2023 Palm Springs International Film Festival: Best of Fest schedule announced

Niki Kottmann, Palm Springs Desert Sun
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American documentary "Liquor Store Dreams" won the Local Jury Award at the 2023 Palm Springs International Film Festival.
American documentary "Liquor Store Dreams" won the Local Jury Award at the 2023 Palm Springs International Film Festival.

It's that time of year, cinephiles. We've had a great 11 days filled with films, but it all comes to a close tomorrow with the 2023 Palm Springs International Film Festival's Best of Fest screenings.

The film festival, one of the largest in North America, attracted a wide array of talent this year. Some of the brightest stars to get their photo taken in front of the blue PSIFF step-and-repeat were: Michelle Williams, Viola Davis, Seth Rogan, Eva Longoria, Steven Spielberg, Michelle Yeoh, Brendan Fraser, Angela Bassett, Colin Farrell, Cate Blanchett, Austin Butler, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kate Hudson and Anna Kendrick.

But catching a celeb sighting, whether at a red carpet or a Q&A, is just half the fun of PSIFF. The heart of the festival is its vast array of cinema from across the globe, and this year's offerings included something for everyone.

Audience members were asked to score each film on the way out of the theater, and those scores were tallied up on the final day of the festival. The winners will be screened Monday during Best of the Fest, along with several juried award winners.

An image from the film "Racist Trees" showing a line of tamarisk trees that separated the Crossley Tract neighborhood from a neighboring golf course.
An image from the film "Racist Trees" showing a line of tamarisk trees that separated the Crossley Tract neighborhood from a neighboring golf course.

Below is this year's Best of the Fest schedule:

9 a.m. "Liquor Store Dreams" at Regal Palm Springs

9:45 a.m. "Mama Bears" at Regal Palm Springs

10 a.m. "Born in Chicago" at Mary Pickford is D'Place

10:30 a.m. "Saint Omer" at Regal Palm Springs

10:45 a.m. "Racist Trees" at Mary Pickford is D'Place

11 a.m. "Of Medicine and Miracles" at Camelot Theatres, Palm Springs Cultural Center

11:15 a.m. "Alcarràs" at Regal Palm Springs

11:30 a.m. "The Damned Don't Cry" at Mary Pickford is D'Place

11:45 a.m. "A Man Called Otto" at Camelot Theatres, Palm Springs Cultural Center

Grumpy Otto (Tom Hanks) has his cold exterior defrosted by a stray cat in "A Man Called Otto."
Grumpy Otto (Tom Hanks) has his cold exterior defrosted by a stray cat in "A Man Called Otto."

Noon "To Kill a Tiger" at Regal Palm Springs

12:45 p.m. "Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb" at Regal Palm Springs

1 p.m. "Riceboy Sleeps" at Mary Pickford is D'Place

1:30 p.m. "Dirty Difficult Dangerous" at Regal Palm Springs

1:45 p.m. "Klondike" at Mary Pickford is D'Place

2:15 p.m. "Moving On" at Regal Palm Springs

2:30 p.m. "Chevalier" at Camelot Theatres, Palm Springs Cultural Center

2:30 p.m. "Chile ‘76" at Mary Pickford is D'Place

3 p.m. "Close" at Regal Palm Springs

"Chile '76," directed by Manuela Martelli, won the Ibero-American Award at the 2023 Palm Springs International Film Festival.
"Chile '76," directed by Manuela Martelli, won the Ibero-American Award at the 2023 Palm Springs International Film Festival.

3:15 p.m. "Somewhere in Queens" at Camelot Theatres, Palm Springs Cultural Center

3:45 p.m. "Lift" at Regal Palm Springs

4:30 p.m. "Esther Newton Made Me Gay" at Mary Pickford is D'Place

4:30 p.m. "Blanquita" at Regal Palm Springs

5:15 p.m. "Our Father, The Devil" at Mary Pickford is D'Place

5:15 p.m. "Simone: Woman of the Century" at Regal Palm Springs

6 p.m. "Argentina, 1985" at Camelot Theatres, Palm Springs Cultural Center

6 p.m. "1946: The Mistranslation that Shifted Culture" at Regal Palm Springs

6:45 p.m. "Juniper" at Camelot Theatres, Palm Springs Cultural Center

6:45 p.m. "Driving Madeleine" at Regal Palm Springs

7:30 p.m. "Joyland" at Regal Palm Springs

8 p.m. "Butterfly in the Sky" at Regal Palm Springs

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