After its inaugural edition in 2025, SXSW London is back in the capital this summer to celebrate all things movie, music and technology with a stacked film line-up.
From June 1st – 6th 2026, East London will host the first screenings in the UK of 17 films, including three world premieres, as part of the festival’s Screen Conference.
There will also be the return of influential talk series Screen Keynotes, this time with Bafta-winning actress and writer Sharon Horgan, Doctor Who head honcho Russell T Davies and Tom Quinn, founder of Oscar-winning US indie film company Neon, all sharing their pearls of wisdom.
Movies on offer to fans via festival screenings include a Marco Pierre White-helmed documentary, a flesh-eating horror and a drama revolving around forgotten baby syndrome.
As befits its international focus, 22 countries are represented among the confirmed movie line-up for SXSW London so far, including Mexico, Slovakia, Kazakhstan and Columbia – as well as host nation the UK.
With Metro as SXSW London’s media partner, read on for our pick of the films…
Feast Or Famine
A world premiere, this documentary follow’s highly-regarded local restaurant Angelina as it chases its first Michelin star, and is narrated by culinary icon Marco Pierre White – the first Brit to earn three of them, before famously giving them back.
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He’s on hand to ‘demistify the Michelin myth’ to those of us on the outside of the fine dining experience, pressing our noses to the glass and licking our lips.
Feast Or Famine is directed by Adrian Choa and Michael Boccalini.
The Remedy
Sold as a ‘stylish gothic horror’ from American director Alex Kahuam and writer Daniel Kuhlman, The Remedy is another of SXSW London’s premieres.
Starring legendary creature actor Doug Jones (The Shape of Water, Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth) alongside Timothy Granaderos, London Thor and Jenny O’Hara, a son’s desperate attempts at keeping his mother alive lead him to make sacrifices in more ways than one.
The titualar so-called miraculous ‘remedy’ may promise to extend someone’s lifespan, but it also leaves the patient with an insatiable appetite for human flesh.
All Night Wrong
The third world premiere is Jason James’ riotous, anxiety-inducing comedy starring Zach Cherry (Severance) and Borat and The Apprentice’s Maria Bakalova.
All Night Wrong serves up a nightmarish first date when Gary (Cherry) and Eli (Bakalova) progress their dating app match to a real-life meet-up in a bar.
But their one night stand plans are soon thwarted when they find themselves driving an apparent killer’s car – complete with a dead body in the back – and fleeing from the police with a suitcase of dirty cash.
On The Road
Described as a fusion between Beat writer Jack Kerouac’s work and Alfonso Cuarón’s modern classic movie Y Tu Mamá También, On The Road follows a young sex worker working out of a roadside diner who falls in love with an older truck driver while on the run.
Victor Prieto Simental plays rebellious hustler Veneto and Osvaldo Sanchez Valenzuela is trucker Muñeco, with their lives upended by the trouble following in Veneto’s wake.
From director David Pablos and produced by Star Wars actor Diego Luna, this Mexican movie won the Queer Lion at Venice Film Festival in 2025.
Father
From director Tereza Nvotová, Father was Slovakia’s official Oscar submission for 2026, which premiered at Venice, and tackles the unimaginable pain of forgotten baby syndrome.
Inspired by real life tragic events, Milan Ondrík plays Michal, the father at the film’s heart, who heads into the office one morning as the new CEO of his company, on the hottest day of the year, after dropping off his young daughter at nursery – or so he thinks.
But gaps in his memory cause fatal consequences, and he’s left unravelling with guilt and grief in this searing and chaotic drama.
Maddie’s Secret
American comedian John Early has made his first film with Maddie’s Secret, which he also stars in alongside Kate Berlant, Kristen Johnston, Vanessa Bayer and Chris Bauer.
The tragicomedy follows food influencer Maddie (Early) as she struggles to balance her career ambitions alongside a battle with bulimia that she’s kept secret even from those closest to her for years.
Heavily inspired by John Waters, the movie was widely praised out of its premiere at TIFF in the autumn for walking the delicate tightrope between comedy and drama.
Little White Lies has called it ‘a sincere and surprising comedic triumph’ while IndieWire dubbed it ‘one of the boldest American movies in years’.
Sicko
Sicko is a sharp Kazakh thriller about a young couple who make a dangerous fortune by faking cancer.
From director Aitore Zholdaskali, newlyweds Azamat (Ayan Utepbergen) and Tansholpan (Dilnaz Kurmangali) are so broke they decide to set up an online fundraising campaign for his pretend terminal diagnosis to keep the debt collectors from their door.
But when the scam goes viral, they find themselves trapped in a dangerous web of lies in this biting satire.
Intelligence Rising
British AI documentary Intelligence Rising sees leading global authorities join expert Marc Warner for a war-game exploring how artificial intelligence might reshape power.
Moving away from AI’s influence on the creative arts, Intelligence Rising instead explores its impact on the geopolitical front, with some of the world’s most prominent thinkers in politics, military strategy, philosophy and technology weighing in.
Together with director Elena Andreicheva, the likes of General Patrick Sanders, Skype Jaan Tallinn, Google DeepMind’s Lucy Lim and Yuval Noah Harari issue a stark warning to viewers.
SXSW London runs June 1st -6th 2026. Click here for more information on the SXSW London Screen Conference.
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