For the first time since 2022, this year’s South by Southwest Film & Television Festival does not overlap with the Oscars — which seems to have given SXSW curators a richer field to pull from, as the 2025 lineup has no shortage of buzzy titles and stars. Running from March 7-15, the festival will feature 96 movies and 16 series (plus short films, music videos and XR experiences) from the likes of Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Issa Rae, Seth Rogen and more.
Hollywood will see itself satirized on the first night of the festival, as Rogen’s upcoming Apple TV+ series “The Studio” has been set as the opening night TV premiere. As well as co-creating with Evan Goldberg, Rogen stars as the new chief of an “embattled” studio in an era where “movies struggle to stay alive and relevant.” The cast also includes Catherine O’Hara, Ike Barinholtz, Chase Sui Wonders and Kathryn Hahn — with plenty of celebrity cameos.
SXSW’s vice president of film and television Claudette Godfrey lauds the project for “capturing the fanatical love, dedication, pressure and, yes, the hubris that defines our industry. It’s hilariously spot-on, bringing to life the stories we’ve all heard or witnessed firsthand.”
Godfrey adds that “same undeniable creative electricity in ‘The Studio’ runs through” the rest of the lineup, which was curated by prioritizing “filmmakers who make bold statements, push boundaries, spark important conversations and challenge our perspectives in ways we never expected.”
One of those filmmakers is Gavin O’Connor, director of the 2016 thriller “The Accountant.” With Affleck, Jon Bernthal and J.K. Simmons returning, sequel “The Accountant 2” is set as a headliner, this time following autistic CPA Christian Wolff (Affleck) who must team up with his estranged brother, Brax (Bernthal), after someone close to him is killed by unknown assassins.
Thrillers dominate the headliner list, as is typical at SXSW. Electronic hip-hop producer Flying Lotus is bringing his directorial effort “Ash,” a sci-fi piece starring Eiza González as a woman on another planet whose space station crew is killed and Aaron Paul as the rescuer she isn’t sure she should trust. A24, always a significant presence at SXSW, returns to the festival with “Death of a Unicorn,” a horror comedy in which Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega witness the event its title describes. The Paramount Theater will also host glitzy premieres for “Drop,” a Blumhouse horror pic about a widowed mother (Meghann Fahy) on a date gone wrong, and “Holland,” described as a “twisted tale” about a teacher (Nicole Kidman) living with her husband in Holland, Michigan when she and her colleague begin to sense a secret abound. Matthew Macfadyen, Jude Hill and Gael García Bernal also star.
SXSW has curated a high-profile selection of documentaries across multiple sections. Michael Bay makes his nonfiction debut with “We Are Storror,” about a parkour collective made up of seven childhood friends, and singer-actor H.E.R. directs her first-ever film, fittingly “The Makings of Curtis Mayfield,” about the influential singer-songwriter. “Are We Good?” witnesses Marc Maron as he mourns his late partner, filmmaker Lynn Shelton. Several more docs focus on the entertainment industry: “Forever We Are Young” explores the intense, global fan community surrounding K-Pop group BTS, while “Make It Look Real” gives a step-by-step look at the work of intimacy coordinator Claire Warden and “Seen and Heard” from executive producer Issa Rae highlights the Golden Age of Black TV.
There are multiple documentaries about artificial intelligence: “Assembly,” following artist Rashaad Newsome as he attempts to use AI “to transform a former military facility into a Black queer utopia”; “Deepfaking Sam Altman,” in which “Telemarketers” co-creator Adam Bhala Lough comedically answers questions about the emerging technology, and more in the short film and XR programs. Other highlights from the doc program include “The Python Hunt,” a look at a Florida government-funded python removal contest in the Everglade, and “Take No Prisoners,” Vanity Fair’s first-ever feature length film, which delves into the secretive, high-stakes world of hostage rescues.
TV offerings besides “The Studio” include projects “#1 Happy Family USA,” Amazon Prime Video’s adult animated comedy from Ramy Youssef about a Muslim American family dealing with suspicious neighbors during the time immediately following 9/11. There’s also “Government Cheese,” Apple TV+’s surrealist family comedy starring David Oyelowo, and “Happy Face,” a Paramount+ series starring Dennis Quaid as the infamous ‘90s serial killer who drew smiles on the letters he wrote to the world after his crimes.
Among the notable stars coming to Austin this year is Kate Mara, who appears in three separate projects. Two are in the narrative spotlight section: “The Astronaut,” a sci-film also featuring Laurence Fishburne and Gabriel Luna, and “The Dutchman,” the story of a Black businessman (André Holland) “drawn into a psychological game of cat and mouse with a mysterious white woman.” Mara also acts in “Friendship,” a Tim Robinson-led dark comedy that premiered at Toronto in 2024 and joins SXSW in the festival favorites section.
