2025 SXSW Audience Award Winner for Narrative Spotlight
Director
Jay Duplass
Year
2025
Starring
Michael Strassner, Liz Larsen, Olivia Luccardi
On Christmas Eve, Cliff, a newly sober improv comedian, cracks a tooth and lands in the emergency care of Didi, an older no-nonsense dentist. What begins as a routine check-up sparks an unpredictable evening of misadventures. Together, Cliff and Didi fight to overcome being shut out by their families, face their biggest fears, and discover their own surprising and tender connection.
As Finn, now 17, struggles with life after his captivity, his sister begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp known as Alpine Lake.
Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Paul Walter Hauser, Stephen Graham
Bruce Springsteen’s journey crafting his 1982 album Nebraska, which emerged as he recorded Born in the USA with the E Street Band. Based on Warren Zanes’ book.
Bugonia
Opening
Rating
R
Director
Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring
Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, Alicia Silverstone
Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
Back to the Future
Opening
Rating
PG
Director
Robert Zemeckis
Year
1985
Starring
Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.
Wicked: For Good
Opening
Rating
PG
Director
Jon M. Chu
Starring
Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Ariana Grande, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum
Follows Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. The second of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical.