Complete event listing for
Alamo Ritz 2
320 East 6th St
Friday, March 9
*SXSW 2012 SXEncore screenings were determined by popular vote on Tugg.com. An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his f...
Director(s): Scott TeemsNarrative Feature
109 min
"Charles Bradley: Soul of America" captures the extraordinary late in life rise of 62 year old aspiring soul singer Charles Bradley, whose debut album, "No Time For Dreaming," took him from a hard lif...
Director(s): Poull BrienDocumentary Feature
74 min
Helena is on the verge of fulfilling a dream as she prepares to open her own business: a neighborhood grocery store. She hires a maid, Paula, to take care of her house and daughter. But when her husband Octavio is sudden...
Director(s): Juliana Rojas, Marco DutraNarrative Feature
99 min
Saturday, March 10
Luca and Gustav have to decide: should they stay in Italy, or leave it, like so many of their friends have done already? Looking for reasons not to do the same, the two Italians jump into their old Fiat 500 and go on a e...
Director(s): Gustav Hofer, Luca RagazziDocumentary Feature
75 min
"Bijuka" (Scarecrow) tells the true story of Lalli, a young woman who is attempting to escape from an abusive arranged marriage. After she is forced to stand trial for her efforts to flee, Lalli is gang raped b...
Director(s): Ashtar SayedNarrative Feature
74 min
Director Eva Stotz visited interesting people all over the world, whom she found through online host networks, emerging for a limited time in their everyday life. The film introduces a music-loving Tuareg in Mali, a wild...
Director(s): Eva StotzDocumentary Feature
92 min
Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses migrate from the United States to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the brightly-colored camionetas that bring people to work each day. Sin...
Director(s): Mark KendallDocumentary Feature
71 min
Can a capitalist music producer and a communist doctor and artist work together? In Cuba they can! Michel Miglis is a Swedish music producer, known for his provocative ideas and El Medico is a doctor and a singer, born a...
Director(s): Daniel FridellDocumentary Feature
85 min
For Ernst, the perfect disguise was to play himself.......
Director(s): Minka Farthing-KohlNarrative Short
9 min
A prostitute finds new ways to attract business.......
Director(s): Mike DamanskisNarrative Short
1 min
Take: A pinch of inspiration A handful of joy 2 spoonfuls of courage 3/8 of a litre of desire A splash of pride 3 heaped tablespoons of laughter A kg of saltwater A cup of going the distance You’ll know when its read...
Director(s): Rebecca Sloan, Joseph PellingNarrative Short
3 min
Keith Schofield’s original, outrageous and very, very funny promo for Duck Sauce’s single Big Bad Wolf has been burning up the internet, causing millions of pelvises to be thrusted worldwide. An instant classic.......
Director(s): Keith SchofieldMusic Video
2 min
Normal guy, normal walk.......
Director(s): David LewandowskiAnimated Short
An autobiographical video diary log (vlog) that Jillian Mayer records for her unborn grandchildren. Envisioned as an authentic solution to fleshing out the detached model of the family tree, Mayer hearkens to bygone time...
Director(s): Jillian MayerNarrative Short
1 min
An absurdist Wall Street butt fucking comedy.......
Director(s): Steve CollinsNarrative Short
4 min
"Gl@zin" is part of a larger narrative where a group of 6 anonymous girls innocently paint their privates and rig them to lip-synch their favorite song as a gift to the band.......
Director(s): Lucas Leyva, Jillian MayerMusic Video
3 min
Two robotic blue-collar workers take a brief hiatus to discuss delusions of grandeur.......
Director(s): James Dastoli, Robert DastoliNarrative Short
2 min
Man And Gun is a dark romantic comedy that chronicles one man's love affair with guns and the very special .50-caliber assault rifle that wins his heart. Written and directed by Brian McOmber from the band Dirty Projecto...
Director(s): Brian McOmberNarrative Short
13 min
Harrison dances within an amazingly lush, deep well of crystal clear water, undisturbed by his onlooking friends.......
Director(s): Jono FoleyNarrative Short
1 min
Cheap Extermination Director: Minka Farthing-Kohl For Ernst, the perfect disguise was to play himself. Cherry On Top Director: Mike Damanskis A prostitute finds new ways to attract business. Don't Hug Me I'm Scared Dir...
Director(s): VariousShorts Program
88 min
Patrick is a brilliant doctor, in an obsessive race to alter his own grim prognosis. During a series of unconventional experiments, he discovers a scientific loophole unlike anything he had ever imagined. In pursuit of t...
Director(s): Daniel DelPurgatorioNarrative Short
14 min
Amidst a zombie outbreak a broken man on the run seeks refuge in a shed and accidentally locks himself inside. Isolated, alone and low on supplies, he is quickly stripped of all his humanity as he struggles to survive. A...
Director(s): Aaron McCann, Stefan A. RadanovichNarrative Short
15 min
A tribe of Norse warriors traipse across a barren land after battle. Bloodied and wounded, their chief is near death. He is about to hand over power to his son when an army of a completely different kind…descends upon ...
Director(s): Johnny BarringtonNarrative Short
13 min
A stuffy, upscale dinner party is interrupted by the zombie apocalypse in this gory black comedy.......
Director(s): Todd CoberyNarrative Short
6 min
Sunday, March 11
Mr. Sedlacek wrote one-sentence entries in his chronicle from 1981 to 2005, everyday stories of his life, his village, and of international events. This animated documentary is based on 80 of those entries.......
Director(s): Rudolf SmidAnimated Short
17 min
"The Contest" is an observational documentary made during the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition Preliminaries in 2010, depicting the world of the contestants' inner deliberations and emotions. The...
Director(s): JAKUB CUMANDocumentary Short
15 min
The 5th of May 2005, Beverly Charpentier declares an oath of allegiance to Catherine Robbe-Grillet. Hereby she gives up her freedom, for the rest of her life.......
Director(s): Lina MannheimerDocumentary Short
13 min
Doctor Rao passed away. Family and friends are celebrating his last journey.......
Director(s): Alexej Tchernyi, Wu ZhiAnimated Short
6 min
Fourteen little kids go over an unsolved football mystery, and they end up teaching an unexpected life lesson to grown-ups.......
Director(s): Roger Gómez, Daniel ResinesDocumentary Short
10 min
“Ballet dancers get dodgy feet from dancing and I get dodgy hands from making their shoes!” Ballet shoes may be worn by delicate girls, but they’re crafted by burly men whose hands tell another story... We delve i...
Director(s): Tali YankelevichDocumentary Short
9 min
Chronicle of Oldrich S. (Czech Republic) Director: Rudolf Smid Mr. Sedlacek wrote one-sentence entries in his chronicle from 1981 to 2005, everyday stories of his life, his village, and of international events. This anim...
Director(s): VariousShorts Program
91 min
A “quasi-musical” approach on contemporary urban life that reflects Brazilian society and many others throughout the world. This documentary describes at the same time a place, a city and a country.......
Director(s): Renata Pinheiro, Sergio OliveiraDocumentary Short
21 min
Schiller said there is a watcher at the gate of the mind, and it is the watcher that prevents creativity, because creativity and insanity are almost the same thing. The ventriloquist’s doll can kill off the watcher of ...
Director(s): Nina ContiDocumentary Feature
59 min
Henrik is in deep trouble. His girlfriend has split, drug and alcohol abuse have gotten the upper hand, and he's deeply in debt. When everything is most dire and his woes seem wholly insurmountable, a door to new life is...
Director(s): Christian Sønderby JepsenDocumentary Feature
86 min
The animated documentary feature “Crulic – The Path to Beyond” tells the life’s story of Crulic, the 33 year old Romanian who died in a Polish prison during a hunger strike. The acclaimed Romanian actor, Vlad Iva...
Director(s): Anca DamianDocumentary Feature
73 min
At the tender age of 70 she started recording and releasing her own music straight from the living room. 7 years later she had 59 albums to her name with more than 600 songs – an eccentric myriad of catchy compositions...
Director(s): Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir, Orri Jónsson, Ingibjörg BirgisdóttirDocumentary Feature
62 min
World War II did not end with complete defeat for the Nazis – some of them managed to utilize their secret technologies to flee to the dark side of the Moon. There, deep within their swastika fortress, Schwarze Sonne,...
Director(s): Timo VuorensolaNarrative Feature
93 min
Monday, March 12
The documentary tells the story of Mustafa, a 16-year-old boy who works as a pastry shop apprentice in Gaziantep, the "Capital of Baklava", in Eastern Turkey. His dream is to become a famous pastry chef in Ista...
Director(s): Angelos AbazoglouDocumentary Feature
83 min
Luca and Gustav have to decide: should they stay in Italy, or leave it, like so many of their friends have done already? Looking for reasons not to do the same, the two Italians jump into their old Fiat 500 and go on a e...