Twenty years after “The Puffy Chair” premiered at SXSW and launched the careers of brothers Jay and Mark Duplass as darlings of indie cinema, Jay comes back to Austin as the writer-director of “The Baltimorons” in the narrative spotlight section. The section also features projects led by Kelly Marie Tran (“Forge”), Sadie Sink (“O’Dessa”), Zoey Deutch (“The Threesome”), Zoë Chao (“The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick”) and Daisy Ridley (“We Bury The Dead”).
Throughout the lineup are several projects with eyebrow raising, head tilting, and even jaw-dropping premises, in true SXSW fashion — this is the festival that launched the historic awards campaign of “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” after all. Take “Slanted,” a narrative feature competitor following a Chinese American teen who has surgery to become white in hopes of being named prom queen, for example. There’s also “Age of Disclosure,” a doc from Dan Farah that must be seen to be believed, as it features “34 senior members of the U.S. Senate, House, military and intelligence community — revealing a cover-up of the existence of non-human intelligent life and a secret war to reverse engineer technology of non-human origin.”
And for some selections, their titles alone are enough to determine their SXSW-ness. Look no further than Austin music doc “Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt.”
See the full SXSW lineup below.
HEADLINERS
The Accountant 2
Director: Gavin O’Connor; Screenwriter: Bill Dubuque; Cast: Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Daniella Pineda, Allison Robertson, J.K. Simmons (World Premiere)
Ash
Director: Flying Lotus; Screenwriter: Jonni Remmler; Cast: Eiza González, Aaron Paul, Flying Lotus, Iko Uwais, Kate Elliott, Beulah Koale (World Premiere)
Death of a Unicorn
Director/Screenwriter: Alex Scharfman; Cast: Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Will Poulter, Téa Leoni, Richard E. Grant, Anthony Carrigan, Sunita Mani, Jessica Hynes (World Premiere)
Drop
Director: Christopher Landon; Screenwriters: Jillian Jacobs, Chris Roach; Cast: Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar, Violett Beane, Jacob Robinson, Ed Weeks (World Premiere)
Holland
Director: Mimi Cave; Screenwriter: Andrew Sodroski; Cast: Nicole Kidman, Matthew Macfadyen, Jude Hill, Gael García Bernal (World Premiere)
NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION
Bunny
Director: Ben Jacobson; Screenwriters: Mo Stark, Ben Jacobson, Stefan Marolachakis; Cast: Mo Stark, Ben Jacobson, Liza Colby, Tony Drazan, Lina Rong Mei Chen, Genevieve Hudson-Price, Liz Caribel Sierra, Ajay Naidu, Richard Price, Henry Czerny (World Premiere)
Fantasy Life
Director/Screenwriter: Matthew Shear; Cast: 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; Cast: Annapurna Sriram, Sadie Scott, Francois Arnaud, Damian Young, Big Freedia, Brandon Flynn, Lorrie Odom, Jowin Batoon, Tamika Lawrence, Arianna Ortiz (World Premiere)
It Ends
Director/Screenwriter: Alexander Ullom; Cast: Phinehas Yoon, Akira Jackson, Noah Toth, Mitchell Cole (World Premiere)
My Uncle Jens (Norway)
Director/Screenwriter: Brwa Vahabpour; Cast: Peiman Azizpour, Hamza Agoshi, Sarah Francesca Brænne, Magnus Lysbakken, Theresa Frostad Eggesbø, Emir Hakki, Marko Lazic, Mohamed Chakiri (World Premiere)
Outerlands
Director/Screenwriter: Elena Oxman; Cast: Asia Kate Dillon, Louisa Krause, Ridley Asha Bateman, Lea DeLaria, Daniel K. Isaac, Melinda Meeng, Allie Heng, Winter Dewitt, Safia Fredericks, Sedrick Cabrera (World Premiere)
Reeling
Director: Yana Alliata; Screenwriters: Yana Alliata, Amy Miner; Cast: Ryan Wuestewald, Hans Christopher, Nikki DeParis, Fabrizio Alliata, Makena Miller, Nyah Juliano, Michael Carter (World Premiere)
Slanted
Director/Screenwriter: Amy Wang; Cast: Shirley Chen, McKenna Grace, Vivian Wu, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Amelie Zilber, Fang Du, Elaine Hendrix, Keith Harris (World Premiere)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION
Arrest the Midwife
Director: Elaine Epstein (World Premiere)
Assembly
