SXSW festival guide
by IMDb-Editors | created - 4 months ago | updated - 2 months ago | PublicTake a look at everything that will screen at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival.
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1. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
Directors: John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein | Stars: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith
Votes: 122,913
Category: Headliners
2. Evil Dead Rise (2023)
R | 96 min | Horror
A twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.
Director: Lee Cronin | Stars: Mirabai Pease, Richard Crouchley, Anna-Maree Thomas, Lily Sullivan
Votes: 74,835
Category: Headliners
3. Problemista (2023)
R | 98 min | Comedy
Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in NY. As time runs out on his work visa, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country.
Director: Julio Torres | Stars: Julio Torres, Tilda Swinton, RZA, Isabella Rossellini
Category: Headliners
4. Flamin' Hot (2023)
PG-13 | 99 min | Biography, Drama, History
This is the inspiring true story of Richard Montañez who as a Frito Lay janitor disrupted the food industry by channeling his Mexican heritage to turn Flamin' Hot Cheetos from a snack into an iconic global pop culture phenomenon.
Director: Eva Longoria | Stars: Tony Shalhoub, Dennis Haysbert, Jesse Garcia, Matt Walsh
Votes: 201
Category: Headliners
5. I Used to Be Funny (2023)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
Sam, a stand-up comedian struggling with PTSD, weighs whether or not to join the search for a missing teenage girl she used to nanny.
Director: Ally Pankiw | Stars: Rachel Sennott, Olga Petsa, Jason Jones, Sabrina Jalees
Votes: 30
Category: Headliners
6. Late Bloomers (2023)
89 min | Comedy
An aimless 28 year-old Brooklynite lands in the hospital after drunkenly breaking her hip. An encounter with a cranky elderly Polish woman who speaks no English leads to a job caring for her. Neither likes it, but it's time to grow up.
Director: Lisa Steen | Stars: Loni Ackerman, Danielle Alonzo, Talia Balsam, Winsome Brown
Votes: 24
Category: Headliners
7. Mustache (2023)
81 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Follows Ilyas, a 13-year-old boy who navigates the social hierarchy of his new school in California with a mustache his parents won't let him shave.
Director: Imran J. Khan | Stars: Alicia Silverstone, Rizwan Manji, Hasan Minhaj, Amariah Faulkner
Votes: 52
Category: Headliners
8. Joy Ride (2023)
95 min | Comedy
Follows four Asian-American friends as they bond and discover the truth of what it means to know and love who you are, while they travel through Asia in search of one of their birth mothers.
Director: Adele Lim | Stars: Stephanie Hsu, Ashley Park, David Denman, Desmond Chiam
Category: Headliners
9. Parachute (2023)
97 min | Drama, Romance
Follows Riley, who has recently been released from rehab after struggling with her addictions to food and body image. She will meet Ethan and finds herself navigating the line between love and a new addiction.
Director: Brittany Snow | Stars: Courtney Eaton, Thomas Mann, Dave Bautista, Kid Cudi
Votes: 27
Category: Headliners
10. Pure O (2023)
116 min | Drama
An aspiring screenwriter/musician grapples with Pure O, a lesser-known form of OCD, while juggling his recent engagement and his day job at a high end Malibu drug rehab.
Director: Dillon Tucker | Stars: Chuck Arjavac, Jeffery A. Baker, Landry Bender, Allison Bryant
Votes: 13
Category: Headliners
11. Raging Grace (2023)
99 min | Horror
An undocumented Filipina immigrant lands a job as a care-worker for a terminal old man, securing a better life for her and her daughter. But a dark discovery threatens to destroy everything she's strived for and holds dear.
Director: Paris Zarcilla | Stars: Max Eigenmann, Jaeden Paige Boadilla, Leanne Best, David Hayman
Votes: 22
Category: Headliners
12. Scrambled (I) (2023)
97 min | Comedy
A broke, single millennial unleashes an existential crisis when she freezes her eggs.
Director: Leah McKendrick | Stars: Clancy Brown, Yvonne Strahovski, Lindsey Morgan, June Diane Raphael
Votes: 30
Category: Headliners
13. Story Ave (2023)
94 min | Drama
Follows a teenage graffiti artist who ran away from home and holds up an unwary MTA worker in a robbery gone right that would change their lives forever.
