SXSW 2022: Festival Guide
Take a look at the movies and TV series that will screen at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival.
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- DirectorRichard LinklaterStarsMilo CoyJack BlackLee EddyA coming-of-age story set in the suburbs of Houston, Texas in the summer of 1969, centered around the historic Apollo 11 moon landing.Category: 2022 Headliners
- CreatorDonald GloverStarsDonald GloverBrian Tyree HenryLaKeith StanfieldEarn and his cousin, Alfred, try to make their way in the world through Atlanta's rap scene. Along the way they come face-to-face with social and economic issues touching on race, relationships, poverty, status and parenthood.Category: 2022 Headliners
- DirectorHalina ReijnStarsAmandla StenbergMaria BakalovaMyha'laWhen a group of rich 20-somethings plan a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game turns deadly in this fresh and funny look at backstabbing, fake friends, and one party gone very, very wrong.Category: 2022 Headliners
- DirectorDaniel KwanDaniel ScheinertStarsMichelle YeohStephanie HsuJamie Lee CurtisA middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.Category: 2022 Headliners
- DirectorAaron NeeAdam NeeStarsSandra BullockChanning TatumDaniel RadcliffeA reclusive romance novelist on a book tour with her cover model gets swept up in a kidnapping attempt that lands them both in a cutthroat jungle adventure.Category: 2022 Headliners
- DirectorTom GormicanStarsNicolas CagePedro PascalTiffany HaddishMoviestar Nick Cage is channeling his iconic characters as he's caught between a superfan and a CIA agent.Category: 2022 Headliners
- DirectorDanny CohenStarsCourtney BarnettAn intimate access to the private life of Courtney Barnett, an anti-influencer who is a powerful voice for our times.Category: 24 Beats Per Second
- DirectorAna Sofia FonsecaStarsCesária ÉvoraJanete ÉvoraJosé da SilvaWorld renowned Grammy Award winning singer Cesária Évora from Cabo Verde in a new, intimate documentary. With previously unseen footage and insights into the singer's life, the film follows the struggles and success of the Barefoot Diva.Category: 24 Beats Per Second
- CreatorShari HamrickMohamed Sayed BisheerMajdi SmiriStarsEve MauroMartin Dingle WallBrian KrauseWill Scott, one of the NSA's leading crypto-analysts is hired by the FBI to crack a heavily coded document. He soon discovers it's a hit list, putting him in the cross-hairs of the bad guys who want it back.Category: 24 Beats Per Second
- DirectorDon ArgottDemian FentonStarsRonnie James DioWendy DioMick WallThe first career spanning documentary on the heavy metal vocalist to be authorized by the artist's estate includes scenes with peers, family and friends; never before seen footage; personal photos.Category: 24 Beats Per Second
- DirectorTim MacKenzie-SmithStarsMasta AceJazzie BCut ChemistThey are the unsung heroes whose message of peace, love and funk sailed beyond Britain's shores and helped shape music for five decades. Long after they stopped playing, the music played on, so they returned to play some more.Category: 24 Beats Per Second
- DirectorDunstan BruceSophie RobinsonStarsDunstan BruceDunstan Bruce is 59 and he's struggling with the fact that the world seems to be going to hell in a handcart. He is angry and frustrated. How does a middle-aged, retired radical, who feels invisible get back up again?Category: 24 Beats Per Second
- DirectorToby AmiesStarsRobert FrippBiff BlumfumgagngeBill RieflinWhat began as a straightforward documentary about the cult rock band King Crimson as it turned 50, mutated into an exploration of time, death, family, and the transcendent power of music to change lives. But with jokes.Category: 24 Beats Per Second
- DirectorFrank MarshallRyan SuffernStarsGlen David AndrewsPhilip BaileyTarriona BallA film that not only captures the signature annual music and cultural event that has been called America's greatest festival in all of its beauty and glory, but also delves deep into the rich culture of The Big Easy.Category: 24 Beats Per Second
- DirectorSabaah FolayanStarsXXXTentacionCleopatra BernardSolomon SobandeAn inside look at a gifted young rapper's tumultuous coming-of-age with never-before-seen footage, as XXXTentacion's inner circle speaks out for the first time.Category: 24 Beats Per Second
- DirectorKishi BashiJustin Taylor SmithFollows Kishi Bashi as he goes on a journey to learn about history and its relevance when a media interview links the muslim ban and the immigration crisis at the USA-Mexico border with the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during WWII.Category: 24 Beats Per Second
