Now that we’ve hung up our spurs and cowboy hats after another bustling edition of the South by Southwest Film Festival, it’s time to look back at some of the highlights we saw, courtesy of our on-the-ground correspondents Annie Lyons and Jenni Kaye. More than half of our crew’s ten festival favorites tap into the coming-of-age genre; they run the gamut from a Gen-Z stoner comedy that somehow gets away with [redacted] to an intimate, poetic look at trans boyhood. Elsewhere: the return of mumblecore legend Joe Swanberg, a scrappy Texas love letter to the slasher genre and the story of an animatronic fox voiced by Olivia Colman. Looking beyond the starry headliners, here are our crew’s ten favorite world premieres from SXSW 2026. Read our full thoughts on each pick on Journal here. Pizza Movie Summer 2000: The X-Cetra Story The Sun Never Sets The Fox My Brother's Killer Their Town Brian Adam's Apple American Dollhouse Crash Land
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