The 2025 SXSW Movie & TV Competition is lastly right here.
South by Southwest (SXSW) Convention and Festivals has unveiled the primary wave of its movie and TV lineup for the thirty second version, which begins with with an Opening Night time TV Premiere of the eagerly-anticipated Apple TV+ sequence “The Studio” starring Seth Rogen, who additionally serves as author, director, and government producer alongside Evan Goldberg.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg again to SXSW with our Opening Night time TV premiere, ‘The Studio,’” Claudette Godfrey, VP of Movie & TV, stated. “This brilliantly conceived sequence is exquisitely solid and written, capturing the fanatical love, dedication, stress, and, sure, the hubris that defines our trade. It’s hilariously spot-on, bringing to life the tales we’ve all heard or witnessed firsthand. We will’t wait to expertise the enjoyment and vitality radiating from the Paramount once we share this gem with the world.”
Godfrey continued, “The identical simple inventive electrical energy in ‘The Studio’ runs by means of our 2025 program — you’ll be able to really feel a little bit of magic taking place in each movie, sequence, and immersive expertise we’ve curated this yr. From groundbreaking unbiased movies to unforgettable studio premieres and documentary revelations to genre-defying experiments, this lineup celebrates the fearless storytellers who make SXSW so distinctive. We love to find and elevate filmmakers who make daring statements, push boundaries, spark necessary conversations, and problem our views in methods we by no means anticipated. When our unbelievable SXSW group gathers in March to expertise these tales, the vitality and inspiration goes to be completely transformative.”
The 2025 SXSW Movie & TV Competition contains Function Movies, TV tasks, and XR Experiences. The competition will happen from March 7 by means of 14.
SXSW 2025 can have 96 options in complete, together with 82 World Premieres, 3 Worldwide Premieres, 3 North American Premieres, 2 U.S. Premieres, 6 Texas Premieres, 57 Quick Movies, and 18 Music Movies. The TV Program contains 16 TV tasks, with 5 TV premieres, 4 TV Highlight, and seven Impartial TV Pilots. There are 31 tasks within the XR Expertise Program, together with 15 in XR Expertise Competitors and 16 in XR Expertise Highlight.
Highlights embrace the long-awaited thriller “Holland,” directed by Mimi Cave and produced by lead star Nicole Kidman. Errol Morris was initially introduced because the director in 2013; the movie, which was initially titled “Holland, Michigan,” has been within the works for greater than a decade, with the “Recent” filmmaker becoming a member of in 2022. Andrew Sodroski’s script first appeared on The Black Checklist.
Kidman stars as Nancy, a trainer whose life along with her husband in Holland, Michigan tumbles right into a twisted story when she and her colleague grow to be suspicious of a secret. Matthew Macfadyen, Jude Hill, and Gael García Bernal additionally star.
The darkish comedy “Loss of life of a Unicorn” with Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd will moreover have its world premiere on the competition, together with Ben Affleck’s “The Accountant 2.” The documentary “Are We Good?,” which facilities on comic and podcast pioneer Marc Maron after the sudden lack of his companion and filmmaker Lynn Shelton, will display screen, as will Michael Bay’s “We Are Storror.”
Within the TV part, Ramy Youssef’s newest sequence “1 Pleased Household USA” can have its world premiere. “#1 Pleased Household USA” follows the Husseins – probably the most patriotic, most peaceable, and most definitely-not-suspicious Muslim household in post-9/11 “Amreeka” as they navigate the early 2000s below the watchful eyes of their terrified neighbors. Youssef stars, in addition to Mandy Moore, Chris Redd, Alia Shawkat, and Kieran Culkin.
Try the total lineup beneath, with language supplied by the competition.
HEADLINER, introduced by Epidemic Sound
Massive names, large expertise that includes pink carpet premieres and gala movie occasions with main and rising names in cinema.
Director: Gavin O’Connor, Producers: Ben Affleck, Lynette Howell Taylor, Mark Williams, Screenwriter: Invoice Dubuque
Christian Wolff is introduced out of hiding by Treasury Agent Marybeth Medina after somebody near them is killed by unknown assassins. To resolve the homicide, Wolff should recruit the assistance of his estranged however extremely deadly brother Brax. Solid: Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Daniella Pineda, Allison Robertson, J.Okay. Simmons (World Premiere)
Director: Flying Lotus, Producers: Nate Bolotin, Matthew Metcalfe, Screenwriter: Jonni Remmler
A lady wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her house station viciously killed. Her investigation into what occurred units in movement a terrifying chain of occasions. Solid: Eiza González, Aaron Paul, Flying Lotus, Iko Uwais, Kate Elliott, Beulah Koale (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Alex Scharfman, Producers: Drew Houpt, Lucas Joaquin, Alex Scharfman, Lars Knudsen, Tyler Campellone, Tim Headington, Theresa Steele Web page
A father and daughter by chance hit and kill a unicorn whereas en path to a weekend retreat, the place his billionaire boss seeks to take advantage of the creature’s miraculous healing properties. Solid: Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Will Poulter, Téa Leoni, Richard E. Grant, Anthony Carrigan, Sunita Mani, Jessica Hynes (World Premiere)
Director: Christopher Landon, Producers: Jason Blum, Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, Cameron Fuller, Screenwriters: Jillian Jacobs, Chris Roach
A widowed mom, on her first date in years, arrives at an upscale restaurant the place she meets her good-looking date. However their chemistry curdles as she begins being irritated after which terrorized by a sequence of nameless drops to her cellphone. Solid: Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar, Violett Beane, Jacob Robinson, Ed Weeks (World Premiere)
Director: Mimi Cave, Producer: Kate Churchill, Peter Dealbert, Nicole Kidman, Per Saari, Screenwriter: Andrew Sodroski
On this unpredictable thriller, Nancy is a trainer whose life along with her husband in Holland, Michigan, tumbles right into a twisted story when she and her colleague grow to be suspicious of a secret. Solid: Nicole Kidman, Matthew Macfadyen, Jude Hill, Gael García Bernal (World Premiere)
NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION, introduced by Kickstarter
World premieres showcasing the artwork of storytelling by rising voices.
Director: Ben Jacobson, Producer: Sarah Sarandos, Screenwriters: Mo Stark, Ben Jacobson, Stefan Marolachakis
Two greatest mates rally the neighbors of their tenement constructing to assist them cover a lifeless physique over the very best/worst evening of their lives. Solid: Mo Stark, Ben Jacobson, Liza Colby, Tony Drazan, Lina Rong Mei Chen, Genevieve Hudson-Worth, Liz Caribel Sierra, Ajay Naidu, Richard Worth, Henry Czerny (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Matthew Shear, Producers: Charlie Alderman, Chris Dodds, Philip Keefe, Amanda Peet, Emily McCann Lesser, David Bernon, Sam Slater
After getting laid off, a thirty-something paralegal in New York begins babysitting his psychiatrist’s three granddaughters and falls for his or her mom, an actress in a rocky marriage. Solid: Amanda Peet, Matthew Shear, Alessandro Nivola, Judd Hirsch, Bob Balaban, Andrea Martin, Zosia Mamet, Jessica Harper, Holland Taylor, Sheng Wang (World Premiere)
Fucktoys
Director/Screenwriter: Annapurna Sriram, Producer: Timothy Petryni
Be part of AP on a bubblegum grindhouse journey by means of sunny and romantic Trashtown, USA. On this raucous odyssey a wanton minx quests exhausting throughout a dreamy panorama of smut, filth and psychics, hustling to elevate a curse that has been f*cking her sh*t up. Solid: Annapurna Sriram, Sadie Scott, Francois Arnaud, Damian Younger, Massive Freedia, Brandon Flynn, Lorrie Odom, Jowin Batoon, Tamika Lawrence, Arianna Ortiz (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Alexander Ullom, Producers: Carrie Carusone, Evan Barber
4 mates’ post-college plans are derailed when a flawed flip traps them on a endless backroad. Solid: Phinehas Yoon, Akira Jackson, Noah Toth, Mitchell Cole (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Brwa Vahabpour, Producers: Renée Hansen Mlodyszewski, Anda Ionescu
A younger literature trainer lives a peaceable life in Oslo till his estranged uncle from the Iranian a part of Kurdistan unexpectedly arrives for a go to. Solid: Peiman Azizpour, Hamza Agoshi, Sarah Francesca Brænne, Magnus Lysbakken, Theresa Frostad Eggesbø, Emir Hakki, Marko Lazic, Mohamed Chakiri (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Elena Oxman, Producers: Marc Smolowitz, Elena Oxman, Asia Kate Dillon, Allison Estrin, Henry Russell Bergstein
When Cass (they/them) is requested by an alluring girl to look at her 11-year-old daughter whereas she goes out of city, Cass is compelled to confront the reality of their very own tumultuous childhood. Solid: Asia Kate Dillon, Louisa Krause, Ridley Asha Bateman, Lea DeLaria, Daniel Okay. Isaac, Melinda Meeng, Allie Heng, Winter Dewitt, Safia Fredericks, Sedrick Cabrera (World Premiere)
Director: Yana Alliata, Producer: Jack Forbes, Screenwriters: Yana Alliata, Amy Miner
A psychological drama set in opposition to a backdrop of celebration at a household’s Hawaiian property, three siblings confront heartbreaking, inescapable truths after an accident that modified their lives ceaselessly. Solid: Ryan Wuestewald, Hans Christopher, Nikki DeParis, Fabrizio Alliata, Makena Miller, Nyah Juliano, Michael Carter (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Amy Wang, Producers: Amy Wang, Mark Ankner, Trevor Wall
Determined to slot in, an insecure Chinese language American teenager undergoes experimental trans-racial surgical procedure to grow to be White with the intention to safe her probabilities of profitable Promenade Queen and the acceptance of her friends. Solid: Shirley Chen, McKenna Grace, Vivian Wu, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Amelie Zilber, Fang Du, Elaine Hendrix, Keith Harris (World Premiere)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION
World premieres of fascinating, actual tales by rising voices.
Director: Elaine Epstein, Producers: Elaine Epstein, Robin Hessman
The arrest of midwives in a rural healthcare desert ignites an surprising riot: Amish and Mennonite ladies who break from custom, and emerge as fierce political activists preventing for reproductive justice and birthing rights. (World Premiere)
Administrators/Producers/Screenwriters: Rashaad Newsome, Johnny Symons
Visionary artist Rashaad Newsome merges artwork, AI, and efficiency to rework a former navy facility right into a Black queer utopia. By way of immersive storytelling and visuals, the movie explores how creativity can heal, unite, and spark liberation. (World Premiere)
Director: Jessica Earnshaw, Producers: Holly Meehl Chapman, Jessica Earnshaw
At 22, Gail gave delivery alone and left her new child within the woods. Many years later, she’s arrested for homicide, regardless of claiming the newborn was stillborn. Child Doe explores the fallout when younger ladies can not settle for the truth of an unplanned being pregnant. (World Premiere)
Director: Xander Robin, Producers: Lance Oppenheim, Lauren Cioffi, Mel Oppenheim, Xander Robin
Yearly, the Florida authorities asks most people to compete in an invasive python removing contest within the Everglades. For ten nights, an eclectic group of hunters confront the damaging terrain, nocturnal creatures and their very own tiny demons. (World Premiere)
Director: Paige Bethmann, Producers: Jessica Epstein, Paige Bethmann, Judd Ehrlich
Ku Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner, struggles to navigate his dream of turning into a collegiate athlete because the reminiscence of his nice grandfather’s escape from an Indian boarding college begins to attach previous, current, and future. (World Premiere)
The Secret of Me (United Kingdom)
Director: Grace Hughes-Hallett
19-year-old Kristi discovers a secret her physician and fogeys have saved from her all her life. Her seek for reality uncovers a radical psychology experiment on a pair of an identical twins that led to a world medical scandal. (World Premiere)
Director: Benjamin Flaherty, Producers: Carra Greenberg, Harris Fishman, Benjamin Flaherty, Scott Paskoff
By way of the lens of his personal restoration, a filmmaker provides an intimate look contained in the billion greenback dependancy therapy trade the place younger persons are purchased and offered for his or her insurance coverage insurance policies and ushered right into a system designed to maintain them sick. (World Premiere)
Administrators/Producers: Jamie Coughlin Silverman, Gabriel Silverman
Thirty years after the Chilly Struggle ends, a former political prisoner of the East German secret police searches for the reality after studying his brother spied on him for the regime, and discovers the lasting results of residing in a surveillance state. (World Premiere)
Unforgettable options receiving their World, North American, or U.S. premieres.
Director: Uta Briesewitz, Producers: Anita Elsani, Uta Briesewitz, Jason Sosnoff, Barry Levinson, Tom Fontana, Screenwriter: Matthew Nemeth
Daisy, a younger girl who works what has been referred to as “the worst job on the planet” – purging overtly hateful, sexual, and violent content material from social media – and finally ends up essentially modified by her encounters with the darkest corners of the web. Solid: Lili Reinhart, Daniela Melchior, Jeremy Ang Jones, Josh Whitehouse, Tim Plester, Christiane Paul, Joel Fry (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Jess Varley, Producers: Brad Fuller, Eric B. Fleischman, Chris Abernathy, Cameron Fuller
An astronaut believes one thing extraterrestrial has adopted her again to Earth. Solid: Kate Mara, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Luna, Ivana Milicevic, Macy Grey (World Premiere)
Director: Jay Duplass, Producers: David Bonnett Jr., Michael Strassner, Drew Langer, Screenwriters: Jay Duplass, Michael Strassner
After cracking a tooth on Christmas Eve, newly sober Cliff embarks on an journey by means of Baltimore with Didi, his emergency dentist. Solid: Michael Strassner, Liz Larson, Olivia Luccardi (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Dean Imperial, Producers: Tessa Borbridge, Dean Imperial, TJ Sansone, Andy Zolot
When a sext to the flawed quantity sends a gaggle of clueless males right into a panic, they recklessly dive into an all-night journey by means of NYC to save lots of their buddy, revealing their very own misguided and poisonous views on ladies alongside the best way. Solid: Christopher Tramantana, Asa James, Celester Wealthy, Richard Cooper, Sam Gilroy, Ron Palais, Michael Panes, Anne Klaus, Kevin Kane, Caroline Angelica Winkler (World Premiere)
Director: Eli Craig, Producers: Marty Bowen, John Fischer, Wyck Godfrey, Screenwriters: Carter Blanchard, Adam Cesare, Eli Craig
A fading midwestern city by which Frendo the clown, an emblem of bygone success, reemerges as a terrifying scourge. Solid: Katie Douglas, Will Sasso, Cassandra Potenza, Aaron Abrams, Carson MacCormac, Verity Marks, Dylan McEwan, Daina Leitold, Vincent Muller, Kaitlyn Bacon (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: J Pinder, Producer: Cole Dabney
After his mother will get engaged to a vindictive cop, Carter, a 21-year-old mama’s boy nonetheless residing at house, should safe a paid promotion at his internship by the top of the day or discover a new place to reside on this fashionable coming-of-age comedy. Solid: Nick Darnell, Morgan Jay, R. Marcus Taylor, JadaPaige, Jack Stone, Ben Scattone, Mildred Marie Langford, Rodney J. Hobbs, Jecobi Swain, Sophia Renee Sherman (World Premiere)
Director: Andre Gaines, Producers: Andre Gaines, Jonathan T. Baker, Screenwriters: Andre Gaines, Qasim Basir
A profitable black businessman, haunted by his crumbling marriage and identification disaster, is drawn right into a psychological recreation of cat and mouse with a mysterious white girl he encounters on a New York subway. Solid: André Holland, Kate Mara, Zazie Beetz, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Aldis Hodge, Lauren E. Banks (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Amy Landecker, Producers: Amy Landecker, Bradley Whitford, Valerie Stadler, Jenica Bergere, James Portolese
Recent off a messy divorce, a 50-year-old sober mother tries to rebuild her life and stumbles into a brand new starting after discovering herself at a Gen Z marriage ceremony behaving like a 25-year-old drunk bridesmaid. Solid: Amy Landecker, Bradley Whitford, Nico Hiraga, Gaby Hoffmann, Ken Marino, Missi Pyle, Kiersey Clemons, Claudia Sulewski, Simon Helberg, Liv Hewson (World Premiere)
Forge
Director/Screenwriter: Jing Ai Ng, Producers: Liz Daering-Glass, Gabrielle Cordero, Jing Ai Ng, Damian Bao
In Miami, siblings Raymond and Coco Zhang’s artwork forgery ring prospers after they encounter a disgraced millionaire in want of their experience. In the meantime, FBI Artwork Crimes agent Emily Lee strikes to Miami to research a sequence of mysterious work. Solid: Kelly Marie Tran, Andie Ju, Brandon Soo Hoo, Edmund Donovan, Eva De Dominici, T. R. Knight, Jack Falahee, Sonya Walger (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: GG Hawkins, Producer: Elle Roth-Brunet
When a girl grows disillusioned along with her golden-boy husband throughout their tropical honeymoon, she recruits an enigmatic expat to spice issues up — for higher or worse. Solid: Madison Lanesey, Travis Quentin Younger, Arta Gee, Lisa Jacqueline Starrett, Elizabeth de Robbins, Armodio Sophia, Meggan Taylor, Mitch Bisschop, Amberlin Morse (World Premiere)
Director: Ronan Corrigan, Producers: Joann Kushner, Timur Bekmambetov, Screenwriters: Ronan Corrigan, Hope Elliot Kemp
4 teenage slackers try to tug off a multi million greenback Bitcoin heist from the consolation of their bedrooms however when their chickens come house to roost they discover there is no such thing as a cozy mattress to fall again on! Solid: Georgie Farmer, Yasmin Finney, Roman Hyack Inexperienced, James Scholz, Jessica Reynolds, Charlie Creed Miles (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Tyler Cornack, Producers: Daniel Brandt, Dane Eckerle, Cole Eckerle
A Percocet-addicted ‘Florida Man’ finds a wounded mermaid at his lowest level. Fascination turns into a drug infused, one sided relationship — sending him additional into decline. When phrase spreads about his secret, he’ll cease at nothing to guard her. Solid: Johnny Pemberton, Avery Potemri, Kevin Nealon, Kirk Fox, Tom Arnold, Robert Patrick, Kevin Dunn, Devyn McDowell, Tyler Rice, Julia Valentine Larson (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Geremy Jasper, Producers: Michael Gottwald, Noah Stahl, Rodrigo Teixeira
Set in a post-apocalyptic future, O’Dessa is a rock opera a couple of farm lady on a quest to get better a household heirloom. Her journey leads her to a harmful metropolis, the place she should use the ability of future and tune to save lots of her real love’s soul. Solid: Sadie Sink, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Murray Bartlett, Regina Corridor, Kelly Macdonald, Pokey LaFarge (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Brandon Daley, Producers: Ben Gojer, Jake Bloom
Blue-collar Midwesterner Mike Alvarado makes an attempt to save lots of his household from the throes of poverty by investing their financial savings into speculative cryptocurrencies. A twitchy, hyper-contemporary comedy with equal doses of guffaws and panic assaults. Solid: Mike Kunicki, Vinny Kress, Trevor Dawkins, Kaylyn Carter (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Siobhan McCarthy, Producers: Halley Albert, Vic Brandt
Simply earlier than commencement, Alex and Ethan faux to be trans ladies to get into the lady’s lockers. It’s all a joke till Ethan realizes: she actually is trans. Alex and Ethan should reckon with their altering friendship and the method of popping out. Solid: Misha Osherovich, Nico Carney, Suzanne Cryer, Mark Indelicato, Malia Pyles, Emmett Preciado, Tatiana Ringsby, Aparna Nancherla, Kyle Butenhoff, Emma Orr (World Premiere)
Surviving Earth (United Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter: Thea Gajić, Producers: Aleksandra Bilić, Sophie Reynolds
Having fled the Yugoslav warfare and settled within the UK, Vlad strives for fulfillment along with his Balkan band, while attempting to reconnect along with his solely daughter. Solid: Slavko Sobin, Olive Grey, Stuart Martin, Peter Coonan, Toni Gojanović, Ann Ogbomo (World Premiere)
Director: Chad Hartigan, Producers: Tim White, Trevor White, Vince Jolivette, Steve Shapiro, Screenwriter: Ethan Ogilby
A younger man’s crush leads him into an surprising threesome… What’s the worst that would occur? Solid: Zoey Deutch, Jonah Hauer-King, Ruby Cruz, Jaboukie Younger-White, Josh Segarra, Robert Longstreet, Arden Myrin, Kristin Slaysman, Allan McLeod, Julia Sweeney(World Premiere)
The True Great thing about Being Bitten by a Tick
Director: Pete Ohs, Producers: Callie Hernandez, Pete Ohs, Jeremy O. Harris, Josh Godfrey, Screenwriters: Callie Hernandez, Zoë Chao, James Cusati-Moyer, Jeremy O. Harris, Pete Ohs
A lady in disaster seeks refuge in her buddy’s idyllic countryside house solely to endure unusual negative effects from a mysterious tick chew. Solid: Zoë Chao, Callie Hernandez, James Cusati-Moyer, Jeremy O. Harris (World Premiere)
We Bury The Useless (Australia)
Director/Screenwriter: Zak Hilditch, Producers: Kelvin Munro, Grant Sputore, Ross Dinerstein, Joshua Harris, Mark Fasano
Within the aftermath of a catastrophic navy experiment, a determined girl joins a “physique retrieval unit” within the hope of discovering her husband alive, however her search takes a chilling flip when the corpses begin exhibiting indicators of life. Solid: Daisy Ridley, Brenton Thwaites, Mark Coles Smith(World Premiere)
DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT
Unbelievable options receiving their World, North American, or U.S. premieres.
