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21 Buzzy SXSW Premieres: ‘Another Simple Favor,’ ‘The Threesome,’ ‘F–––toys,’ ‘The Age of Disclosure’ and More
The 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival includes premieres of "Another Simple Favor" with Blake Lively, "The Studio" with Seth Rogen and the UFO doc 'The Age of Disclosure."
The 111 movies and 17 series screenings from March 7–15 are packed with a litany of A-listers, including (deep breath) Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Seth Rogen, Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick, Issa Rae, Matthew McConaughey, Kurt Russell, Laurence Fishburne, Ramy Youssef, Jacob Elordi, Kate Mara, André Holland, Zazie Beetz, Sadie Sink, Daisy Ridley, David Oyelowo, Annaleigh Ashford, Dennis Quaid, Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega — alongside a heady mix of buzzy documentaries and genre-bending indies aiming to enthrall and delight festivalgoers in Austin, Texas, between breakfast tacos and barbecue. Two decades after “The Puffy Chair” launched the duo’s careers and a new wave of microbudget cinema, Jay Duplass returns to Austin with his solo feature directorial debut, in which a Christmas Eve mishap leaves newly sober Cliff (Michael Strassner) and his emergency dentist stuck together on a spontaneous and wintry quest through Baltimore. A rock opera set in a neon-soaked, post-apocalyptic future, the picture follows “Stranger Things” star Sadie Sink as the musically gifted farm girl O’Dessa, who uses the power of her voice to confront a totalitarian despot, Plutonovich (Murray Bartlett), and his henchwoman, Neon Dion (Regina Hall), to save the love of her life, Euri Dervish (Kelvin Harrison Jr.).
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