Complete event listing for
Violet Crown 1&2
434 W 2nd St
Friday, March 8
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39905.jpg F39905](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39905.jpg)
Sofia, Bulgaria. In a city where only 13 ambulances struggle to serve several million people, three paramedics face Kafkaesque situations. Struggling against an avalanche of absurdities in a crumbling medical system, the…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39910.jpg F39910](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39910.jpg)
In a village, a mysterious calamity strikes: spring doesn't come. The cycle of nature seems to be interrupted. When the annual bonfire celebrating the end of winter fails to burn, the seeds don't grow and the cows refuse…
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Saturday, March 9
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39971.jpg F39971](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39971.jpg)
Lensed in colour and b/w by Seamus McGarvey, the film explores Harry Dean Stanton’s enigmatic outlook on his life and his unexploited talents as a musician. “Putting the focus on the music rather than his person helped t…
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![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42467.jpg F42467](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42467.jpg)
Vienna, winter. Johann, a guard at the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum encounters Anne, a foreign visitor called to Austria because of a medical emergency. Never having been to Austria and with little money, she wande…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42569.jpg F42569](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42569.jpg)
Driving through traffic at home is already stressful enough. Now imagine driving a car in a completely foreign country. Mirela, moving from Germany to India, Jake moving from the USA to Japan and South Korean Hye-Won liv…
![Tv](/2013/assets/tv-39e4fde169a5404a2dac56db76c5929e.png)
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39130.jpg F39130](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39130.jpg)
In Karachi, Pakistan, a runaway boy's life hangs on one critical question: where is home? The streets, an orphanage, or with the family he fled in the first place? Simultaneously heart-wrenching and life-affirming, "The…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42891.jpg F42891](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42891.jpg)
"Kelly + Victor" is adapted by Kieran Evans from the acclaimed novel by Niall Griffiths, and shot in Liverpool. It is a raw, compelling, passionate love story set against the backdrop of a highly cinematic Liverpool, t…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41284.jpg F41284](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41284.jpg)
"Yellow" is a searing take on modern society and the demands it makes on people. The film tells the story of Mary Holmes (Heather Wahlquist), a young substitute teacher who escapes from her drudging everyday life by fant…
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Sunday, March 10
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40901.jpg F40901](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40901.jpg)
A hybrid narrative film with doses of mockumentary, musical comedy and dance film, "Improvement Club" traces a rag-tag Seattle performance group’s attempt to expose the American Revolution’s fatal flaws. When the ensembl…
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![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39262.jpg F39262](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39262.jpg)
There are an estimated 2.4 million lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans over the age of 55. LGBTQ seniors are 5 times less likely to access social services than their heterosexual counterparts, half as likely to have heal…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39910.jpg F39910](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39910.jpg)
In a village, a mysterious calamity strikes: spring doesn't come. The cycle of nature seems to be interrupted. When the annual bonfire celebrating the end of winter fails to burn, the seeds don't grow and the cows refuse…
![Tv](/2013/assets/tv-39e4fde169a5404a2dac56db76c5929e.png)
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42467.jpg F42467](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42467.jpg)
Vienna, winter. Johann, a guard at the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum encounters Anne, a foreign visitor called to Austria because of a medical emergency. Never having been to Austria and with little money, she wande…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42437.jpg F42437](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42437.jpg)
Elena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military dictatorship. She also leaves Petra, her seven year old sis…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42371.jpg F42371](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42371.jpg)
Recently fired and facing eviction, a new dad has his life turned upside down when he meets a wealthy couple who offer a path to financial security... but at a price.……
Monday, March 11
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39401.jpg F39401](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39401.jpg)
A young woman is abducted and seemingly brainwashed via an organic material harvested from a specific orchid. She later meets a man and after the two fall for each other, they come to realize he may also have been subjec…
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![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41952.jpg F41952](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41952.jpg)
"Short Term 12" is told through the eyes of Grace (Brie Larson), a twenty-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker of the kids in her cha…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40369.jpg F40369](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40369.jpg)
When Dr. Lynn abandoned his terminally ill wife on her deathbed, he left his three children Susan, Christian, and Win essentially orphaned. Almost a decade later, on the eve of their annual family reunion, Dr. Lynn unexp…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42137.jpg F42137](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42137.jpg)
An enigmatic phone call from a psychic, catapults a family into a state of suspended belief while waiting for their recently deceased mother to be resurrected. One sister believes the claim, and the other staunchly oppos…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41188.jpg F41188](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41188.jpg)