Director/Producer: Dan Farah
An unprecedented movie –that includes 34 senior members of the U.S. Senate, Home, navy and intelligence group– revealing a cover-up of the existence of non-human clever life and a secret warfare to reverse engineer know-how of non-human origin. (World Premiere)
Director: Steven Feinartz, Producers: Steven Feinartz, Julie Seabaugh, Ethan Goldman
An intimate portrait of comic and podcast pioneer Marc Maron, following the sudden lack of his companion and filmmaker Lynn Shelton. Maron struggles with grief, disillusionment, and a shifting comedy panorama. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Travis Gutiérrez Senger, Producers: Andrew Renzi, Nick Boak, Kyzza Terrazas, Santiago Maza, Sabrina Coulston, Colin Cadarette, Travis Gutiérrez Senger
ASCO: With out Permission profiles the extraordinary, LA based mostly, Chicano artwork group ASCO, and thru a genre-defying strategy, reimagines what is feasible right this moment in artwork and cinema whereas celebrating an iconoclastic group that was far forward of its time. That includes Zoe Saldaña, Michael Peña, Arturo Castro (World Premiere)
Director: Kahane Corn Cooperman, Producers: Innbo Shim, Kahane Corn Cooperman
In tiny Creede, CO, conservative mining households and progressive theater folks have been attempting to barter their variations for 60 years. When the identical points polarizing America ripple by means of the city, can it preserve its fragile coexistence? (World Premiere)
Expensive Tomorrow (Denmark, Japan, Sweden)
Director/Screenwriter: Kaspar Astrup Schröder, Producers: Maria Helga Stürup, Katrine A. Sahlstrøm
In Japan, the place loneliness has grow to be a nationwide disaster, the movie follows three people battling isolation. By way of a volunteer chat service, compassionate connections, and authorities initiatives, they discover hope and paths to reclaim their lives. (World Premiere)
Director: Jennifer Peedom
Within the deepest, darkest cold-water cave system on the planet, a reluctant hero explores a harmful obsession. (World Premiere)
Director: Adam Bhala Lough, Producers: Kevin Hart, Luke Kelly-Clyne, Bryan Smiley, Harold Berón III, Adam Bhala Lough, Dana J. Olkkonen, Scoop Wasserstein, Elizabeth Weil, Mark W. Olsen
Hartbeat companions with Vox Media Studios and Telemarketers’ Adam Bhala Lough for a comedic documentary about AI. Comply with Adam as he seeks solutions in regards to the buzzy new tech and explores what it means to be human in an more and more AI generated world. (World Premiere)
Flight 149: Hostage Of Struggle (United Kingdom)
Director: Jenny Ash, Producers: Andy Holland, Helen McClure, Mowaffaq Safadi, Lucy Towers
When Flight 149 landed in the midst of a warzone, the passengers and crew turned human shields for Saddam Hussein. Thirty years later, the hostages are launching a authorized case to find the reality about why the aircraft landed within the first place. (World Premiere)
Make It Look Actual (Australia)
Director/Screenwriter: Kate Blackmore, Producers: Bethany Bruce, Daniel Joyce
Intimacy coordinator Claire Warden guides actors by means of intercourse scenes for a brand new movie Tightrope, negotiating the imaginative and prescient of a director, the bodily and psychological wants of the actors, and a documentary crew filming her each transfer. (Worldwide Premiere)
Mola: A Story of Tibetan Love and Loss (U.S., Switzerland)
Administrators/Screenwriters: Yangzom Brauen, Martin Brauen, Producer: Katherine LeBlond
Mola, a 100-year-old nun, needs to return to her homeland, Tibet, to die. The achievement of her dream takes an surprising flip. (North American Premiere)
Director: Max Hey, Producers: Chris James Thompson, Frankie Latina, Andrew Swant
A legally blind used automobile salesman wakes as much as understand that he drunkenly bought an ambulance with out keys utilizing his boss’s cash. (World Premiere)
Administrators: Heather Hogan, Carter Oakley, Producer: Amy Brown
Activist Lynda Bluestein contemplates legally finish her life – her landmark lawsuit made Medical Support in Dying in Vermont accessible to anybody in america. That is an intimate portrait of discovering a strategy to die peacefully within the U.S. (World Premiere)
Administrators: Giselle Bailey, Phil Bertelsen, Producers: Giselle Bailey, Phil Bertelsen, Issa Rae, Montrel McKay, John Maggio, Rachel Dretzin, John Ealer, Jonathan Berry, Dave Becky, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Sara Rodriguez
From government producer Issa Rae, Seen and Heard is a two-part documentary that travels by means of time, making a kaleidoscopic portrait of Black expertise being “seen,” to Black creatives being “heard,” shaping right this moment’s Golden Age of Black tv. That includes Issa Rae, Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, Shonda Rhimes, Ava Duvernay, Lena Waithe, Twine Jefferson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Swizz Beatz, Norman Lear (World Premiere)
Snow Leopard Sisters (United Kingdom)
Administrators: Ben Ayers, Sonam Choekyi Lama, Andrew Lynch, Producers: Ian Davies, Joanna Natasegara, Torquil Jones, Tshiring Lhamu Lama
In Nepal’s distant Dolpo area, two Indigenous ladies kind an unlikely friendship to save lots of one of many planet’s most mysterious and weak wild cats: the snow leopard. (World Premiere)
Spreadsheet Champions (Australia)
Director: Kristina Kraskov, Producers: Anna Charalambous, Charlotte Wheaton, Nick Batzias
College students from all over the world give it their all within the best competitors you’ve by no means heard of, the Spreadsheet World Championships. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Robert Stone, Producers: Ray Rothrock, Keith Haviland, Robert Stone Legendary NASA robotics engineer and best-selling science fiction writer, Gentry Lee, has spent a lifetime looking for a solution to the last word cosmic query: Are we alone within the universe? At age 82 he has come to a revelatory conclusion. (World Premiere)
Unusual Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
Director: Linus O’Brien, Producers: Adam Gibbs, Garret Worth, Avner Shiloah, Linus O’Brien, Screenwriter: Avner Shiloah
A wild journey into the origins of The Rocky Horror Image Present, the most important cult movie of all time, its impression on fashionable tradition and socio-political resonance to this present day. That includes Richard O’Brien, Tim Curry, Lou Adler, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick (World Premiere)
Administrators: Adam Ciralsky, Subrata De, Producers: Adam Ciralsky, Gene Klein, Subrata De
Take No Prisoners delves into the secretive, high-stakes world of hostage rescues, following America’s prime envoy as he races to free a younger lawyer held as a political pawn by a rogue regime. (World Premiere)
Director: Julie Forrest Wyman, Producers: Lindsey Dryden, Shaleece Haas, Jonna McKone
When Julie embarks on a journey to grasp her personal physique and the rumors of dwarfism in her household, her path collides with a brand new drug that guarantees to make little folks taller, threatening the group’s existence. (World Premiere)
Uvalde Mother
Director: Anayansi Prado, Producers: Ina Fichman, David Goldblum, Screenwriters: Anayansi Prado, Pablo Proenza
When a faculty mass taking pictures rocks a small Texas city, a mother determined to save lots of her children turns into an in a single day hero. She speaks out in opposition to a defective system. The group unites to problem the powers that uncared for its most weak—its youngsters. (World Premiere)
Thrilling after-dark options for style lovers and the terminally curious.