Director: Aristotle Torres | Stars: Asante Blackk, Luis Guzmán, Melvin Gregg, Alex R. Hibbert
Votes: 13
Category: Headliners
14. Angel Applicant (2023)
74 min | Documentary
A sick man discovers empathetic wisdom on how to cope with his deadly autoimmune disease within the colorful expressive works of the late Swiss-German modern artist, Paul Klee.
Director: Ken August Meyer | Star: Ken August Meyer
Votes: 7
Category: Headliners
15. Another Body (2023)
80 min | Documentary
"Another Body" follows a college student's search for justice after she discovers deepfake pornography of herself circulating online.
Directors: Sophie Compton, Reuben Hamlyn
Votes: 11
Category: Headliners
16. Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life (2023)
80 min | Documentary
The iconic work of artist Geoff McFetridge is everywhere. But this film is more than a primer on his career - it's about the choices we confront in trying to lead meaningful lives, and how we use our most precious resource: time.
Director: Dan Covert | Stars: Spike Jonze, Sofia Coppola, Geoff McFetridge, Sarah DeVincentis
Category: Headliners
17. Join or Die (2023)
99 min | Documentary
Centers on America's civic unraveling through the journey of scientist Robert Putnam, whose research on the decline in American community lights a path out of our democracy's present crisis.
Directors: Pete Davis, Rebecca Davis | Stars: Pete Buttigieg, Raj Chetty, Hillary Clinton, Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Votes: 11
Category: Headliners
18. Pay or Die (2023)
90 min | Documentary
Today, nearly 2 million Americans are being held for ransom. Without insulin, they'll be dead in days. This is the story of 3 families who are on the receiving end of ransom notes, revealing the reality of life with this chronic illness.
Directors: Rachael Dyer, Scott Alexander Ruderman
Category: Headliners
19. Queendom (2023)
98 min | Documentary
Gena, an artist from a small town in Russia, dresses in otherworldly costumes and protests on the streets of Moscow. She stages radical performances in public, which becomes a new form of art and activism and puts her life in danger.
Director: Agniia Galdanova | Star: Gena Marvin
Category: Headliners
20. Riders on the Storm (2023)
101 min | Documentary
A young horseman battling to make his name and keep a family tradition alive in the ancient sport of buzkashi learns that fame is a gift and a curse as the Taliban take control of Afghanistan and threaten his life.
Directors: Jason Motlagh, Mark Oltmanns | Stars: Khaiber Akbarzada, Faisal Hassan, Gulbuddin Mulakhil, Gulbuddin Tashkargani
Votes: 7
Category: Headliners
21. You Were My First Boyfriend (2023)
97 min | Documentary
You Were My First Boyfriend is a feature-length documentary in which filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo revisits her 1990s adolescence, a generation after she thought she'd left it all behind.
Directors: Cecilia Aldarondo, Sarah Enid Hagey | Stars: Ella Fraley, Natalie Grace, Trinity Soos, Isabella Rivera-Gandulla
Votes: 12
Category: Headliners
22. Bottoms (2023)
R | 92 min | Comedy
Two unpopular queer high school students start a fight club to have sex before graduation.
Director: Emma Seligman | Stars: Dagmara Dominczyk, Ayo Edebiri, Nicholas Galitzine, Rachel Sennott
Category: Headliners
23. Tetris (2023)
R | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of how one of the world's most popular video games found its way to players around the globe. Businessman Henk Rogers and Tetris inventor Alexey Pajitnov join forces in the USSR, risking it all to bring Tetris to the masses.
Director: Jon S. Baird | Stars: Taron Egerton, Mara Huf, Miles Barrow, Rick Yune
Votes: 52,065
Category: Headliners
24. Bloody Hell (2023)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
A teen girl is diagnosed with a reproductive condition that upends her plans to have a sex life, propelling her to explore unusual methods. Her relationships are challenged with everyone in her life, but most importantly, herself.
Director: Molly McGlynn | Stars: Maddie Ziegler, Emily Hampshire, Djouliet Amara, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai
Votes: 34
Category: Narrative Spotlight
25. Deadland (2023)
92 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
U.S. Border Patrol Agent, Angel Waters, makes a routine apprehension that will haunt him forever.
