The 35th Palm Springs International Film Festival took place from January 4 to 14, 2024, in Palm Springs, California, United States. The festival opened with the world premiere of Thea Sharrock's comedy mystery film Wicked Little Letters and closed with Noah Pritzker's black comedy film Ex-Husbands.
As usual, throughout late 2023, several special awards were announced, which were presented at the Opening Gala on January 4, 2023, at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Martin Scorsese's western drama Killers of the Flower Moon received the Vanguard Award. The Desert Palm Achievement for Best Actor and Best Actress went to Cillian Murphy and Emma Stone for their performances in Oppenheimer and Poor Things, respectively. Da'Vine Joy Randolph won the Breakthrough Performance Award for The Holdovers, while Jeffrey Wright received the Career Achievement Award for American Fiction. Comedy musical film Barbie received two awards: Director of the Year to Greta Gerwig and the Chairman's Award to Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell for the song "What Was I Made For?". British actress Carey Mulligan won the International Star Award for Maestro. The Spotlight Award went to Colman Domingo for Rustin and Danielle Brooks for The Color Purple. Paul Giamatti was honored with the Icon Award for The Holdovers.
The following day, on January 5, the Varietys 10 Directors to Watch brunch took place at the Parker Palm Springs, where three Creative Impact awards were presented: Creative Impact in Acting Award to Penélope Cruz; Creative Impact in Screenwriting Award to Eric Roth; and Creative Impact in Directing Award to Yorgos Lanthimos.
The juries consists of the following members:
The films selected for each section are as follows:
The following section consists of submissions for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards:
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the Talking Pictures section, each with discussion panels with their directors, writers and actors:
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the Modern Masters section, consisting of new films by well-established directors:
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the New Voices New Visions section:
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the American Indies section:
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the True Stories section:
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the South Korean Focus section, dedicated to celebrate South Korean cinema:
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the Queer Cinema Today section and The Gayla:
The following films were selected to be screened as part of a section destined to highlight American director James Ivory's filmography:
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the Family Day section:
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the World Cinema Now section:
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the Flashback section:
The following films were selected to be screened as part of the Local Spotlight section:
The following awards were presented at the 35th Edition:
The following awards were presented during the opening gala:
The following creative impact awards were presented:
The list consisted of the following directors: