Complete event listing for
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434 W 2nd St
Friday, March 9
*SXSW 2012 SXEncore screenings were determined by popular vote on Tugg.com. 45365 explores the congruities of daily life in an American town. From the patrol car to the courtroom, the playground to the nursing home, the...
Director(s): Bill Ross, Turner RossDocumentary Feature
94 min
A junior screenwriter called Juan Garófalo is hired by film director Samuel Goldszer to write his new film: a gangster movie set in Buenos Aires. In each meeting, the filmmakers create a story that takes place in an ima...
Director(s): Tamae GarateguyNarrative Feature
100 min
Saturday, March 10
Pregnant by music? On her 15th birthday, Rachel, a young Mormon girl from a fundamentalist Utah community, discovers a forbidden cassette tape with rock music on it. Having never heard anything like it, she has a miracu...
Director(s): Rebecca ThomasNarrative Feature
96 min
"The Last Fall" is a coming of age sports drama about the difficulties an NFL journeyman faces when trying to transition to life after his playing days are over.......
Director(s): Matthew A. CherryNarrative Feature
98 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
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
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
Sunday, March 11
"Sun Don't Shine" is a subtly cryptic story driven by the powerful performances of its lead actors and its eerily poetic setting. The film follows Crystal (Kate Lyn Sheil) and her boyfriend Leo (Kentucker Audle...
Director(s): Amy SeimetzNarrative Feature
82 min
Charged with murder and likely going to jail, crime boss Reg Bellavance is out on bail and wants to skip town with his son. The only problem is that the money he had stashed away for just such an occasion has gone missin...
Director(s): Steven C. MillerNarrative Feature
87 min
"Tchoupitoulas" is a story of the New Orleans night. It is a visually exhilarating and aurally immersive record of one night in the many lives of a thriving nocturnal populace. Three young boys act as our wide-...
Director(s): Bill Ross, Turner RossDocumentary Feature
80 min
A comedy about two brothers, a girl with a broken heart, a sex tape, an angel and a pig... Frank (CHARLIE HUNNAM) has been tortured, embarrassed, and humiliated -- usually on film -- by his brother Bruce (CHRIS O'DO...
Director(s): Jordan RobertsNarrative Feature
87 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
Thomas Jacobs invents a way to watch people's memories from the inside. Going against his morals, he accepts an offer to enter a heroin addict's memories to literally see if he committed a crime. However,a malfunction ca...
Director(s): Nir PaniryNarrative Feature
88 min
Monday, March 12
"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
"Tchoupitoulas" is a story of the New Orleans night. It is a visually exhilarating and aurally immersive record of one night in the many lives of a thriving nocturnal populace. Three young boys act as our wide-...
Director(s): Bill Ross, Turner RossDocumentary Feature
80 min
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
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
"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
A portrait of two couples at a crossroads. What was supposed to be a romantic getaway for two young lovers, turns into an uncomfortable confrontation when the young man's estranged father shows up ... with his own girlfr...
Director(s): Brian SavelsonNarrative Feature
103 min
Tuesday, March 13
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
"Tchoupitoulas" is a story of the New Orleans night. It is a visually exhilarating and aurally immersive record of one night in the many lives of a thriving nocturnal populace. Three young boys act as our wide-...
Director(s): Bill Ross, Turner RossDocumentary Feature
80 min
Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression, Australian sex worker Rachel Wotton has become highly specialized in working with clients with disability. Rachel’s philosophy, that human touch and sexual intimacy can b...
Director(s): Catherine ScottDocumentary Feature
70 min
Cold Rock, U.S.A. Children have gone missing over the years leaving neither a clue nor a witness. Superstitious locals talk of The Tall Man, a legendary, mysterious dark figure who takes children away never to be seen ag...
Director(s): Pascal LaugierNarrative Feature
100 min
May, a high-strung and overly meticulous nurse, must return to Los Angeles to retrieve bone marrow for a transplant. Soon after her trip begins, her world turns upside down when past and present collide and she runs smac...
Director(s): Ernesto Foronda, Silas HowardNarrative Feature
87 min
Wednesday, March 14
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
Upon becoming the father to triplets, filmmaker Avi Zev Weider explores the nature of technology. Woven together with expert interviews and portraits of people who have intimate relationships with technology, "Welco...
Director(s): Avi Zev WeiderDocumentary Feature
86 min
Produced by Oxford Film and Television, Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies is Bafta winner Patrick Forbes' seventy-six-minute documentary of the Wikileaks affair as told by the people involved: personal, moving and frequently h...
Director(s): Patrick ForbesDocumentary Feature
81 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
Pregnant by music? On her 15th birthday, Rachel, a young Mormon girl from a fundamentalist Utah community, discovers a forbidden cassette tape with rock music on it. Having never heard anything like it, she has a miracu...
Director(s): Rebecca ThomasNarrative Feature
96 min
Thursday, March 15
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
Rooted in the tropical underground of Los Angeles nightlife, "Wildness" is a portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic bar that has been home to Latin/LGBT immigrant communities since 1963. With a magical-real...
Director(s): Wu TsangDocumentary Feature
74 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
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
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
Thomas Jacobs invents a way to watch people's memories from the inside. Going against his morals, he accepts an offer to enter a heroin addict's memories to literally see if he committed a crime. However,a malfunction ca...
Director(s): Nir PaniryNarrative Feature
88 min