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The opening film festival of the year, Palm Springs is a chance to check out the season's big awards contenders along with some of the most exciting new titles to look forward to in 2025.
The festival runs from 2 to 13 January.
View Films by Strand:
- American Indies
- Awards Buzz – Best International Feature Film
- Country Focus
- Galas
- Queer Cinema Today
- 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
In Berlin 1942, Hilde finds her place within an anti-Nazi resistance group as gradually as she falls in love with one of its members. The two spend an unforgettable summer until they get caught by the Gestapo and Hilde is imprisoned, eight months pregnant.
Documentary considering the unsolved murder of Paris Is Burning star Venus Xtravaganza.
An Englishman in Uruguay adopts a penguin, smuggles it back to his home in Argentina, and gradually wakes up to the political violence going on around him.
Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.
William Tell has returned home weary after fighting with the Knights Templar in the Holy Land. Now he is called upon to help a farmer who is seeking revenge against the villains of the Hapsburg court.
Dramatisation of the life of the opera singer Maria Callas.
A collection of 22 short films made in Gaza, giving Gazan filmmakers the chance to tell the untold stories about the current war.
1944, Vermiglio, a remote mountain village. The arrival of Pietro, a deserter, into the family of the local teacher, and his love for the teacher's eldest daughter, will change the course of everyone's life.
A man quits work to care for his dying grandmother, motivated by her fortune. He schemes to win her favour before she passes.
The tale of two Black teenagers who become wards of a barbaric juvenile reformatory.
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