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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

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.

A louche older man pursues a younger boy toy in Mexico City before the pair go on the hunt for psychedelics in Ecuador.

A documentary portrait of pop music superstar Robbie Williams.

This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli authorities and the unlikely alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.

In Copenhagen in the aftermath of World War one, a young woman in desperate circumstances takes on a job which will lead her to still greater depths of despair.
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