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The weather is just right for another season of the Rooftop Films Summer Series. The beloved annual festival is back, with IndieWire exclusively debuting the 2025 lineup. This year’s Summer Series will run from May 16 through August 22, and will include over 40 events, featuring new independent feature films, short film programs, family screenings, and live performances.

The U.S. premiere of Sean Byrne’s horror film “Dangerous Animals” is a highlight for the Rooftop Films slate; “Dangerous Animals” will have its world premiere during Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes before screening stateside at the Summer Series, with an in-person Q&a featuring director Byrne and cast members Jai Courtney, Hassie Harrison, and Josh Heuston on Thursday, May 22.

Non-profit Rooftop Films annually celebrates independent films and filmmakers with one of the world’s longest running and largest outdoor festivals for indie film. The screenings take place in outdoor venues across New York City’s five boroughs,...

Corina Photo: Tallinn Black Nights

Mexican director Urzula Barba Hopfner's feature début, Corina, follows the story of the 20-year-old titular character, played by Naian González Norvind, who lives in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico. But as the narrator tells us, her whole universe is limited to the Americana neighbourhood – four streets with everything she might need: her house, a friend’s grocery store and the offices of the book publisher she works at. Her finite world is opened up by her book collection, which transports her to other places and realities.

Norvind has previously starred in Michel Franco's 2020 thriller New Order (Nuevo Orden), set in a dystopian future when an upper-class wedding is disrupted by a violent coup d'état, igniting class tensions. She has also appeared as Alice Tetch in Gotham (2014-2019), and had a recurring role in Simon Kinberg and David Weil's science-fiction series, Invasion (2021-present...

Corina Photo: Tallinn Black Nights

Mexican director Urzula Barba Hopfner's feature début, Corina, follows the story of the 20-year-old titular character, played by Naian González Norvind, who lives in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico. But as the narrator tells us, her whole universe is limited to the Americana neighbourhood – four streets with everything she might need: her house, a friend’s grocery store and the offices of the book publisher she works at. Her finite world is opened up by her book collection, which transports her to other places and realities.

Norvind has previously starred in Michel Franco's 2020 thriller New Order (Nuevo Orden), set in a dystopian future when an upper-class wedding is disrupted by a violent coup d'état, igniting class tensions. She has also appeared as Alice Tetch in Gotham (2014-2019), and had a recurring role in Simon Kinberg and David Weil's science-fiction series, Invasion (2021-present...

For reasons I cannot fully explain, I an unreasonably happy that director Urzula Barba Hopfner's Corina won the Audience Award in the Global section at SXSW 2025. I love the movie. That is all. Matt Johnson's Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie won the Audience Award in the Midnighter section. I'm sure that anyone who saw the movie, as our own J Hurtado did, will not be surprised either. Now I switch to SXSW's own reliable team of writers, who summarize all the awards in the verbiage below, per their official press release: Austin, Texas, Monday, March 17, 2025 - The South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals announced the Audience Award winners for the 32nd SXSW Film & TV Festival today. The Audience...

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The 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival has unveiled its coveted Audience Award winners.

After IndieWire announced the festival’s Jury Awards, with Amy Wang’s “Slanted” taking the top Narrative Feature Award, the Audience Awards have been totaled. “The Accountant 2” starring Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal has won the Headliner section, with “Fantasy Life” getting the Narrative Feature Competition vote. (Amanda Peet also previously won the Special Jury Award for her performance in “Fantasy Life.”)

Jay Duplass’ “The Baltimorons” received the Audience Award for the Narrative Spotlight section. Documentaries “Remaining Native” and “Luv Ya, Bum!” were also recognized in the Documentary Feature Competition and Documentary Spotlight categories, respectively. Rodney Ascher’s “Ghost Boy” was also a winners in the Visions category.

Audience Award winners were certified by Maxwell Locke & Ritter Llp.