Director: Lance Larson | Stars: Chris Mulkey, Julio Cesar Cedillo, Eric Parkinson, Kendal Rae
Votes: 30
Category: Narrative Spotlight
26. Americana (2023)
110 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
When a rare Lakota Ghost Shirt falls onto the black market in a small town in South Dakota, the lives of local outsiders and outcasts violently intertwine.
Director: Tony Tost | Stars: Sydney Sweeney, Paul Walter Hauser, Toby Huss, Eric Dane
Votes: 42
Category: Narrative Spotlight
27. Hypnotic (2023)
R | 93 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
A detective investigates a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program.
Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Ben Affleck, Alice Braga, JD Pardo, Dayo Okeniyi
Votes: 8,589
Category: Narrative Spotlight
28. Down Low (2023)
R | 90 min | Comedy
A deeply repressed man, the uninhibited young man that gives him a happy ending, and all the lives they ruin along the way.
Director: Rightor Doyle | Stars: Zachary Quinto, Lukas Gage, Judith Light, Simon Rex
Votes: 26
Category: Narrative Spotlight
29. Frybread Face and Me (2023)
83 min | Drama
Two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds bond during a summer herding sheep on their grandmother's ranch in Arizona while learning more about their family's past and themselves.
Director: Billy Luther | Stars: Keir Tallman, Charley Hogan, Sarah H. Natani, Martin Sensmeier
Votes: 12
Category: Narrative Spotlight
30. If You Were the Last (2023)
89 min | Romance, Sci-Fi
Adrift in their broken-down space shuttle with little hope of rescue, two astronauts argue over whether they're better off spending their remaining days as friends or something more.
Director: Kristian Mercado | Stars: Missi Pyle, Natalie Morales, Anthony Mackie, Geoff Stults
Votes: 28
Category: Narrative Spotlight
31. Self Reliance (2023)
85 min | Comedy
Given the opportunity to participate in a life or death reality game show, one man discovers there's a lot to live for.
Director: Jake Johnson | Stars: Wayne Brady, Gata, Emily Hampshire, Ely Henry
Votes: 32
Category: Narrative Spotlight
32. Upon Entry (2022)
77 min | Drama
Diego, a Venezuelan urbanist, and Elena, a contemporary dancer from Barcelona, move to the United States with their approved visas to start a new life. Their intention is to boost their ... See full summary »
Directors: Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vasquez | Stars: Alberto Ammann, Bruna CusÃ, Ben Temple, Laura Gómez
Votes: 53
Category: Narrative Spotlight
33. Appendage (2023)
94 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A young fashion designer's life spirals as her darkest inner thoughts manifest into something gruesome- that won't stop growing.
Director: Anna Zlokovic | Stars: Emily Hampshire, Hadley Robinson, Deborah Rennard, Kausar Mohammed
Votes: 22
Category: Narrative Spotlight
34. BlackBerry (2023)
R | 120 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.
Director: Matt Johnson | Stars: Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton, Matt Johnson, Kelly Van der Burg
Votes: 5,797
Category: Narrative Spotlight
35. Cora Bora (2023)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
Follows Cora, who feels that her relationship is not going well. She goes back home to win her girlfriend back but she will realize that it's much more than her love life that needs salvaging.
Director: Hannah Pearl Utt | Stars: Chelsea Peretti, Manny Jacinto, Jen Tullock, Thomas Mann
Category: Narrative Spotlight
36. Hail Mary (2023)
100 min | Horror
In this modern-day retelling of the Mary and Joseph story, pregnant teenager MARIA needs hustler/carpenter JOSE to help her cross the Mexico-US border before she's killed by an otherworldy ... See full summary »
Director: Rosemary Rodriguez | Stars: Jack Huston, Angela Sarafyan, Natalia del Riego, Benny Emmanuel
Votes: 6
Category: Narrative Spotlight
37. The Long Game (2023)
106 min | Drama, History
Based on the critically acclaimed self-published book by Author Humberto G. Garcia. In 1955, five young Mexican-American caddies, out of the love for the game, were determined to learn how ... See full summary »
Director: Julio Quintana | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Jay Hernandez, Gillian Vigman, Jaina Lee Ortiz
Votes: 53
Category: Narrative Spotlight
38. National Anthem (2023)
96 min | Drama
A 21-year-old construction worker in New Mexico joins a community of queer rodeo performers in search of their own version of the American dream.
