Give a group of teens an open field and a bunch of foam swords, and watch their imaginations go wild. While it might not be the typical sleepover camp experience, the summer festivities chronicled in the competition doc We Can Be Heroes are both eccentric and excruciatingly normal.
“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.
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.
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.