- DirectorAlice GuStarsRodrigo AmaranteAndrew BirdPhoebe BridgersFollows Reuben Cox as he channels his inner instinct and artistic intuition in creating unique, custom guitars sought after by some of rock's biggest and most respected artists.Category: 24 Beats Per Second
- DirectorDevin AmarCharles ToddStarsRomeo SantosMero's journey takes us to the restaurants and bars of the countryside of the Dominican Republic, where the sound originated and retraces its rise to international recognition.Category: 24 Beats Per Second
- DirectorMatt EskeyStarsEric AmbelBulletheadJim DickinsonOn a bicycle trip across the country, a young Neill Kirby McMillan Jr. experiences The Mojo Revelation. After teaming up with the enigmatic Skid Roper, he unexpectedly finds mainstream success but makes a decision that could jeopardize his career.Category: 24 Beats Per Second
- DirectorKathlyn HoranStarsBrandi CarlileJames GarnerJerilyn SawyerDecades after Tanya Tucker slipped from the spotlight, music star Brandi Carlile takes it upon herself to write an entire album for her hero based on Tanya's extraordinary life, spurring the greatest comeback in country music history.Category: 24 Beats Per Second
- DirectorAndrew DominikStarsEarl CaveNick CaveAndrew DominikExplores the creative relationship and songs from Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' last two studio albums, "Ghosteen" and "Carnage".Category: 24 Beats Per Second
- DirectorDavid SievStarsSkyler JanssenMichael MeinholdChun SievA real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump's rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Killing Fields.Category: Documentary Feature Competition
- DirectorLachlan McleodStarsSandra PankhurstA fly-on-the-wall insight into the world of trauma cleaning through the journey of larger-than-life business owner Sandra Pankhurst and the workers at Melbourne's Specialised Trauma Cleaning Services.Category: Documentary Feature Competition
- DirectorBilly MiossiStarsAndrea AngrumSuzanne DoddJohn CasaniIn an unremarkable office space, a select group of aging engineers find themselves at the leading edge of discovery. Fighting outdated technology and time, Voyager's flight-team pursues humankind's greatest exploration.Category: Documentary Feature Competition
- DirectorDaresha KyiStarsTenita Lewis ArtryMarlee CastilloTabatha CastilloConnected via Facebook over 50,000 American mothers-many from conservative, Christian backgrounds- fully accept their LGBTQ+ children and call themselves "mama bears" because they fight ferociously for LGBTQ+ rights. This is their story.Category: Documentary Feature Competition
- DirectorRosa Ruth BoestenStarsGeorge Anthony MortonGeorge Anthony Morton, a classical painter who spent ten years in federal prison travels to his hometown to paint his family members. Going back forces George to face his past in his quest to rewrite the script of his life.Category: Documentary Feature Competition
- DirectorScott LeberechtStarsSteve 'Spaz' WilliamsPhil TippettRobert PatrickSteve 'Spaz' Williams is a pioneer in computer animation. His digital dinosaurs of JURASSIC PARK transformed Hollywood in 1993, but an appetite for anarchy and reckless disregard for authority may have cost him the recognition he deserved.Category: Documentary Feature Competition
- DirectorAmy Bandlien StorkelBryan StorkelStarsSteve GlewKathy GlewJosh GlewSteve Glew spent the 1990s smuggling rare pez dispensers into the USA from Eastern Europe, making millions of dollars. It was all magical until his arch-nemesis, The Pezident decided to destroy him.Category: Documentary Feature Competition
- DirectorAllison OttoStarsGlenn HowertonSarah MinnichBrandon Z RuizIn 1985, Willem de Kooning's "Woman-Ochre," one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, was cut from its frame at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. 32 years later, the painting was found hanging in a New Mexico home.Category: Documentary Feature Competition
