Film Festival 2024
Talking Pictures
One of the distinctive features of the Palm Springs International Film Festival is the chance to directly interact with filmmakers and actors, gaining firsthand insights and observations from them. Checkout our list of this year's Talking Pictures.

American Fiction
In Conversation with: Actor Jeffrey Wright
In one of the smartest and funniest films this year, Jeffrey Wright plays an earnest novelist who mistakenly finds huge success by trading on despised cultural stereotypes. Read MoreRunning Time: 117


The Color Purple
In conversation with: Actress Danielle Brooks, Actress Taraji P. Henson, Director Blitz Bazawule, and Producer Scott Sanders. Produced by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Scott Sanders and Quincy Jones, THE COLOR PURPLE is a bold new take on the classic story of love and resilience, adapted from the beloved novel and the... Read More
Running Time: 154

Killers of the Flower Moon
In Conversation with: Indigenous Casting Director Rene Haynes, Costume Designer Jacqueline West, and Set Decorator Adam Willis Told through the romance of Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), Martin Scorsese’s highly lauded epic tracks the suspicious murders of members of the Osage Nation, who... Read More
Running Time: 206

Poor Things
In Conversation with: Director Yorgos Lanthimos, Actor & Producer Emma Stone, Actor Mark Ruffalo, and Actor Willem Dafoe A young woman (Emma Stone) is brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe), and runs off with a slick, debauched lawyer (Mark Ruffalo) on a whirlwind... Read More
Running Time: 141


Miller's Girl
In Conversation with: Actress Jenna Ortega, Actor Martin Freeman and Director Jade Halley Bartlett A talented young writer (Jenna Ortega) embarks on a creative odyssey when her teacher (Martin Freeman) assigns a project that entangles them both in an increasingly complex web. As lines blur and their lives intertwine, professor... Read More
Running Time: 93

Rustin
In Conversation with: Actor Colman Domingo
As advisor to Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin (the incomparable Colman Domingo) dedicates his life to the quest for racial equality, human rights and worldwide democracy. However, as an openly gay Black man, he is all but erased from the civil rights movement he helped build. Read MoreRunning Time: 108