Director: Luke Gilford | Stars: Charlie Plummer, Eve Lindley, Rene Rosado, Mason Alexander Park
Votes: 23
Category: Narrative Spotlight
39. Northern Comfort (2023)
97 min | Comedy
A diverse group of people with a chronic fear of flying are stranded in the wintry north.
Director: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson | Stars: Lydia Leonard, Timothy Spall, Ella Rumpf, Nick Blakeley
Votes: 21
Category: Narrative Spotlight
40. Peak Season (2023)
82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An emotionally adrift young woman forges an unexpected friendship with a wilderness guide when she and her fiancé take a summer holiday in Jackson Hole, WY
Directors: Steven Kanter, Henry Loevner | Stars: Claudia Restrepo, Derrick Joseph DeBlasis, Ben Coleman, Fred Melamed
Votes: 12
Category: Narrative Spotlight
41. Only the Good Survive (2023)
92 min | Horror, Thriller
After a heist gone wrong and results in the deaths of all three of her friends, Brea finds herself in the custody of the small town sheriff, who may be hiding as many secrets as she is, the only sure thing is that only one will survive.
Director: Dutch Southern | Stars: Michelle Lynette Bush, Sidney Flanigan, Darius Fraser, Ivy Garza
Votes: 21
Category: Narrative Spotlight
42. Hail Mary (2023)
100 min | Horror
In this modern-day retelling of the Mary and Joseph story, pregnant teenager MARIA needs hustler/carpenter JOSE to help her cross the Mexico-US border before she's killed by an otherworldy ... See full summary »
Director: Rosemary Rodriguez | Stars: Jack Huston, Angela Sarafyan, Natalia del Riego, Benny Emmanuel
Votes: 6
Category: Narrative Spotlight
43. This Closeness (2023)
88 min | Drama
Tensions rise when a couple stays at the home of a reclusive host, with the three entering an intimate battle to gain and reclaim territory.
Director: Kit Zauhar | Stars: Zane Pais, Jessie Pinnick, Kit Zauhar, Ian Edlund
Category: Narrative Spotlight
44. War Pony (2022)
R | 115 min | Drama
The interlocking stories of two young Oglala Lakota men growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Directors: Gina Gammell, Riley Keough | Stars: Iona Red Bear, Ta-Yamni Long Black Cat, Wilma Colhof, Jeremy Corbin Cottier
Votes: 1,143
Category: Narrative Spotlight
45. You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder (2023)
96 min | Drama
A father takes his estranged daughter on a road trip in an effort to get her out of trouble. Along the way they meet all types of strangers, as their strained relationship is put to the test.
Director: Emma Westenberg | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Jake Weary, Kim Zimmer, Clara McGregor
Votes: 19
Category: Narrative Spotlight
46. A Disturbance in the Force (2023)
85 min | Documentary
Investigating the infamous The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) with the behind-the-scenes story of how it got made.
Directors: Jeremy Coon, Steve Kozak | Stars: Bruce Vilanch, Kevin Smith, 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Mick Garris
Votes: 16
Category: Documentary Spotlight
47. The Arc of Oblivion (2023)
105 min | Documentary
The Arc of Oblivion illuminates the strange world of archives, record-keeping, and memory through a filmmaker's quixotic quest to build an ark in Maine.
Director: Ian Cheney
Category: Documentary Spotlight
48. Being Mary Tyler Moore (2023)
TV-PG | 119 min | Documentary
Mary's vanguard career, who, as an actor, performer, and advocate, revolutionized the portrayal of women in media, redefined their roles in show business, and inspired generations to dream big and make it on their own.
Director: James Adolphus | Stars: Mary Tyler Moore, James L. Brooks, Rob Reiner, Treva Silverman
Votes: 386
Category: Documentary Spotlight
49. Confessions of a Good Samaritan (2023)
105 min | Documentary