- DirectorAhsen NadeemAfter decades of living a secret life, a filmmaker travels to a strict Japanese monastery in search of guidance but the only monk who will help him prefers ice cream and heavy metal over meditation.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorZackary CanepariDrea CooperStarsAlvan ChowMatt KellyAlisha B. WoodsWhen the smart money was betting GameStop would go under, an army of irreverent traders tried to take Wall Street down instead. Diamond Hands is their story. This is the legend of the subreddit/WallStreetBets.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorBradley JacksonStarsAlan AshbyBuzzie BavasiCraig BiggioIn the world of Major League Baseball no one has created a mythology like Nolan Ryan. Told from the point of view of the hitters who faced him and the teammates who revered him, Facing Nolan is the definitive documentary of a Texas legend.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorJulie CohenBetsy WestStarsBarack ObamaGabrielle GiffordsMark KellyLooking at the former congresswoman's courage and perseverance in the aftermath of the 2011 assassination attempt that left her partially paralyzed and with a language impairment, aphasia.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorReg HarkemaStarsFred ArmisenLauren AshJay BaruchelThrough never before-seen archive material, interviews with celebrities, industry insiders, rabid fans and the Kids In The Hall themselves.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorJeff MalmbergStarsCaden ChambersEzra RileyKii ArensMickey Mouse is one of the most enduring symbols in our history. Those three simple circles take on meaning for virtually everyone on the planet.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorGillian JacobsStarsAaron DolginKanon NakajimaJoy UeharaFour teams of teenagers from around the world prepare for the 2020 First Robotics Competition, but in a year like no other, the kids learn that there is more to the competition than just robots.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorJason KohnStarsDusan SimicMartin RapaportAja RadenIllusions and reality merge, where authenticity and imagination overlap, and questions arise about the value we place on the goods around us.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorGretchen StoeltjeStarsWendy DavisThis timely doc follows Texas State Senator Wendy Davis's filibuster in 2013, when she stood for 13 hours to fight an antiabortion law threatening women's access to lifesaving healthcare.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorJessica EdwardsStarsJessyka BaileyJordyn BarrattSam BoltonIt follows the rise of women's skateboarding, profiling a group of women whose pursuit of self-expression, equality, and freedom have created an international movement.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorLinda Goldstein KnowltonWhen a Guatemalan mother seeking asylum was separated from her kids under Zero Tolerance Policy, a Facebook post by a mom in Queens coalesced into a movement as thousands of like-minded women across the US refused to stand by quietly.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorCamille HardmanGary LaneStarsAllison JanneyJane FondaRita MorenoWhen #1 comedy, 9 to 5, starring Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman and Lily Tomlin, exploded on the screens in 1980, the laughs hid a serious message about women in the office. Still Working 9 to 5 explores 40 years of inequality.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorSam JonesStarsTony HawkStacy PeraltaRob Roy FitzgeraldFollows famous skater Tony Hawk's personal life, career and relationship with skateboarding, including never-before-seen footage and unprecedented access to Hawk, along with interviews with figures from the skateboarding world.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorCasey NeistatStarsDavid DobrikThe rise and fall of the biggest YouTuber in the world whose feel-good videos masked the dark and reckless new ethos of online celebrity culture.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorChris James ThompsonStarsYvonne BradleyClive Stafford SmithDarrel VandeveldUS Air Force JAG Attorney Yvonne Bradley was assigned to defend a man held at Guantanamo Bay. Believing Guantanamo held "the worst of the worst", her world was turned upside down once she arrived in Cuba and began to untangle an unimaginable case.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorRon HowardStarsCarlota AndrésInés AndrésJosé AndrésA chronicle of how Andrés and his nonprofit rebuilds nations in the wake of disaster, providing healthy food to those affected.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorIliana SosaAfter a lifetime of bus rides to the US to visit his children, Julián quietly starts building a house in rural Mexico. In filming his work, his granddaughter crafts a personal and poetic love letter to him and his homeland.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorZara KatzLisa Riordan SevilleStarsKristal BushNyvae ScottKristal SpeaksKristal is a young, ambitious Philadelphian driven to keep families connected to their incarcerated loved ones. But when her father and brother return from prison, she confronts the ultimate question: can she reunite her own family?Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorDavid P. ZuckerStarsMemphis DiAngelisMemphis, a young man with cerebral palsy, is caught between the world's expectations and his own ambitions. His story is an odyssey of dogged determination: a search for work, love, and freedom - no matter what.Category: Documentary Spotlight
