The 26th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) reveals its complete line-up including Premieres, New Voices/New Visions and Modern Masters.
192 films from 65 countries, including 65 premieres will unspool at the Festival, running from January 2-12, 2015 in Palm Springs, California. World premieres include Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha (USA) starring James Franco, Horatio Sanz, Luis Guzman and Lin Shaye, Packed In A Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson (USA), Some Kind of Love (Canada), Spirit / Will / Loss (USA), Twenty-Five Palms (Luxembourg) a documentary on the 25th anniversary of the Palm Springs International Film Festival directed by Fabrizio Maltese, and Walter (USA) starring Justin Kirk, Virginia Madsen, William H. Macy, Neve Campbell and Peter Facinelli.
The New Voices/New Visions Award will honor one of 10 films from top emerging international directors marking their feature film debut at the Festival, with the additional criteria that the films selected are currently without US distribution. The winner is selected by a jury of US distributors and will receive a glass sculpture designed for the Festival by renowned artist Dale Chihuly. Films selected for this year include:
Afterlife (Hungary), Director Virág Zomborácz
Chubby (Belgium), Director Bruno Deville
Fidelio, Alice’s Journey (France), Director Lucie Borleteau
Grand Street (USA), Director Lex Sidon
Henri Henri (Canada), Director Martin Talbot
Manpower (Israel), Director Noam Kaplan
A Moonless Night (Uruguay), Director Germán Tejeira
No One’s Child (Serbia), Director Vuk Ršumovic
Theeb (Jordan), Director Naji Abu Nowar
What’s Between Us (Switzerland), Director Claudia Lorenz
The Modern Masters section features 12 films from international directors who set the standards for contemporary cinema. Films selected for this year include:
Chagall – Malevich (Russia), Director Alexander Mitta
Clouds of Sils Maria (France), Director Olivier Assayas, Cast: Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz
Dancing Arabs (Israel), Director Eran Riklis
An Eye for Beauty (Canada), Director Denys Arcand
Gemma Bovery (France), Director Anne Fontaine
The Humbling (USA), Director Barry Levinson, Cast: Al Pacino, Greta Gerwig, Charles Grodin, Mary Louise Parker, Dan Hedaya and Dianne Wiest
In Order Of Disappearance (Norway/Sweden), Director Hans Petter Moland
Iris (USA), Director Albert Maysles
Li’l Quinquin (France), Director Bruno Dumont
The Perfect Dictatorship (Mexico), Director Louis Estrada
Queen and Country (United Kingdom), Director John Boorman
Red Amnesia (China), Director Wang Xiaoshuai
Other Festival films with notable talent and directors include: 5 To 7 (USA), directed by Victor Levin and starring Anton Yelchin, Olivia Thirlby, Lambert Wilson, Glenn Close and Frank Langella, ’71 (UK) starring Jack O’Connell, Back on Board: Greg Louganis (USA), the Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour (Germany) directed by Laura Poitras, Effie Gray (UK), starring Dakota Fanning, Emma Thompson, Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters, Helicopter Mom (USA) starring Nia Vardalos, Kate Flannery and Lisa Loeb, the documentary Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey (USA) featuring Hal Holbrook, Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Emile Hirsch, Cherry Jones, Robert Patrick and Annie Potts, In Order of Disappearance (Norway) starring Stellan Skarsgård, Keep On Keepin’ On (USA) directed by Alan Hicks and featuring Clark Terry, Justin Kauflin, Gwen Terry and Quincy Jones, Learning to Drive (USA) starring Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley, Match (USA) starring Matthew Lillard, Carla Gugino and Patrick Stewart, The Outrageous Sophie Tucker (USA) featuring Barbara Walters, Tony Bennett, Carol Channing, Michael Feinstein, Shecky Greene, Bruce Vilanch and David Hyde Pierce, Song One (USA) starring Anne Hathaway and Mary Steenburgen, Trespassing Bergman (Sweden) directed by Jane Magnusson and Hynek Pallas featuring Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, Francis Ford Coppola, Clare Denis, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Michael Haneke, Ang Lee, Alexander Payne, Ridley Scott and Lars von Trier, Two Days, One Night(Belgium) starring Marion Cotillard.
For a complete list of films including those selected in the World Cinema Now and True Stories program visit www.psfilmfest.org.