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This year's edition of the South by Southwest film festival is marked by a mixture of big name movies and intriguing indies. There's a sizeable dose of genre and a small but powerful line-up of documentaries.
The festival runs from 12 to 18 March.
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Three friends have spent their childhoods drinking, wreaking havoc, and filming crude stunts in their small town. Everyone hates them. Wanting to finally prove their lives have meaning, they decide to make a 'real movie'.
A reimagining of the quinceañera as a chaotic mix of comedy and creature horror.
It’s a Friday night and two college students plan to do drugs and order pizza. But when the home-made drug they ingest turns out to be wilder than expected, the simple journey down two flights of stairs becomes a mind-bogglingly transformative quest.
Documentary about a woman's attempts to break the world record for the loudest burp.
When Abby’s boyfriend drops out of the high school play, she finds herself helping a school outlier step into the role opposite her. They spend a long night wandering around their town, examining their futures and unearthing surprises from their past.
A wandering medium, Airi spends her life guiding restless spirits out of the world of the living. Summoned to an isolated country house, she comes face to face with a grotesque apparition with powers that defy her experience - but the biggest danger she faces comes from the living.
A timid dork accidentally takes the spotlight when she starts a punk band with her fellow 'turds', becoming an icon to the rest of the losers at her all-girls Catholic school while managing to piss off the hot girls, the nuns, and a horny altar boy.
Jimmy wakes up in a bathtub filled with his own blood, his wrists slit and his life rapidly nearing completion. This would be a textbook failed suicide attempt, but he's pretty sure he didn't do it.
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