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The platform for innovation, discovery and creative convergence
South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, expands to Europe

sxsw site 1st SXSW London
2 - 7 Jun 2025
in Shoreditch, London
Opening film: STANS
Closing film: THE LIFE OF CHUCK
Centrepiece film: DEEP COVER
Headliner film:
LOVE & RAGE: MUNROE BERGDORF
Grand Jury Prize: CACTUS PEARS

REPORTS FROM THE FESTIVAL:
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ANCESTRAL VISIONS OF THE FUTURE (Mosese, Fr)
BEE WILD (Tickell/Tickell, US)
BEEF (Santos, Sp)
CACTUS PEARS (Kanawade, Ind)
CADET (Yerzhanov, Kaz)
CIELO (Sciamma, Bol)
DEAD BY DAWN (Torrone, Pol)
DEAL AT THE BORDER (Ryskeld, Kyr)
DEEP COVER (Kingsley, UK)
DOPPELGANGERS3 (Hayoun-Stepanian, UK)
DUELS (Akerlund, Swe)
EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY (McKenzie, US)
FORTE (Kim, Kor)
FURY (Blasco, Sp)
GANGSTAS (Arbi/Fallah, Bel)
LA GUITARRA FLAMENCA DE YERAI CORTES (Alvarez, Sp)
* THE INSTITUTE (Bender, US)
LATE SHIFT (Volpe, Swi)
LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS (Hobbs/Varghese, Aus)
THE LIFE OF CHUCK (Flanagan, US)
LONDON BOYS (Nangla/Pavone, UK)
LOVE & RAGE: MUNROE BERGDORF (Cappuccini, UK)
LUNA ROSA: THE SEVENTH ASCENSION OF ATABEY (Rodriguez-Lopez, US)
MISAN HARRIMAN: SHOOT THE PEOPLE (Mundy-Castle, UK)
A MISSING PART (Senez, Fr)
MOTHER'S BABY (Moder, Aut)

 MY UNCLE JENS (Vahabpour, Nor)
THE NATURE OF INVISIBLE THINGS (Camelo, Br)
NIGHT SILENCE (Kowalski, Pol)
THE OCCUPANT (Keijzer, Ned)
THE OLD WOMAN WITH THE KNIFE (Min, Kor)
PALESTINE COMEDY CLUB (Aliabdallah, Pal)
PLAINCLOTHES (Emmi, US)
QUEER AS PUNK (Chen, Mys)
SECRET SCREENING (tbc)
SILENT OBSERVERS (Petkova, Bul)
SILENT STORMS (Reymond-Boughenou, Fr)
SPIEGELMAN: DISASTER IS MY MUSE (Bernstein/Dolin, US)
THE SQUARE (Kim, Kor)
STANS (Leckart, US)
SUNSHINE EXPRESS (Navaee, Irn)
THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT (Mkrtichian, US)
THE THINGS YOU KILL (Khatami, Tur)
THE THINKING GAME (Kohs, US)
TIMESTAMP (Gornostai, Ukr)
TORO (Di Mento, Ger)
UNBOUND (Pxkrw, UK)
WHAT IT FEELS LIKE FOR A GIRL (Welsh, UK)
WINTER IN SOKCHO (Kamura, Fr)

* review to come

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