Director(s): Gustav Hofer, Luca RagazziDocumentary Feature
75 min
Max leaves his lakeside town to live with his father on the fringe of suburban Arizona. Both fever dream and quiet trip, "PAVILION" creates a deep and ethereal world, showing us an innocent way of life coming ...
Director(s): Tim SuttonNarrative Feature
70 min
At a time when the country is rethinking its drug policies large and small, one state rises to the forefront of national attention. Once a pioneer in legalizing medical marijuana, the state of Montana is poised to become...
Director(s): Rebecca Richman CohenDocumentary Feature
72 min
Bruno loves his wife Maxine, but his love and body are slowly undergoing a transformation. Something is beginning to stir inside him and there is nothing he can do to stop it. Because when you first delve into the dark ...
Director(s): Christoffer BoeNarrative Feature
83 min
The dilapidated suburbia of Edenstown casts a shadow over Tommy Cowley’s life. Trapped there by his agoraphobia since his wife was fatally attacked by twisted feral children, he now finds himself terrorized by the same...
Director(s): Ciarán FoyNarrative Feature
84 min
Tuesday, March 13
The animated documentary feature “Crulic – The Path to Beyond” tells the life’s story of Crulic, the 33 year old Romanian who died in a Polish prison during a hunger strike. The acclaimed Romanian actor, Vlad Iva...
Director(s): Anca DamianDocumentary Feature
73 min
Academy-Award-winner Melissa Leo gives a fierce and restrained performance as Francine, a woman struggling to find her place in a downtrodden lakeside town after leaving behind a life in prison. Taking a series of jobs w...
Director(s): Brian M. Cassidy, Melanie ShatzkyNarrative Feature
74 min
In search of a simpler life, a young couple returns home to Alabama where they set out to eat the way their grandparents did – locally and seasonally. But as their new diet forces them to navigate the agricultural indu...
Director(s): Andrew Beck GraceDocumentary Feature
62 min
It's always a good day for a funeral at St. Mark's Middle School. Andy and Charlie, two altar servers, don't just get to miss class anytime a parishioner kicks the bucket, they cut out early and play hooky as soon as the...
Director(s): Kevin McManus, Matthew McManusNarrative Feature
85 min
"Dollhouse" explores a night in the life of a group of street teens from Dublin's inner city who break into a house in an upper class suburb. The break-in quickly moves into a night of frenzy, driven by a serie...
Director(s): Kirsten SheridanNarrative Feature
95 min
"Girls Against Boys" is a character-driven, psychological thriller about two girls on a killing spree in New York. With edgy and ironic humor and a darkly meditative tone that is far more European or Asian than...
Director(s): Austin ChickNarrative Feature
87 min
Wednesday, March 14
Luca and Gustav have to decide: should they stay in Italy, or leave it, like so many of their friends have done already? Looking for reasons not to do the same, the two Italians jump into their old Fiat 500 and go on a e...
Director(s): Gustav Hofer, Luca RagazziDocumentary Feature
75 min
When Robert's girlfriend dies in a car accident, he turns his grief against his younger sister Jo. Jo dives into a new hobby - ice hockey - where she gathers the strength to bring her brother back to the land of the livi...
Director(s): Micah MageeNarrative Short
23 min
A musical documentary that tells the true life story of Trevor's great-uncle Jimmy in six original songs.......
Director(s): Trevor AndersonDocumentary Short
25 min
Heimkommen (Coming Home) Director: Micah Magee When Robert's girlfriend dies, he turns his grief against his younger sister Jo. Jo plays ice hockey with the boys, hoping to gather strength to bring her brother back to th...
Director(s): VariousShorts Program
72 min
Bill finds himself in a hospital struggling with memory problems, in this third and final chapter to Don Hertzfeldt's "Everything will be OK" trilogy.......
Director(s): Don HertzfeldtAnimated Short
23 min
Rocky and Lulu live in opposite sides of the planet: they bump into each other in ChatRoulette and decide to stay in touch. They get closer, but we find out more about them that they will never tell each other. It's a lo...
Director(s): Alexis Dos SantosNarrative Short
24 min
In Bahia, Brazil, generations of impoverished families live in palafitas, shacks built on stilts over the ocean bay. When the government threatens to reclaim the bay in the name of ecological restoration, hundreds of fam...
