Films A to Z
Compartment No. 6
Two strangers share a train journey from Moscow to Murmansk that will ultimately change their perspective on life in the beguiling new film from the director of The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (PSIFF 2017).
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize.
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Costa Brava, Lebanon
Up in the Lebanese mountains, the Badris live secluded from society. But the Eden they have built for their family becomes threatened when the government seizes the neighboring land and starts disturbing their idyllic lifestyle.
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize.
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The Crossing
In this powerful animated work about the rewards of perseverance and unbreakable bonds, a family flees when their small village riven by hate is looted, and the two older children become separated from their parents.
In competition for the Young Cineastes Award.
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Daughter of a Lost Bird
Kendra was adopted and raised by a loving white family, not knowing of her Native parentage. Reconnecting with her birth mother and discovering her Lummi culture, she struggles to reconcile her white privilege with her growing Native anger in this moving and complex documentary.
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Desert X 2021 – The Film
This awe-inspiring documentary grants audiences an all-access pass to the Coachella Valley’s recent Desert X exhibition, which features dazzling and surreal large-scale works by various artists intended to confront and challenge historical and societal truths.
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Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over (Screening Only - Camelot)
From humble roots singing in New Jersey church choirs to international super stardom, this sparkling portrait of incomparable recording artist Dionne Warwick traces her six (and counting!) decades in the business as trailblazer, activist and true living legend. SCREENING ONLY
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Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over (Screening Only - PSHS)
OPENING NIGHT SCREENING. From humble roots singing in New Jersey church choirs to international super stardom, this sparkling portrait of incomparable recording artist Dionne Warwick traces her six (and counting!) decades in the business as trailblazer, activist and true living legend.
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Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over (Screening - Annenberg)
OPENING NIGHT SCREENING From humble roots singing in New Jersey church choirs to international super stardom, this sparkling portrait of incomparable recording artist Dionne Warwick traces her six (and counting!) decades in the business as trailblazer, activist and true living legend. RECEPTION FOLLOWING SCREENING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
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Drive My Car
Adapted from a short story by Haruki Murakami, the new film from director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi (Asako I & II PSIFF 2019) follows a depressed stage director as he launches a new production of Uncle Vanya while grieving the death of his wife.
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize.
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The Drover’s Wife – The Legend of Molly Johnson
Set on an isolated farm in the Australian Outback in 1893, this compelling tale of one woman’s fight to protect her children against the evils of racism, sexism and colonialism is part thriller, part western, all shown from a feminist and Indigenous perspective.
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Drunken Birds
In this engrossing and unconventional tale of star-crossed romance, a Mexican laborer travels to Montreal to reconnect with his long-lost love after having helped her flee Central America several years earlier.
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize.
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The Duke (Screening - Camelot)
CLOSING NIGHT SCREENING. Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren star in this warm and witty telling of taxi driver and working-class hero Kempton Bunton, who robbed the National Gallery in London in 1961 (and remains the only person to ever do so) in a brazen effort to advocate for elderly care.
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The Duke (Screening - Annenberg)
CLOSING NIGHT SCREENING. Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren star in this warm and witty telling of taxi driver and working-class hero Kempton Bunton, who robbed the National Gallery in London in 1961 (and remains the only person to ever do so) in a brazen effort to advocate for elderly care.
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The Duke (Screening - PSHS)
CLOSING NIGHT SCREENING. Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren star in this warm and witty telling of taxi driver and working-class hero Kempton Bunton, who robbed the National Gallery in London in 1961 (and remains the only person to ever do so) in a brazen effort to advocate for elderly care.
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Escape from Mogadishu
In this pulse-pounding political thriller based on real events, North and South Korean officials stationed in the Somali capital of Mogadishu are forced to put their differences aside in a last-ditch effort for survival when bloody civil war engulfs the city.
In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize and the Local Jury Award.
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Exposing Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge’s revolutionary 19th century photographs of a galloping horse foreshadowed the birth of cinema. But the life of this groundbreaking but duplicitous man was a movie in itself: a tale of murder, art, betrayal and ambitions rewarded and crushed.
In competition for the Best Documentary Award.
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The Fallout
Bolstered by new friendships forged under sudden, tragic circumstances, high schooler Vada begins to reinvent herself, re-evaluating her relationships and her view of the world. Through shared experiences, living in the now, and inexplicable resiliency, hope emerges out of loss.
In competition for the New Voices New Visions Award.
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Farha
Inspired by true events, this powerful vision of survival and lost innocence in 1948 Palestine follows 14-year-old Farha whose dreams of leaving her village to study in the city are obliterated when tragedy ravages her home, which she witnesses while hiding in a locked pantry.
In competition for the New Voices New Visions Award.
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