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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
A bubblegum grindhouse adventure through sunny and romantic Trashtown, USA.
A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love.
The story of the cult musical phenomenon, its transfer from stage to screen and its enduring liberatory legacy.
Many years after leaving, Joel returns home to move his mother Monika to a care facility for the elderly struggling with dementia. But as she starts to have terrifying visions, he begins to suspect something supernatural is at work.
A father and daughter accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat, where the father's billionaire boss seeks to exploit the creature’s miraculous curative properties.
On a vibrant Dominican street, dancers and artists chase stardom while battling police oppression. Their raw expression and rebellious spirit create an electrifying clash of culture, authority, and artistic freedom.
A woman wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed. Her investigation into what happened sets in motion a terrifying chain of events.
A drug addicted Florida man finds a wounded mermaid and takes her home. When word spreads about his secret, he'll stop at nothing to protect her.
When a chance encounter with her rock star crush leads 16 year old Rylee to discover that he's a dysfunctional drug addict, she takes it upon herself to help him, ultimately forcing her teenage fantasies into reality.
Ku Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner, struggles to navigate his dream of becoming a collegiate athlete as the memory of his great grandfather's escape from an Indian boarding school begins to connect past, present, and future.
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