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11/08/2021 - 13 films across various sections will be vying for the €7,500 prize; the festival has also announced its Dealing with the Past programme

11/08/2021 - 13 films across various sections will be vying for the €7,500 prize; the festival has also announced its Dealing with the Past programme

DeadCenter 2021 will be a hybrid attraction, with movies available online for the duration of the festival and a limited slate of in-person events.

Potato Dreams of America From the very start of Potato Dreams of America, an autobiographical film from writer/director Wes Hurley, the titular Potato understands how to frame a story. While watching a black-and-white TV set with his grandma Tamara (Lea DeLaria), Potato forms his fingers into a rectangle to peer through – first at his father beating his mother and then, drifting, at the television screen. He reimagines his parents’ domestic violence as a celluloid dance, rough but staged, and all in clean maneuvers unlike the fight happening in reality. Scenes of Potato as a youth (Hersh...

In its opening minutes, SXSW Narrative Feature Competition entrant Women Is Losers issues a mea culpa. The actors stop the scene en media res, look straight into the camera, and explain what you’re about to watch: a tale of good old fashioned, up-by-the-bootstrap, American resourcefulness, only this one foregrounds faces – Latinx – not often at the heart of this kind of tale. The actors also beg your lenience with the period detail (the film is set in late 60s/early 70s San Francisco); with indie films, they explain, you can’t always dress the street or afford the best lighting.