Day 5: NICKEL BOYS, QUEER, & BIFF Panels #PSIFF2025

Don’t forget – both Best International Feature Film panels today are free! Come early as seats are first come, first serve.

Must-See Today: Book your tickets now for the THE WAY, MY WAY and I’M STILL HERE. A few tickets are also left for SONS, SEPTEMBER 5 and SUNSHINE.

NICKEL BOYS

Monday, January 6, 2025

10:00 am, Annenberg

Join us on January 6th for an extended post-screening Book to Screen discussion with director/co-screenwriter RaMell Ross, presented by Deadline.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead and inspired by real-life events, NICKEL BOYS chronicles the powerful friendship between two Black teenagers who become wards of a juvenile reformatory in Florida.

THE WAY, MY WAY

Monday, January 6, 2025

10:00 am, Palm Springs High School

Stubborn and cantankerous Australian director Bill Bennett adapts his own bestselling memoir chronicling his experience walking the 800-kilometer Camino de Santiago pilgrimage trail across northern Spain just months before his 60th birthday.

SONS

Monday, January 6, 2025

10:00 am, Camelot

In this superbly acted, atmospheric prison drama from the director of The Guilty (PSIFF 2019), Sidse Babett Knudsen (TV’s Borgen) delivers a remarkable performance as a compassionate corrections officer whose untoward interest in a new inmate sets the stage for a gripping thriller.

It’s another notable year for the Academy’s Best International Feature Film category: Countries from all over the world put forward a film in the hopes of taking home the coveted golden statue.

This year, we’re hosting TWO FREE PANELS with a number of shortlisted directors in attendance. Catch both panels back to back on January 6, at the Annenberg Theater to get a unique understanding of these films and their makers.

Each panel will have its own unqiue lineup of guests.

Panel 1 (2:00 – 3:00 PM):

Mati Diop (DAHOMEY)

Halfdan Tondel (ARMAND)

Gints Zilbalodis (FLOW)

Walter Salles (I’M STILL HERE)

Mohammad Rasoulof (THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG)

Panel 2 (4:00 – 5:00 PM):

Magnus von Horn (THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE)

Pat Boonnitipat (HOW TO MAKE MILLIONS BEFORE GRANDMA DIES)

Rich Peppiat (KNEECAP)

Baltasar Kormákur (TOUCH)

Maura Delpero (VERMIGLIO)

Matthew Rankin (UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE)

Jiří Mádl (WAVES)

Co-presented with The Hollywood Reporter

no need to reserve in advance, seats are first come first serve.

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