Director/Screenwriter: Peter Cilella, Producers: David Lawson Jr, Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, Caleb Ward
After a traumatic mind harm triggers terrifying visions of extraterrestrials and a newfound expertise for drawing, a father-to-be begins to query his actuality and turns into obsessive about the necessity to defend his household from an unseen menace. Solid: Ross Marquand, Sarah Bolger, Susan Wilder, Charlene Amoia, Dan O’Brien, Brandon Scott, Alexandra Barreto, Alex Ruiz, Clare Cooney, Emily Pendergast (World Premiere)
Director: Ben Leonberg, Producers: Kari Fischer, Ben Leonberg, Screenwriters: Alex Cannon, Ben Leonberg
Do you ever marvel why your canine stares at empty corners, barks for no purpose, or refuses to enter the basement? Good Boy is the story of a canine who sees all the pieces that goes bump within the evening. No speaking pets, simply terrifying scares. Solid: Indy, Shane Jensen, Larry Fessenden, Arielle Friedman, Stuart Rudin, Anya Krawcheck, Max (World Premiere)
Hallow Street (Czechia, Eire, United Kingdom)
Director: Babak Anvari, Producers: Lucan Toh, Ian Henry, Richard Bolger, Screenwriter: William Gillies
Two mother and father enter a race in opposition to time after they obtain a distressing late-night cellphone name from their daughter after she brought on a tragic automobile accident. Solid: Rosamund Pike, Matthew Rhys, Megan McDonnell (World Premiere)
The Dwelling (Estonia, Iceland, Sweden)
Director: Mattias J Skoglund, Producer: Siri Hjorton Wagner, Screenwriter: Mattias J Skoglund, Mats Strandberg
Joel reluctantly returns to his childhood city to assist his mom Monika transfer into a house for folks with dementia after she suffers a stroke. She is unrecognizable and Joel turns into satisfied that one thing has adopted her again from the opposite aspect. Solid: Philip Oros, Anki Lidén, Gizem Erdogan, Malin Levanon, Peter Jankert, Lottie Ejenbrant, Ayan Ahmed, Bengt CW Carlsson (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Lanfia Wal, Producers: Van White, Mariah Morgenstern, Denaun Porter, Lanfia Wal, Akino Childrey
After his girlfriend is kidnapped by a ruthless kingpin, a former cop should search the assistance of two illegal R&B eccentrics to assist save her. Solid: Andre Corridor, Web page Kennedy, Dean “Michael Trapson” Morrow, Paul Wheeler, Ally Renee, Shawn Nathan, Wrekless Watson, Ace Vane, James Markham Corridor, Jr., Vincent M. Ward (World Premiere)
Nirvanna the Band the Present the Film (Canada)
Director: Matt Johnson, Producers: Matthew Miller, Matt Greyson, Screenwriters: Matt Johnson, Jay McCarrol
Matt and Jay attempt to get a present on the Rivoli. Solid: Jay McCarrol, Matt Johnson (World Premiere)
Administrators/Screenwriters: Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus, Producers: Michael J. McGarry, Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus, Nate Cormier, PJ McCabe
In an try to avenge her daughter’s demise, Irene Kelly travels by means of parallel universes, killing her daughter’s assassin again and again. She grows hooked on the revenge streak, placing her personal humanity in jeopardy. Solid: Michaela McManus, Stella Marcus, Jeremy Holm, Jim Cummings, Grace Van Dien, Taylor Misiak, Dendrie Taylor (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Julia Max, Producers: Mia Chang, Lovell Holder, Julia Max, Ian McDonald, Robert J. Ulrich
When the household patriarch dies, a grieving mom and daughter danger their lives to carry out a brutal resurrection ritual that may convey him again from the lifeless. Solid: Colby Minifie, Kate Burton, Neil Sandilands, Vaughn Armstrong, Mia Ellis, Pete Ploszek, Chelsea Alden, Alaina Pollack, Riley Rose Critchlow, Lola Prince Kelly (World Premiere)
Audacious, risk-taking artists who exhibit innovation and creativity.
Director: Grace Glowicki, Producers: Yona Strauss, Ben Petrie, Grace Glowicki, Screenwriters: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie
A lonely Gravedigger who stinks of corpses lastly meets her dream man, however their affair is reduce quick when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him, leading to grave penalties and unlikely love. Solid: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Leah Doz, Lowen Morrow (Texas Premiere)
Director: Rodney Ascher, Producers: Elika Portnoy, Ryan Bartecki, Gary Levinsohn, Billy Hines
Martin Pistorius slipped right into a coma on the age of 12. Three years later he wakened however was unable to speak and no-one realized he was totally conscious. That is the true story of his exceptional journey again to life. (World Premiere)
The Infinite Husk
Director/Screenwriter: Aaron Silverstein, Producers: Aaron Silverstein, Mitchel McKenzie, Christine Sohail
An alien consciousness, despatched to Earth to spy on considered one of its personal sort, learns what it means to be human. Solid: Peace Ikediuba, Foreste Jean Feely, Circus-Szalewski, Michael Jon Murphy, Geena Alexandra, Gary Lee Reed, William Thomas Jones, Smaran Harihar, Jyl Haruye Kaneshiro (World Premiere)
Director: Khary Saeed Jones, Producers: Khary Saeed Jones, Kendra T. Discipline
It’s been seven years since I used to be adopted by a vigilante down again roads in rural Canada. Night time Struggle explores the key life spawned by the encounter and the unattainable activity of sharing this expertise with my younger son. (World Premiere)
Director: Gerard Johnson, Producers: John Jencks, Isabel Freer, Matthew James Wilkinson, Patrick Tolan, Screenwriters: Gerard Johnson, Austin Collings
Natasha Flynn is an property agent on a mission—and he or she’s going to make a killing. Solid: Polly Maberly, Mikael Persbrandt, Jasmine Blackborow, Man Burnet, Ryan Hayes, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Kellie Shirley (World Premiere)
Director: Michael Bay, Producers: Michael Bay, Angus Wall, Paris Kassidokostas-Latsis, Terry Dougas
An exhilarating, emotional parkour odyssey chronicling the 7 childhood mates who escalated and got here to outline this excessive sport; the dizzying rise, tragic setbacks and inseparable brotherhood captured firsthand whereas in pursuit of the last word stunt. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Annie St-Pierre, Producer: Audrey-Ann Dupuis-Pierre
Half sympathetic portrait and half exposé of the absurd, Your Increased Self dives into the world of life teaching – a contemporary phenomenon in full swing – embodying the hunt of our individualistic society: to be oneself, solely higher. (Worldwide Premiere)
Vibrant movies showcasing the sounds, tradition and affect of music and musicians.
forty second Avenue (Dominican Republic)
Director/Producer: José María Cabral, Screenwriters: José María Cabral, Miguel Yarul
A sensory dive into the lives of dancers and artists hungry for fame, clashing with police ways and unorthodox views. forty second Avenue unveils a defiant counter-culture within the Dominican city scene—all unfolding on a daring, unrelenting 600-meter forty second road. That includes Demetal, Natasha Dancer, Maco Boba, Ricardo La Música (World Premiere)
Director: Reza Dahya, Producers: Soko Negash, Reza Dahya, Screenwriter: Chris Cromie
After his laptop computer is stolen, an aspiring rapper goes on a quest throughout the gentrifying streets of Toronto to get better his music in time for the occasion that would change his life – a gathering with a Grammy Award profitable producer. Solid: Ashton James, Zoe Lewis, Viphusan Vani (Worldwide Premiere)
Director: Ari Gold, Producers: Michelle Stratton, Starr Sutherland, Screenwriters: Ari Gold, Ethan Gold, Lara Louise, Brian Bell, Herbert Gold, Tongo Eisen-Martin, John Flanigan
A radically private one-shot musical odyssey about combative twin musicians looking the streets of San Francisco for his or her dying poet father. Solid: Ari Gold, Ethan Gold, Lara Louise, Brian Bell, Herbert Gold, Tongo Eisen-Martin, John Flanigan (World Premiere)
Butthole Surfers: The Gap Reality and Nothing Butt
Director/Screenwriter: Tom J Stern, Producers: Derrick Rossi, Neil Fellah
5 years within the making, that is the definitive documentary about Austin music legends The Butthole Surfers. That includes Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, King Espresso, Teresa Taylor, Richard Linklater, Flea, Dave Grohl, Henry Rollins, Ice T (World Premiere)
Administrators: Grace Lee, Patty Ahn, Producers: Eurie Chung, Nora Chute
Endlessly We AreYoung delves into the guts, soul, and shocking evolution of probably the most passionate and sophisticated international fandoms in pop music historical past: BTS ARMY. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Juan Carvajal, Producers: Diego Ramirez, Kevin Lopez, Juan Carvajal
La Salsa Vive is a vibrant cinematic exploration of Afro-Cuban music’s historical past, tracing its roots from New York’s energetic streets to Cali, Colombia, now the worldwide salsa capital. That includes Rubén Blades, Henry Fiol, Willie Rosario, Angel Lebron, Johnny Rodriguez, Luis Eduardo Mulato, Samuel Formell, Francia Elena, Yuleissy Montano, Kevin Santiago Quiñones (World Premiere)
The Makings of Curtis Mayfield
Director: H.E.R., Producers: Peter Afterman, Mari Keiko Gonzalez, Sarah Haber
The Makings of Curtis Mayfield, directed by and that includes Grammy Award profitable musical artist and actor, H.E.R., explores the legacy and deep musical and cultural affect of singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, and entrepreneur Curtis Mayfield. That includes Curtis Mayfield, H.E.R., Dr. Dre, Mary J Blige, John Legend, Lena Waithe, Stephen Marley, Maxwell, Tom Morello, Ernie Isley (World Premiere)
Director: Isabel Castro, Producers: Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, J. Daniel Torres, David Blackman, Simran A. Singh
Selena y Los Dinos explores the life and legacy of Selena Quintanilla, the Queen of Tejano music. By way of archival footage and interviews, the movie highlights her rise to stardom and her household’s dedication to preserving her enduring impression. (Texas Premiere)
Suave worldwide movies, that includes premieres, competition favorites, and extra.
Director: Urzula Barba Hopfner, Producers: Carlos Hernández, Iván López- Barba, Urzula Barba, Screenwriters: Urzula Barba, Samuel Sosa
Corina suffers from agoraphobia resulting from a traumatic occasion from her childhood. The whole lot must change if she needs to save lots of her job. Solid: Naian González Norvind, Cristo Fernández, Carolina Politi, Mariana Gimenez, Laura de Ita, Gerardo Trejoluna (North American Premiere)
Director: Gemma Blasco, Producer: Mireia Graell Vivancos, Screenwriters: Gemma Blasco, Eva Pauné
After being raped on New 12 months’s Eve, Alex seeks refuge in her brother. However consumed by rage, he follows an more and more darkish path. His response pushes them aside, and he or she channels her ache by means of theater, embodying the vengeful character of Medea. Solid: Ángela Cervantes, Àlex Monner, Carla Linares, Eli Iranzo, Salim Daprincee, Pau Escobar, Victoria Rivero (World Premiere)
Administrators/Screenwriters: Helena Ganjalyan, Bartosz Szpak, Producers: Maria Gołoś, Monika Matuszewska
A sun-drenched renaissance palace. Three ladies stay in a carefree state of limbo, tended to by an unseen, all-providing system. However as cracks within the paradise start to seem, they’re confronted with a alternative: escape or stay within the excellent phantasm? Solid: Magdalena Fejdasz, Helena Ganjalyan, Daniela Komędera, Weronika Humaj (World Premiere)
Director: Leni Huyghe, Producer: Elisa Heene, Screenwriters: Leni Huyghe, Vincent Vanneste
Julia, an bold casting agent, relocates to Brussels. Struggling to construct a brand new life, she masks her insecurities behind a façade of success. She meets microbiologist Eliott and types an genuine friendship that evokes her to interrupt free. Solid: Leonie Buysse, Gorges Ocloo, Joely Mbundu, Yoann Blanc, Karlijn Sileghem (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Victoria Verseau, Producers: Malin Hüber, Mathilde Raczymow
In an exploration of self-discovery, Victoria, Athena and Aamina navigate womanhood by means of loss and introspection, weaving previous regrets and future aspirations in a poetic documentation of embracing true selves. (U.S. Premiere)
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Acclaimed standouts from festivals all over the world.
