One of our favorite types of films are definitely documentaries. At this year’s SXSW, there are a lot of interesting films in their Documentary Short Competition.

Check out the full lineup below:

Been There (Switzerland)
Director/Screenwriter: Corina Schwingruber Ilić, Producer: Stella Händler
How tourists become invaders hunting for the best pictures. (Texas Premiere)

The Big Wait (Australia)
Director: Yannick Jamey, Producer: Lucy Pijnenburg
A remote desert town, with a population of two, is kept in pristine condition waiting for visitors that never seem to arrive. (World Premiere)

Christmas, Every Day
Director: Faye Tsakas, Producers: Enrique Pedraza Botero, Lauren Howell, Rowan Ings, Faye Tsakas
From their rural Alabama home, two preteen girls market fashion and beauty products to thousands of online fans. (World Premiere)

Frank
Director: David Gauvey Herbert, Producers: David Gauvey Herbert, Lance Oppenheim, Abigail Rowe, Nate Hurtsellers
At 99 years old, Frank Lucianna is America’s oldest practicing attorney. He’s now preparing for his final criminal trial. (World Premiere)

Hello Stranger (Canada)
Director: Amélie Hardy, Producers: Sarah Mannering, Fanny Drew
At the crossroads of documentary and fiction, Hello Stranger relates the transition journey of a young trans woman named Cooper Josephine. (World Premiere)

Leonie, Skeet & de biggen (Leonie, Skeet & the piglets) (Belgium)
Director/Screenwriter: Jip Heijenga, Producer: Sofie Van Noten
Eleven-year-old Leonie dreams of becoming a pig farmer one day, but the dream is threatened by the new laws surrounding nitrogen emissions and the impending bankruptcy of her parents farm. (Texas Premiere)

Pamilya (United Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter: Miles Blacket, Producers: Erin Sayder, Emily Harrison
As two Filipina women become overwhelmed by their experiences of modern slavery in the UK, their tight-knit community rallies around them. (International Premiere)

The Puzzle Palace
Directors/Producers: Jenny Schweitzer Bell, Brian Bell
Amassing the world’s largest puzzle collection is a labor of love for one inseparable couple. (World Premiere)

Remember, Broken Crayons Colour Too (Switzerland)
Directors/Screenwriters: Shannet Clemmings, Urša Kastelic, Producers: Filippo Bonacci, Gabriel Grosclaude
Shannet, a Black Transgender woman from Jamaica, shares her journey of healing as she wanders the empty streets of a European city. (Texas Premiere)

Sandcastles
Director: Carin Jin-Yi Leong, Producers: Carin Jin-Yi Leong, James Qiu, Martin Loh, Jaydn Ray Gosselin, Jacob Fertig
As Singapore reclaims land to intensify urban development, a town bearing its name lies buried under sand on the other side of the world. (World Premiere)

The School of Canine Massage
Director: Emma D. Miller, Producers: Emma D. Miller, Colby Day
At a unique training program in Southern California, people heal dogs and dogs heal people. (World Premiere)

Shotplayer
Director: Sam Shainberg, Screenwriters: Sam Shainberg, Willie Miesmer, Producers: Rachel Walden, Sam Shainberg, Willie Miesmer
A notorious NYC pickpocket returns to the subway system, the scene of his crimes, and in a fever dream of memories is forced to dissect his relationship to the act that has ruled his life for over forty years. (World Premiere)

We Ride for Her
Directors: Prairie Rose Seminole, Katrina Lillian Sorrentino, Screenwriter: Melanie Shaw, Producers: Becca Kahn Bloch, Katrina Lillian Sorrentino
An Indigenous women’s motorcycle group rides to end the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women while a member of their community desperately searches for her missing sister and tries to heal her shattered family. (World Premiere)

Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way
Director: Hao Zhou, Producer: Tyler Hill
Having built a colorful life in Iowa, a costume designer returns to their island hometown, Guam, to make costumes for a children’s theater show and reconnect with distant parents. (World Premiere)

SXSW will run from March 8-16 in Austin, TX. You can purchase various badges on their website.

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