Directors/Producers/Screenwriters: Rashaad Newsome, Johnny Symons (World Premiere)
Baby Doe
Director: Jessica Earnshaw (World Premiere)
The Python Hunt
Director: Xander Robin (World Premiere)
Remaining Native
Director: Paige Bethmann (World Premiere)
The Secret of Me (United Kingdom)
Director: Grace Hughes-Hallett (World Premiere)
Shuffle
Director: Benjamin Flaherty (World Premiere)
The Spies Among Us
Directors/Producers: Jamie Coughlin Silverman, Gabriel Silverman (World Premiere)
NARRATIVE SPOTLIGHT
American Sweatshop (Germany)
Director: Uta Briesewitz; Screenwriter: Matthew Nemeth; Cast: Lili Reinhart, Daniela Melchior, Jeremy Ang Jones, Josh Whitehouse, Tim Plester, Christiane Paul, Joel Fry (World Premiere)
The Astronaut
Director/Screenwriter: Jess Varley; Cast: Kate Mara, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Luna, Ivana Milicevic, Macy Gray (World Premiere)
The Baltimorons
Director: Jay Duplass; Screenwriters: Jay Duplass, Michael Strassner; Cast: Michael Strassner, Liz Larson, Olivia Luccardi (World Premiere)
Caper
Director/Screenwriter: Dean Imperial; Cast: Christopher Tramantana, Asa James, Celester Rich, Richard Cooper, Sam Gilroy, Ron Palais, Michael Panes, Anne Klaus, Kevin Kane, Caroline Angelica Winkler (World Premiere)
Clown in a Cornfield
Director: Eli Craig; Screenwriters: Carter Blanchard, Adam Cesare, Eli Craig; Cast: Katie Douglas, Will Sasso, Cassandra Potenza, Aaron Abrams, Carson MacCormac, Verity Marks, Dylan McEwan, Daina Leitold, Vincent Muller, Kaitlyn Bacon (World Premiere)
Cotton Candy Bubble Gum
Director/Screenwriter: J Pinder; Cast: 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)
The Dutchman
Director: Andre Gaines, Producers: Andre Gaines, Jonathan T. Baker, Screenwriters: Andre Gaines, Qasim Basir; Cast: André Holland, Kate Mara, Zazie Beetz, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Aldis Hodge, Lauren E. Banks (World Premiere)
For Worse
Director/Screenwriter: Amy Landecker; Cast: 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; Cast: Kelly Marie Tran, Andie Ju, Brandon Soo Hoo, Edmund Donovan, Eva De Dominici, T. R. Knight, Jack Falahee, Sonya Walger (World Premiere)
I Really Love My Husband
Director/Screenwriter: GG Hawkins; Cast: Madison Lanesey, Travis Quentin Young, Arta Gee, Lisa Jacqueline Starrett, Elizabeth de Robbins, Armodio Sophia, Meggan Taylor, Mitch Bisschop, Amberlin Morse (World Premiere)
Lifehack (Cyprus)
Director: Ronan Corrigan; Screenwriters: Ronan Corrigan, Hope Elliot Kemp; Cast: Georgie Farmer, Yasmin Finney, Roman Hyack Green, James Scholz, Jessica Reynolds, Charlie Creed Miles (World Premiere)
Mermaid
Director/Screenwriter: Tyler Cornack; Cast: Johnny Pemberton, Avery Potemri, Kevin Nealon, Kirk Fox, Tom Arnold, Robert Patrick, Kevin Dunn, Devyn McDowell, Tyler Rice, Julia Valentine Larson (World Premiere)
O’Dessa
Director/Screenwriter: Geremy Jasper; Cast: Sadie Sink, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Murray Bartlett, Regina Hall, Kelly Macdonald, Pokey LaFarge (World Premiere)
$POSITIONS
Director/Screenwriter: Brandon Daley; Cast: Mike Kunicki, Vinny Kress, Trevor Dawkins, Kaylyn Carter (World Premiere)
She’s The He
Director/Screenwriter: Siobhan McCarthy; Cast: 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; Cast: Slavko Sobin, Olive Gray, Stuart Martin, Peter Coonan, Toni Gojanović, Ann Ogbomo (World Premiere)
The Threesome
Director: Chad Hartigan; Screenwriter: Ethan Ogilby; Cast: Zoey Deutch, Jonah Hauer-King, Ruby Cruz, Jaboukie Young-White, Josh Segarra, Robert Longstreet, Arden Myrin, Kristin Slaysman, Allan McLeod, Julia Sweeney (World Premiere)
The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick
Director: Pete Ohs; Screenwriters: Callie Hernandez, Zoë Chao, James Cusati-Moyer, Jeremy O. Harris, Pete Ohs; Cast: Zoë Chao, Callie Hernandez, James Cusati-Moyer, Jeremy O. Harris (World Premiere)
We Bury The Dead (Australia)
Director/Screenwriter: Zak Hilditch; Cast: Daisy Ridley, Brenton Thwaites, Mark Coles Smith (World Premiere)
DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT
The Age of Disclosure
Director/Producer: Dan Farah (World Premiere)
Are We Good?
