Narrative Feature Competition

  • 6 Years (Director/Screenwriter: Hannah Fidell)
  • THE BOY(Director: Craig Macneill, Screenwriters: Craig Macneill, Clay McLeod Chapman)
  • Creative Control (Director: Benjamin Dickinson, Screenwriters: Benjamin Dickinson, Micah Bloomberg)
  • Funny Bunny(Director/Screenwriter: Alison Bagnall)
  • The Grief of Others(Director/Screenwriter: Patrick Wang)
  • KRISHA (Director/Screenwriter: Trey Edward Shults)
  • Manson Family Vacation (Director/Screenwriter: J. Davis)
  • Quitters (Director: Noah Pritzker, Screenwriters: Noah Pritzker, Ben Tarnoff)
  • Sweaty Betty (Directors/Screenwriters: Joseph Frank, Zachary Reed)
  • Uncle John (Director: Steven Piet, Screenwriters: Erik Crary, Steven Piet)

Documentary Feature Competition

  • Breaking a Monster (Director: Luke Meyer)
  • Deep Time (Director: Noah Hutton)
  • FRAME BY FRAME(Directors: Alexandria Bombach, Mo Scarpelli)
  • Madina's Dream (Director: Andrew Berends)
  • Peace Officer (Directors: Scott Christopherson, Brad Barber)
  • Poached (Director: Timothy Wheeler)
  • The Sandwich Nazi (Director: Lewis Bennett)
  • She's The Best Thing In It (Director: Ron Nyswaner)
  • Twinsters (Directors: Samantha Futerman, Ryan Miyamoto)
  • A Woman Like Me (Directors: Alex Sichel, Elizabeth Giamatti)

Headliners

  • BRAND: A Second Coming (Director: Ondi Timoner)
  • Ex Machina (Director/Screenwriter: Alex Garland)
  • Get Hard (Director: Etan Cohen, Screenwriters: Story By Adam McKay And Jay Martel & Ian Roberts, Screenplay By Jay Martel & Ian Roberts And Etan Cohen)
  • Hello, My Name is Doris (Director: Michael Showalter, Screenwriters: Laura Terruso, Michael Showalter)
  • Love & Mercy (Director: Bill Pohlad, Screenwriters: Oren Moverman, Michael Alan Lerner)
  • Manglehorn (Director: David Gordon Green, Screenwriter: Paul Logan)
  • Spy (Director/Screenwriter: Paul Feig)
  • Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine(Director: Alex Gibney)

Narrative Spotlight

  • 7 Chinese Brothers (Director/Screenwriter: Bob Byington)
  • The Automatic Hate (Director: Justin Lerner, Screenwriters: Justin Lerner, Katharine O'Brien)
  • Bone in the Throat (Director: Graham Henman, Screenwriters: Graham Henman, Mark Townend)
  • The Final Girls (Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson, Screenwriters: M. A. Fortin, Joshua John Miller)
  • Fresno (Director: Jamie Babbit, Screenwriter: Karey Dornetto)
  • The Frontier (Director: Oren Shai, Screenwriters: Webb Wilcoxen, Oren Shai)
  • The Goob (Director/Screenwriter: Guy Myhill)
  • I Dream Too Much (Director/Screenwriter: Katie Cokinos)
  • Ktown Cowboys (Director: Daniel (DPD) Park, Screenwriters: Danny Cho, Brian Chung)
  • Lamb (Director/Screenwriter: Ross Partridge)
  • Life in Color (Director/Screenwriter: Katharine Emmer)
  • The Little Death (Director/Screenwriter: Josh Lawson)
  • Mania Days (Director/Screenwriter: Paul Dalio)
  • Night Owls (Director: Charles Hood, Screenwriters: Seth Goldsmith, Charles Hood)
  • Wild Horses (Director/Screenwriter: Robert Duvall)

