Ahead of the film’s upcoming world premiere at the 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival, a first-look clip has been released for Michael Felker’s twisting science fiction thriller Things Will Be Different.

Premiering as part of the festival’s esteemed Midnight section on Monday, March 11, the film marks Felker’s feature directorial debut and boasts genre filmmaking icons and celebrated Marvel directors Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson (Something in the Dirt, Disney+’s Loki) as Executive Producers championing the new voice and vision.

Written and directed by Felker, Things Will Be Different stars Adam David Thompson (Netflix’s Vampires vs. the Bronx, FX’s A Teacher) and Riley Dandy (Christmas Bloody Christmas). Chloe Skoczen (Undergrads), Justin Benson (Something in the Dirt), and Sarah Bolger (Once Upon a Time, Emelie) complete the cast.

Things Will Be Different “is a tragic puzzle of a feature that follows estranged brother and sister Joseph (Thompson) and Sidney (Dandy) on the run from the law and laying low in a mysterious farmhouse that inexplicably transports them through time, hiding the duo from consequences and punishment. While trying to return to their present a cryptic force emerges, trapping them on the strange plot of land and giving them a deadly ultimatum in order to escape. What results from their entrapment not only bends the forces of spacetime, forcing the two to question everything they know about their own reality, but bends Joe and Sid’s familial bonds beyond the point of trust and forgiveness.”

The film is produced by Shane Spiegel, Jacob Rosenthal, and Felker, acting under the banner of his production company, Last Life. Moorhead, Benson, and David Lawson Jr executive produced for Rustic Films. Felker edited with Rebeca Marques, Carissa Dorson lensed, and Jimmy LaValle aka The Album Leaf (The Endless) composed with Michael A. Muller. XYZ Films is handling North American sales.

Check out the film’s teaser clip below: