The world premiere of Paramount and eOne’s spring tentpole Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves will open the 30th edition of SXSW in Austin, Texas, on March 10.
The action fantasy quest story stars Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Hugh Grant, and Regé-Jean Page and is directed and co-written by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley. It opens in the US on March 31.
SXSW runs March 10-18 as an in-person event only. In addition organisers announced feature and short Competition entries, the Headliners and Midnighters line-ups, and select titles from other categories and XR Experience.
Titles include Sophie Compton’s UK-US deepfake story Another Body, Australian Outback drama Last Stop Larrimah; Ondi Timoner’s The New Americans: Gaming A Revolution, and Eva Longoria’s Flamin’ Hot at Searchlight Pictures.
Global, Visions, 24 Beats, Festival Favorites and additional titles across all other sections will be announced in early February.
All films below are world premieres unless indicated otherwise.
Headliners selections include Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves; Warner Bros’ Evil Dead Rise directed by Lee Cronin; Julio Torres’s immigration adventure Problemista produced by Emma Stone; and Eva Longoria’s Flamin’ Hot about the founder of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.
Narrative Feature Competition selections include comedy drama I Used To Be Funny; drama Late Bloomers starring Karen Gillan; Imran J. Khan’s coming-of-age drama Mustache; Brittany Snow’s feature directorial debut and rehab romance Parachute; Dillon Tucker’s drama Pure O; Paris Zarcilla’s UK coming-of-age story Raging Grace; Leah McKendrick’s comedy Scrambled; and Aristotle Torres’s drama Story Ave.
Screening in Documentary Feature Competition are Ken August Meyer’s Angel Applicant; Sophie Compton’s UK-US deepfake story Another Body; Dan Covert’s artist profile Geoff McFetridge: Drawing A Life; Join Or Die from Rebecca Davis and Pete Davis about the founder of Bowling Alone and its link to civic order; Agniia Galdanova’s France-US activism documentary Queendom; Jason Motlagh and Mark Oltmanns’s Afghanistan-set Riders On The Storm; and You Were My First Boyfriend, a reflection on adolescence directed by Cecilia Aldarondo and Sarah Enid Hagey.
Playing in Narrative Spotlight are Molly McGlynn’s teen sex life story Bloody Hell; Lance Larson’s US border story Deadland; Rightor Doyle’s comedy Down Low starring Zachary Quinto; Billy Luther’s family drama Frybread Face And Me; Kristian Mercado’s sci-fi romance If You Were The Last starring Anthony Mackie, Zoë Chao, Natalie Morales, Geoff Stults; Jake Johnson’s Self Reliance reality TV-set drama starring Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Andy Samberg; and Spanish immigration drama Upon Entry directed by Alejandro Rojas and Juan Sebastián Vásquez.
Documentary Spotlight selections include A Disturbance In The Force about the Star Wars Holiday Special, directed by Jeremy Coon, Steve Kozak; Ian Cheney’s archive story The Arc Of Oblivion; profile Being Mary Tyler Moore from James Adolphus; Penny Lane’s exploration of altruism in Confessions of a Good Samaritan; Great Photo, Lovely Life from Amanda Mustard and Rachel Beth Anderson about sex abuse within a family; and Olivia Kuan’s The Herricanes about a women’s full-tackle football team.
The section includes Dawn Porter’s The Lady Bird Diaries about the iconic First Lady; Thomas Tancred’s profile of an eccentric Australian Outback community in Last Stop Larrimah; Ondi Timoner’s The New Americans: Gaming A Revolution exploring the connection between the Gamestop squeeze and the January 6 Capitol riots; Lina Lyte Plioplyte’s Periodical about the menstrual cycle; and Tünde Skovrán’s intersex Romanian film Who I Am Not, which gets its North American premiere.
Midnighters brings Baatar Batsukh’s Mongolian forest-set Aberrance, which gets its North American premiere; Ted Geoghegan’s séance film Brooklyn 45; Bishal Dutta’s demonic tale It Lives Inside; demonic possession story Late Night With The Devil (Austr-UAE) starring David Dastmalchian and directed by Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes; the international premiere of Matt Vesely’s Australian film Monolith; the Texas premiere of Australia’s Talk To Me from Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou; and Matthew Angel’s Far Right story The Wrath Of Becky starring Lulu Wilson and Seann William Scott.
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