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The first big headline festival for US films in 2025, SXSW is the place to be if you want to be the first to discover the coming year's hits.
The festival runs from 7 to 15 March.
View Films by Strand:
- Documentary Feature Competition
- Documentary Spotlight
- Festival Favorites
- Global
- Headliners
- Midnighters
- Narrative Feature Competition
- Narrative Spotlight
- Visions
View previous years coverage of the South by Southwest festival:
SXSW Latest Reviews
An intimate documentary diary, which sees the director return to Thailand and to the year 2012, when she underwent gender-affirming surgery.
Three women live in a palace where all needs are met but they can't leave. They develop secret touch-signals and practice death rituals, believing it's their escape. Tensions rise as they struggle between comfort and freedom.
A determined conservationist travels alone to her home in a remote corner of the Himalayas, vowing to end retaliatory killings of local snow leopards. To succeed, she must first convince her young apprentice to love the animals that have taken everything from her and her family.
A filmmaker describes his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary and probe the inner workings of a genre at saturation point.
Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, repeatedly killing her daughter's murderer. As she becomes consumed by vengeance, her humanity hangs in the balance.
Two parents enter a race against time when they receive a distressing late-night phone call from their daughter after she caused a tragic car accident.
A teenager and her father move to a fading midwestern town in which Frendo the clown, a symbol of bygone success, reemerges as a terrifying scourge.
Just before graduation, Alex and Ethan pretend to be trans to get into the girl's lockers. It's all a joke until Ethan realises that for her, it's true. The two must reckon with their changing friendship and the process of coming out.
A musical about a farm girl in search of her destiny. She travels to a strange and dangerous city where she meets her one true love and faces the ultimate test.
Eccentric lottery winner, Charles, dreams of getting his favorite musicians, Mortimer-McGwyer, back together. His fantasy turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.
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