# 2024 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival

The 2024 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival took place from March 8 to 16 at several venues in Austin, Texas, as part of the larger South by Southwest annual event. The festival opened with the film Road House and the TV series 3 Body Problem. It closed with the films Civil War and The Idea Of You. The event included screenings of 118 feature films, 80 short films, and seven TV premieres.

## Feature films

| Bold | Indicates recipient of the Jury Award |
| $^†$ | Indicates recipient of the Audience Award |

### Headliner

| English title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Babes | Pamela Adlon | United States |
| Civil War | Alex Garland | United States, United Kingdom |
| The Fall Guy | David Leitch | United States |
| The Idea of You | Michael Showalter | United States |
| Immaculate | Michael Mohan | United States |
| Monkey Man$^†$ | Dev Patel | United States, India |
| Road House | Doug Liman | United States |
| Y2K | Kyle Mooney | United States |

### Narrative Feature Competition

| English title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Audrey | Natalie Bailey | Australia |
| Ben and Suzanne, A Reunion in 4 Parts | Shaun Seneviratne | United States |
| The Black Sea | Crystal Moselle, Derrick B. Harden | United States, Bulgaria |
| Bob Trevino Likes It$^†$ | Tracie Laymon | United States |
| Mamifera | Liliana Torres | Spain |
| We Strangers | Anu Valia | United States |
| We Were Dangerous | Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu | New Zealand |
| We're All Gonna Die | Freddie Wong, Matthew Arnold | United States |

### Documentary Feature Competition

| English title | Director(s) | Production country |
| A House Is Not a Disco | Brian J. Smith | United States |
| An Army of Women | Julie Lunde Lillesæter | Germany, Norway |
| Grand Theft Hamlet | Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane | United Kingdom |
| The In Between | Robie Flores | United States, Mexico |
| Resynator$^†$ | Alison Tavel | United States |
| Roleplay | Katie Mathews | United States |
| Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted | Isaac Gale, Ryan Olson | United States |
| We Can Be Heroes | Carina Mia Wong, Alex Simmons | United States |

### Narrative Spotlight

| English title | Director(s) | Production country |
| A Nice Indian Boy | Roshan Sethi | United States |
| Arcadian | Ben Brewer | Ireland |
| Cold Wallet | Cutter Hodierne | United States |
| Cuckoo | Tilman Singer | Germany |
| Desert Road | Shannon Triplett | United States |
| Doin' It | Sara Zandieh | United States |
| The Greatest Hits | Ned Benson | United States |
| The Gutter | Yassir Lester, Isaiah Lester | United States |
| High Tide | Marco Calvani | United States |
| I Don't Understand You | Brian Crano, David Craig | United States |
| I Love You Forever | Cazzie David, Elisa Kalani | United States |
| I Wish You All The Best | Tommy Dorfman | United States |
| Magpie | Sam Yates | United Kingdom |
| Música | Rudy Mancuso | United States |
| My Dead Friend Zoe$^†$ | Kyle Hausmann-Stokes | United States |
| Omni Loop | Bernardo Britto | United States |
| Switch Up | Tara Pirnia | United States |
| Timestalker | Alice Lowe | United Kingdom |
| Turtles | David Lambert | Canada, Belgium |
| The Uninvited | Nadia Conners | United States |
| Wakhri | Iram Parveen Bilal | Pakistan |
| Yasmeen's Element | Amman Abbasi | United States, Pakistan |

### Documentary Spotlight

| English title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 7 Beats per Minute | Yuqi Kang | Canada |
| A King Like Me | Matthew O. Henderson | United States |
| The Antisocial Network | Giorgio Angelini, Arthur Jones | United States |
| Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story | Charlie Hamilton James | United States |
| Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion | Eva Orner | United States |
| Cheech & Chong's Last Movie | David Bushell | United States |
| Clemente$^†$ | David Altrogge | United States |
| Dickweed | Jonathan Ignatius Green | United States |
| Fly | Shaul Schwarz, Christina Clusiau | United States |
| The Hobby | Simon Ennis | Canada |
| How Music Got Free | Alexandria Stapleton | United States |
| How To Build A Truth Engine | Friedrich Moser | Austria |
| Lions of Mesopotamia | Lucian Read | United States |
| Plastic People | Ben Addelman, Ziya Tong | Canada |
| Preconceived | Sabrine Keane, Kate Dumke | United States |
| Secret Mall Apartment | Jeremy Workman | United States |
| Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter | Abby Ginzberg, Christy Carpenter | United States |
| She Looks Like Me | Torquil Jones | United Kingdom |
| MoviePass, MovieCrash | Muta'Ali | United States |
| Stormy | Sarah Gibson | United States |
| The Truth vs. Alex Jones | Dan Reed | United States |
| Whatever it Takes | Jenny Carchman | United Kingdom |

