MUMBAI: Francois Ozon‘s film Potiche will open the 22nd annual Palm Springs International Film Festival next month. Justin Chadwick‘s First Grader will be the closing-night film.

The films that will have their world premiere at the festival includes Down the Shore,; The Encore of Tony Duran; Fifty-nothing,; documentary The Last Lions; The Rescuers; the doc Rise; Thanks and Wild Horse, Wild Ride.

Films demarcated for the gala screenings are Peter Weir‘s The Way Back, Max Winkler‘s Ceremony, Ferzan Ozpetek‘s Italian farce Loose Cannons and Daniel and Erika Randall Beahm‘s Leading Ladies.