SXSW Lineup 2016 feat. new Richard Linklater, Pee-Wee Herman, Jean-Marc Vallée

With a whopping 139 movies in just 9 days there will be lots see at this year’s South By Southwest Festival but one of the more anticipated films will Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some, a semi-sequel to his 1993 breakthrough Dazed & Confused. This is his first feature since last year’s Oscar-winning Boyhood. Pee-Wee Herman plans to stage yet another comeback, this time with a new feature film (Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday) that will debut at SXSW before hitting Netflix exclusively. Last year’s Toronto International Film Festival opener Demolition, from Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club) and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, will see its U.S. debut here. In the coming weeks SXSW will also announce the films to be shown in the Midnighters, Festival Favorites, and Special Events sections as well as the Short Film Program.

Other films we’ll be keeping our eye on are Matthew A. Cherry’s 9 Rides, about an Uber driver gets life changing news on the busiest night of the year, Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru, a documentary with unprecedented access into self-help multi-millionaire Tony Robbins from Joe Berlinger and Midnight Special, about a father and son who go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers, from Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter).

The whole thing kicks off March 11th.

The full lineup is below:

Narrative Feature Competition

• The Arbalest
• Before the Sun Explodes
• Claire in Motion
• collective:unconscious
• Donald Cried
• Hunter Gatherer
• Miss Stevens
• The Other Half
• A Stray
• Trespecos