2025 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival

South by Southwest

Location	Austin, Texas, U.S.
Founded	1987
Hosted by	SXSW, LLC.
Festival date	March 7 (7-03) – March 15, 2025 (2025-03-15)
Language	English
Website	www.sxsw.com

The 2025 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival will take place from March 7 to March 15 at several venues in Austin, Texas, as part of the larger South by Southwest annual event. The festival will open with the film Another Simple Favor and the debut of the comedy TV series The Studio. It will close with the U.S. premiere of the movie On Swift Horses.[1][2]

Feature films

Headliner

English title	Director(s)	Production Country
The Accountant 2	Gavin O'Connor	United States
Another Simple Favor	Paul Feig
Ash	Flying Lotus
Death of a Unicorn	Alex Scharfman
Drop	Christopher Landon
Holland	Mimi Cave

Narrative Feature Competition

English title	Director(s)	Production Country
Bunny	Ben Jacobson	United States
Fantasy Life	Matthew Shear
Fucktoys	Annapurna Sriram
It Ends	Alexander Ullom
My Uncle Jens	Brwa Vahabpour	Norway
Outerlands	Elena Oxman	United States
Reeling	Yana Alliata
Slanted	Amy Wang

Documentary Feature Competition

English title	Director(s)	Production Country
Arrest the Midwife	Elaine Epstein	United States
Assembly	Rashaad Newsome, Johnny Symons
Baby Doe	Jessica Earnshaw
The Python Hunt	Xander Robin
Remaining Native	Paige Bethmann
The Secret of Me	Grace Hughes-Hallett	United Kingdom
Shuffle	Benjamin Flaherty	United States
The Spies Among Us	Jamie Coughlin Silverman, Gabriel Silverman

Narrative Spotlight

English title	Director(s)	Production Country
American Sweatshop	Uta Briesewitz	Germany, United States
The Astronaut	Jess Varley	United States
The Baltimorons	Jay Duplass
Caper	Dean Imperial
Clown in a Cornfield	Eli Craig
Cotton Candy Bubble Gum	J Pinder
The Dutchman	Andre Gaines
For Worse	Amy Landecker
Forge	Jing Ai Ng
Idiotka	Nastasya Popov
I Really Love My Husband	GG Hawkins
Lifehack	Ronan Corrigan	United Kingdom
Magic Hour	Katie Aselton	United States
Mermaid	Tyler Cornack
One More Shot	Nicholas Clifford	Australia
O'Dessa	Geremy Jasper	United States
$POSITIONS	Brandon Daley
Satisfaction	Alex Burunova	United States, Ukraine, Greece, Italy
She's The He	Siobhan McCarthy	United States
Summer of 69	Jillian Bell
Surviving Earth	Thea Gajić	United Kingdom
Sweetness	Emma Higgins	Canada
The Rivals of Amziah King	Andrew Patterson	United Kingdom
The Threesome	Chad Hartigan	United States
The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick	Pete Ohs
Trash Baby	Jacy Mairs
We Bury the Dead	Zak Hilditch	Australia

Documentary Spotlight

English title	Director(s)	Production Country
The Age of Disclosure	Dan Farah	United States
American Sons	Andrew James Gonzales
Are We Good?	Steven Feinartz
ASCO: Without Permission	Travis Gutiérrez Senger
Creede U.S.A	Kahane Corn Cooperman
Dear Tomorrow	Kaspar Astrup Schröder	Denmark, Japan, Sweden
Deeper	Jennifer Peedom	Australia
Deepfaking Sam Altman	Adam Bhala Lough	United States
Flight 149: Hostage of War	Jenny Ash	United Kingdom
I'm Carl Lewis!	Julie Anderson, Chris Hay
Luv Ya, Bum!	Sam Wainwright Douglas, David Hartstein	United States
Make It Look Real	Kate Blackmore	Australia
Mola: A Tibetan Tale of Love and Loss	Yangzom Brauen, Martin Brauen	United States, Switzerland
Now! More! Yes!	Max Hey	United States
Other Side	Heather Hogan, Carter Oakley
Seen and Heard	Giselle Bailey, Phil Bertelsen
Snow Leopard Sisters	Ben Ayers, Sonam Choekyi Lama, Andrew Lynch	United Kingdom
Spreadsheet Champions	Kristina Kraskov	Australia
Starman	Robert Stone	United States
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror	Linus O'Brien
Take No Prisoners	Adam Ciralsky, Subrata De
The Tallest Dwarf	Julie Forrest Wyman
Uvalde Mom	Anayansi Prado

