SXSW 2018: Trending Titles

An emotionally-stunted aunt tries to bond with her 13-year-old niece, who wants nothing more than to run away and become a Juggalo.

Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood decides that joining the boys' wrestling team is the only way back to her estranged father.

Summer is a 17-year old carefree black girl, whose world is turned upside down when her mother, a popular meteorologist named Jade Jennings, abruptly converts to Islam and becomes a different person, prompting Summer to reevaluate her identity.

Frustrated with the lack of chivalrous guys her own age, a college senior gives up on dating for love to date an older man in exchange for gifts instead.

Sadie, a soldier's daughter, tries to sabotage her mother's new relationship, seeing the boyfriend as an enemy to eliminate through ruthless tactics, mirroring her father's military mindset.

A young couple's relationship develops quickly when one of them is diagnosed with a life-changing illness.

A 16-year-old girl and her extended family are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of secrets on her deathbed.

A police officer faces a personal meltdown following a divorce and the death of his mother.

An indecisive couple facing the fourth year of their engagement finally decides to take the next big step and have a threesome.

A story about money, mischief, love and entitlement, set in New York City. Ruth Duffy is getting by on an assistant's salary at a pricey school for girls in Manhattan, managing to move beyond the trouble and loss of her teenage years. Jonny Collins is working local jobs near the Throgs Neck Bridge in the Bronx. When they cross paths after years apart, Jonny is as consumed with Ruth as he was in their high school days, and he infiltrates her life for love and profit.

Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.

While on probation, a man begins to re-evaluate his relationship with his volatile best friend.

Ten-year-old Flynn transforms his living room into a supper club using his classmates as line cooks. With sudden fame, Flynn outgrows his bedroom kitchen, and sets out to challenge the hierarchy of the culinary world.

The Big Bang of creative discovery that was elBulli sparked from the minds of two brothers from a poor suburb of Barcelona and gave birth to a new gastronomic universe. Since then the name Adrià has become synonymous with gastronomic creativity. After the closure of El Bulli, Albert is in the midst of a herculean creative adventure building a gastronomic mile in Barcelona. Will he succeed?

It's the Wild West, circa 1870. Samuel Alabaster, an affluent pioneer, ventures across the American frontier to marry the love of his life, Penelope. As his group traverses the west, the once-simple journey grows treacherous, blurring the lines between hero, villain and damsel.

An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.

A minister of a small congregation in upstate New York grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns and a tormented past.

A documentary that investigates the pathologies that have created the richest society the world has ever seen.

A documentary about discriminatory hiring practices concerning women directors in Hollywood, and an inspiring conversation with those who have succeeded against all odds.

A teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete.

Against the backdrop of her provocative and inventive performance, Narcissister reflects on the personal impact of her mother's illness and death.

Jessie and Angela, high school dropouts, are taking a week off to chill at the beach. Too bad their house got robbed, rent's due, they're about to get fired, and they're broke.

Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS. Repeating her story to the world, this ordinary girl finds herself thrust onto the international stage as the voice of her people.

Two young men pass the time dreaming of the promised land.

After suffering a near-fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.