# 2025 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival

The 2025 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival took place from March 7–15 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 series The Studio. It closed with the US premiere of On Swift Horses.

## Feature films
### Headliner

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

### Narrative Feature Competition

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

### Documentary Feature Competition

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

### 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 | United States |
| Caper | Dean Imperial | United States |
| Clown in a Cornfield | Eli Craig | United States |
| Cotton Candy Bubble Gum | J Pinder | United States |
| The Dutchman | Andre Gaines | United States |
| For Worse | Amy Landecker | United States |
| Forge | Jing Ai Ng | United States |
| Idiotka | Nastasya Popov | United States |
| I Really Love My Husband | GG Hawkins | United States |
| Lifehack | Ronan Corrigan | United Kingdom |
| Magic Hour | Katie Aselton | United States |
| Mermaid | Tyler Cornack | United States |
| One More Shot | Nicholas Clifford | Australia |
| O'Dessa | Geremy Jasper | United States |
| $POSITIONS | Brandon Daley | United States |
| Satisfaction | Alex Burunova | United States, Ukraine, Greece, Italy |
| She's The He | Siobhan McCarthy | United States |
| Summer of 69 | Jillian Bell | United States |
| 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 | United States |
| Trash Baby | Jacy Mairs | United States |
| 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 | United States |
| Are We Good? | Steven Feinartz | United States |
| ASCO: Without Permission | Travis Gutiérrez Senger | United States |
| Creede U.S.A | Kahane Corn Cooperman | United States |
| 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 | United Kingdom |
| 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 | United States |
| Seen and Heard | Giselle Bailey, Phil Bertelsen | United States |
| 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 | United States |
| Take No Prisoners | Adam Ciralsky, Subrata De | United States |
| The Tallest Dwarf | Julie Forrest Wyman | United States |
| Uvalde Mom | Anayansi Prado | United States |

### Midnighter

| English title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Descendent | Peter Cilella | United States |
| Good Boy | Ben Leonberg | United States |
| 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 | United States |

### Visions

| English title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Dead Lover | Grace Glowicki | Canada |
| Ghost Boy | Rodney Ascher | United States |
| The Infinite Husk | Aaron Silverstein | United States |
| Night Fight | Khary Saeed Jones | United States |
| 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 | United States |
| Forever We Are Young | Grace Lee, Patty Ahn | United States |
| La Salsa Vive | Juan Carvajal | Colombia |
| The Makings of Curtis Mayfield | H.E.R. | United States |
| Selena y Los Dinos | Isabel Castro | United States |

### 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 | United States |
| The Librarians | Kim A. Snyder | United States |
| Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore | Shoshannah Stern | United States |
| On Swift Horses | Daniel Minahan | United States |
| The Perfect Neighbor | Geeta Gandbhir | United States |
| Sally | Cristina Costantini | United States |
| 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 | United States |
| Ben's Sister | Emma Weinswig | United States |
| 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 | United States |
| Night Bloom | Tiye Amenechi | United States |
| 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 | United States |
| 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 | United States |
| Exodus | Nimco Sheikhaden | United States |
| 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 | United States |
| 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 | United States |

### 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 | United States |
| Harvester | Charlie Schwan | United States |
| Neuro | Wes Ellis | United States |
| Newbies | Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence, Megan Trufant Tillman | United States |
| Randy As Himself | Margaret Miller | United States |
| Red Sands | Romina Cenisio | United States |
| Sweetbriar | Danny Rivera | United States |

## 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 | United States |
| Happy Face | Jennifer Cacicio | United States |
| Spy High | Jody McVeigh-Schultz | United States |
| The Studio | Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg | United States |
| The Yogurt Shop Murders | Margaret Brown | United States |

### 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 | United States |
| Denim | Tedra Wilson | United States |
| F-ckUps Anonymous | Joe Tierney | United States |
| Mr. Corruption | Simeon Hu, Stephen Law | United States |
| R&R | JJ Herz | United States |
| Stars Diner | Mary Neely, Fidel Ruiz-Healy, Tyler Walker | United States |

## Venues

Films and shows at SXSW Will be screened at seven venues:
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* Paramount Theatre
* Zach Theatre
* Hyatt Regency Austin
* Rollins Theatre at The Long Center
* Alamo Drafthouse Lamar
* Violet Crown Cinema
* AFS Cinema (satellite venue)