A starry SXSW 2022 film line-up announced on Wednesday (2) includes world premieres of new work from Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Richard Linklater and Nicolas Cage, among many others.
The Austin, Texas, festival ran online editions over the past two years and is planned to take place from March 11-20 as an in-person event against a backdrop of declining Omicron infection levels across the United States.
The roster includes Irish filmmaker and actor Campbell-Hughes’s It Is In Us All (pictured) in Narrative Feature Competition starring Cosmo Jarvis, Claes Bang and Campbell-Hughes about a violent man forced to consider his self-destructive nature, and Texan filmmaker Linklater’s coming-of-age story Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood in Headliners.
Tom Gormican’s meta Nicolas Cage film The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent starring Cage also plays in Headliners, as does adventure comedy The Lost City starring Channing Tatum and Sandra Bullock. Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down from Oscar-nominated documentarians Julie Cohen and Betsy West (RBG) in Documentary Spotlight centres on the recovery, life and ongoing work of gun control advocate and Democratic Congresswoman Gabby Giffords who survived a fatal Arizona shooting spree during a meeting with constituents in 2011.
Other highlights include previously announced SXSW opener and Headliners sci-fi adventure Everything Everywhere All At Once starring Michelle Yeoh from Swiss Army Man co-directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. Hiro Murai’s Atlanta Season 3 opener starring Donald Glover, Brian Tyree Henry, LaKeith Stanfield and Zazie Beetz in Headliners is the closing night selection.
SXSW 2022 film line-up appears below. All are US films and world premieres unless indicated otherwise
Headliners
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
Dir. Richard Linklater
Atlanta
Dir. Hiro Murai
Closing night
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Dir. Halina Reijn
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Dirs. Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Opening night
The Lost City
Dirs. Adam Nee, Aaron Nee
The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent
Dir. Tom Gormican
Narrative Feature Competition
Presented by Panavision
A Lot Of Nothing
Dir. Mo McRae
I Love My Dad
Dir. James Morosini
It Is In Us All (Ire)
Dir. Antonia Campbell-Hughes
Linoleum
Dir. Colin West
Nika (Rus)
Dir. Vasilisa Kuzmina
Seriously Red (Australia)
Dir. Gracie Otto
Slash/Back (Can)
Dir. Nyla Innuksuk
Soft & Quiet
Dir. Beth de Araújo
Documentary Feature Competition
Bad Axe
Dir. David Siev
Clean (Australia)
Dir. Lachlan McLeod
It’s Quieter In The Twilight
Dir. Billy Miossi
Mama Bears
Dir.: Daresha Kyi
Master Of Light
Dir. Rosa Ruth Boesten
Spaz
Dir. Scott Leberecht
The Pez Outlaw
Dirs. Amy Bandlien Storkel, Bryan Storkel
The Thief Collector
Dir. Allison Otto
Narrative Spotlight
Lover, Beloved
Dir. Michael Tully
Me Little Me
Dir. Elizabeth Ayiku
Millie Lies Low (NZ)
Dir. Michelle Savill
Pirates (UK)
Dir. Reggie Yates
International premiere
Pretty Problems
Dir. Kestrin Pantera
Spin Me Round (Ita-USA)
Dir. Jeff Baena
Stay The Night (Can)
Dir. Renuka Jeyapalan
The Cow
Dir. Eli Horowitz
The Prank
Dir. Maureen Bharoocha
To Leslie
Dir. Michael Morris
Documentary Spotlight
