Opening film | Better Man |
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Closing film | The Penguin Lessons |
Location | Palm Springs, California, United States |
Festival date | January 2–13, 2025 |
The 36th Palm Springs International Film Festival is scheduled to take place from January 2 to 13, 2025, in Palm Springs, California, United States. The festival will open with Michael Gracey's biographic drama film Better Man and will close with Peter Cattaneo's comedy drama film The Penguin Lessons . [1]
The full ineup was revealed on November 26, 2024. [2] [3] Among the sections, a Spanish Focus section will take place, dedicated to highlight Spanish cinema, while Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar will receive a spotlight section screening some films from his filmography.
As usual, throughout late 2024, several special awards were announced, which will be presented at the Opening Gala on January 3, 2024, at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Jacques Audiard's musical crime comedy Emilia Pérez received the Vanguard Award. [4] The Desert Palm Achievement for Best Actor and Best Actress went to Adrien Brody and Angelina Jolie for their performances in The Brutalist and Maria , respectively. [5] Mikey Madison and Kieran Culkin both won the Breakthrough Performance Award, for Anora and A Real Pain respectively. [6] [7] Australian actress Nicole Kidman won the International Star Award for Babygirl . The Spotlight Award went to Colman Domingo for Sing Sing . [8] Mystery thriller Conclave received the Ensemble Performance Award. Its cast includes Ralph Fiennes, Isabella Rossellini, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow and Lucian Msamati. [9] American actor Timothée Chalamet will receive the Chairman's Award for A Complete Unknown while American singer and actress Ariana Grande will be honored with the Rising Star Award for her performance in Wicked . [10] [11] Finally, the Visionary Award will be presented to Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve for Dune: Part Two . [12]
The following day, on January 4, the Variety's 10 Directors to Watch & Creative Impact Awards brunch will take place place at the Parker Palm Springs. The recipients for the Creative Impact awards are Cynthia Erivo, who will receive the Acting Award, and Jacques Audiard, who will be honored with the Directing Award. [13] [14] Additionally, American singer and actress Jennifer López will be presented with the Legend & Groundbreaker Award. [15]
The films selected for each section are as follows: [2]
The following section consists of submissions for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards:
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Submission countrie(s) |
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Armand | Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel | Norway | |
Come Closer | קרוב אלי | Tom Nesher | Israel |
Dahomey | Mati Diop | Senegal | |
Drowning Dry | Sesės | Laurynas Bareiša | Lithuania |
Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard | France | |
Everybody Loves Touda | الجميع يحب تودة | Nabil Ayouch | Morocco |
Flow | Straume | Gints Zilbalodis | Latvia |
From Ground Zero | قصص غير محكية من غزة من المسافة صفر | Multiple directors [a] | Palestine |
The Girl with the Needle | Pigen med nålen | Magnus von Horn | Denmark |
Grand Tour | Miguel Gomes | Portugal | |
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies | หลานม่า | Pat Boonnitipat | Thailand |
The Hungarian Dressmaker | Ema a smrtihlav | Iveta Grófová | Slovakia |
I'm Still Here | Ainda Estou Aqui | Walter Salles | Brazil |
Julie Keeps Quiet | Julie zwijgt | Leonardo Van Dijl | Belgium |
Kill the Jockey | El jockey | Luis Ortega | Argentina |
Kneecap | Rich Peppiatt | Ireland | |
La Suprema | Felipe Holguin | Colombia | |
The Last Journey | Den sista resan | Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson | Sweden |
Life | Hayat | Zeki Demirkubuz | Turkey |
Lost Ladies | लापता लेडीज़ | Kiran Rao | India |
Meeting with Pol Pot | Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot | Rithy Panh | Cambodia |
Memories of a Burning Body | Memorias de un cuerpo que arde | Antonella Sudasassi | Costa Rica |
My Late Summer | Nakon ljeta | Danis Tanović | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Old Fox | 老狐狸 | Hsiao Ya-chuan | Taiwan |
Santosh | Sandhya Suri | United Kingdom | |
Saturn Return | Segundo premio | Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez | Spain |
The Seed of the Sacred Fig | دانهی انجیر معابد | Mohammad Rasoulof | Germany |
Shambhala | शम्भाला | Min Bahadur Bham | Nepal |
Sujo | Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez | Mexico | |
Three Kilometres to the End of the World | Trei kilometri pâna la capatul lumii | Emanuel Pârvu | Romania |
Touch | Snerting | Baltasar Kormákur | Iceland |
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In | 九龍城寨之圍城 | Soi Cheang | Hong Kong |