Set in the Texas Hill Country, THIS IS WHERE WE LIVE is a portrait of the Sutton family: Diane, while ignoring her own health issues, is caregiver to her son August, who has cerebral palsy, and her husband, who is in the…
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![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42569.jpg F42569](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42569.jpg)
Driving through traffic at home is already stressful enough. Now imagine driving a car in a completely foreign country. Mirela, moving from Germany to India, Jake moving from the USA to Japan and South Korean Hye-Won liv…
![Tv](/2013/assets/tv-39e4fde169a5404a2dac56db76c5929e.png)
Tuesday, March 12
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F37495.jpg F37495](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F37495.jpg)
On the outskirts of the Civil War, a boy is sent north by a bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.……
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![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39635.jpg F39635](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39635.jpg)
Maggie? Rainbow? Leeward and Mary cannot even agree on their three year old daughter’s name anymore. Mary is a hardworking nurse who dreams of only one thing: changing her life around. She resents her husband for being a…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41935.jpg F41935](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41935.jpg)
Jim is a painfully shy, socially awkward music savant whose inner demons get stirred up when he develops an obsession with Wendy, a young clinical social worker, who is drawn to Jim by her naïve desire to save people. Hi…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40647.jpg F40647](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40647.jpg)
"The Punk Syndrome" is a documentary film about Finnish punk-rock band Pertti Kurikka’s Name Day, formed in 2009 by four developmentally disabled guys. The film follows the band’s journey from their rehearsal room to cul…
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![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39130.jpg F39130](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39130.jpg)
In Karachi, Pakistan, a runaway boy's life hangs on one critical question: where is home? The streets, an orphanage, or with the family he fled in the first place? Simultaneously heart-wrenching and life-affirming, "The…
Wednesday, March 13
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40369.jpg F40369](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F40369.jpg)
When Dr. Lynn abandoned his terminally ill wife on her deathbed, he left his three children Susan, Christian, and Win essentially orphaned. Almost a decade later, on the eve of their annual family reunion, Dr. Lynn unexp…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42929.jpg F42929](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42929.jpg)
"Three Voices" weaves the intimate love stories of three women from different generations: a teenager, a middle-aged divorcée, and a ninety-year-old great grandmother. Through a careful exploration of space and color, in…
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![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42621.jpg F42621](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42621.jpg)
Before sunrise on August 29, 2005 Nolan (Paul Walker) arrives at a New Orleans hospital with his pregnant wife Abigail (Genesis Rodriguez) who has gone into early labor. What should be one of the happiest days of Nolan’…
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![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39262.jpg F39262](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39262.jpg)
There are an estimated 2.4 million lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans over the age of 55. LGBTQ seniors are 5 times less likely to access social services than their heterosexual counterparts, half as likely to have heal…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41715.jpg F41715](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41715.jpg)
An exploding industry without rules! Backyard filmmakers with zero budget and a surplus of dreams! Unchecked global piracy! The race to control media consumption! Videotape changed the world and laid the foundation for t…
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Thursday, March 14
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42137.jpg F42137](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42137.jpg)
An enigmatic phone call from a psychic, catapults a family into a state of suspended belief while waiting for their recently deceased mother to be resurrected. One sister believes the claim, and the other staunchly oppos…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41935.jpg F41935](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F41935.jpg)
Jim is a painfully shy, socially awkward music savant whose inner demons get stirred up when he develops an obsession with Wendy, a young clinical social worker, who is drawn to Jim by her naïve desire to save people. Hi…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39130.jpg F39130](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39130.jpg)
In Karachi, Pakistan, a runaway boy's life hangs on one critical question: where is home? The streets, an orphanage, or with the family he fled in the first place? Simultaneously heart-wrenching and life-affirming, "The…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42891.jpg F42891](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42891.jpg)
"Kelly + Victor" is adapted by Kieran Evans from the acclaimed novel by Niall Griffiths, and shot in Liverpool. It is a raw, compelling, passionate love story set against the backdrop of a highly cinematic Liverpool, t…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42470.jpg F42470](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F42470.jpg)
In a country where killers are celebrated as heroes, the filmmakers challenge unrepentant death squad leaders to dramatise their role in genocide. The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journe…
![http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39905.jpg F39905](http://img.sxsw.com/2013/films/F39905.jpg)
Sofia, Bulgaria. In a city where only 13 ambulances struggle to serve several million people, three paramedics face Kafkaesque situations. Struggling against an avalanche of absurdities in a crumbling medical system, the…