The Ballad of Wallis Island (United Kingdom)
Director: James Griffiths, Producer: Rupert Majendie, Screenwriters: Tom Basden, Tim Key
An eccentric lottery winner lives alone on a distant island and desires of getting his favourite musicians again collectively. Fantasy shortly turns into actuality when the bandmates and former lovers settle for his invitation to play a non-public present. Solid: Tom Basden, Tim Key, Sian Clifford, Akemnji Ndifornyen, Carey Mulligan (Texas Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Andrew DeYoung, Producers: Raphael Margules, J.D. Lifshitz, Nick Weidenfeld, Johnny Holland
Suburban dad Craig has his life turned the other way up by the arrival of a brand new neighbor. As Craig’s makes an attempt to make a buddy spiral uncontrolled, their blossoming relationship threatens to spoil each of their lives. Solid: Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd, Kate Mara, Jack Dylan Grazer (U.S. Premiere)
Director: Geeta Gandbhir, Producers: Geeta Gandbhir, Nikon Kwantu, Alisa Payne, Sam Bisbee
In June 2023, Ajike Owens, a vibrant, Black mom of 4 and a household buddy, was killed by her neighbor, Susan Lorincz. The Excellent Neighbor unravels the chilling escalation from a minor dispute to a homicide. (Texas Premiere)
Director: Lorcan Finnegan, Producers: Leonora Darby, James Harris, Robert Connolly, James Grandison, Brunella Cocchiglia, Nicolas Cage, Nathan Klingher, Screenwriter: Thomas Martin
A person returns to the idyllic seaside of his childhood to surf along with his son, however is humiliated by a gaggle of highly effective locals and drawn right into a battle that rises with the punishing warmth of the summer season and pushes him proper to his breaking level. Solid: Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon, Nic Cassim, Alexander Bertrand, Justin Rosniak, Finn Little (North American Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Addison Heimann, Producers: John Humber, David Lawson Jr., Addison Heimann
Contact Me is a narrative about two codependent greatest mates who grow to be hooked on the heroin-like contact of an alien narcissist who could or will not be attempting to take over the world. Solid: Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jordan Gavaris, Marlene Forte, Paget Brewster, JJ Philips, Yumarie Morales, Ashley Lauren Nedd, Eli Lucas (Texas Premiere)
Zodiac Killer Undertaking (U.S., United Kingdom)
Director: Charlie Shackleton, Producers: Charlie Shackleton, Catherine Bray, Anthony Ing
Having tried and didn’t make a real crime documentary, filmmaker Charlie Shackleton walks the viewer by means of what might have been. (Texas Premiere)
TV PREMIERE
World premieres of status TV sequence premieres from acclaimed showrunners and administrators.
Showrunners: Ramy Youssef, Pam Brady, Administrators: Griffith Kimmins, Hannah Ayoubi, Maaike Maliwanag Scherff, Producers: Ramy Youssef, Pam Brady, Andy Campagna, Mona Chalabi, Josh Rabinowitz, Ravi Nandan, Hallie Sekoff, Alli Reich, Screenwriters: Ramy Youssef, Pam Brady, Josh Rabinowitz, Theresa Mulligan Rosenthal
#1 Pleased Household USA follows the Husseins – probably the most patriotic, most peaceable, and most definitely-not-suspicious Muslim household in post-9/11 “Amreeka” as they navigate the early 2000s below the watchful eyes of their terrified neighbors. Solid: Ramy Youssef, Mandy Moore, Chris Redd, Alia Shawkat, Kieran Culkin, Akaash Singh, Salma Hindy, Whitmer Thomas, Randa Jarrar (World Premiere)
Authorities Cheese
Showrunners/Screenwriters: Paul Hunter, Aeysha Carr, Director: Paul Hunter, Producers: Paul Hunter, Aeysha Carr, David Oyelowo, Charles D. King, Jelani Johnson, Ali Brown
Authorities Cheese is a seemingly surrealist household comedy set in 1969 San Fernando Valley that tells the story of the Chambers, a unusual household pursuing lofty and unattainable desires, fantastically unfettered by the realities of the world. Solid: David Oyelowo, Simone Missick, Jahi Di’Allo Winston, Evan Ellison, Bokeem Woodbine (World Premiere)
Showrunner/Screenwriter: Jennifer Cacicio, Director: Michael Showalter, Producers: Jennifer Cacicio, Robert King, Michelle King, Liz Glotzer, Melissa Moore, Conal Byrne, Will Pearson, Michael Showalter, Jordana Mollick
Impressed by a true-life story, Pleased Face tells the story of Melissa Reed, daughter of Keith Jesperson, aka the Pleased Face Killer. Solid: Annaleigh Ashford, Dennis Quaid, James Wolk, Tamera Tomakili, Khiyla Aynne, Benjamin Mackey (World Premiere)
Spy Excessive
Director: Jody McVeigh-Schultz, Producers: Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson, Archie Gips, Aliza Rosen, Jody McVeigh-Schultz, David Wendell
When 15-year-old Blake Robbins was accused of promoting medicine, he filed a lawsuit alleging that his prestigious highschool was spying on him. This fed a wild scandal with revelations that echo within the warfare over digital privateness in colleges right this moment. (World Premiere)
The Studio
Showrunners/Administrators/Screenwriters: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Producers: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Alex Gregory, Peter Heck, Alex McAtee, Josh Fagen
In The Studio, Seth Rogen stars as Matt Remick, the newly appointed head of embattled Continental Studios. As films wrestle to remain alive and related, Matt and his core staff of infighting executives battle their insecurities as they wrangle narcissistic artists and craven company overlords within the ever-elusive pursuit of creating nice movies. Solid: Seth Rogen, Catherine O’Hara, Ike Barinholtz, Chase Sui Wonders, Kathryn Hahn (World Premiere)
World premieres of latest seasons of acclaimed reveals and thrilling sequence episodes.
Showrunner/Director/Screenwriter: Jakob Rørvik, Producers: Petter Onstad Løkke, Synnøve Hørsdal
Ida spends most of her life on-line. When her boyfriend Marvin, whom she’s by no means met in particular person, proclaims he’s relationship one other girl in actual life, her world collapses. Ida units out on a quest to search out her personal bodily companion. Solid: Gina Bernhoft Gørvell, Jacques Colimon, Mathias Luppichini, Heidi Goldmann, Amund Sigurdssønn, Ifeoma Anene, Alexandra Vuillot, Ken Yamamura, Nikis Theophilakis
Showrunner/Director: Nuhash Humayun, Producer: Redoan Rony, Screenwriters: Nuhash Humayun, Gultekin Khan
After desecrating a sacred temple, some hooligans should face the supernatural penalties of their hate crime. Dui Shaw takes the darkish aspect of latest South Asia and offers it a supernatural spin. Solid: Allen Shubhro, Rizvi Rizu, Refat Hasan Saykat, Abdullah Sentu, Rafayatullah Sohan, Faiza Rahman Midday, Sahana Rahman Sumi, Mizanur Rahman, Mehmud Siddique, Yashrib Habib
Combine Tape (Canada, Australia, Finland, Eire)
Showrunner/Screenwriter: Jo Spain, Director: Lucy Gaffy
In Sheffield, 1989, teenagers Daniel and Alison meet at a home occasion, and bond over their love for music. The connection they forge that evening will observe them ceaselessly, and depart them questioning what might have been. Twenty years later, they reconnect. Solid: Jim Sturgess, Teresa Palmer, Florence Hunt, Rory Walton-Smith (World Premiere)
Showrunner: Luisa Hardenberg, Administrators: Katja Benrath, Mia Maariel Meyer, Producer: Marie-Therese Dalke, Screenwriter: Luisa Hardenberg
Push revolves across the every day challenges of three midwives working in a hospital in Berlin. They must be nothing lower than nurses, social employees and psychologists on the similar time. Solid: Mariam Hage, Anna Schudt, Lydia Lehmann
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Showrunner/Screenwriter: Joanna Leeds, Director: Andrew Leeds, Producers: Joanna Leeds, Andrew Leeds, Rhett Reese, Caleb Reese, Michael Day
Bulldozer is a comedy a couple of lovable, under-medicated, chronically impassioned younger girl who lurches from disaster to disaster of her personal making. Solid: Joanna Leeds, Mary Steenburgen, Nat Faxon, Harvey Guillen, Allen Leech, Kate Burton, Chris “CP” Powell, Tim Bagley, Adargiza De Los Santos, Andrew Friedman, Nick Armstrong (Texas Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Sarah Mokh, Producers: Elaine Tunnat, Amanda Pinto
When Nora finds Ali bumming cigarettes exterior a gasoline station, she skips college on her school choice day to assist him settle a debt. Solid: Laith Nakli, Nada Shehata, Ramon Nunez, Patrick Boyle (US Premiere)
Showrunner/Director/Producer: Tedra Wilson
Denim is a fantastical doc sequence illuminating the sensible minds of LGBTQIA+ creatives who showcase how they use their artwork as a type of self discovery. (World Premiere)
Showrunner/Screenwriter: Joe Tierney, Director: Kat Whalen, Producers: Joe Tierney, Nicole Kay Payson, Colin McCarthy
A rebellious teenager is shipped to a therapeutic boarding college with controversial strategies the place the therapy of a fellow classmate on his first day makes the implications of his actions frighteningly clear. Solid: Sarah Jeffery, Andrew Michael Fama, Debbie Campbell, Lexi Simonsen, Bob Gallagher, Marvin St-Jean, Stephen Grey, Timothy Griffin Allan (World Premiere)
Showrunners/Screenwriters: Simeon Hu, Stephen Regulation, Director: Simeon Hu, Producers: Elliot Gong, Wendi Tang, Philip Ge
A corrupt Chinese language businessman on the run groups up along with his estranged son, with the intention to discover his hidden cash in Southern California to make sure their security. Solid: Bruce “Kaze” Wang, Zhang Wang, Tiger Sheu, Scott Williams, Terrance Wentz, Ross Turner (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter/Producer: JJ Herz
Co-dependent twins Robbie (a accountable, hopeless romantic with Down syndrome) and Rachel (a raunchy, homosexual mess) sort out a chaotic, but typical day of their lives. Solid: Kevin Iannucci, JJ Herz (World Premiere)
Administrators: Fidel Ruiz-Healy, Tyler Walker, Producers/Screenwriters: Mary Neely, Fidel Ruiz-Healy, Tyler Walker
Stars Diner isn’t the only option for a fast steak & eggs. Run by ex-party lady Wendy, unhinged chef Milius, and odd busboy Willard, this Fresno greasy spoon should overcome unpaid payments and a once-in-a-lifetime volcanic eruption. Solid: Mary Neely, DeMorge Brown, Henri Money, Cole Hersch, Chris Thayer, Natalie Palamides (World Premiere)
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NARRATIVE SHORT COMPETITION
Distinctive storytelling that captivates, surprises, and excites.
