距離2016年《西南偏南》還有一個多月的時間，電影節終於公佈了故事片陣容。此次活動將展出139部新片，展示來自世界各地的年輕老牌電影人和紀錄片人的才華。其中一些亮點包括理查德·林克萊特（Richard Linklater）的《人人都想要一些》（Everyone Waste Some），1993年《茫然與迷茫》（Dazed and Middle）的“精神繼承者”，以及今年晚些時候登陸Netflix之前首次亮相的《Pee wee's Big Holiday》的全球首映式。

這些電影將在電影節期間分為12個部分放映，它們都是從2456部精選影片中挑選出來的，因此絕對是最佳影片。SXSW還將宣佈下週將在午夜、電影節最受歡迎和特別活動類別以及短片節目中放映的影片。總而言之，3月11日開幕的會議將是一個非常重要的會議。

完整陣容如下：

敘事特徵競賽

• 仲裁人
• 在太陽爆炸之前
• 克萊爾在動
• collective:unc***cious
• 唐納德哭了
• 狩獵採集者
• 史蒂文斯小姐
• 另一半
• 流浪漢
• 特雷斯波科斯

Documentary Feature Competition

• Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America
• Alive and Kicking
• Best and Most Beautiful Things
• Goodnight Brooklyn - The Story of Death by Audio
• The Liberators
• Orange Sunshine
• Ovarian Psycos
• The Seer
• The Space in Between - Marina Abramovic and Brazil
• TOWER

Headliners

• Demolition
• Don't Think Twice
• Everybody Wants Some
• Hardcore Henry
• In a Valley of Violence
• Midnight Special
• Pee-wee's Big Holiday
• Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru

Narrative Spotlight

• 9 Rides
• Another Evil
• BLACK
• Black Mountain Poets
• From Nowhere
• I Am Not a Serial Killer
• Jean of the Joneses
• Long Nights Short Mornings
• The Master Cleanse
• My Blind Brother
• Rainbow Time
• Shovel Buddies
• Slash
• Suntan
• The Trust
• The Waiting
• War on Everyone

Documentary Spotlight

• Asperger's Are Us
• The Bandit
• Beware of Slenderman
• Chicken People
• The Dwarvenaut
• Fantastic Lies
• Hit It Hard
• The Hollywood Shorties
• Insatiable: The Homaru Cantu Story
• Learning To See
• Mr. Gaga
• Seven Songs for a Long Life
• Silicon Cowboys
• The Slippers
• Starving the Beast: The Battle to Disrupt and Reform America's Public Universities
• Thank You Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon

Visi***

• The Alchemist Cookbook
• American Fable
• Baby Bump
• I Am Belfast
• In Pursuit of Silence
• Jules and Dolores
• Karaoke Crazies
• Little Sister
• LOEV
• My Beautiful Broken Brain
• Operator
• Spaceship
• Teenage Cocktail
• Under the Sun

Episodic

• Outcast
• Preacher
• Search Party
• Vice Principals
• You Me Her

24 Beats Per Second

• The American Epic Sessi***
• And Punching the Clown
• The Art of Organized Noize
• Artist & Repertoire
• BANG! The Bert Berns Story
• Born to Be Blue
• Gary Numan: Android in La La Land
• Honky Tonk Heaven: Legend of the Broken Spoke
• I Go Back Home — Jimmy Scott
• Miles Ahead
• Miss Sharon Jones!
• A Song For You: The Austin City Limits Story
• Soundbreaking — Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music
• The Smart Studios Story
• We Are X

SXGlobal

• BODKIN RAS
• Dead Slow Ahead
• Ghostland
• KILL ME PLEASE
• Papagajka
• UIO: Take me for a Ride
• YARN