- DirectorRamin BahraniStarsRichard DavisAn exploration of Richard Davis, the inventor of the modern-day bulletproof vest who shot himself at least 192 times to prove his product worked.Category: Festival Favorites
- DirectorSam GreenStarsEdgar ChoueririJoanna FangSam GreenExplores the elemental phenomenon of sound and its power to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us.Category: Festival Favorites
- DirectorPaula EiseltTonya Lewis LeeStarsHelena GrantTwila MilesNeel ShahFollowing the deaths of two young women due to childbirth complications, two bereaved families galvanize activists, birth-workers and physicians to reckon with one of the most pressing American crises today: the US maternal health crisis.Category: Festival Favorites
- DirectorJulia BachaWhen a news publisher in Arkansas, an attorney in Arizona and a speech therapist in Texas are told they must choose between their jobs and their political beliefs, they launch legal battles.Category: Festival Favorites
- DirectorMargaret BrownStarsTheodore ArthurGary AutreyChris DavisFollows descendants of the survivors from the Clotilda, the last ship that carried enslaved Africans to the United States, as they reclaim their story.Category: Festival Favorites
- DirectorCarey WilliamsStarsRJ CylerDonald Elise WatkinsSebastian ChaconReady for a night of legendary partying, three college students must weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an unexpected situation.Category: Festival Favorites
- DirectorSara DosaStarsMiranda JulyKatia KrafftMaurice KrafftIntrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded.Category: Festival Favorites
- DirectorDean Fleischer CampStarsJenny SlateDean Fleischer CampIsabella RosselliniA cash-strapped documentary maker decides to make his newest documentary about a mollusk shell he finds living in his Airbnb with his friends.Category: Festival Favorites
- DirectorMariama DialloStarsRegina HallZoe ReneeJulia NightingaleThree women strive to find their place at an elite Northeastern university. When anonymous racist attacks target a Black freshman, who insists she is being haunted by ghosts, each woman must determine where the real menace lies.Category: Festival Favorites
- DirectorKelcey EdwardsStarsFelipe BaezaSebastian ErrazurizAndrew GoriThe film follows a diverse group of young artists on the brink of success or failure as they challenge systems, break barriers, and risk it all with the goal of making it in an industry where all the rules are currently being rewritten.Category: Festival Favorites
- DirectorShalini KantayyaStarsRichard Cannon IIIJon 'TheBlondeJon' MadridJonathan MadridWith TikTok crowned the world's most downloaded app, these are the personal stories of a cultural phenomenon, told through an ensemble cast of Gen-Z natives, journalists and experts alike.Category: Festival Favorites
- DirectorKofi Ofosu-YeboahStarsBriggitte AppiahDavid KluRicky AdelayitorWhen reticent Ama returns to the city where she was gifted to a white art collector as a little girl, the quest to reclaim her stolen childhood quickly goes into a tailspin when she recruits an ex-lover on her mission.Category: Global
- DirectorFaezeh AzizkhaniStarsHanieh TavassoliPegah AhangaraniPedram SharifiHanieh is a 40 year old woman who has written a film script based on her own life. Now she is faced with the judgment of the others who call her "bastard".Category: Global
- DirectorMariana BastosStarsValentina HerszageRavel AndradeEmílio de MelloRaquel is a teenager who moves with her father to a small town, in search of a new life. During her first days there she believes she is given an important and controversial mission related to the Bible.Category: Global
- DirectorJuliana MaitéStarsCarola GarcíaÁngel Manuel GarcíaGabriel LeyvaIt follows Olivia who suffers from OCD, a mental condition that manifests itself through a voice in her head that compels her to brush her teeth constantly.Category: Global
