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Shadows FestShadows @ SXSW London


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
2 0 2 5   F I L M S
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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