### Midnighter

| English title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Azrael | E. L. Katz | United States |
| Family | Benjamin Finkel | United States |
| Hood Witch | Saïd Belktibia | France |
| Hunting Daze | Annick Blanc | Canada |
| It's What's Inside | Greg Jardin | United States |
| Kryptic | Kourtney Roy | Canada, United Kingdom |
| Oddity$^†$ | Damian McCarthy | Ireland |
| Things Will Be Different | Michael Felker | United States |

### Visions

| English title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 7 Keys | Joy Wilkinson | United Kingdom |
| Adrianne and the Castle | Shannon Walsh | Canada |
| Birdeater | Jack Clark, Jim Weir | Australia |
| Dead Mail | Kyle McConaghy, Joe DeBoer | United States |
| Doppelgängers³ | Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian | United States, Algeria, Armenia, France, United Kingdom |
| Dory Previn: On My Way To Where | Julia Greenberg, Dianna Dilworth | United States |
| Sew Torn | Freddy Macdonald | United States, Switzerland |
| Songs from the Hole$^†$ | Contessa Gayles | United States |
| The Trouble With Mr Doodle | Ed Perkins, Jaimie D'Cruz | United Kingdom |

### 24 Beats Per Second

| English title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story | Michael Mabbott, Lucah Rosenberg-Lee | Canada |
| Billy Preston: That's The Way God Planned It | Paris Barclay | United States |
| Dandelion | Nicole Riegel | United States |
| Diane Warren: Relentless | Bess Kargman | United States |
| Faders Up: The John Aielli Experience$^†$ | David Hartstein, Sam Wainwright Douglas | United States |
| Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told | P. Frank Williams | United States |
| Mogwai: If The Stars Had A Sound | Antony Crook | United Kingdom |
| Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird | Nicolas Jack Davies | Germany |
| This is a Film About The Black Keys | Jeff Dupre | United States |
| The World According to Allee Willis | Alexis Spraic | United States |

### Global

| English title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Bionico's Bachata$^†$ | Yoel Morales | Dominican Republic |
| Krzyk - Losing Control | Ewa Wikiel | Germany |
| Malta | Natalia Santa | Argentina, Colombia, Norway |
| My Sextortion Diary | Patricia Franquesa | Spain |
| Natatorium | Helena Stefánsdóttir | Iceland |

### Festival Favorite

| English title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Backspot | D. W. Waterson | Canada |
| Black Box Diaries | Shiori Itō | United States, Japan, United Kingdom |
| Dìdi (弟弟) | Sean Wang | Taiwan |
| Every Little Thing | Sally Aitken | Australia |
| Gasoline Rainbow | Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross | United States |
| Ghostlight | Kelly O'Sullivan, Alex Thompson | United States |
| Girls Will Be Girls | Shuchi Talati | India |
| I Saw the TV Glow | Jane Schoenbrun | United States |
| Kneecap | Rich Peppiatt | Ireland, United Kingdom |
| Love Machina | Peter Sillen | United States |
| The Moogai | Jon Bell | Australia |
| Never Look Away | Lucy Lawless | New Zealand |
| Pet Shop Days | Olmo Schnabel | Italy, United Kingdom, United States |
| The Queen of My Dreams | Fawzia Mirza | Canada |
| Sasquatch Sunset | David Zellner, Nathan Zellner | United States |
| Sing Sing$^†$ | Greg Kwedar | United States |
| Smugglers | Ryoo Seung-wan | South Korea |
| Toll | Carolina Markowicz | Brazil |

## Short films

| Bold | Indicates recipient of the Jury Award |
| $^†$ | Indicates recipient of the Audience Award |

### Narrative Short Competition

| English title | Director(s) | Production country |
| A Rotten Woman (Die Verdorbene) | Niamh Sauter-Cooke | Germany |
| Beach Logs Kill | Haley Z. Boston | United States |
| Bits | Lilliya Scarlett Reid | United States |
| Caller Number Nine! | Sandy Honig | United Kingdom |
| Can$^†$ | Kailee McGee | United States |
| Dissolution | Anthony Saxe | United States, Australia |
| If I Die in America | Ward Kamel | United States, Puerto Rico |
| The Last Brunch | Jim Cummings | United States |
| Learning English | Jean Liu | United States, United Kingdom |
| Let | Alyssa Loh | United States |
| Los Mosquitos | Nicole Chi | United States, Costa Rica |
| My Tomato Heart | Benoît Le Rouzès Ménard | Canada |
| The Rainbow Bridge | Dimitri Simakis | United States |
| The Robbers | Isa Schieche | Austria |
| Say Hi After You Die | Kate Jean Hollowell | United States |
| See It Say It | Nez Khammal | United Kingdom |
| Shé (Snake) | Renee Zhan | United Kingdom |
| Sound and Colour | Emma Foley | Ireland |
| Trapped | Sam Cutler-Kreutz, David Cutler-Kreutz | United States |
| We Are Not Alone | Adebukola Bodunrin | Canada, United States |
| Your Ears (À toi les oreilles) | Alexandre Isabelle | Canada |

