Festival
A Shorts-centric Preview of SXSW 2025
With more than 21 S/W alums featured in the 2025 SXSW lineup, let’s dive into their films and see what they have in store!
Experimental
Sam Davis
& Rayka Zehtabchi
(SHn(y)o͞of)
Bill and Tonya Martin don't speak English anymore. This is the story of Martinese.
Dark Comedy
Carl Laudan
The Big Thing
It's 1889 and the world is about to end thanks to an unlikely friendship between Lucifer and Archangel Michael.
Documentary
Maceo Frost
Raised By Krump
A visually splendid short documentary explores how the Compton/South Central-born dance movement called “Krumping” has helped the lives and emotions of some of the area’s most influential and prolific dancers
Sci‑Fi
Matt Inns
The Ballad of Maddog Quinn
Wanted and on the run, an infamous outlaw is pursued across the steam-powered dystopia of The State by a posse of relentless lawmen. In this desolate land of dust, rust and blood, there's not many problems that a fast horse and a gun can't solve, but things aren't always what they seem on the wild wasteland frontier.
Drama
Julian Marshall
Obey the Giant
The first narrative film about the early life of street artist Shepard Fairey and the origin of his OBEY GIANT street art campaign.
Sci‑Fi
Etienne Larragueta
Hello World
In a the near future, a private company has developed a technology that requires its clients to store their memory data on a single server. In this highly controlled world, a young woman has the power to change things.
Filmmaker Update
Filmmaker Update: Chris Shepherd
Chris Shepherd provides an update on his latest work: An animated short centered around prank letters sent by playwright Joe Orton and a follow-up to his 2002 short 'Dad's Dead' - 'Johnno's Dead'.
Sci‑Fi
Marcus Alqueres
The Flying Man
A mysterious vigilante takes to the skies to rid a city of crime
Horror
Valentin Petit
Le Bruit de La Lumiere (The Noise of the Light)
Pablo and Marius make a disturbing discovery about their childhood friend Lou: she appears to be able to synthesise into sound the light she is exposed to. But as she soon becomes an instrument of their musical experiences, her gift turns into a sort of curse…