24 Hours After Studying Tuesdays with Morrie
Director/Screenwriter: Scott Tinkham, Producers: Michael Woloson, Scott Tinkham
A man has an existential awakening after studying the hit guide Tuesdays with Morrie. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Karina Dandashi, Producers: Stephen Turselli, Dan Duthie
A teen navigates heartbreak by means of social media whereas spending Friday out along with her father. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Emma Weinswig, Producers: Will Noyce, Emma Weinswig, Shane Bagwell, Chelsea Eisen
Ben, a charismatic fuckboy, should wrestle along with his personal poisonous masculine tendencies when his Freshman sister turns into a pawn in his buddy’s scheme to win their highschool Senior Scavenger Hunt. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Andy Reid, Producer: Alessandra Sconza
Whereas rehearsing a sexual assault scene, a pair of actors kind a connection they’ll be compelled to reconfigure as soon as filming begins. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Fran Zayas, Producers: José Vélez, Fran Zayas, Surhail Navarro
After a hurricane ravaged his hometown, a grieving man breaks into an off-limits cemetery to rescue the misplaced stays of his brother with the intention to, alongside his mom, give him a correct burial. (World Premiere)
Grandma’s 4 Colour Playing cards (Vietnam)
Director: Sally Tran, Producers: Ngân Lê, Kiều Vy
From her tiny house in Saigon’s bustling District 4, 101-year-old Ngoai runs an underground card recreation. Together with her loyal cat and the kindness of her neighbors, she faces poverty with unwavering resilience and quiet energy. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Cam Banfield, Producers: Greg Cohen, Lucas Ford
A company worker finds himself in a combat to outlive Monday morning after breaking probably the most sacred of workplace guidelines: If you happen to don’t have a superb weekend, we are able to’t have a superb week. (World Premiere)
I’m The Most Racist Particular person I Know (Australia)
Director/Screenwriter: Leela Varghese, Producer: Suriyna Sivashanker
When Lali unexpectedly finally ends up on a date with one other girl of shade for the primary time, it unravels prejudices she has lengthy ignored. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Marissa Goldman, Producers: Rachel Moss, Jack Fatheree
Caught in limitless droning Zoom conferences, a programmer daydreams in regards to the stranger subsequent door—till she lastly will get an opportunity at love. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Eve Liu, Producers: Gregory Barnes, Elias Putnam, Alex Bendo
On the cusp of success/failure, two unhinged feminine filmmakers resolve to interrupt up with their boyfriends and for as soon as, make a daring choice with their lives. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Tiye Amenechi, Producers: Satchel Lee, Cameron Debe
Riddled with insomnia and restlessness, a father and daughter duo go on a late evening joyride by means of the streets of New York Metropolis through the peak of the pandemic. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Alexander Farah, Producer: Joaquin Cardoner
Sooner or later this child will really feel one thing stir in his coronary heart and throat and mouth. Sooner or later this child will attain some extent the place he senses a division that isn’t mathematical. Sooner or later this child will discuss. (Texas Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Chelsea Christer, Producers: Clinton Vans, Alexa Rocero, David B. Lyons
When terminally unwell Joanna makes the troublesome choice to pursue finish of life choices by means of the Loss of life With Dignity regulation, the programs set as much as make her demise peaceable and dignified grow to be the other. (Texas Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Jake Wachtel, Producers: Visal Sok, Alan Milligan, Jake Wachtel
On project in Cambodia, a suave superspy has a haunting encounter with a garrulous guard and should come to phrases with the injury he’s inflicted on the local people. (World Premiere)
Director: Sam Davis, Producers: Jack Piatt, David Breschel, Charlie Cohen
An impromptu sing-off will resolve the very best singer within the bar tonight. (World Premiere)
Strangers within the Identical Shirt
Director/Screenwriter: Anthon Chase Johnson, Producers: Lauralee Gonzalez, Andrew Scott James, Clay Connor Dean
Estranged siblings reluctantly reunite at their father’s third marriage ceremony, the place unresolved tensions flare. As they confront relationship and familial discord, an surprising act of compassion provides the siblings a brand new hope for his or her relationship. (World Premiere)
Synthesize Me (U.S., Netherlands)
Director/Screenwriter: Bear Damen, Producers: Salim El Arja, Po Wei Su
In 1989 a younger teenager finds a strategy to convey her mom’s synthesizers again to life with disastrous penalties for her and her father. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Daisy Friedman, Producers: Arielle Friedman, Isaak Popkin, Camila Grimaldi
A lady with a gastrointestinal dysfunction attends her household’s Passover Seder for the primary time since being placed on a feeding tube. There, she’s confronted by pushy members of the family, malfunctioning medical gadgets, and a room of meals she will’t eat. (Texas Premiere)
Director: Pepi Ginsberg, Producers: Stéphane Marchal, Nelson Ghrénassia, Karen Madar, Pepi Ginsberg
Kaylee Hord, a 17-year-old prank video influencer, is the most recent member of a preferred TikTok content material home the place she struggles to slot in and pay the hire. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Kevin Xian Ming Yu, Producers: Shayan Ajmal Farooq, Camila Grimaldi, Kevin Xian Ming Yu
Bowen, a nonbinary Asian-American from Queens, tries to attach with their estranged father and assist him take care of a toxic fish chew. (World Premiere)
Genuine storytelling that captivates, surprises, and excites.
Armed solely with a Digital camera: The Life and Loss of life of Brent Renaud
Administrators: Brent Renaud, Craig Renaud, Producers: Juan Arredondo, Jon Alpert, Christof Putzel, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Tina Nguyen, Jeff Newton, Mami Kuwano Renaud, Naomi Mizoguchi, Tami Alpert
An intimate movie about documentary filmmaker Brent Renaud, the primary American journalist killed in Ukraine. Brent captured many wars from the entrance traces however cared most in regards to the folks caught within the center. He used his digicam to combat for peace. (World Premiere)
Administrators/Producers: Laura Inexperienced, Anna Moot-Levin
An immersion right into a weekend gathering of “widows” (folks of all ages, genders, and sexual orientations), this surprising re-writing of the story of what it’s to be a “widow” is by turns devastating and unexpectedly humorous. (World Premiere)
Director: Nimco Sheikhaden, Producers: Nimco Sheikhaden, Sara Chishti
Exodus is an intimate portrait of two ladies who face distinctive challenges following a long time of incarceration. The movie bears witness to their impassioned makes an attempt to rebuild their lives and finally restore their humanity. (World Premiere)
Director/Producer: Max Henderson
A traumatic occasion at an air show competition in England haunts the minds of the wingwalkers and the airplane pilot concerned. (World Premiere)
Administrators/Producers: Robert Machoian, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck
The movie is a meditation on the issue of accepting actuality, whereas discovering room to dream. It paperwork the folks and panorama of the Salinas Valley, probably the most productive agricultural areas in California. (Texas Premiere)
On the lookout for a Donkey (Mexico, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela)
Director/Screenwriter: Juan Vicente Manrique, Producers: Juan Vicente Manrique, María Benítez
In a small city within the Venezuelan Andes, two firefighters had been taken to jail for recording a video of a donkey. After virtually six years, little is thought in regards to the donkey’s whereabouts. (U.S. Premiere)
Director: Ché Scott-Heron Newton, Producer: Matt Houghton
What in the event you had a second probability at a childhood friendship? (World Premiere)
Director: Charles Frank, Producers: Daniel Lombroso, Meliz Yilmaz
On Manhattan’s jam-packed streets, NYC’s most iconic driving teacher prepares college students for the street forward. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Loren Waters, Producers: Dana Tiger, Loren Waters
Tiger highlights an Indigenous award-winning, internationally acclaimed artist and elder, Dana Tiger, her household, and the resurgence of the long-lasting Tiger t-shirt firm. (Texas Premiere)
We Beg To Differ (Eire, United Kingdom)
Director: Ruairi Bradley, Producers: Thomas Purdy, Ruairi Bradley
Within the underground world of diffing, a subculture of automobile fanatics within the North of Eire finds an outlet for his or her private struggles amidst a psychological well being disaster. (North American Premiere)
Welcome Dwelling Freckles (United Kingdom)
Director/Producer: Huiju Park
After 4 years aside, a daughter returns house to confront the unresolved household conflicts and deep-rooted home violence that plagued her childhood. She discovers the generational cycle of abuse and realizes that solely she will break it. (World Premiere)
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Baggage (Australia, United Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter: Lucy Davidson, Producers: Vanessa Batten, Amy Upchurch
Anthropomorphic suitcase greatest mates convey their emotional baggage on holidays. (Worldwide Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Ferdinand Ehrhardt, Producers: Saskia Stirn, Ferdinand Ehrhardt
Detlev doesn’t have an issue. Why ought to he have an issue? He’s clearly doing nice. (North American Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Jimmy Marble, Producers: Jett Steiger, Lana Kim, Thomas Grabinski
After the demise of her beloved husband, a grieving widow chooses to take part in a program referred to as The Dream Machine, a know-how that renders our deepest fantasies a actuality. (World Premiere)
Hurikán (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechia, France, Slovakia)
Director: Jan Saska, Screenwriters: Jan Saska, Václav Hašek, Producers: Kamila Dohnalová, Martin Vandas, Alena Vandasová, Antoine Liétout, Ivan Zuber, Juraj Krasnohorský, Mladen Đukić
A deep-fried romance from Prague. (Texas Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Anne Feldmeier, Producer: Sebastian Herbst
Betti’s date with Tom appears excellent—till her bowels stage a riot, turning the night right into a battle in opposition to her personal physique. (North American Premiere)
Director/Producer: Lou Morton
Set within the early twentieth century Midwest USA, deep underground a gaggle of coal miners make an unbelievable discovery. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Calleen Koh, Producers: Tan Si En, Joel Neo, Daryl Cheong
Grace Lee, an overworked mother in Singapore, collapses at work. She will get admitted into the hospital, the place she finds newfound freedom as a affected person. (U.S. Premiere)
Director: John Kelly, Screenwriters: John Kelly, Tara Lawall, Producers: Julie Murnaghan, Andrew Freedman
At apathy along with his life, Ray desires of the wonder and pleasure he’ll discover in retirement. (Worldwide Premiere)
Director: Sameh Alaa, Producer: Avantika Singh Desbouvries
A person recounts his capillary peregrinations from adolescence till now – from the barber’s trauma to his first like to the lack of his hair and ultimately of crucial particular person in his life. (World Premiere)
TV or The Disturbance on Forest Hill Street (Switzerland)
Director/Screenwriter: Frederic Siegel, Producers: Marwan Abdalla Eissa, Fela Bellotto
A police patrol is involuntarily drawn right into a vortex of fictional worlds, triggered by the extreme TV consumption of a bit of boy. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Charlene Xu
“That girl” involves her metropolis for a brief keep, bringing her the rain season from house. Inexplicable sensations torment her thoughts and physique like mildew, so she sinks into the reeds that develop out of the injuries on her finger. (North American Premiere)
MIDNIGHT SHORT COMPETITION
Indulge your cravings for horror, gore, and darkish comedy.