Director(s): Annie EastmanDocumentary Feature
75 min
A man is on a holiday in the woods with his wife and two kids when they are surprised by the arrival of an uninvited guest. Suddenly, he experiences a time lapse. Before he understands what’s going on, he finds himself...
Director(s): Joko AnwarNarrative Feature
87 min
Thursday, March 15
King Kelly is an aspiring internet star who performs webcam stripteases. When Kelly's car - filled with illegal narcotics that she must deliver - is stolen by her bitter ex-boyfriend on the 4th of July, Kelly and her bes...
Director(s): Andrew NeelNarrative Feature
84 min
The documentary tells the story of Mustafa, a 16-year-old boy who works as a pastry shop apprentice in Gaziantep, the "Capital of Baklava", in Eastern Turkey. His dream is to become a famous pastry chef in Ista...
Director(s): Angelos AbazoglouDocumentary Feature
83 min
"Sleepwalk With Me" is a comedy written by, directed by and starring comedian Mike Birbiglia, based on a true story he told in his one-man off-Broadway show and his first book. The film follows the journey of a...
Director(s): Mike BirbigliaNarrative Feature
80 min
San Francisco musician Goh Nakamura (playing himself) is at the height of his career. With a national tour on the horizon and one of his songs being featured in a widely-seen TV commercial, Goh has the life he always wan...
Director(s): Dave BoyleNarrative Feature
73 min
A story of friendship and life in the disappearing wilderness of the West, "LOW & CLEAR" follows two formerly close friends who re-unite for one last fly fishing trip to British Columbia. Over the course of...
Director(s): Kahlil Hudson, Tyler HughenDocumentary Feature
80 min
Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into the life of John Farrow (Clive Owen) after Farrow’s beloved 13-year-ol...
Director(s): Juan Carlos FresnadilloNarrative Feature
93 min
Friday, March 16
"Amor Cronico" follows the flamboyant Grammy nominated Cuban-born and New York based singer CuCu Diamantes on her tour around Cuba. The film interweaves footage of live musical performances with a fictional lov...
Director(s): Jorge PerugorriaNarrative Feature
80 min
"Charles Bradley: Soul of America" captures the extraordinary late in life rise of 62 year old aspiring soul singer Charles Bradley, whose debut album, "No Time For Dreaming," took him from a hard lif...
Director(s): Poull BrienDocumentary Feature
74 min
"WONDER WOMEN! The Untold Story of American Superheroines" traces the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman. From the birth of the comic book superheroine in the 1940s to the blockbusters of today, W...
Director(s): Kristy Guevara-FlanaganDocumentary Feature
65 min
"Under African Skies" travels with Paul Simon back to South Africa on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his historic Graceland album. Paul reunites with the original band to give a reunion concert and to ...
Director(s): Joe BerlingerDocumentary Feature
108 min
Helena is on the verge of fulfilling a dream as she prepares to open her own business: a neighborhood grocery store. She hires a maid, Paula, to take care of her house and daughter. But when her husband Octavio is sudden...
Director(s): Juliana Rojas, Marco DutraNarrative Feature
99 min
Saturday, March 17
The animated documentary feature “Crulic – The Path to Beyond” tells the life’s story of Crulic, the 33 year old Romanian who died in a Polish prison during a hunger strike. The acclaimed Romanian actor, Vlad Iva...
Director(s): Anca DamianDocumentary Feature
73 min
"Dreams of a Life" is an imaginative and multilayered quest to go beyond the newspaper reports and solve the mystery of who thirty-eight year old Joyce Vincent was and why she lay undiscovered for three years a...
Director(s): Carol MorleyDocumentary Feature
91 min
Alexander Ebert performs his first single "A Million Years" amidst a world of extraordinary facial landscapes.......
Director(s): Benjamin KutskoMusic Video
4 min
In this playful stopmotion animated musicvideo monsters move to the beats & melody of the music. The characters come into existance after a failure in a laboratory, from which they manage to escape and find their way...
Director(s): Marieke VerbiesenMusic Video
03 min
My Machines chronicles an unfortunate man's seemingly never-ending fall down an up escalator.......
Director(s): DANIELSMusic Video
3 min
A live action music video challenging viewers to play a game of Spot The Differences between two split screens while paying attention to the performance of emerging New West rapper Casey Veggies.......
Director(s): John BollozosMusic Video
04 min
An animated Ode to the golden age of space travel.......
Director(s): Céline DesrumauxMusic Video
3 min
In “African Mayonnaise”, the 6th installment of the CHRISTEENE Video Collection, Celebrity gets Fucked.......
