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Austin, Texas is the place to be this spring if you want the chance to catch first sight of some of the exciting titles that will be doing the festival circuit over the year to come. Texas itself features quite a bit, but there are also films from around the world, including a particularly impressive selection of documentaries. Taking place alongside the famous music festival of the same name, SXSW is strong on musical themes.
View Films by Strand:
- Documentary Feature Competition
- Documentary Spotlight
- Festival Favorites
- Global
- Headliners
- Midnight Short Competition
- Midnighters
- Narrative Feature Competition
- Narrative Spotlight
- Visions
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SXSW Latest Reviews
Shot entirely inside the video game Grand Theft Auto, this documentary charts the story of two out-of-work actors as they try to stage a full production of Hamlet within this notoriously violent digital world.
When Ben and Anette's daughter is cast in a film alongside glamorous movie star Alicia, Ben is quickly drawn into Alicia's world. Anette is left at home with the baby, pushed to her emotional limits and psychologically on the brink.
Many years following the apocalypse, a devout cult of mute zealots hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment.
In order to escape police after a robbery, two estranged siblings lay low in a metaphysical farmhouse that hides them away in a different time. There they reckon with a mysterious force that pushes their familial bonds to unnatural breaking points.
A theatre group escapes the reality of incarceration through the creativity of staging a play, with a cast that includes actors who have been incarcerated.
A young, tempestuous woman, is taken in by a group of hunters in a remote cabin. In the midst of this tough, yet endearing, male microsociety, she feels like she finally belongs. A mysterious stranger’s arrival disrupts her newfound haven.
On a trip to the German Alps with her father and stepmother, Gretchen discovers that the resort town where they’re staying hides sinister secrets, as she’s plagued by strange noises and frightening visions of a woman pursuing her.
A musical documentary about grief and the creative power of love, told through the astonishing story of Alan and Adrianne St-George and their hand-built castle in rural Illinois.
A blind medium uncovers the truth behind her sister's death with the help of a frightening wooden mannequin.
A battle-scarred stuntman, is drafted back into service when the star of a mega-budget studio movie - directed by his ex - goes missing.
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