Director/Screenwriter: ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby, Producers: Savannah Romero, Frisly Soberanis, Fran Zayas, Génesis Mancheren Ab’äj
What appears to be a burgeoning romance between two Indigenous folks takes a sinister flip as one grows suspicious of the opposite’s Indigenous heritage. When confronted, deceit turns their romantic night right into a darkly comedic nightmare. (US Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Marco Novoa, Producers: Clémence Crépin Neel, Igor Courtecuisse
Steve is kicked out by his mother and father, who don’t settle for his homosexuality. Caroline, however, is struggling to mourn her motherhood as she accompanies Youri on tour. (North American Premiere)
Final Name (U.S., Australia, Hong Kong)
Director: Winnie Cheung, Screenwriters: Andujar Twins, Winnie Cheung, Producers: Weston Auburn, Travis Wooden, Celia Au, Amanda Kreuger
A motorbike insurgent spirals deeper into her erotic hallucinations to flee the grip of a sultry serpent girl. (World Premiere)
Administrators: Mairin Hart, Josh Wallace Kerrigan, Screenwriter: Josh Wallace Kerrigan, Producers: Mairin Hart, Josh Wallace Kerrigan, Devin Das, Greg Cohen, John Nodorft
A person is awoken late at evening by an surprising customer who received’t appear to go away him alone. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Matty Crawford, Producer: Karima Sammout-Kanellopoulou
A single Father’s empty nest syndrome begins to manifest as an unsettling bodily situation. (U.S. Premiere)
Director: Bianca Poletti, Screenwriter: Allison Goldfarb, Producer: Stine Moisen
Two outcasts who work at a small city’s native video retailer should remedy the mysteries of the city’s darkish previous when considered one of them goes lacking. Will Hannah discover her strategy to Jules or will she, too, grow to be simply one other flickering picture on the display screen? (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Hoku Uchiyama, Producer: Kelly King
After placing her daughter to mattress, Aura discovers an intruder in her home: an aged girl who acts surprisingly acquainted, and is hell-bent on performing a bloody ritual earlier than midnight. (World Premiere)
TEXAS SHORT COMPETITION
Vibrant work filmed in, impressed by, or linked to the Lone Star State.
An Ongoing Checklist of Issues Discovered within the Library E-book Drop, Normally Being Used as Bookmarks
Director/Screenwriter: Kayla Abuda Galang, Producers: Preston Lee, Alifya Ali, Samantha Skinner
Library employee Daniel catalogs an assortment of forgotten objects left in returned books. (World Premiere)
Director: David Black, Screenwriter: Natalia Leite, Producers: Kari Dexter, Russ Lemkin
Charlie, a washed-up nation rocker turned actual property agent, clings to his desires of stardom within the excessive desert. When a go to to an deserted homestead leaves him bitten and bewildered, he’s compelled to confront the truth of his desires. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Charlie Schwan, Producers: Micah Schultz, Ryan Kerr, Charlie Schwan
A lady types a pact with a darkish entity in trade for a glimpse into her tormented previous. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Wes Ellis, Producers: Shane Greb, Learda Shkurti, Wes Ellis
Within the Seventies and after a traumatic occasion on their honeymoon, a pair go to an experimental, and borderline unethical reminiscence analysis facility referred to as Neuro to hopefully heal their marriage. (World Premiere)
Administrators/Screenwriters: Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence, Megan Trufant Tillman, Producers: Stephanie Roush, Melissa Louis-Jacques
Two damaged strangers wrestling with their queer identities meet on the subway simply after midnight. A poignant, poetic journey by means of the previous few hours of their evening reveals how they bought right here, and what broke them. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Margaret Miller, Producer: Natalie Metzger
A Hollywood manufacturing crew involves West Texas to recreate the grisly homicide of a neighborhood girl. Utilizing locals to re-enact the crime, Actuality TV meets Actuality on this weird romantic comedy in regards to the (present) enterprise of homicide. (World Premiere)
Director: Romina Cenisio, Screenwriters: Romina Cenisio, Andrea Cruz, Producers: Romina Cenisio, Sean Mattison
Within the pink hued deserts of West Texas, an intergenerational Mexican-American off-roading group thrives within the border city of El Paso—till a looming hazard forces them to confront each their relationship to the land and their shared identification.(World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Danny Rivera, Producer: MK Goss
A love letter to moms that blends scripted and documentary. Sweetbriar options the director’s personal mom, Violeta Salazar, as a girl taking nice pleasure in her house as she prepares to host her visiting queer son. (World Premiere)
MUSIC VIDEO COMPETITION
A dynamic mixture of creativity and trendy visuals the place music and storytelling collide.
A$AP Rocky – ‘Tailor Swif’ / Administrators/Screenwriters: Vania Heymann, Gal Muggia
Biji – ‘Zigidi’ (France, Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom) / Director: Maceo Frost, Screenwriters: Maceo Frost, Robin Nazari
Billy Strings – ‘Seven Weeks In County’ / Director/Screenwriter: Bryan Schlam
Carson Coma – ‘Feldobom a Követ’ (Hungary) / Director/Screenwriter: Viktor Horvath
Cera Gibson – ‘Eclipse’ / Director: Alex Vaughn
Foster the Folks – ‘Misplaced in House’ / Director: Rupert Höller
French Cassettes – ‘White Noise’ / Director: Syra McCarthy
Hana Vu – ‘Care’ / Director: Maegan Houang
Jeremy Pope – ‘U, Misplaced + What I Gotta Do’ / Director: C Prinz, Screenwriter: Jeremy Pope
Khruangbin – ‘Might Ninth’ / Administrators: Jenny Lucia Mascia, Jeremy Higgins, Screenwriters: Nathaniel Murphy, Jeremy Higgins, Jenny Lucia Mascia
Laboratorios Moreno – ‘Sonidos del Bosque’ (Mexico) / Director/Screenwriter: Alejandro Espinosa
Nubiyan Twist ft Nile Rodgers – ‘Lights Out’ (France, United Kingdom) / Director: Alice Bibette
Solely Twin – ‘Give You Up’ / Administrators: Josh Martin, Ryan McNeeley, Screenwriters: Thomas Dutton, Josh Martin
Pink Clay Strays – ‘Wanna Be Cherished’ / Director/Screenwriter: Kimberly Stuckwisch
RM – ‘Misplaced!’ (U.S., United Kingdom) / Director: Aube Perrie
Sabrina Carpenter – ‘Please Please Please’ / Director: Bardia Zeinali
Sarah Klang – ‘Different Women’ (Sweden) / Administrators: Rose Bush, Kirsten Bode
Sleater-Kinney – ‘Say It Like You Imply It’ / Director: Carrie Brownstein
XR EXPERIENCE
The immersive arts improve and redefine how we expertise the world. These tasks emphasize ingenuity and storytelling throughout numerous industries.
XR Expertise Competitors
World premieres of thoughts bending immersive artwork.
