Day 10: “Every Little Thing” & Family Day on Sunday

Be sure to mark your schedule for tomorrow’s Family Day (Sunday, January 12, 2025). We’re excited to bring you three family-friendly films at the Mary Pickford, along with games, activities, food trucks, and a fun time for all. As a bonus, movie tickets are available for children at a discount.

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LIFE

Saturday, January 11, 2025

10:00 am, Mary Pickford

Winner of Best Feature at Malta’s Mediteranne Film Festival, this epic tale of fate and human frailty unfolds in Istanbul after a forced engagement drives Hicran (Miray Daner) to flee her home. When her fiancé tracks her down, the confrontation forces them to face their true feelings and desires.

BRING THEM HOME

Saturday, January 11, 2025

10:15 am, Festival Theaters

A small, determined group of Blackfoot people strive to restore their land’s ecology, cultural roots, and spiritual connection by reintroducing buffalo to Blackfeet territory, a century after the species’ near-extinction. Narrated by Oscar®-nominee Lily Gladstone, this evocative and moving film captures a powerful, community-led journey toward renewal and healing.

SALLY!

Saturday, January 11, 2025

4:00 pm, Camelot

Texas-born Sally Gearhart was a fiery, charismatic lesbian feminist, teacher, and fantasy writer. She fought alongside Harvey Milk, founded a radical, free-loving women’s commune in Northern California, and comes to vibrant life in this funny, revelatory celebration of her high-octane life.

https://www.psfilmfest.org/film-festival-2025/film-finder/william-tell

A TRAVELER’S NEEDS

Saturday, January 11, 2025

8:00 pm, Palm Springs High School

In this enigmatic comedy, a mysterious French woman (Isabelle Huppert) drifts through Seoul, blending into the everyday and vanishing into the background. Struggling without money or means, she finds solace in makgeolli (Korean rice wine), and takes up work as a French teacher for two Korean women.

FOUR MOTHERS

Saturday, January 11, 2025

5:15 pm, Palm Springs High School

Winner of the Audience Award at the 2024 London Film Festival, this Irish twist on Mid-August Lunch (PSIFF 2009) follows a shy, commitment-phobic gay novelist living with his elderly mother. When his friends take off for Pride weekend, he finds himself caring for four eccentric, combative and wildly different women.

Amazing films. Intimate conversations. International voices.

Check out these upcoming screenings that have still have tickets available.

LIL

LILLY

Sunday, January 12, 2025

10:00 am, Annenberg

Patricia Clarkson shines in this rousing profile of courage as Lilly Ledbetter, the Alabama Goodyear factory worker whose tireless fight for women’s equal pay went all the way to the Supreme Court. Like Norma Rae and Erin Brockovich, Lilly packs a sweet punch for justice.

PARTHENOPE

Sunday, January 12, 2025

1:30 pm, Palm Springs High School

From Oscar®-winning director Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty, PSIFF 2014), this enchanting treatise on cinematic beauty unfolds in Naples, following the titular heroine whose irresistible allure captivates everyone around her as she embarks on a journey to discover her place in the world.

QUISLING

Sunday, January 12, 2025

10:00 AM, Palm Springs High School

Both a bold historical drama and a penetrating psychological study of a delusional authoritarian, the latest from director Erik Poppe (The King’s Choice, PSIFF 2016) revisits Germany’s occupation of Norway and its aftermath through the story of wartime puppet leader and Nazi collaborator Vidkun Quisling.

EVERY LITTLE THING

*Free Community Screening*

Tickets may available at the door, Come early to reserve

Saturday, January 11, 2025

4:30 pm, Annenberg

Up in the Hollywood Hills, the remarkable and empathetic Terry Masear tends to wounded hummingbirds, nursing them back to health. This joyful, gorgeously shot portrait teaches us as much about these fragile, amazing creatures as it does about the tenacity of the human heart.