Director: Steven Feinartz (World Premiere)
ASCO: Without Permission
Director/Screenwriter: Travis Gutiérrez Senger (World Premiere)
Creede U.S.A.
Director: Kahane Corn Cooperman (World Premiere)
Dear Tomorrow (Denmark, Japan, Sweden)
Director/Screenwriter: Kaspar Astrup Schröder (World Premiere)
Deeper (Australia)
Director: Jennifer Peedom (World Premiere)
Deepfaking Sam Altman
Director: Adam Bhala Lough (World Premiere)
Flight 149: Hostage Of War (United Kingdom)
Director: Jenny Ash (World Premiere)
Make It Look Real (Australia)
Director/Screenwriter: Kate Blackmore (International Premiere)
Mola: A Tale of Tibetan Love and Loss (U.S., Switzerland)
Directors/Screenwriters: Yangzom Brauen, Martin Brauen (North American Premiere)
Now! More! Yes!
Director: Max Hey (World Premiere)
Other Side
Directors: Heather Hogan, Carter Oakley (World Premiere)
Seen and Heard
Directors: Giselle Bailey, Phil Bertelsen; Featuring: Issa Rae, Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, Shonda Rhimes, Ava Duvernay, Lena Waithe, Cord Jefferson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Swizz Beatz, Norman Lear (World Premiere)
Snow Leopard Sisters (United Kingdom)
Directors: Ben Ayers, Sonam Choekyi Lama, Andrew Lynch (World Premiere)
Spreadsheet Champions (Australia)
Director: Kristina Kraskov (World Premiere)
Starman
Director/Screenwriter: Robert Stone (World Premiere)
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
Director: Linus O’Brien; Featuring: Richard O’Brien, Tim Curry, Lou Adler, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick (World Premiere)
Take No Prisoners
Directors: Adam Ciralsky, Subrata De (World Premiere)
The Tallest Dwarf
Director: Julie Forrest Wyman (World Premiere)
Uvalde Mom
Director: Anayansi Prado; Screenwriters: Anayansi Prado, Pablo Proenza (World Premiere)
MIDNIGHTER
Descendent
Director/Screenwriter: Peter Cilella; Cast: Ross Marquand, Sarah Bolger, Susan Wilder, Charlene Amoia, Dan O’Brien, Brandon Scott, Alexandra Barreto, Alex Ruiz, Clare Cooney, Emily Pendergast (World Premiere)
Good Boy
Director: Ben Leonberg; Screenwriters: Alex Cannon, Ben Leonberg; Cast: Indy, Shane Jensen, Larry Fessenden, Arielle Friedman, Stuart Rudin, Anya Krawcheck, Max (World Premiere)
Hallow Road (Czechia, Ireland, United Kingdom)
Director: Babak Anvari; Screenwriter: William Gillies; Cast: Rosamund Pike, Matthew Rhys, Megan McDonnell (World Premiere)
The Home (Estonia, Iceland, Sweden)
Director: Mattias J Skoglund; Screenwriter: Mattias J Skoglund, Mats Strandberg; Cast: Philip Oros, Anki Lidén, Gizem Erdogan, Malin Levanon, Peter Jankert, Lottie Ejenbrant, Ayan Ahmed, Bengt CW Carlsson (World Premiere)
New Jack Fury
Director/Screenwriter:; Cast: Andre Hall, Page Kennedy, Dean “Michael Trapson” Morrow, Paul Wheeler, Ally Renee, Shawn Nathan, Wrekless Watson, Ace Vane, James Markham Hall, Jr., Vincent M. Ward (World Premiere)
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Canada)
Director: Matt Johnson; Screenwriters: Matt Johnson, Jay McCarrol; Cast: Jay McCarrol, Matt Johnson (World Premiere)
Redux Redux
Directors/Screenwriters: Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus; Cast: Michaela McManus, Stella Marcus, Jeremy Holm, Jim Cummings, Grace Van Dien, Taylor Misiak, Dendrie Taylor (World Premiere)
The Surrender
Director/Screenwriter: Julia Max; Cast: Colby Minifie, Kate Burton, Neil Sandilands, Vaughn Armstrong, Mia Ellis, Pete Ploszek, Chelsea Alden, Alaina Pollack, Riley Rose Critchlow, Lola Prince Kelly (World Premiere)
VISIONS
Dead Lover (Canada)
