SXSW dailies March 16, 2026
NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION
11:30AM – 1:15PM at the ALAMO LAMAR / ALAMO LAMAR 5
WISHFUL THINKING: At a loss for how to save their relationship, Julia and Charlie are pressured by Julia’s friend to take a twin healer run couples’ therapy. However, a karmic universal system triggered during their session combines the state of their relationship with real world consequences. The couple must confront the reality of their love all while surviving natural disasters, stock market crashes, and mass destruction.
3:00PM – 4:34PM at the ALAMO LAMAR / ALAMO LAMAR 5
SENDER: Receiving a mysterious series of packages, all of which contain items that eerily relate to her past, Julia a recently fired and sober woman begins to fall down a rabbit hole in the hopes of finding the identity behind who’ssending her these packages.
3:15PM – 4:44PM at the ALAMO LAMAR / ALAMO LAMAR 3
THE SNAKE: Jamie, the ungovernable middle-aged wild child, is left evicted and single after an explosive collision with her mother, Anne.
6:15PM – 7:38PM at the ALAMO LAMAR / ALAMO LAMAR 7
SEAHORSE: Crashing her bike into her now unhoused estranged father; Nola, a sous chef striving for stability, must now take him in. However, as a result of this collision Nola must now face long-buried trauma, and a reckoning with forgiveness, and grief with the slight possibility that her and her father's relationship may strengthen.
HEADLINER
11:00AM – 12:28PMP at the ARAMOUNT THEATRE
PRETTY LETHAL: After their bus breaks down, five ballerinas must utilize years of intense training to attempt to escape from an unselecting inn.
11:30AM – 1:15PM at the ZACH THEATER
OVER YOUR DEAD BODY: Secretly planning on killing each other, a dysfunctional couple travel to a secluded cabin under the guise of supposedly reconnecting.
FESTIVAL FAVORITES
11:45AM – 1:11PM at the ALAMO LAMAR / ALAMO LAMAR 2
LEVITICUS: After being outed by their local pastor in their conservative Christian community, Naim and Ryan undergo a disturbing conversion ritual. However, this accidentally summons a violent entity that terrorizes the town and takes the form of the person they desire the most.
6:00PM – 7:38PM at the VIOLET CROWN CINEMA / VIOLET CROWN 2
BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY: Delving deep into rebellion, all 14-year-old Sid wants to do is gain the acceptance from an older group of girls, all while discovering desire, identity and the internet.
6:00PM – 7:38PM at the VIOLET CROWN CINEMA / VIOLET CROWN 4
BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY: Delving deep into rebellion, all 14-year-old Sid wants to do is gain the acceptance from an older group of girls, all while discovering desire, identity and the internet.
10:00PM – 11:35PM at the STATE THEATRE
BUDDY: Finding themselves in a kid's television show, a brave girl and her friends must now escape their new reality.
10:15PM – 11:56PM at the ALAMO LAMAR / ALAMO LAMAR 4
SEE YOU WHEN I SEE YOU: Battling PTSD after the death of his sister, a comedy writer discovers healing and laughter with the help of his family.