“Our deepest thanks to the filmmakers, audiences, and volunteers who made this year’s SXSW Film & TV Festival exceptional,...

Ben Affleck starrer The Accountant 2, Amanda Peet comedy Fantasy Life, and Remaining Native have won the Headliner and narrative feature and documentary 2025 SXSW audience awards.

Jay Duplass’s comedy The Baltimorons won the Narrative Spotlight section, and Sam Wainwright’s Luv Ya, Bum! Took Documentary Spotlight honours, while Matt Johnson’s Blackberry follow-up Nirvanna The Band The Show was the audience favourite from Midnighter.

The 32nd edition of the festival announced its juried winners last week and screened 114 features including 93 world premieres, three international premieres, three North American premieres, four US premieres, 11 Texas premieres, and 57 shorts. The festival ran March 7-15 in Austin,...

SXSW on Monday said that Matthew Shear’s Fantasy Life, Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal’s reteam The Accountant 2 and Paige Bethmann’s documentary Remaining Native were among the big winners of the 32nd annual festival’s Audience Awards.

The news of the honors across the Austin fest’s competition, narrative, documentary, shorts, TV and Xr Experience sidebars comes after the 2025 edition revealed its juried awards last week, with honors going to Amy Wang‘s thriller Slanted for Best Narrative Feature among others.

Fantasy Life, Shear’s feature writing and directorial debut, won the marquee Narrative Feature Audience Award. It stars Shear as a man who suffers a panic attack and stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist’s three granddaughters, where he begins to fall for the girls’ mother, played by Amanda Peet. Peet earlier won a special jury prize for acting.

The Headliners section audience prize went to The Accountant 2,...

In the decades since its release to critical acclaim and record-setting grosses, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s “Amélie,” the whimsical dramedy about a quirky Parisian woman finding love through random acts kindness, has endured in pop culture and influenced a generation of filmmakers, both for better and certainly for worse. Few times, however, have the imitators been as undeniably apparent about what they borrowed from it as Mexican writer-director Urzula Barba Hopfner, in her refreshingly endearing, subtly stylized debut “Corina.”

A 20-year-old agoraphobic living in Guadalajara — México’s second largest metropolis and Guillermo del Toro’s hometown — the title character, played by Naian González Norvind (“New Order”), wears boots, a maxi skirt and sports the French bob haircut emblematic of actress Audrey Tautou as Amélie Poulain. As if the visual parallels with Jeunet’s romantic fable weren’t already glaring, “Corina” begins with voice over narration over flashbacks that recount the protagonist...

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has selected 11 debut films for its First Feature Competition, including Steve Bache’s “paedosexuality” drama No Dogs Allowed.

The German film follows a 15-year-old boy trying to control his paedophilic impulses. He meets an older man in an online chat forum, only for the older man to take advantage of his insecurities. Paedosexuality is a term for the sexual fixation on children.

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Carlo Krammling stars with Robin Sondermann, Katharina Marie Schubert and Bineta Hansen. The film is written by Stephan Kampf, and produced by Marcos Kantis,...

One of Northern Europe’s leading festivals, the A-listed Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (also known as PÖFF) unspooling Nov. 8-24 in the Estonian capital, has unveiled its first features and inaugural documentary competition programs, each boasting an enticingly curated slate of 11 titles.

Among the seven world premieres selected for the First Feature strand are Germany’s “No Dogs Allowed” by student Academy Award nominated Steve Bache tackling the taboo subject of paedophilia in teen years; “Two of Me”, the humorous meta story of twin brothers dreaming to make it big in movies, helmed by Estonian twins “the Eskobros”; and “A Yard of Jackals”, Chilean thriller set during Pinochet’s dictatorship toplining Néstor Cantillana and Blanca Lewin from HBO’s “Fugitives” (“Prófugo”).

Programmer Triin Tramberg said the First Feature selection committee watched 250 films from 66 countries, picking those with the biggest sales and distribution potential.

“We don’t have industry people...