Honoré | France |
| You Can Live Forever | Mark Slutsky, Sarah Watts | Canada | |
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the World Cinema Now section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Back Then | Zupa nic | Kinga Dębska | Poland |
| Before, Now & Then | Nana | Kamila Andini | Indonesia |
| Burning Days | Kurak Günler | Emin Alper | Turkey, France, Germany, Netherlands, Greece, Croatia |
| Concerned Citizen | Idan Haguel | Israel, United States | |
| Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous [a] | Wissam Charaf | France, Italy, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Qatar | |
| Driving Madeleine | Une belle course | Christian Carion | France |
| Emily | Frances O'Connor | United States | |
| Freaks Out | Gabriele Mainetti | Italy, Belgium | |
| Golden Years | Die goldenen Jahre | Barbara Kulcsar | Switzerland |
| Greener Pastures | Matan Guggenheim, Assaf Abiri | Israel | |
| Gyeong-ah's Daughter | 경아의 딸 | Kim Jung-eun | South Korea |
| Haute Couture | Sylvia Ohayon | France | |
| Juniper | Matthew J. Saville | New Zealand | |
| Linoleum | Colin West | United States | |
| Lullaby | Cinco lobitos | Alauda Ruiz de Azúa | Spain |
| Max, Min & Meowzaki | N Padmakumar | United States | |
| Melchior the Apothecary | Apteeker Melchior | Elmo Nüganen | Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany |
| My Neighbor Adolf | Leonid Prudovsky | Israel, Colombia, Poland | |
| My Sailor, My Love | Rakkaani merikapteeni | Klaus Härö | Finland, Ireland |
| Next Sohee | 다음 소희 | July Jung | South Korea |
| Paris Memories | Revoir Paris | Alice Winocour | France |
| Simone Veil, A Woman of the Century | Simone, le voyage du siècle | Olivier Dahan | France |
| Somewhere in Queens | Ray Romano | United States | |
| Stonewalling | 石门 | Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka | Japan |
| Talia's Journey [b] | Christophe Rolin | Belgium, Senegal, Luxembourg | |
| The Beasts | As bestas | Rodrigo Sorogoyen | Spain, France |
| The Judgement | De veroordeling | Sander Burger | Netherlands, Germany |
| The Origin of Evil | L'Origine du mal | Sébastien Marnier | France, Canada |
| The Storyteller | Anant Narayan Mahadevan | India | |
| The Word | Slovo | Beata Parkanová | Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland |
| Viking | Stéphane Lafleur | Canada | |
| Where Life Begins | Alla vita | Stéphane Freiss | Italy |
| Without Her | بی رویا | Arian Vazirdaftari | Iran, Germany |
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the Local Spotlight section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Don't Worry Darling | Olivia Wilde | United States | |
| Racist Trees | Sara Newens, Mina T. Son | ||
The following awards were presented at the 34th Edition: [10] [11]