Saturday film treats in Palm Springs
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Our Struggles
Belgium • 2018 • 98 minutes
Director: Guillaume Senez
WORLD CINEMA NOW
Olivier’s life is turned upside down when his wife Laura leaves him and their children seemingly out of the blue. Guillaume Senez’s second feature paints a sensitive portrait of a family in crisis learning to care for each other.
Saturday, January 12 • 5:30 pm • Camelot
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Sibel
Turkey • 2018 • 95 minutes
Directors: Çagla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti
WORLD CINEMA NOW
Sibel, a mute, is considered bad luck by the superstitious villagers who have made her an outsider. She only communicates with her father, using a whistled language practiced by few. Determined to kill a wolf that’s been hunting around the village, she spends a lot of time in the woods setting traps. There she encounters a young fugitive whose arrival will trigger new feelings within her.
Sat, January 12 • 9:30 am • Regal
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L'Animale
Austria • 2018 • 100 minutes
Director: Katharina Mueckstein
QUEER CINEMA TODAY
A tomboy teen’s status among her gang of motocross-riding guy friends becomes threatened when gender dynamics shift and loyalties conflict. Sophie Stockinger delivers a superbly sullen and taut performance in a coming-of-age story bursting with youthful energy, angst and electronica.
Sat, January 12 • 11:30 am • Camelot
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Leto
Russia • 2018 • 126 minutes
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
WORLD CINEMA NOW
Capturing the paranoia and parties that fueled the underground music scene behind the Iron Curtain of 1980s Leningrad, Leto is a kinetic punk rock ode to the early years of famed songwriter Viktor Tsoi and a love triangle that could usurp a musical revolution.
Sat, January 12 • 7:00 pm • Annenberg
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Shadow
China • 2018 • 116 minutes
Director: Zhang Yimou
MODERN MASTERS
To deceive the royal court, a wounded commander trains a doppelgänger to serve in his stead in this bravura martial arts epic of the Three Kingdoms period directed by legendary Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou.
Sat, January 12 • 1:15 pm • PS High School
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Shéhérazade
France • 2018 • 106 minutes
Director: Jean-Bernard Marlin
FOCUS ON FRANCE
U.S. Premiere
In this exhilarating, darkly luminous film, Shéhérazade and Zachary meet and quickly fall in love on the tough streets of Marseille. But their relationship is complicated by the fact that Zach is trying to get his life on track after a stint in juvenile detention and Shéhérazade is a teenage prostitute.
Sat, January 12 • 4:30 pm • Mary Pickford
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Saf
Turkey • 2018 • 102 minutes
Director: Ali Vatansever
WORLD CINEMA NOW
U.S. Premiere
In Turkey’s competitive workforce, jobs are spread thin, and Kamil has been unemployed for some time. When the opportunity for work finally arrives, it’s in the form of a lower-paid job that displaces a Syrian refugee. Kamil takes the job in secret, working nights, but his problems worsen when he needs to pay for the necessary permits to operate the machinery used or risk losing his job.
Sat, January 12 • 3:30 pm • Regal
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Shirkers
USA • 2018 • 96 minutes
Director: Sandi Tan
TRUE STORIES
In 1992 in Singapore, cinema obsessed teen Sandi Tan was making an independent guerrilla film called Shirkers, until her collaborator disappeared with all the footage. Twenty years later, director Sandi Tan goes looking for the film in this powerful personal portrait.
Sat, January 12 • 2:30 pm • Camelot
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