SXSW Feature Film Announces 139 Movie Lineup [Complete List]

The South By Southwest film festival has announced its feature film lineup with their selective 139 movies. The movies range from long time to fresh faced film makers.

The movies for the festival were selected from a pool of 2,456 entries. SXSW will also announce the films to be shown in the Midnighters, Festival Favorites and Special Events categories next week along with the Short Film Program. An additional program announcement is expected on Feb. 9.

Some of the more anticipated films come from director Ti West who brings the western, In a Valley of Violence with Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some, successor of Dazed and Confused. Another awaited film is Pee-wee’s Big Holiday which is set to debut on Netflix later this year.

“I don’t know if anything is new this year except for our commitment to discovery and fresh voices. Which isn’t new, it’s a continuation,” Janet Pierson, head of SXSW Film, told The Los Angeles Times . “Every year it gets harder as there are more and more alums that we love. But in a lot of cases we opted for new voices. We’re very committed to that. It’s not easy, there’s no easy trend. Some years they jump out at me, and this year I was staring at the board trying to think of how do I answer this question when it comes up.”

PHOTO: Duplass Brothers at the STK Supper Suite at SXSW.

FULL LINEUP FOR SXSW 

Narrative Feature Competition

The Arbalest
Before the Sun Explodes
Claire in Motion
collective:unconscious
Donald Cried
Hunter Gatherer
Miss Stevens
The Other Half
A Stray
Trespecos

Documentary Feature Competition

Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America
Alive and Kicking
Best and Most Beautiful Things
Goodnight Brooklyn – The Story of Death by Audio
The Liberators
Orange Sunshine
Ovarian Psycos
The Seer
The Space in Between – Marina Abramovic and Brazil
TOWER

Headliners

Demolition
Don’t Think Twice
Everybody Wants Some
Hardcore Henry
In a Valley of Violence
Midnight Special
Pee-wee’s Big Holiday
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru

Narrative Spotlight

9 Rides
Another Evil
BLACK
Black Mountain Poets
From Nowhere
I Am Not a Serial Killer
Jean of the Joneses
Long Nights Short Mornings
The Master Cleanse
My Blind Brother
Rainbow Time
Shovel Buddies
Slash
Suntan
The Trust
The Waiting
War on Everyone

Documentary Spotlight

Asperger’s Are Us
The Bandit
Beware of Slenderman
Chicken People
The Dwarvenaut
Fantastic Lies
Hit It Hard
The Hollywood Shorties
Insatiable: The Homaru Cantu Story
Learning To See
Mr. Gaga
Seven Songs for a Long Life
Silicon Cowboys
The Slippers
Starving the Beast: The Battle to Disrupt and Reform America’s Public Universities
Thank You Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon

Visions

The Alchemist Cookbook
American Fable
Baby Bump
I Am Belfast
In Pursuit of Silence
Jules and Dolores
Karaoke Crazies
Little Sister
LOEV
My Beautiful Broken Brain
Operator
Spaceship
Teenage Cocktail
Under the Sun

Episodic

Outcast
Preacher
Search Party
Vice Principals
You Me Her

24 Beats Per Second

The American Epic Sessions
And Punching the Clown
The Art of Organized Noize
Artist & Repertoire
BANG! The Bert Berns Story
Born to Be Blue
Gary Numan: Android in La La Land
Honky Tonk Heaven: Legend of the Broken Spoke
I Go Back Home — Jimmy Scott
Miles Ahead
Miss Sharon Jones!
A Song For You: The Austin City Limits Story
Soundbreaking — Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music
The Smart Studios Story
We Are X

SXGlobal

BODKIN RAS
Dead Slow Ahead
Ghostland
KILL ME PLEASE
Papagajka
UIO: Take me for a Ride
YARN