Midnighter

English title	Director(s)	Production Country
Descendent	Peter Cilella	United States
Good Boy	Ben Leonberg
Hallow Road	Babak Anvari	Czechia, Ireland, United Kingdom
The Home	Mattias J Skoglund	Estonia, Iceland, Sweden
New Jack Fury	Lanfia Wal	United States
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie	Matt Johnson	Canada
Redux Redux	Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus	United States
The Surrender	Julia Max

Visions

English title	Director(s)	Production Country
Dead Lover	Grace Glowicki	Canada
Ghost Boy	Rodney Ascher	United States
The Infinite Husk	Aaron Silverstein
Night Fight	Khary Saeed Jones
Odyssey	Gerard Johnson	United Kingdom
We Are Storror	Michael Bay	United States
Your Higher Self	Annie St-Pierre	Canada

24 Beats Per Second

English title	Director(s)	Production Country
24 Hours of Grace	Steven Zhu	United States
42nd Street	José María Cabral	Dominican Republic
Boxcutter	Reza Dahya	Canada
Brother Verses Brother	Ari Gold	United States
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt	Tom Stern
Forever We Are Young	Grace Lee, Patty Ahn
La Salsa Vive	Juan Carvajal	Colombia
The Makings of Curtis Mayfield	H.E.R.	United States
Selena y Los Dinos	Isabel Castro

Global

English title	Director(s)	Production Country
Corina	Urzula Barba Hopfner	Mexico
Fury	Gemma Blasco	Spain
Glorious Summer	Helena Ganjalyan, Bartosz Szpak	Poland
Real Faces	Leni Huyghe	Belgium
Trans Memoria	Victoria Verseau	Sweden

Festival Favorite

English title	Director(s)	Production Country
40 Acres	R. T. Thorne	Canada
The Ballad of Wallis Island	James Griffiths	United Kingdom
Deaf President Now!	Nyle DiMarco, Davis Guggenheim	United States
Friendship	Andrew DeYoung
The Librarians	Kim A. Snyder
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore	Shoshannah Stern
On Swift Horses	Daniel Minahan
The Perfect Neighbor	Geeta Gandbhir
Sally	Cristina Costantini
The Surfer	Lorcan Finnegan	Australia, Ireland
Together	Michael Shanks	Australia
Touch Me	Addison Heimann	United States
Zodiac Killer Project	Charlie Shackleton	United States, United Kingdom

Short films

Narrative Short Competition

English title	Director(s)	Production Country
24 Hours After Reading Tuesdays with Morrie	Scott Tinkham	United States
Baba I'm Fine	Karina Dandashi
Ben's Sister	Emma Weinswig
Brief Somebodies	Andy Reid	Canada
Entre Tormentas	Fran Zayas	United States
Grandma's Four Color Cards	Sally Tran	Vietnam
How Was Your Weekend?	Cam Banfield	United States
I'm The Most Racist Person I Know	Leela Varghese	Australia
Max Distance	Marissa Goldman	United States
Nervous Energy	Eve Liu
Night Bloom	Tiye Amenechi
One Day This Kid	Alexander Farah	Canada
Out For Delivery	Chelsea Christer	United States
The Sentry	Jake Wachtel	United States, Cambodia
The Singers	Sam Davis	United States
Strangers In The Same Shirt	Anthon Chase Johnson
Synthesize Me	Bear Damen	United States, Netherlands
Unholy	Daisy Friedman	United States
WassupKaylee	Pepi Ginsberg	United States, France
Yú Cì (Fish Bones)	Kevin Xian Ming Yu	United States

