Article: New American surge: big change as the fest's Oscar foreign-language section goes for quality over quantity.(THE LINEUP: FRESH ACCENTS)

The international festival year regularly kicks off in the Southern California desert, where Palm Springs has successfully rolled out the welcome mat to a wide array of global film for 20 years. This starting point has long seemed apt, since the festival's identity is wrapped up in its focus on non-U.S, films, a sound strategy given its close proximity in the calendar to Sundance, the traditional magnet for new American indie cinema.

But just as the domestic theatrical scene is changing for foreign-language movies, so the scene may be shifting in Palm Springs. "Almost one-quarter of our 210-film lineup comes from the U.S.," says exec director Darryl Macdonald, ...

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