### Documentary Short Competition

| English title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Been There | Corina Schwingruber Ilić | Switzerland |
| The Big Wait | Yannick Jamey | Australia |
| Christmas, Every Day | Faye Tsakas | United States |
| Frank$^†$ | David Gauvey Herbert | United States |
| Hello Stranger | Amélie Hardy | Canada |
| Leonie, Skeet & de biggen (Leonie, Skeet & the piglets) | Jip Heijenga | Belgium |
| Pamilya | Miles Blacket | United Kingdom |
| The Puzzle Palace | Jenny Schweitzer Bell, Brian Bell | United States |
| Remember, Broken Crayons Colour Too | Shannet Clemmings, Urša Kastelic | Switzerland |
| Sandcastles | Carin Jin-Yi Leong | United States |
| The School of Canine Massage | Emma D. Miller | United States |
| Shotplayer | Sam Shainberg | United States |
| We Ride for Her | Prairie Rose Seminole, Katrina Lillian Sorrentino | United States |
| Wouldn't Make It Any Other Way | Hao Zhou | United States |

### Animated Short Competition

| English title | Director(s) | Production country |
| A Crab in the Pool$^†$ | Alexandra Myotte, Jean-Sébastien Hamel | Canada |
| Au 8ème Jour | Agathe Sénéchal, Alicia Massez | France |
| Beautiful Men | Nicolas Keppens | Belgium, France, Netherlands |
| Bug Diner | Phoebe Jane Hart | United States |
| La Perra | Carla Melo Gampert | Colombia, France |
| Matta and Matto | Bianca Caderas, Kerstin Zemp | Switzerland |
| Sweetmeats | George Metaxas | United States, Australia |
| Tennis, Oranges | Sean Pecknold | United States |
| This is TMI | Subarna Dash, Vidushi Gupta | India |
| Wander to Wonder | Nina Gantz | Belgium, France, Netherlands |

### Midnight Short Competition

| English title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Apotemnofilia | Jano Pita | Spain |
| The Bleacher | Nicole Daddona, Adam Wilder | United States |
| Dream Creep | Carlos A.F. Lopez | United States |
| Inner Demons | Jasmine J. Johnson | United States |
| Lullaby | Chi Thai | United Kingdom |
| Make Me a Pizza | Talia Shea Levin | United States |
| Meat Puppet$^†$ | Eros V | United Kingdom |
| Tight | Jessica Barr | United States |
| Transylvanie | Rodrigue Huart | France |

### Texas Short Competition

| English title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Beeps | Kirk Johnson | United States |
| Hair Care | Fatima Wardy | United States |
| Jedo's Dead | Sara Nimeh | United States |
| Live From the Clouds | Mackie Mallison | United States |
| The Passing | Ivete Lucas, Patrick Bresnan | United States |
| The Queen vs Texas | Emil Lozada, Raemonn James | United States |
| Sangre Violenta / Sangre Violeta$^†$ | Edna Diaz, Arturo R. Jiménez | Mexico |

## Television

| Bold | Indicates recipient of the Jury Award |
| $^†$ | Indicates recipient of the Audience Award |

### TV Premiere

| English title | Created by | Production country |
| 3 Body Problem | David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Alexander Woo | United States |
| Black Twitter: A People's History | Prentice Penny | United States |
| Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show | Ari Katcher | United States |
| Photographer: Dan Winters | Pagan Danielle Harleman | United States |
| Ren Faire | Lance Oppenheim | United States |
| STAX: Soulsville, U.S.A.$^†$ | Jamila Wignot | United States |
| Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story | Gotham Chopra | United States |

### TV Spotlight

| English title | Created by | Production country |
| Hacks$^†$ | Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello, Jen Statsky | United States |
| Long Time Sun | Joanna Forscher, Chloe Chapman | United States |
| The Broadcast | Natalie Palamides, Courtney Pauroso | United States |
| The Long Long Night | Barret O'Brien | United States |
| Penelope | Mel Eslyn | United States |
| Ryley Walker & Friends | Mark Duplass | United States |
| Magic City: An American Fantasy | Bayan Joonam | United States |
| Star Trek: Discovery | Alex Kurtzman, Michelle Paradise | United States |

### Independent TV Competition

| English title | Created by | Production country |
| Bettendorf Talks | David Pasquesi, T.J. Jagodowski | United States |
| Halfrican American | Zeke Nicholson | United States |
| Lucy & Sara | Susan Park | United States |
| Marvin Is Sorry | Brett Morrow, Alex Gehrlein, Jack Gacek | United States |
| Neo-Dome$^†$ | Bonnie Discepolo | United States |
| Tossers | Chase Block, Bryce Van Leuven | United States |

## Venues

Films and shows at SXSW were screened at eight venues:
* Paramount Theatre
* Zach Theatre
* Stateside Theatre
* Rollins Theatre at The Long Center
* Alamo Drafthouse Lamar
* Fairmont Hotel
* Violet Crown Cinema
* AFS Cinema (satellite venue)