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Monday 8 September – South by Southwest Sydney® (SXSW Sydney) has dropped its Screen Festival Headliners with Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, a biopic about the making of Bruce Springsteen's deeply personal 1982 album, “Nebraska," set to kick off the festival as the Opening Night film. Starring Jeremy Allen White as Springsteen, the film explores Springsteen's creative process, his complex relationship with his father, and his experience with depression in the early1980s.
Joining the Headliner line-up at the Festival from 13-19 October in Sydney, will be Universal Pictures and Blumhouse’s Black Phone 2, with Ethan Hawke returning to the most sinister role of his career as the Grabber; direct from its world premiere at SXSW, Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, a time-traveling cult comedy starring Canadian creators Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol; Cannes Film Festival darling Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson and Nick Nolte; Yorgos Lanthimos’ hot Oscar-contender Bugonia, a gory black comedy that reunites the director with Oscar® winner Emma Stone and Oscar® nominee Jesse Plemons; and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, featuring a monumental performance from Rose Byrne as a mother on the edge.
Every session in the SXSWS ydney 2025 Screen Festival is open to anyone with a Platinum Pass, Pro Pass or Screen Wristband, granting unlimited access to screenings during the event. For those itching to get their tickets to individual Headliner or Featured sessions in the blockbuster line-up of films, Rush Tickets are now on sale via the SXSW Sydney website.
HEADLINERS
MONDAY 13 OCTOBER – 7PM, SEYMOUR CENTRE - AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | DIR. SCOTT COOPER | SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE | “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” showcases a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggling to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past.
TUESDAY 14 OCTOBER – 7:30PM, SEYMOUR CENTRE - AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | DIR. SCOTT DERRICKSON | BLACK PHONE 2 |Four years ago, Finn killed his abductor and escaped, becoming the sole survivor of the Grabber. But true evil transcends death…and now, the Grabber seeks vengeance by menacing Finn’s younger sister, Gwen. As Gwen begins to receive calls in her dreams from the black phone and experience disturbing visions, her determination to solve the mystery will lead her and Finn to a snowed-in winter camp and a shattering discovery about the Grabber and their own family’s history.
WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER – 7:30PM, SEYMOUR CENTRE– AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | DIR. MATT JOHNSON | NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THEMOVIE | When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008. Blah blah blah blah blah.
THURSDAY 16 OCTOBER – 7:30PM, SEYMOUR CENTRE -AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | DIR. LYNNE RAMSAY | DIE MY LOVE | Grace, a writer and young mother, isslowly slipping into madness. Locked away in an old house in and aroundMontana, we see her acting increasingly agitated and erratic, leaving hercompanion, Jackson, increasingly worried and helpless.
FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER - 7:30PM, SEYMOUR CENTRE - AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | DIR. YORGOS LANTHIMOS | BUGONIA | Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER – 6:30PM, THE RITZ – NSW PREMIERE | DIR. MARY BRONSTEIN | IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU | With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.
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