Director: Nonny de la Peña, Producers: Nonny de la Peña, Dan Brower, Screenwriters: Nonny de la Peña, Retha Hill, Alton Glass
By way of the contemporaneous writings of journal editor Jesse Max Barber, this augmented actuality piece tells the true story of the horrible occasions of September 1906 when a white mob attacked a thriving black group in Atlanta, Georgia. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Lena Herzog, Producers: Lena Herzog, Jonathan Yomayuza
Any Struggle Any Enemy is an anti-war immersive requiem. (World Premiere)
The Selection – Chapters 2 & 3 (Canada, U.S., Poland)
Director/Screenwriter: Joanne Popinska, Producers: Joanne Popinska, Tom C. Corridor
Three folks, one choice. In a world the place alternative is commonly denied, step right into a transformative journey of autonomy and resilience. The 2022 SXSW Viewers Award winner returns with new episodes, delving into the complexities of abortion selections. (World Premiere)
Cosmos in Focus (United Kingdom)
Administrators: Tom Henchman, Aditi Rajagopal, Producer: Anna Taylor
This immersive journey by means of the cosmos on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional brings the wonder captured from the far reaches of the universe by the telescopes Euclid, Hubble and James Webb to your individual reachable universe. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Jake Oleson, Producer: Cham Nguyen
A younger girl leaves her rural village for Saigon, the place the town’s rush ahead challenges her ties to the life she left behind. (World Premiere)
Administrators: Danny Cannizzaro, Samantha Gorman, Producers: Yuxin Gao, J Noland, Screenwriter: Samantha Gorman
Face Leaping, an eye-tracked VR expertise, invitations you to swap views by making eye contact. Leap between minds – from human to animal, object to machine – exploring how seeing and being seen shapes actuality, notion, and self. (World Premiere)
Director: Jonah King, Producer: Alex Darby
Led by a queer mycelial information, Honey Fungus takes viewers on a journey of ecological self-discovery by means of interactive fungal landscapes the place science and sensuality collide to disclose Earth’s hidden erotic potential. (World Premiere)
Within the Present of Being (U.S., France)
Director: Cameron Kostopoulos, Producers: Cameron Kostopoulos, Katayoun Dibamehr, Avi Amar
Within the Present of Being is a haptic immersive expertise chronicling the harrowing journey of a survivor of electroshock conversion remedy. (World Premiere)
The Final Observe (U.S., Portugal)
Director: Phil McCarty, Producers: Phil McCarty, David Dong, Nate Sherman, Screenwriters: Phil McCarty, David Dong
The Final Observe is an interactive one-act play which culminates in a musical efficiency, giving the participant the possibility to expertise the act of collaborative musical creation, and pattern the fun of efficiency. (World Premiere)
Proof As If Proof Had been Wanted (Taiwan, United Kingdom)
Administrators: Ting Tong Chang, Matt Adams, Producer: Chun Han Lin, Screenwriter: Uray Chen
Discover an deserted Taiwanese house on this interactive movie set up in regards to the particles of a relationship breakdown. (World Premiere)
Reflections of Little Pink Dot (U.S., Germany)
Director/Producer: Chloé Lee
A combined actuality venture that animates the artist’s archive of Singaporean voices in 2015, the yr of the nation’s fiftieth birthday. We hear private tales amidst fast improvement and erasure of historic websites. AI projections hyperlink previous and future. (World Premiere)
The Secret Lifetime of Monsters – The Gateway Expertise (Canada)
Director/Screenwriter: Emile Arragon, Producers: JP Desjardins, Jasmine Gervais
On this combined actuality journey, you might be exploring Solum, a parallel world accessed by means of a station referred to as Gateway. Your mission: collect knowledge on its inhabitants and uncover secrets and techniques that would reshape our understanding of actuality itself. (World Premiere)
Administrators: Sjors Swierstra, Ivanna Khitsinska, Producers: Ivanna Khitsinska, Justin Karten, Screenwriter: Sjors Swierstra
The VR documentary Shelter offers viewers an intimate take a look at the warfare in Ukraine. The movie immerses them in on a regular basis scenes and invitations them to witness moments of shared humanity and mirror on the price of warfare. (World Premiere)
Traces: The Grief Processor (Canada)
Director/Screenwriter: Vali Fugulin, Producer: Ziad Touma
Traces: The Grief Processor is a multiuser interactive VR expertise that invitations you to poetically discover your individual grief. In a dreamlike forest, interact with symbolic parts of nature to rework your actions into profound emotional expressions. (World Premiere)
Methods of Realizing: A Navajo Nuclear Historical past
Director: Kayla Briët, Producers: Pretty Umayam, Adriel Luis, Screenwriter: Pretty Umayam
The American Southwest holds a darkish legacy because the place the place nuclear weapons had been invented and constructed. Navajo folks have lengthy held this place sacred, and proceed to combat for a future that transcends historic trauma. That is their story. (World Premiere)
XR Expertise Highlight
Masterful immersive artwork from all over the world.
Director: Peter Adams
An immersive, dreamlike expertise that lets gamers step right into a sequence of interactive music movies. Wander by means of hallucinatory landscapes in a genre-defying melding of video video games, quick movie, and generative artwork.
Deal with Unknown: Fukushima Now (U.S., Taiwan)
Director/Screenwriter: Arif Khan, Producers: Arif Khan, Jamie Line, Keisuke Sekino
Deal with Unknown: Fukushima Now is an immersive VR documentary that makes use of photogrammetry and volumetric seize to take audiences to the guts of Fukushima to fulfill the survivors residing within the shadow of the disaster right this moment. (North American Premiere)
All I Know About Instructor Li
Director: Zhuzmo
Numerous paper planes stuffed with censored messages from China float in the direction of you on this interactive VR documentary. Toss them again and really feel what it’s like to begin an internet revolution, like Instructor Li did in 2022. (North American Premiere)
Director: Steye Hallema, Producer: Shea Elmore, Screenwriters: Steye Hallema, Shea Elmore
Take a selfie and grow to be the good, nice grandparent of a human 200 years sooner or later. Ancestors is an interactive and immersive group expertise that may make you profoundly join together with your fellow gamers and with future generations. (Texas Premiere)
Director: Tamara Shogaolu, Producers: Tamara Shogaolu, Riyad Alnwili, Daisy Corbin O’Grady, Screenwriters: Tamara Shogaolu, Elinor Vanderburg, Sandy Bosmans
In Anouschka, an AR journey, a younger teen delves into her grandmother’s reminiscence, uncovering hidden magic in a colorless world. By way of household tales and a vibrant neighborhood, she features confidence and belonging, resulting in a transformative quest. (Worldwide Premiere)
The Artwork of Change (U.S., Italy, Netherlands)
Administrators/Screenwriters: Simone Fougnier, Vincent Rooijers, Producers: Peter Ariet, Megan Holland
The Artwork of Change is a VR-animated, multi-sensory journey by means of time, utilizing tape-recorded voice memos and music to discover pivotal life moments. The venture interweaves private experiences and common archetypes throughout digital environments. (North American Premiere)
Chom5ky vs Chomsky: A Playful Dialog on AI (Canada)
Director/Screenwriter: Sandra Rodriguez, Producers: Marie-Pier Gauthier, Sebastian Huber
Chom5ky vs Chomsky: A playful dialog on AI is an interesting and collaborative VR expertise that invitations us to reexamine the guarantees and pitfalls of AI. What precisely are we attempting to duplicate? What can we pretend? And what are we abandoning? (Worldwide Premiere)
Administrators: Jiabao Li, Botao Amber Hu, Producer: Jessica Kidd, Elan Tao
A combined actuality expertise that invitations you into an immersive bat world, the place their AI-categorized social vocalizations are reinterpreted as evocative music. Echolocate like a bat by screaming and seeing the world bounce again. (U.S. Premiere)
Fly To You (Korea, Republic of)
Administrators/Screenwriters: Youngyun Music, Sngmoo Lee, Producers: Seungmoo Lee, Seungpyo Kang
When younger Songjeol yelled, “Don’t come again!” to her cousin, she didn’t know it might be their final second. Seven a long time after fleeing North Korea, her story reveals warfare’s lasting wounds, with desires as the one bridge throughout the divide. (North American Premiere)
Director: Marcel van Brakel, Hazal Ertürkan, Producer: Marcel van Brakel
With this worldwide premiere of Future Botanica, POLYMORF presents an AR expertise the place customers can design future nature inside speculative ecosystems, through the use of an app with generative AI programs the consumer can discover their relationship with nature. (Worldwide Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Craig Quintero, Producer: Suling Yeh
Blurring the boundary between truth and fiction, the Only for You Trilogy immerses the viewers in a surreal world of desires and shadows, fears and wishes. It’s an invite to see and be seen, to embrace the unknown. (World Premiere)
Origins – Life’s Epic Journey (Germany)
Director: Markos Kay
Origins is a fascinating immersive expertise by means of life’s epic journey – from the universe’s delivery to first life. Mixing beautiful visuals and immersive soundscapes, it’ll depart audiences in awe of the extraordinary story of our beginnings. (Worldwide Premiere)
Oto’s Planet (Canada, France, Luxembourg)
Director/Screenwriter: Gwenael François, Producers: Julien Becker, Nicolas S. Roy, Vincent Guttmann, Voyelle Acker
This VR/MR fable immerses viewers within the tranquil lifetime of Oto and Skippy on their planet, which is disrupted by a spaceship collision. From the wreckage, cosmonaut Exo emerges, and cohabitation between them seems to be a difficult endeavor.
Decision: A Cinephonic Rhapsody for the Soul
Administrators: Scott Berman, Ryan Hartsell, Producer/Screenwriter: Scott Berman
An immersive cinephonic journey into the hopeful, heartfelt music of Salvage Enterprise by The Polyphonic Spree. Tune out distractions with this uplifting movie, and tune in to a deeply human expertise that invitations you to really feel, hope, and be moved. (Austin Premiere)
Administrators: René van Engelenburg, Gijs ten Cate
Step into this immersive and AI pushed sweet retailer! Select your favourite taste and uncover the impression of shade in your expertise. Uncover the hidden historical past of sugar and its connections to the phantasm of happiness. (World Premiere)
Uncanny Alley: A New Day (South Africa, U.S.)
Administrators: Stephen Butchko, Rick Treweek, Producers: Stephen Butchko, Christopher Lane Davis, Whitton Frank, Deirdre V. Lyons, Screenwriter: Stephen Butchko
A cyberpunk pc whiz races in opposition to the clock to steer a gaggle of escaped detainees to freedom by means of a hacked portal earlier than the fascistic company that controls the town can erase their reminiscences utilizing experimental Radio Frequency know-how. (U.S. Premiere)
COMPETITION AWARDS
The Narrative Function Competitors, the Documentary Function Competitors, Poster Design, and Particular Awards will likely be introduced on Wednesday, March 12 together with all of the Quick Movie Program winners, that are eligible for Jury Awards inside their respective screening classes. 2025 Particular Awards embrace the SXSW Better of Texas Award, Redbreast Unhidden Award, Vimeo Workers Decide Award, Agog Immersive Affect Award, and the Janet Pierson Champion Award introduced by Indiewire. All movie classes, besides Particular Occasions, will likely be eligible for category-specific Viewers Awards, which will likely be licensed by the accounting agency ofMaxwell Locke & Ritter and introduced by way of sxsw.com the next week.
SXSW is proud to be an official qualifying competition for the Academy Awards® Quick Movie competitors. Winners of our Greatest Animated, Greatest Narrative and Greatest Documentary Quick Movie classes grow to be eligible for Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences awards (Oscars). Any British Quick Movie or British Quick Animation that screens at SXSW is eligible for BAFTA nomination. Movies are additionally eligible for the Impartial Spirit Awards, extra info on eligibility right here.