Documentary Spotlight

  • Bikes vs Cars (Director/Screenwriter: Fredrik Gertten)
  • Bounce: How the Ball Taught the World to Play (Director: Jerome Thélia, Screenwriters: John Fox, Jerome Thélia)
  • A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story (Director: Sara Hirsh Bordo)
  • Deep Web (Director/Screenwriter: Alex Winter)
  • For Grace (Directors: Kevin Pang, Mark Helenowski)
  • For the Record (Director: Marc Greenberg)
  • GTFO: Get The F% Out (Director: Shannon Sun-Higginson)
  • Kingdom of Shadows (Director: Bernardo Ruiz)
  • Knock Knock, It's Tig Notaro (Directors: Michael LaHaie, Christopher Wilcha)
  • Out To Win (Director: Malcolm Ingram)
  • Raiders! (Directors: Jeremy Coon, Tim Skousen)
  • Rolling Papers (Director: Mitch Dickman)
  • Sneakerheadz (Directors: David T. Friendly, Mick Partridge, Screenwriter: David T. Friendly)
  • Son of the Congo (Director/Screenwriter: Adam Hootnick)
  • Stone Barn Castle (Directors: Kevin Ford, Adrien Brody)
  • Tab Hunter Confidential (Director: Jeffrey Schwarz)
  • T-Rex (Directors: Drea Cooper, Zackary Canepari)

Visions

  • Ava's Possessions (Director/Screenwriter: Jordan Galland)
  • Babysitter (Director/Screenwriter: Morgan Krantz)
  • Barge (Director: Ben Powell)
  • Disaster Playground (Director: Nelly Ben Hayoun)
  • God Bless the Child (Directors: Robert Machoian, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, Screenwriter: Robert Machoian)
  • Honeytrap (Director/Screenwriter: Rebecca Johnson)
  • Just Jim (Director/Screenwriter: Craig Roberts)
  • Naz & Maalik (Director/Screenwriter: Jay Dockendorf
  • Nina Forever (Directors/Screenwriters: Chris Blaine, Ben Blaine)
  • The Nymphets (Director/Screenwriter: Gary Gardner)
  • One & Two (Director: Andrew Droz Palermo, Screenwriters: Andrew Droz Palermo, Neima Shahdadi)
  • Petting Zoo (Director/Screenwriter: Micah Magee)
  • Planetary (Director: Guy Reid, Screenwriter: Steve Watts Kennedy)
  • Sailing A Sinking Sea (Director: Olivia Wyatt)
  • Uncle Kent 2 (Director: Todd Rohal, Screenwriter: Kent Osborne)
  • Unfriended (Director: Leo Gabriadze, Screenwriter: Nelson Greaves)
  • A Wonderful Cloud (Director/Screenwriter: Eugene Kotlyarenko)

Episodic

  • Angie Tribeca (Director: Steve Carell, Screenwriters: Steve Carell, Nancy Carell)
  • The Comedians (Director: Larry Charles)
  • iZOMBIE (Director: Rob Thomas, Screenwriters: Rob Thomas, Diane Ruggiero-Wright)
  • Mr. Robot (Director: Sam Esmail)
  • UnREAL (Director: Peter O’Fallon, Screenwriters: Marti Noxon, Sarah Gertrude Shapiro)