- DirectorVesela KazakovaMina MilevaStarsMaria BakalovaVesela KazakovaIossif SurchadzhievA family full of women in a society where "gender" is not a familiar word.Category: Global
- DirectorMo McRaeStarsJustin HartleySheila CarrascoCleopatra ColemanJames and Vanessa are ostensibly the perfect married couple; beautiful, successful, and smart. Their lives spiral out of control when they decide to seek justice against a neighbor they saw commit a crime on the evening news.Category: Narrative Feature Competition
- DirectorJames MorosiniStarsPatton OswaltJames MorosiniClaudia SulewskiA hopelessly estranged father catfishes his son in an attempt to reconnect.Category: Narrative Feature Competition
- DirectorAntonia Campbell-HughesStarsCosmo JarvisRhys MannionAntonia Campbell-HughesA formidable man who cares for nothing is forced to confront his self-destructive core when a violent car crash involving a sexually charged boy who epitomizes life, challenges him to face his truth.Category: Narrative Feature Competition
- DirectorColin WestStarsJim GaffiganRhea SeehornKatelyn NaconWhen the host of a failing children's science show endeavors to achieve his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut by constructing a rocket ship in his garage, a series of bizarre events occur that cause him to question his own reality.Category: Narrative Feature Competition
- DirectorVasilisa KuzminaStarsElizaveta YankovskayaAnna MikhalkovaIvan FominovA child prodigy, the youngest Soviet poetess, and by the age of 27 a completely lost girl Nika Turbina is struggling with her past and for her future at the turn of the century.Category: Narrative Feature Competition
- DirectorGracie OttoStarsKrew BoylanDaniel WebberRose ByrneA realtor pursues a new career as a Dolly Parton impersonator.Category: Narrative Feature Competition
- DirectorNyla InnuksukStarsTroy JamesKristian BruunShaun BensonIn Nunavut, four girls who like horror and alien movies, love their phones and even their poor elders who believe in shapeshifters because "they didn't have the internet" realize local disappearances are linked to a shapeshifting alien.Category: Narrative Feature Competition
- DirectorBeth de AraújoStarsStefanie EstesOlivia LuccardiDana MillicanPlaying out in real time, an elementary school teacher organizes a mixer of like-minded women, when she encounters a woman from her past, leading to a volatile chain of events.Category: Narrative Feature Competition
- DirectorMichael TullyStarsSuzanne VegaSuzanne Vega reinterprets two talks from Carson McCullers.Category: Narrative Spotlight
- DirectorElizabeth AyikuStarsA'Keyah Dasia WilliamsShamar PhilippeTamir ElbassirSlice of life film about Mya, an ambitious young woman who learns the hard way that life doesn't pause when one decides it's time to heal.Category: Narrative Spotlight
- DirectorMichelle SavillStarsAna ScotneyJillian NguyenChris AlosioAnxiety-ridden Millie is on her way from Wellington to New York for an internship at a prestigious architecture firm when a moment of panic causes her to miss her flight.Category: Narrative Spotlight
- DirectorReggie YatesStarsElliot EdusahJordan PetersReda ElazouarThree eighteen-year-old friends journey from North to South London to celebrate New Year's Eve at the turn of the millennium.Category: Narrative Spotlight
- DirectorKestrin PanteraStarsBritt RentschlerMichael TennantJ.J. NolanJack and Lindsay are invited on a getaway trip with affluent strangers: down the rabbit hole, and into the most unhinged weekend of their lives. Can their relationship survive?Category: Narrative Spotlight
- DirectorJeff BaenaStarsAlison BrieJake PickingStella ChestnutA woman wins an all-expenses-paid trip to a company's gorgeous "institute" outside of Florence, and also the chance to meet the restaurant chain's wealthy and charismatic owner. She finds a different adventure than the one she imagined.Category: Narrative Spotlight
- DirectorRenuka JeyapalanStarsAndrea BangJoe ScarpellinoHumberly GonzálezA failed work opportunity prompts chronically single Grace to pursue a one night stand with a stranger. Turns out he's an on-the-outs professional athlete in town with a problem of his own. Maybe they can help each other.Category: Narrative Spotlight
- DirectorEli HorowitzStarsWinona RyderDermot MulroneyJohn Gallagher Jr.When Kath and her boyfriend arrive at a remote cabin in the redwoods, they find a mysterious younger couple already there. Her boyfriend disappears with the young woman, and Kath becomes obsessed with finding an explanation.Category: Narrative Spotlight