Director: Grace Glowicki; Screenwriters: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie; Cast: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Leah Doz, Lowen Morrow (Texas Premiere)
Ghost Boy
Director: Rodney Ascher (World Premiere)
The Infinite Husk
Director/Screenwriter: Aaron Silverstein; Cast: 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)
Night Fight
Director: Khary Saeed Jones (World Premiere)
Odyssey (United Kingdom)
Director: Gerard Johnson; Screenwriters: Gerard Johnson, Austin Collings; Cast: Polly Maberly, Mikael Persbrandt, Jasmine Blackborow, Guy Burnet, Ryan Hayes, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Kellie Shirley (World Premiere)
We Are Storror
Director: Michael Bay (World Premiere)
Your Higher Self (Canada)
Director/Screenwriter: Annie St-Pierre (International Premiere)
24 BEATS PER SECOND
42nd Street (Dominican Republic)
Director/Producer: José María Cabral, Screenwriters: José María Cabral, Miguel Yarul; Featuring: Demetal, Natasha Dancer, Maco Boba, Ricardo La Música (World Premiere)
Boxcutter (Canada)
Director: Reza Dahya; Screenwriter: Chris Cromie; Cast: Ashton James, Zoe Lewis, Viphusan Vani (International Premiere)
Brother Verses Brother
Director: Ari Gold; Cast: Ari Gold, Ethan Gold, Lara Louise, Brian Bell, Herbert Gold, Tongo Eisen-Martin, John Flanigan (World Premiere)
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
Director/Screenwriter: Tom J Stern; Featuring: Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, King Coffee, Teresa Taylor, Richard Linklater, Flea, Dave Grohl, Henry Rollins, Ice T (World Premiere)
Forever We Are Young
Directors: Grace Lee, Patty Ahn (World Premiere)
La Salsa Vive (Colombia)
Director/Screenwriter: Juan Carvajal; Featuring: 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.; Featuring: Curtis Mayfield, H.E.R., Dr. Dre, Mary J Blige, John Legend, Lena Waithe, Stephen Marley, Maxwell, Tom Morello, Ernie Isley (World Premiere)
Selena y Los Dinos
Director: Isabel Castro (Texas Premiere)
GLOBAL
Corina (Mexico)
Director: Urzula Barba Hopfner; Screenwriters: Urzula Barba, Samuel Sosa; Cast: Naian González Norvind, Cristo Fernández, Carolina Politi, Mariana Gimenez, Laura de Ita, Gerardo Trejoluna (North American Premiere)
Fury (Spain)
Director: Gemma Blasco; Screenwriters: Gemma Blasco, Eva Pauné; Cast: Ángela Cervantes, Àlex Monner, Carla Linares, Eli Iranzo, Salim Daprincee, Pau Escobar, Victoria Rivero (World Premiere)
Glorious Summer (Poland)
Directors/Screenwriters: Helena Ganjalyan, Bartosz Szpak; Cast: Magdalena Fejdasz, Helena Ganjalyan, Daniela Komędera, Weronika Humaj (World Premiere)
Real Faces (Belgium)
Director: Leni Huyghe; Screenwriters: Leni Huyghe, Vincent Vanneste; Cast: Leonie Buysse, Gorges Ocloo, Joely Mbundu, Yoann Blanc, Karlijn Sileghem (World Premiere)
Trans Memoria (Sweden)
Director/Screenwriter: Victoria Verseau (U.S. Premiere)
FESTIVAL FAVORITE
The Ballad of Wallis Island (United Kingdom)
Director: James Griffiths; Screenwriters: Tom Basden, Tim Key; Cast: Tom Basden, Tim Key, Sian Clifford, Akemnji Ndifornyen, Carey Mulligan (Texas Premiere)
Friendship
Director/Screenwriter: Andrew DeYoung; Cast: Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd, Kate Mara, Jack Dylan Grazer (U.S. Premiere)
The Perfect Neighbor
Director: Geeta Gandbhir (Texas Premiere)
The Surfer (Australia, Ireland)
Director: Lorcan Finnegan Screenwriter: Thomas Martin; Cast: Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon, Nic Cassim, Alexander Bertrand, Justin Rosniak, Finn Little (North American Premiere)
Touch Me
Director/Screenwriter: Addison Heimann; Cast: 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 Project (U.S., United Kingdom)
