“The film is the thing,” writer-director Anu Valia told the audience before screening her debut feature, quoting surrealist auteur David Lynch. Just like Lynch, Valia refused to divulge her dreamy movie’s meaning. We Strangers is a specter to float above viewers’ minds long after the credits.

There are films playing at SXSW that will take you to more fantastical places, but the 1960s Pakistan depicted in writer-director Fawzia Mirza’s The Queen of My Dreams has to be the most stylish.

March 2020. The global film industry went into COVID lockdown. Like every filmmaker, British documentarian Pinny Grylls was left wondering: What next?

There are very few artists quite like Swamp Dogg, and Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted is here for it.

The very existence of cryptocurrency can stir up violent passions, both for and against. The folks who use it often believe in it with a near-religious fervor, while those who see it as a scam view it as one of the most sinister cons of the current age.

Films about immigrants often become films about immigration, and the personal and individual experience is lost in the noise of a larger debate. Not so in “Los Mosquitos,” the new short from Austin-based filmmaker Nicole Chi.

It’s really hard to be a human – and even harder to be a teenager. Navigating physical, mental, and emotional changes, while also balancing growing expectations and relationships, is particularly difficult in a tech-centric world. Adults have a responsibility to hear teen voices and respond with empathy.

On day one of South by Southwest 2024, Ben Lamm – CEO and founder of Colossal Biosciences, aka the company that wants to bring the woolly mammoth back to life – joined actor and filmmaker Seth Green to discuss progress in using biotech to both preserve endangered species and reintroduce extinct species into the environment.

Romance, friendship, art, and success color Lola’s days. At 40 years old, she is moving through the universe entirely content with her choice to not be a mother, simultaneously holding space for her sister’s and friends’ children. Hers is a happy and fulfilled life by all accounts.