Universal Language | Une langue universelle | Matthew Rankin | Canada |
Vermiglio | Maura Delpero | Italy | |
Waves | Vlny | Jiří Mádl | Czech Republic |
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the True Stories section:
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Adrianne and the Castle | Shannon Walsh | Canada | |
Agent of Happiness | Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó | Bhutan, Hungary | |
Apocalypse in the Tropics | Apocalipse nos Trópicos | Petra Costa | Brazil |
Billy Preston: That's The Way God Planned It | Paris Barclay | United States | |
Blue Road – The Edna O'Brien Story | Sinéad O'Shea | Ireland, United Kingdom | |
Bring Them Home | Ivan Macdonald, Ivy Macdonald, Daniel Glick | United States | |
Checkpoint Zoo | Joshua Zeman | United States, Ukraine | |
Counted Out | Vicki Abeles | United States | |
Desert Angel | Vincent Deluca | ||
The Diamond King | Marq Evans | ||
Diane Warren: Relentless | Bess Kargman | ||
Driver | Nesa Azimi | ||
Every Little Thing | Sally Aitken | Australia | |
Good Men | Bobby Roth | United States | |
Group Therapy | Neil Berkeley | ||
Headhunting to Beatboxing | Rohit Gupta | India | |
His Own Way – The Cinema of Avi Nesher | Yair Raveh | Israel | |
Homegrown | Michael Premo | United States | |
Igualada | Juan Mejía | Colombia, Mexico, United States | |
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence | Varda Bar-Kar | United States | |
Jean Cocteau | Lisa Immordino Vreeland | ||
Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story | Bruce David Klein | ||
Mistress Dispeller | Elizabeth Lo | China, United States | |
My Sweet Land | Sareen Hairabedian | Jordan, United States, France, Ireland | |
Nasty | Tudor Giurgiu, Tudor D. Popescu, Cristian Pascariu | Romania | |
No Other Land | Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor | Palestine | |
Paul Anka: His Way | John Maggio | United States | |
Sabbath Queen | Sandi Simcha DuBowski | ||
Schindler Space Architect | Valentina Ganeva | ||
Shelf Life | Ian Cheney | United States, Japan, Switzerland, Georgia, Egypt, Spain, United Kingdom | |
Space Cowboy | Marah Strauch, Bryce Leavitt | United States | |
The Stamp Thief | Dan Sturman | United States, Poland, Germany | |
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things | Mark Cousins | United Kingdom | |
Tokito: The 540-Day Journey of A Culinary Maverick | 革新の料理人たち 540日の記録 | Aki Mizutani | Japan |
Transfers | Traslados | Nicolás Gil Lavedra | Argentina, Uruguay |
Walk with Me | Heidi Levitt | United States | |
Whatever It Takes | Jenny Carchman | United Kingdom, United States | |
You're No Indian | Ryan Flynn | United States | |
Zurawski v. Texas | Maisie Crow, Abbie Perrault | ||
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) |
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Hard Truths | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom, Spain | |
Never Alone | Ei koskaan yksin | Klaus Härö | Estonia, Finland |
Parthenope | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy | |
Presence | Steven Soderbergh | United States | |
A Traveler's Needs | 여행자의 필요 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
When Fall Is Coming | Quand vient l'automne | François Ozon | 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) |
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Bob Trevino Likes It | Tracie Laymon | United States | |
Bonjour Tristesse | Durga Chew-Bose | Canada, Germany | |
Color Book | David Fortune | United States | |
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight | Embeth Davidtz | South Africa | |
Hanami | Denise Fernandes | Switzerland, Portugal, Cape Verde | |
The New Year That Never Came | Anul Nou care n-a fost | Bogdan Mureșanu | Romania |
To a Land Unknown | Mahdi Fleifel | United Kingdom, Palestine, France, Greece, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia | |
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the American Indies section:
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Bad Shabbos | Daniel Robbins | United States | |
The Friend | Scott McGehee and David Siegel | ||
I Don't Understand You | David Joseph Craig, Brian Crano | United States, Italy | |
Lilly | Rachel Feldman | United States | |
Love Me | Sam Zuchero and Andy Zuchero | ||
Millers in Marriage | Edward Burns | ||
Paper Flowers | Mahesh Pailoor | ||
Sacramento | Michael Angarano | ||
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) |
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Babygirl [b] | Halina Reijn | United States | |
Emilia Pérez [c] | Jacques Audiard | France | |
Maria [d] | Pablo Larraín | Italy, Germany, United States | |
A Real Pain [e] | Jesse Eisenberg | Poland, United States | |
Sing Sing [f] | Greg Kwedar | United States | |
Wicked [g] | Jon M. Chu | United States |