Director: Charlie Shackleton (Texas Premiere)
TV PREMIERE
#1 Happy Family USA
Showrunners: Ramy Youssef, Pam Brady; Directors: Griffith Kimmins, Hannah Ayoubi, Maaike Maliwanag Scherff; Screenwriters: Ramy Youssef, Pam Brady, Josh Rabinowitz, Theresa Mulligan Rosenthal; Cast: Ramy Youssef, Mandy Moore, Chris Redd, Alia Shawkat, Kieran Culkin, Akaash Singh, Salma Hindy, Whitmer Thomas, Randa Jarrar (World Premiere)
Government Cheese
Showrunners/Screenwriters: Paul Hunter, Aeysha Carr; Director: Paul Hunter; Cast: David Oyelowo, Simone Missick, Jahi Di’Allo Winston, Evan Ellison, Bokeem Woodbine (World Premiere)
Happy Face
Showrunner/Screenwriter: Jennifer Cacicio, Director: Michael Showalter; Cast: Annaleigh Ashford, Dennis Quaid, James Wolk, Tamera Tomakili, Khiyla Aynne, Benjamin Mackey (World Premiere)
Spy High
Director: Jody McVeigh-Schultz (World Premiere)
The Studio
Showrunners/Directors/Screenwriters: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg; Cast: Seth Rogen, Catherine O’Hara, Ike Barinholtz, Chase Sui Wonders, Katheryn Hahn (World Premiere)
TV SPOTLIGHT
Dates in Real Life (Norway)
Showrunner/Director/Screenwriter: Jakob Rørvik; Cast: Gina Bernhoft Gørvell, Jacques Colimon, Mathias Luppichini, Heidi Goldmann, Amund Sigurdssønn, Ifeoma Anene, Alexandra Vuillot, Ken Yamamura, Nikis Theophilakis
Dui Shaw (Bangladesh)
Showrunner/Director: Nuhash Humayun; Screenwriters: Nuhash Humayun, Gultekin Khan; Cast: Allen Shubhro, Rizvi Rizu, Refat Hasan Saykat, Abdullah Sentu, Rafayatullah Sohan, Faiza Rahman Noon, Sahana Rahman Sumi, Mizanur Rahman, Mehmud Siddique, Yashrib Habib
Mix Tape (Canada, Australia, Finland, Ireland)
Showrunner/Screenwriter: Jo Spain, Director: Lucy Gaffy; Cast: Jim Sturgess, Teresa Palmer, Florence Hunt, Rory Walton-Smith (World Premiere)
Push (Germany)
Showrunner: Luisa Hardenberg, Directors: Katja Benrath, Mia Maariel Meyer; Screenwriter: Luisa Hardenberg; Cast: Mariam Hage, Anna Schudt, Lydia Lehmann
INDEPENDENT TV PILOT COMPETITION
Bulldozer
Showrunner/Screenwriter: Joanna Leeds, Director: Andrew Leeds; Cast: 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)
Cigarettes
Director/Screenwriter: Sarah Mokh; Cast: Laith Nakli, Nada Shehata, Ramon Nunez, Patrick Boyle (US Premiere)
Denim
Showrunner/Director/Producer: Tedra Wilson (World Premiere)
F*ckUps Anonymous
Showrunner/Screenwriter: Joe Tierney, Director: Kat Whalen; Cast: Sarah Jeffery, Andrew Michael Fama, Debbie Campbell, Lexi Simonsen, Bob Gallagher, Marvin St-Jean, Stephen Gray, Timothy Griffin Allan (World Premiere)
Mr. Corruption
Showrunners/Screenwriters: Simeon Hu, Stephen Law, Director: Simeon Hu; Cast: Bruce “Kaze” Wang, Zhang Wang, Tiger Sheu, Scott Williams, Terrance Wentz, Ross Turner (World Premiere)
R&R
Director/Screenwriter/Producer: JJ Herz; Cast: Kevin Iannucci, JJ Herz (World Premiere)
Stars Diner
Directors: Fidel Ruiz-Healy, Tyler Walker, Producers/Screenwriters: Mary Neely, Fidel Ruiz-Healy, Tyler Walker; Cast: Mary Neely, DeMorge Brown, Henri Cash, Cole Hersch, Chris Thayer, Natalie Palamides (World Premiere)
NARRATIVE SHORT COMPETITION
24 Hours After Reading Tuesdays with Morrie
Director/Screenwriter: Scott Tinkham (World Premiere)
Baba I’m Fine
Director/Screenwriter: Karina Dandashi (World Premiere)
Ben’s Sister
Director/Screenwriter: Emma Weinswig (World Premiere)
Brief Somebodies (Canada)
Director/Screenwriter: Andy Reid (World Premiere)
Entre Tormentas
Director/Screenwriter: Fran Zayas (World Premiere)
Grandma’s Four Color Cards (Vietnam)
Director: Sally Tran (World Premiere)
How Was Your Weekend?
