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This event has been cancelled outright due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We've reviewed some of the films that were scheduled to show there.
The festival had been scheduled to run from 13 to 22 March.
View Films by Strand:
- Documentary Feature Competition
- Headliners
- Narrative Feature Competition
- Narrative Spotlight
- Visions
View previous years coverage of the South by Southwest festival:
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The rise of a fictional indie rock band named Stylo and the Murder Dogs.

After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of the gig economy: trekking deep into the forest, pulling cable over miles of terrain to connect large, metal cubes that link together the new quantum trading market.

A former carer devastated by the loss of his mother finds relief in her painkillers and bonds with a local junkie as his former friends move away to attend college.

A directionless, young campus bus driver and a punk rock, Samoan security guard named Pineapple form an unlikely friendship.

Seven millenials discover an obscure electronic board game and decide to test their wits against it. When it tells them they need to kill 24 people in the next 24 hours, mayhem ensues.

Filming sensations Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
Character arc Seth A Smith on filming with a two-year-old and bringing marbling to life in The Crescent
Keeping up appearances Marcello Martinessi on cultural conservatism and filmmaking honesty in The Heiresses
A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
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