24 Beats Per Second

  • 808 (Director: Alexander Dunn, Screenwriters: Alexander Dunn, Luke Bainbridge)
  • All Things Must Pass (Director: Colin Hanks, Screenwriter: Steven Leckart)
  • THE DAMNED: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead (Director: Wes Orshoski)
  • Danny Says (Director: Brendan Toller)
  • Dominguinhos (Directors: Joaquim Castro, Eduardo Nazarian, Screenwriter: Di Moretti)
  • The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson (Director/Screenwriter: Julien Temple)
  • Gloria (Director: Christian Keller, Screenwriter: Sabina Berman)
  • Hot Sugar's Cold World (Director: Adam Bhala Lough)
  • JACO (Directors: Paul Marchand, Stephen Kijak, Screenwriters: Paul Marchand, Robert Trujillo)
  • The Jones Family Will Make a Way (Director/Screenwriter: Alan Berg)
  • Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (Director/Screenwriter: Brett Morgen)
  • Landfill Harmonic (Directors: Brad Allgood, Graham Townsley)
  • Made in Japan (Director/Screenwriter: Josh Bishop)
  • Mavis! (Director: Jessica Edwards)
  • A Poem Is A Naked Person (Director: Les Blank)
  • Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove (Director: Joe Nick Patoski, Screenwriters: Joe Nick Patoski, Jason Wehling)
  • Theory of Obscurity: a film about The Residents (Director/Screenwriter: Don Hardy)
  • They Will Have To Kill Us First (Director: Johanna Schwartz, Screenwriters: Johanna Schwartz, Andy Morgan)
  • We Like It Like That (Director: Mathew Ramirez Warren)
  • Y/OUR MUSIC (Directors: David Reeve, Waraluck Hiransrettawat Every)

SXGlobal

  • 15 Corners of the World (Director/Screenwriter: Zuzanna Solakiewicz)
  • The Avian Kind (Director/Screenwriter: Shin Yeon-Shick)
  • The Ceremony (Director/Screenwriter: Lina Mannheimer)
  • Free Entry (Director/Screenwriter: Yvonne Kerékgyártó)
  • Good Things Await (Director: Phie Ambo, Screenwriters: Phie Ambo, Maggie Olkuska)
  • Invasion (Director: Abner Benaim)
  • Limbo (Director/Screenwriter: Anna Sofie Hartmann)
  • Monte Adentro (Director/Screenwriter: Nicolás Macario Alonso)

Festival Favorites

  • Adult Beginners (Director: Ross Katz, Screenwriters: Jeff Cox, Elizabeth Flahive)
  • Being Evel (Director: Daniel Junge, Screenwriters: Daniel Junge, Davis Coombe)
  • Best of Enemies (Directors: Morgan Neville, Robert Gordon)
  • City of Gold (Director: Laura Gabbert)
  • Entertainment (Director: Rick Alverson, Screenwriters: Rick Alverson, Gregg Turkington)
  • Finders Keepers (Directors: Bryan Carberry, Clay Tweel)
  • Heaven Knows What (Directors: Joshua Safdie, Benny Safdie)
  • The Last Man on the Moon (Director: Mark Craig)
  • The Look of Silence (Director: Joshua Oppenheimer)
  • Lost River (Director/Screenwriter: Ryan Gosling)
  • Ned Rifle (Director/Screenwriter: Hal Hartley)
  • The Overnight (Director/Screenwriter: Patrick Brice)
  • Results(Director/Screenwriter: Andrew Bujalski)
  • Salt of the Earth (Directors: Wim Wenders, Juliano Riberio Salgado, Screenwriters: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders)
  • Unexpected (Director: Kris Swanberg, Screenwriters: Kris Swanberg, Megan Mercier)
  • The Visit (Director/Screenwriter: Michael Madsen)
  • Welcome to Leith (Directors: Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker)
  • Western (Directors: Bill Ross, Turner Ross)

Special Events

  • 7 Days In Hell (Director: Jake Szymanski, Screenwriter: Murray Miller)
  • Doug Benson & Master Pancake interrupt Leprechaun 3 (1995)(Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith)
  • Jonathan Demme Presents Made In Texas (Directors: Louis Black, Mark Rance)
  • The Road Warrior (Director: George Miller, Screenwriters: Terry Hayes, George Miller)
  • A Space Program (Director: Van Neistat, Screenwriters: Van Neistat, Tom Sachs)
  • Trainwreck (Director: Judd Apatow, Screenwriter: Amy Schumer)
  • Vertical Cinema (Director: Sonic Acts)

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An exciting lineup. We're hoping to be present at the festival in March to bring more interviews and relevant coverage. Stay tuned.

Source: SXSW Film Announces 2015 Features Lineup

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