Director/Screenwriter: Cam Banfield (World Premiere)
I’m The Most Racist Person I Know (Australia)
Director/Screenwriter: Leela Varghese (World Premiere)
Max Distance
Director/Screenwriter: Marissa Goldman (World Premiere)
Nervous Energy
Director/Screenwriter: Eve Liu (World Premiere)
Night Bloom
Director/Screenwriter: Tiye Amenechi (World Premiere)
One Day This Kid (Canada)
Director/Screenwriter: Alexander Farah (Texas Premiere)
Out for Delivery
Director/Screenwriter: Chelsea Christer (Texas Premiere)
The Sentry (U.S., Cambodia)
Director/Screenwriter: Jake Wachtel (World Premiere)
The Singers
Director: Sam Davis (World Premiere)
Strangers in the Same Shirt
Director/Screenwriter: Anthon Chase Johnson (World Premiere)
Synthesize Me (U.S., Netherlands)
Director/Screenwriter: Bear Damen (World Premiere)
Unholy
Director/Screenwriter: Daisy Friedman (Texas Premiere)
WassupKaylee (U.S., France)
Director: Pepi Ginsberg (World Premiere)
Yú Cì (Fish Bones)
Director/Screenwriter: Kevin Xian Ming Yu (World Premiere)
DOCUMENTARY SHORT COMPETITION
Armed only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Directors: Brent Renaud, Craig Renaud (World Premiere)
Camp Widow
Directors/Producers: Laura Green, Anna Moot-Levin (World Premiere)
Exodus
Director: Nimco Sheikhaden (World Premiere)
The Goldfish Club
Director/Producer: Max Henderson (World Premiere)
The Long Valley
Directors/Producers: Robert Machoian, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck (Texas Premiere)
Looking for a Donkey (Mexico, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela)
Director/Screenwriter: Juan Vicente Manrique (U.S. Premiere)
Murewa (United Kingdom)
Director: Ché Scott-Heron Newton (World Premiere)
Shanti Rides Shotgun
Director: Charles Frank (World Premiere)
Tiger
Director/Screenwriter: Loren Waters (Texas Premiere)
We Beg To Differ (Ireland, United Kingdom)
Director: Ruairi Bradley (North American Premiere)
Welcome Home Freckles (United Kingdom)
Director/Producer: Huiju Park (World Premiere)
ANIMATED SHORT COMPETITION
Baggage (Australia, United Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter: Lucy Davidson (International Premiere)
Detlev (Germany)
Director/Screenwriter: Ferdinand Ehrhardt (North American Premiere)
The Dream Machine
Director/Screenwriter: Jimmy Marble (World Premiere)
Hurikán (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechia, France, Slovakia)
Director: Jan Saska, Screenwriters: Jan Saska, Václav Hašek (Texas Premiere)
Mambo No.2 (Germany)
Director/Screenwriter: Anne Feldmeier (North American Premiere)
Mine!
Director/Producer: Lou Morton (World Premiere)
My Wonderful Life (Singapore)
Director/Screenwriter: Calleen Koh (U.S. Premiere)
Retirement Plan (Ireland)
Director: John Kelly, Screenwriters: John Kelly, Tara Lawall (International Premiere)
S The Wolf (France)
Director: Sameh Alaa (World Premiere)
TV or The Disturbance on Forest Hill Road (Switzerland)
Director/Screenwriter: Frederic Siegel (World Premiere)
Words of Her (U.S., China)
Director/Screenwriter: Charlene Xu (North American Premiere)
MIDNIGHT SHORT COMPETITION
The Beguiling
Director/Screenwriter: ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby (US Premiere)
Familiar (France)
Director/Screenwriter: Marco Novoa (North American Premiere)
Last Call (U.S., Australia, Hong Kong)
Director: Winnie Cheung, Screenwriters: Andujar Twins, Winnie Cheung (World Premiere)
Lurk
Directors: Mairin Hart, Josh Wallace Kerrigan, Screenwriter: Josh Wallace Kerrigan (World Premiere)
Stomach Bug (United Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter: Matty Crawford (U.S. Premiere)
Video Barn
Director: Bianca Poletti, Screenwriter: Allison Goldfarb (World Premiere)
Whitch
Director/Screenwriter: Hoku Uchiyama (World Premiere)
TEXAS SHORT COMPETITION
An Ongoing List of Things Found in the Library Book Drop, Usually Being Used as Bookmarks
Director/Screenwriter: Kayla Abuda Galang (World Premiere)
Good Time Charlie
Director: David Black, Screenwriter: Natalia Leite (World Premiere)
Harvester
Director/Screenwriter: Charlie Schwan (World Premiere)
Neuro
Director/Screenwriter: Wes Ellis (World Premiere)
Newbies
Directors/Screenwriters: Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence, Megan Trufant Tillman (World Premiere)
