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South by Southwest Film Festival – Asian Presence 2024

We present the list of Asian films that will be screened at the South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW), which will take place from March 8 – 16, 2024 in Austin, United States

Note: This article may include movies made or co-directed by filmmakers with Asian ancestry, or films with Asian actors in main roles.

– Feature Films –
7 Beats Per Minute
by Yuqi Kang – Canada | 2024 – 100 minutes*
A Nice Indian Boy by Roshan Sethi – USA | 2024 – 96 minutes*
Ben and Suzanne, A Reunion in 4 Parts by Shaun Seneviratne – USA | 2024 – 109 minutes*
Black Box Diaries by Shiori Ito – USA, Japan, UK | 2024 – 99 minutes
Dìdi by Sean Wang – USA | 2024 – 93 minutes
Girls Will Be Girls by Shuchi Talati – India, France, Norway, USA | 2024 – 118 minutes
Monkey Man by Dev Patel – USA | 2024 – 120 minutes*
Smugglers by Ryoo Seung-wan – Korea| 2023 – 129 minutes
The Queen of My Dreams by Fawzia Mirza – Canada | 2023 – 97 minutes
Wakhri by Iram Parveen Bilal – Pakistan, USA | 2023 – 99 minutes
We Can Be Heroes by Carina Mia Wong, Alex Simmons – USA | 2024 – 86 minutes*
We’re All Gonna Die by Freddie Wong, Matthew Arnold – USA | 2024 – 110 minutes*
Yasmeen’s Element by Amman Abbasi – USA, Pakistan, Portugal | 2024 – 73 minutes*

– Short Films –
Dream Creep
by Carlos A.F. Lopez – USA | 2024 – 12 minutes
Learning English by Jean Liu – USA, UK | 2023 – 11 minutes*
Let by Alyssa Loh – USA | 2024 – 16 minutes*
Lullaby by Chi Thai – UK | 2023 – 14 minutes*
Pamilya by Miles Blacket – UK | 2023 – 14 minutes
Sandcastles by Carin Jin-Yi Leong, Jacob Fertig – USA | 2023 – 16 minutes*
Shé by Renee Zhan – UK | 2023 – 15 minutes
This is TMI by Subarna Dash, Vidushi Gupta – India | 2023 – 6 minutes
Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way by Hao Zhou – USA | 2024 – 20 minutes*

– TV Pilots –
Lucy & Sara
by Susan Park – USA | 2023 – 7 minutes
Marvin is Sorry by Clint Pang – USA | 2024 – 24 minutes*

– VR –
Dani: the Portrait of a Beauty
by Cooper Sanghyun Yoo – Korea | 2023 – 16 minutes
Madame Pirate: Code of Conduct by Morgan Ommer, Dan-Chi Huang – USA, France, Taiwan | 2024 – 16 minutes*
Tadpole by Diane Catsburrow Linnet – USA | 2023 – 5 minutes

– Music Video –
Dhruv Visvanath – ‘Gimme Love’
directed by Tanvi Gandhi – India | 2023 – 4 minutes

* – World Premiere

More information: https://www.sxsw.com/festivals/film/lineup/

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