Documentary Short Competition

English title	Director(s)	Production Country
Armed only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud	Brent Renaud, Craig Renaud	United States
Camp Widow	Laura Green, Anna Moot-Levin
Exodus	Nimco Sheikhaden
The Goldfish Club	Max Henderson	United Kingdom
The Long Valley	Robert Machoian, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck	United States
Looking For A Donkey	Juan Vicente Manrique	Mexico, Venezuela
Murewa	Ché Scott-Heron Newton	United Kingdom
Shanti Rides Shotgun	Charles Frank	United States
Tiger	Loren Waters
We Beg To Differ	Ruairi Bradley	Ireland, United Kingdom
Welcome Home Freckles	Huiju Park	United Kingdom

Animated Short Competition

English title	Director(s)	Production Country
Baggage	Lucy Davidson	Australia, United Kingdom
Detlev	Ferdinand Ehrhardt	Germany
The Dream Machine	Jimmy Marble	United States
Hurikán	Jan Saska	Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechia, France, Slovakia
Mambo No. 2	Anne Feldmeier	Germany
Mine!	Lou Morton	United States
My Wonderful Life	Calleen Koh	Singapore
Retirement Plan	John Kelly	Ireland
S The Wolf	Sameh Alaa	France
TV or The Disturbance on Forest Hill Road	Frederic Siegel	Switzerland
Words of Her	Charlene Xu	United States, China

Midnight Short Competition

English title	Director(s)	Production Country
The Beguiling	ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby	United States
Familiar	Marco Novoa	France
Last Call	Winnie Cheung	United States, Australia, Hong Kong
Lurk	Mairin Hart, Josh Wallace Kerrigan	United States
Stomach Bug	Matty Crawford	United Kingdom
Video Barn	Bianca Poletti	United States
Whitch	Hoku Uchiyama

Texas Short Competition

English title	Director(s)	Production Country
An Ongoing List of Things Found in the Library Book Drop, Usually Being Used as Bookmarks	Kayla Abuda Galang	United States
Good Time Charlie	David Black
Harvester	Charlie Schwan
Neuro	Wes Ellis
Newbies	Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence, Megan Trufant Tillman
Randy As Himself	Margaret Miller
Red Sands	Romina Cenisio
Sweetbriar	Danny Rivera

Television

TV Premiere

English title	Created by	Production Country
#1 Happy Family USA	Ramy Youssef, Pam Brady	United States
Government Cheese	Paul Hunter, Aeysha Carr
Happy Face	Jennifer Cacicio
Spy High	Jody McVeigh-Schultz
The Studio	Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg
The Yogurt Shop Murders	Margaret Brown

TV Spotlight

English title	Created by	Production Country
Dates in Real Life	Jakob Rørvik	Norway
Dui Shaw	Nuhash Humayun	Bangladesh
Mix Tape	Lucy Gaffy	Ireland, Australia, Canada
Push	Luisa Hardenberg	Germany

Independent TV Competition

English title	Created by	Production Country
Bulldozer	Joanna Leeds	United States
Cigarettes	Sarah Mokh
Denim	Tedra Wilson
F-ckUps Anonymous	Joe Tierney
Mr. Corruption	Simeon Hu, Stephen Law
R&R	JJ Herz
Stars Diner	Mary Neely, Fidel Ruiz-Healy, Tyler Walker

Venues

Films and shows at SXSW will be screened at seven venues:[3]

• Paramount Theatre
• Zach Theatre
• Hyatt Regency Austin
• Rollins Theatre at The Long Center
• Alamo Drafthouse Lamar
• Violet Crown Cinema
• AFS Cinema (satellite venue)

References

1. Galuppo, Mia (January 22, 2025). "SXSW Lineup: Latest Projects From Seth Rogen, Ben Affleck and Jenna Ortega Heading to Austin". The Hollywood Reporter. Eldridge Industries. Retrieved February 9, 2025.
2. "'Another Simple Favor,' with Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick, to open SXSW". ABC News. The Walt Disney Company. Associated Press. February 4, 2025. Retrieved February 9, 2025.
3. "SXSW Film & TV Festival Venues". South by Southwest. Retrieved February 9, 2025.