Randy As Himself
Director/Screenwriter: Margaret Miller (World Premiere)
Red Sands
Director: Romina Cenisio, Screenwriters: Romina Cenisio, Andrea Cruz (World Premiere)
Sweetbriar
Director/Screenwriter: Danny Rivera (World Premiere)
MUSIC VIDEO COMPETITION
A$AP Rocky — “Tailor Swif”
Directors/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 People — “Lost in Space”
Director: Rupert Höller
French Cassettes — “White Noise”
Director: Syra McCarthy
Hana Vu — “Care”
Director: Maegan Houang
Jeremy Pope — “U, Lost + What I Gotta Do”
Director: C Prinz, Screenwriter: Jeremy Pope
Khruangbin — “May Ninth”
Directors: 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
Only Twin — “Give You Up”
Directors: Josh Martin, Ryan McNeeley, Screenwriters: Thomas Dutton, Josh Martin
Red Clay Strays — “Wanna Be Loved”
Director/Screenwriter: Kimberly Stuckwisch
RM — “Lost!” (U.S., United Kingdom)
Director: Aube Perrie
Sabrina Carpenter — “Please Please Please”
Director: Bardia Zeinali
Sarah Klang — “Other Girls” (Sweden)
Directors: Rose Bush, Kirsten Bode
Sleater-Kinney — “Say It Like You Mean It”
Director: Carrie Brownstein
XR EXPERIENCE COMPETITION
1906 Atlanta Race Massacre
Director: Nonny de la Peña, Producers: Nonny de la Peña, Dan Brower, Screenwriters: Nonny de la Peña, Retha Hill, Alton Glass (World Premiere)
Any War Any Enemy
Director/Screenwriter: Lena Herzog (World Premiere)
The Choice – Chapters 2 & 3 (Canada, U.S., Poland)
Director/Screenwriter: Joanne Popinska (World Premiere)
Cosmos in Focus (United Kingdom)
Directors: Tom Henchman, Aditi Rajagopal (World Premiere)
Currents
Director/Screenwriter: Jake Oleson (World Premiere)
Face Jumping
Directors: Danny Cannizzaro, Samantha Gorman; Screenwriter: Samantha Gorman (World Premiere)
Honey Fungus (Ireland)
Director: Jonah King (World Premiere)
In the Current of Being (U.S., France)
Director: Cameron Kostopoulos (World Premiere)
The Last Practice (U.S., Portugal)
Director: Phil McCarty; Screenwriters: Phil McCarty, David Dong (World Premiere)
Proof As If Proof Were Needed (Taiwan, United Kingdom)
Directors: Ting Tong Chang, Matt Adams; Screenwriter: Uray Chen (World Premiere)
Reflections of Little Red Dot (U.S., Germany)
Director/Producer: Chloé Lee (World Premiere)
The Secret Life of Monsters – The Gateway Experience (Canada)
Director/Screenwriter: Emile Arragon (World Premiere)
Shelter (Netherlands)
Directors: Sjors Swierstra, Ivanna Khitsinska; Screenwriter: Sjors Swierstra (World Premiere)
Traces: The Grief Processor (Canada)
Director/Screenwriter: Vali Fugulin (World Premiere)
Ways of Knowing: A Navajo Nuclear History
Director: Kayla Briët; Screenwriter: Lovely Umayam (World Premiere)
XR EXPERIENCE SPOTLIGHT
A Number From the Ghost
Director: Peter Adams
Address Unknown: Fukushima Now (U.S., Taiwan)
Director/Screenwriter: Arif Khan (North American Premiere)
All I Know About Teacher Li
Director: Zhuzmo (North American Premiere)
Ancestors (Netherlands)
Director: Steye Hallema (Texas Premiere)
Anouschka (U.S., Netherlands)
Director: Tamara Shogaolu; Screenwriters: Tamara Shogaolu, Elinor Vanderburg, Sandy Bosmans (International Premiere)
The Art of Change (U.S., Italy, Netherlands)
Directors/Screenwriters: Simone Fougnier, Vincent Rooijers (North American Premiere)
Chom5ky vs Chomsky: A Playful Conversation on AI (Canada)
Director/Screenwriter: Sandra Rodriguez (International Premiere)
EchoVision
Directors: Jiabao Li, Botao Amber Hu (U.S. Premiere)
Fly To You (Korea, Republic of)
Directors/Screenwriters: Youngyun Song, Sngmoo Lee (North American Premiere)
Future Botanica (Netherlands)
Director: Marcel van Brakel, Hazal Ertürkan (International Premiere)
Just for You Trilogy (Taiwan)
Director/Screenwriter: Craig Quintero (World Premiere)
Origins – Life’s Epic Journey (Germany)
Director: Markos Kay (International Premiere)
Oto’s Planet (Canada, France, Luxembourg)
Director/Screenwriter: Gwenael Françoi
Resolution: A Cinephonic Rhapsody for the Soul
Directors: Scott Berman, Ryan Hartsell (Austin Premiere)
Sweet! (Netherlands)
Directors: René van Engelenburg, Gijs ten Cate (World Premiere)
Uncanny Alley: A New Day (South Africa, U.S.)
Directors: Stephen Butchko, Rick Treweek (U.S. Premiere)