- DirectorMaureen BharoochaStarsRita MorenoConnor KalopsisRamona YoungBen and his slacker friend, Tanner play a prank on their high school physics professor. When she fails them on a test, they teach the demanding instructor a lesson by falsely accusing her of murder on social media.Category: Narrative Spotlight
- DirectorMichael MorrisStarsAndrea RiseboroughDrew YoungbloodTom VirtueInspired by true events. A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption.Category: Narrative Spotlight
- DirectorBill PosleyStarsTeon KelleyTunde LaleyeMe'Lisa SellersA gang initiation goes wrong when a group of four recruits break into a house of horror, as they're all forced to play deadly games for their lives. Win and you live - lose and you die.Category: Midnighters
- DirectorJoseph WinterVanessa WinterStarsJoseph WinterMelanie StoneJason K. WixomA disgraced internet personality attempts to win back his followers by livestreaming one night alone in a haunted house. But when he accidentally pisses off a vengeful spirit, his big comeback event becomes a real-time fight for his life.Category: Midnighters
- DirectorAddison HeimannStarsZach VillaDevon GrayeMadeline ZimaA young potter's life devolves into chaos as he loses function of his body while being haunted by the physical manifestation of his childhood trauma.Category: Midnighters
- DirectorKirill SokolovStarsIgor GrabuzovVitaliy KhaevViktoriya KorotkovaAfter four years in prison, Olya decides to start over. And first of all she wants to get her ten-year-old daughter back.Category: Midnighters
- DirectorHannah BarlowKane SenesStarsAisha DeeHannah BarlowEmily De MargheritiTeen best friends Cecilia and Emma, run into each other after a decade. Cecilia is invited to Emma's bachelorette weekend where she gets stuck in a remote cabin with her high school bully and a taste for revenge.Category: Midnighters
- DirectorBrendan MuldowneyStarsElisha CuthbertEoin MackenAbby FitzKeira Woods' daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house. She soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family's souls forever.Category: Midnighters
- DirectorChloe OkunoStarsMaika MonroeKarl GlusmanBurn GormanA young American actress moves with her husband to Bucharest, and begins to suspect that a stranger who watches her from an apartment window may be a serial killer.Category: Midnighters
- DirectorTi WestStarsMia GothJenna OrtegaBrittany SnowIn 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the crew find themselves fighting for their lives.Category: Midnighters
- DirectorAugusto SandinoStarsChristian BallesterosNury MárquezSebastian PiiIt is based on a guardian of the mountains who is condemned by his fate and strives to protect the fragile ecosystem he inhabits while caring for his ailing father.Category: Visions
- DirectorPete OhsStarsCallie HernandezAshley Denise RobinsonAndy FaulknerWhen Jessica's stalker surprises her in New Mexico, she must seek help from beyond the grave to get rid of him for good.Category: Visions
- DirectorJoële WalingaA portrait of humanity as captured by its surveillance cameras. Woven together as a poem, Self-Portrait moves from moment to moment around the world, beginning with the frozen storminess of winter, to the melt of spring, the lush heat of summer, and finally the decay and cooling of autumn: the dawn of winter. The film shows a candid peek at humanity as it has chosen to document itself - all of these cameras set up for primarily capitalistic, "property"-protecting purposes, but yielding a beauty and a truth - an incidental portrait.Category: Visions
- DirectorSarah JonesStarsBryan CranstonRosario DawsonIlana GlazerOne female comedian with many voices on a journey to better understand sex work, and her own personal relationship to it.Category: Visions
- DirectorBruce GladwinStarsMark DeansScott PriceSimon LahertyA group of activists hold a public meeting, desperate to save the world. As the meeting unravels, they discover the greatest threat to their future is already in the room.Category: Visions
- DirectorTeemu NikkiStarsPetri PoikolainenMarjaana MaijalaSamuli JaskioJaakko and Sirpa have never met face to face but they talk on the phone every day. When he hears about her declining health, he decides to go meet her in another city; a challenge if you can't see and are paralyzed from the chest down.Category: Visions
- DirectorMorrisa MaltzStarsLily GladstonePam RichterTommy HeitkampAn unexpected invitation rushes a grieving young woman into a lonely road trip through the American Midwest towards the border between Texas and Mexico.Category: Visions