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the Spanish Focus section, dedicated to celebrate Spanish cinema:
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Afternoons of Solitude | Tardes de soledad | Albert Serra | Spain, France, Portugal |
The Exiles | Los Tortuga | Belén Funes | Spain, Chile |
Holy Mother | La abadesa | Antonio Chavarrías | Spain, Belgium |
I'm Nevenka | Soy Nevenka | Icíar Bollaín | Spain, Italy |
Marco, the Invented Truth | Marco, la verdad inventada | Aitor Arregi and Jon Garaño | Spain |
Rioja, The Land of a Thousand Wines | Rioja, la tierra de los mil vinos | José Luis López-Linares | |
The Wailing | El llanto | Pedro Martín-Calero | Spain, France, Argentina |
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) |
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Bun Tikki | Faraz Arif Ansari | India | |
Desired Lines | Jules Rosskam | United States | |
Drive Back Home | Michael Clowater | Canada | |
Four Mothers | Darren Thornton | Ireland, United Kingdom | |
A House Is Not a Disco | Brian J. Smith | United States | |
I'm Your Venus | Kimberly Reed | ||
Misericordia | Miséricorde | Alain Guiraudie | France, Spain, Portugal |
A Nice Indian Boy | Roshan Sethi | United States, Canada | |
Sally! | Deborah Craig, Jörg Fockele, Ondine Rarey | United States | |
The following films were selected to be screened as part of a section destined to highlight Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar's filmography:
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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All About My Mother (1999) | Todo sobre mi madre | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain, France |
Matador (1986) | Spain | ||
The Room Next Door (2024) | |||
Talk to Her | Hable con ella |
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the Family Day section:
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie | Pete Browngardt | United States | |
Flow | Straume | Gints Zilbalodis | Latvia, France, Belgium |
The Mountain | Rachel House | New Zealand | |
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) |
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Arcadia | Yorgos Zois | Greece, Bulgaria, United States | |
Auction | Le tableau volé | Pascal Bonitzer | France |
Audrey | Natalie Bailey | Australia | |
Back Dog | 狗阵 | Guan Hu | China |
Bushido | Kazuya Shiraishi | Japan | |
The Correspondent | Kriv Stenders | Australia | |
From Hilde, with Love | In Liebe, Eure Hilde | Andreas Dresen | Germany |
Ghost Trail | Les Fantômes | Jonathan Millet | France, Germany, Belgium |
Happy Holidays | ينعاد عليكو | Scandar Copti | Palestine, Germany, France, Italy, Qatar |
John Cranko | Joachim Lang | Germany | |
Maldoror | Fabrice du Welz | Belgium, France | |
Manas | Marianna Brennand | Brazil, Portugal | |
My Favourite Cake | کیک محبوب من | Maryam Moghaddam, Behtash Sanaeeha | Iran, France, Sweden, Germany |
Odd Fish | Ljósvíkingar | Snævar Sölvi Sölvason | Iceland, Finland, Czech Republic |
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl | Rungano Nyoni | Zambia, United Kingdom, Ireland | |
Pink Lady | Nir Bergman | Israel, Italy | |
The Quiet Ones | De lydløse | Frederik Louis Hviid | Denmark, United States |
Quisling: The Final Days | Quislings siste dager | Erik Poppe | Norway |
Sex | Dag Johan Haugerud | Norway, United States | |
The Shameless | Konstantin Bojanov | Switzerland, France, Bulgaria, Taiwan, India | |
Sons | Vogter | Gustav Möller | Denmark, Sweden |
Souleymane's Story | L'Histoire de Souleymane | Boris Lojkine | France |
Sunshine | Antoinette Jadaone | Philippines | |
Superboys of Malegaon | Reema Kagti | India, United States | |
Tatami | Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Guy Nattiv | Georgia, Israel, Iran | |
There's Still Tomorrow | C'è ancora domani | Paola Cortellesi | Italy, United States |
Through Rocks and Clouds | Raíz | Franco García Becerra | Peru, Chile |
Tinā (Mother) | Miki Magasiva | New Zealand | |
To Kill a Mongolian Horse | 一匹白马的热梦 | Jiang Xiaoxuan | Mongolia |
Trifole | Gabriele Fabbro | Italy, South Africa, United States | |
Waltzing with Brando | Bill Fishman | United States, French Polynesia | |
The Way, My Way | Bill Bennett | Australia | |
William Tell | Nick Hamm | United Kingdom | |
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the Talking Pictures: Book to Screen:
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Conclave [h] | Edward Berger | United Kingdom, United States | |
Nickel Boys [i] | RaMell Ross | United States | |
Queer [j] | Luca Guadagnino | Italy, United States | |
Reading Lolita in Tehran [k] | Eran Riklis | Italy, Israel | |
The Room Next Door [l] | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | |
The following awards were presented during the opening gala: [16]
The following creative impact awards were presented:
The list consisted of the following directors: [17]
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