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You can check out the best of last year's crop and the big name films up for awards at this festival, along with a selection of promising new works. Kicking off the festival schedule for 2026, it's full of promise.
The festival runs from 2 to 13 January.
View Films by Strand:
- After Dark
- Awards Buzz
- Awards Buzz – Best International Feature Film
- Country Focus
- Family Day
- Gateway Cinema
- Modern Masters
- Special Presentations
- Talking Pictures
- Talking Pictures: Book to Screen
- True Stories
- World Cinema Now
View previous years coverage of the Palm Springs International Film Festival festival:
Palm Springs Latest Reviews
Drama following a nurse on a late shift at a busy hospital.
In 2075, a 10-year-old girl, Iris, witnesses a mysterious boy in a rainbow suit fall from the sky. It’s Arco. He comes from an idyllic far future where time travel is possible. Iris shelters him and will do whatever it takes to help him return to his time.
After a Palestinian teen confronts Israeli soldiers at a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the series of events that led him to that fateful moment, starting with his grandfather’s forced displacement.
At an all-boys water polo camp, a socially anxious 12-year-old is pulled into a cruel tradition targeting an outcast with an illness they call “The Plague.” But as the lines between game and reality blur, he fears the joke might be hiding something real.
A single mother and her two daughters return to Taipei to open a night market stand. Three generations of family secrets begin to unravel after the youngest daughter who’s left-handed is told by her traditional grandfather to never use her "devil hand”.
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A six-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.
A world-renowned K-Pop girl group balance their lives in the spotlight with their secret identities as demon hunters.
When reed cutter Johan discovers the lifeless body of a girl on his land, he is overcome by an ambiguous sense of guilt. While taking care of his granddaughter, he sets out on a quest to track down evil. But darkness can thrive in unexpected places.
When a man loses his job he finds himself drifting before deciding to take things into his own hands...
Rabbit and fox detectives are the first to identify something suspicious when a snake is blamed for a highly public crime.
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