Director(s): PJ RavalMusic Video
4 min
Afraid of the unknown, a young man squanders his nights with poor decisions and bad memories. He allows his fear of death to consume him.......
Director(s): Kevin LinMusic Video
2 min
"Empyrean" is a music video developed by Ganesh Rao and Jonny Greenwald at the Dept. of Visualization at Texas A&M University under the guidance of Professor Karen Hillier. The objective was to create a vis...
Director(s): Ganesh RaoMusic Video
03 min
A girl enters a room and seduces her guitar. Around her neck she wears the religious 'Evil Eye' symbol. The evil eye is an icon that is superstitiously believed by many cultures to be able to cause injury or bad luck for...
Director(s): Jeppe KolstrupMusic Video
3 min
A mesmerizing music video that combines mural art, body painting, stop motion animation and live action cinematography to create a unique visual metaphor expressing the song's story of heartbreak. The video was awarded t...
Director(s): Natasha PincusMusic Video
4 min
This live music video was shot in unvarnished everyday space. Hawaaii sings at a laundry in a small town.The music flows through the washing and welcomes you with open arms.......
Director(s): Churl GwonMusic Video
03 min
A young runaway yeti embarks on an adventure into the human world and along the way, makes an unexpected friend in Jon Hamm. Herman Dune's music video for "Tell Me Something I Don't know," is directed by Toben ...
Director(s): Toben SeymourMusic Video
6 min
A man is stalked by a mysterious warrior as he traverses his own fractured mindscape in search of a fading memory.......
Director(s): Young ReplicantMusic Video
3 min
The video begins by concentrating on the singer and explicit the polyphonic mechanism through which the base of the song is constructed. When the lyrics start, the video turns to a natural scene, more lyrical and organic...
Director(s): Lucas BorrasMusic Video
3 min
The official music video for Kina Grannis' song "In Your Arms" is a three and a half minute piece of stop motion insanity using 288,000 jelly beans to create worlds that Kina travels through and interacts with....
Director(s): Greg JardinMusic Video
3 min
Boxcar Fair follows a wandering explorer who stumbles upon a magical fair in the middle of a desert. Artist Tom Haney creates an array of intricate puppets to help illustrate the story. The entirety of Boxcar Fair was sh...
Director(s): Brock Scott, Tom HaneyMusic Video
3 min
Alexander, ''A Million Years'' Director: Benjamin Kutsko Baskerville, ''Reloaded'' Director: Marieke Verbiesen Battles, ''My Machines'' Director: DANIELS Casey Veggies, ''Euphoria II'' Director: John Bollozos Céline...
Director(s): VariousShorts Program
85 min
In this music video for Porter Robinson's Spitfire, we emulated a videogame style paintball match shot in one-take with the Phantom Flex @ 1,000 fps. Dont forget to have a looksy at the chat box ;) PS: The dog wasn't h...
Director(s): Saman KeshavarzMusic Video
2 min
Playing The Villain” video is horror inspired surprise in which three 'villainous' looking youths, out for some trouble, get unexpectedly assaulted by subwoofers when they attempt to steal a BMW from an estate! The vid...
Director(s): Matt DevineMusic Video
4 min
Parix is depicted teenage procrastination. Whatever direction you move it hurts. And you ask yourself: Why am I here fucking up my life so crucially? Why can’t I do what’s best for me? Your mind is floating, but you...
Director(s): Daniel Kragh-JacobsenMusic Video
03 min
A barrage of fanciful dance vignettes—from booty-bouncing YouTube stars and disco-ball ballerinas to musical comedian Reggie Watts and a sexy nun Rockette - the video allows Of Montreal's side project, Yip Deceiver to ...
Director(s): Brandon LaGanke, John CarlucciMusic Video
4 min
This Music Video for French electro sensation Yuksek, entitled, “Always On The Run,” follows a vicious posse, completely off the grid, taken right out of a Mad Max-inspired fashion editorial as they leave a path of a...
Director(s): SkinnyMusic Video
3 min
A story of friendship and life in the disappearing wilderness of the West, "LOW & CLEAR" follows two formerly close friends who re-unite for one last fly fishing trip to British Columbia. Over the course of...
Director(s): Kahlil Hudson, Tyler HughenDocumentary Feature
80 min
Loveless, jobless, possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun and offs the stupidest, cruelest, and most repellent members of society. ...
Director(s): Bobcat GoldthwaitNarrative Feature
100 min