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SXSW 2026 Wrap: All Our Reviews

SXSW 2026 Wrap: All Our Reviews

The 33rd edition of the SXSW Film and Television Festival announced their Audience Award winners, led by Jorma Taccone’s Over Your Dead Body in the Headliner section, Robb Boardman’s Plantman & Blondie: A Dress Up Gang Film in the Narrative Feature Competition, and The Ascent, directed by Edward Drake, Scott Veltri, Francis Cronin, in the Documentary Feature Competition. Dave Boyle’s Never After Dark won the Audience Award in the Midnighter section. Check out all the Audience Award winners here. Our in-person coverage was led by my hard-working fellow editor J Hurtado. Due to a late-breaking acute bronchitis attack, I was unable to make the trip, but I did my best to contribute remote coverage, and contributing writer Daniel Eagan also reviewed a film remotely. And…

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Sound And Vision: Aidan Zamiri

Sound And Vision: Aidan Zamiri

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at selected music videos by Aidan Zamiri. Aidan Zamiri named his first feature film The Moment. In this mockumentary, based on Charli XCX’s Brat album- and tour-role-out, the notion of being an ‘it’-person and being culturally relevant becomes bleakly comical and quietly unnerving. The idea that you, as a person, could come to be described as ‘the moment’, an ethereal disembodied notion signifying imminent death, is enough to send Charli XCX spiraling. Cultural cachet and relevance is what happens to be the name of the game for Aidan Zamiri, who himself could be described as an ‘it’-person and who has turned his directorial fame…

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