Crows Are White
Dir. Ahsen Nadeem
Diamond Hands: The Legend Of WallStreetBets
Dirs. Drea Cooper, Zackary Canepari
Facing Nolan
Dir. Bradley Jackson
Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down
Dirs. Julie Cohen, Betsy West
Kids In The Hall: Comedy Punks (Can)
Dir. Reginald Harkema
Mickey: The Story Of A Mouse
Dir. Jeff Malmberg
More Than Robots
Dir. Gillian Jacobs
Nothing Lasts Forever
Dir. Jason Kohn
North American Premiere
Shouting Down Midnight
Dir. Gretchen Stoeltje
Skate Dreams
Dir. Jessica Edwards
Split At The Root
Dir. Linda Goldstein Knowlton
Still Working 9 To 5
Dirs. Camille Hardman, Gary Lane
Tony Hawk: Until The Wheels Fall Off
Dir. Sam Jones
Under The Influence
Dir. Casey Neistat
We Are Not Ghouls
Dir. Chris James Thompson
We Feed People
Dir. Ron Howard
What We Leave Behind
Dir. Iliana Sosa
A Woman On The Outside
Dirs. Lisa Riordan Seville, Zara Katz
Your Friend, Memphis
Dir. David Zucker
Midnighters
Bitch Ass
Dir. Bill Posley
Deadstream
Dirs. Vanessa Winter, Joseph Winter
Hypochondriac
Dir. Addison Heimann
No Looking Back (Rus)
Dir. Kirill Sokolov
North American Premiere
Sissy (Australia)
Dirs. Hannah Barlow, Kane Senes
The Cellar (Bel-Ire)
Dir. Brendan Muldowney
Watcher (UAE-USA)
Dir. Chloe Okuno
Texas Premiere
X
Dir. Ti West
Visions
A Vanishing Fog (Col-Nor-Cze)
Dir. Augusto Sandino
International premiere
Chee$e (Trini-USA)
Dir. Augusto Sandino
Jethica
Dir. Pete Ohs
Self-Portrait (Can)
Dir. Joële Walinga
Sell/Buy/Date
Dir. Sarah Jones
Shadow (Australia)
Dir. Bruce Gladwin
The Blind Man Who Did Not Want To See Titanic (Fin)
Dir. Teemu Nikki
North American premiere
The Unknown Country
Dir. Morrisa Maltz
24 Beats Per Second
Anonymous Club (Australia)
Dir. Danny Cohen
International premiere
Cesária Évora (Cape Verde-Port)
Dir. Ana Sofia Fonseca
Cypher
Dir. Chris Moukarbel
DIO Dreamers Never Die
Dirs. Don Argott, Demian Fenton
Getting It Back: The Story Of Cymande (UK)
Dir. Tim Mackenzie-Smith
I Get Knocked Down (UK)
Dirs. Sophie Robinson, Dunstan Bruce
International premiere
In the Court Of The Crimson King (UK)
Dir. Toby Amies
Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story
Dirs. Frank Marshall, Ryan Suffern
Look At Me!
Dir. Sabaah Folayan
Omoiyari: A Song Film By Kishi Bashi
Dirs. Kaoru Ishibashi, Justin Taylor Smith
Really Good Rejects
Dir. Alice Gu
Santos–Skin To Skin
Dir. Kathryn Golden
Sheryl
Dir. Amy Scott
The Mojo Manifesto: The Life And Times Of Mojo Nixon
Dir. Matt Eskey
The Return Of Tanya Tucker
Dir. Kathlyn Horan
This Much I Know To Be True (UK)
Dir. Andrew Dominik
US premiere
Global
Presented by MUBI
Amansa Tiafi (Public Toilet Africa) (Gha)
Dir. Kofi Ofosu-Yeboah
The Locust (Iran-Ger)
Dir. Faeze Azizkhani
Raquel 1:1 (Bra)
Dir. Mariana Bastos
Without Prescription (Puerto Rico)
Dir. Juliana Maite
Women Do Cry (Bul-Fra)
Dirs. Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
Texas premiere
Festival Favorites
All are Texas premieres.
2nd Chance
Dir. Ramin Bahrani
32 Sounds
Dir. Sam Green
Aftershock
Dirs. Paula Eiselt, Tonya Lewis Lee
Boycott
Dir. Julia Bacha
Descendant
Dir. Margaret Brown
Emergency
Dir. Carey Williams
Fire Of Love
Dir. Sara Dosa
Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
Dir. Dean Fleischer-Camp
Master
Dir. Mariama Diallo
The Art Of Making It
Dir. Kelcey Edwards
TikTok, Boom.
Dir. Shalini Kantayya.
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