Palm Springs International Film Festival Cancels 2021 Edition
The festival instead is planning to return in 2022.
The festival instead is planning to return in 2022.
Expect the festival to be largely virtual with “extremely limited” in-person screenings.
The program includes new films on John Belushi, Pope Francis, Jamal Khashoggi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Frank Zappa, and many more.
Like so many of this year’s biggest events, the Los Angeles-based festival is going digital, with a variety of films and events primed to be streamed straight into your home.
From cabin-in-the-wood dreads to the surrealist story about a thieving fly, the new online film event caters to many horror tastes.
The Los Angeles festival’s lineup boasts a number of films from strong filmmakers, including Heidi Ewing, Julia Hart, Mira Nair, and many more.
Despite the circumstances, acquisitions activity out of the fall’s biggest festivals is off to a productive start.
Exclusive: This year’s lineup of conversations will take place entirely online, though NYFF hopes to join audiences together via the live, free talks.
The festival on the Lido handed out its top prizes on Saturday, led by competition jury president Cate Blanchett.
Venice Film Festival director Alberto Barbera noted that the “global film industry has never been hit so badly in its entire history” in a joint letter.
The slate includes new films from Garrett Bradley, Sofia Coppola, Spike Lee, Heidi Ewing, Hong Sangsoo, Christian Petzold, Sam Pollard, Frederick Wiseman, and many more favorites.
This year’s festival season will look very different than years past. One thing, however, remains the same: thrilling new films to look forward to seeing (whenever, and however, that might be).