Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere Heads SXSW Sydney’s 2025 Film Program

Jeremy Allen White is the Boss, but the rest of the line-up isn’t too shabby either.

South by Southwest Sydney have dropped their full 2025 screen program, and it’s pretty impressive. We’ll be getting 100 screenings over seven days when the tech and culture festival’s third edition lands on October 13, and according to my quick back-of-the-cocktail-napkin calculation, there’s enough happening in the film stream for the dedicated movie maven to pretty much ignore everything else going on.

The big ticket item is, of course, the opening night film Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, wherein The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White plays ol’ you-know-who in a film that charts the Asbury Park boy’s creative struggles while creating the landmark 1982 album, Nebraska.

Other highlights include Bugonia, the latest from Greek sicko Yorgos Lanthimos; Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie; Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love; recent MIFF fave If I Had Legs I’d Kick You; and the horror sequel, Black Phone 2.

Other offerings that strike me as simpatico with the Blunt cultural palate include the Japanese thriller Exit 8, based on the viral game of the same name; Luna Rose, the fourth feature by The Mars Volta’s Omar Rodríguez-López; F*ck My Son!, adapted from Johnny Ryan’s cult comic; and British genre auteur Ben Wheatley’s latest, the lo-fi Bulk.

But for my hard-earned money (or poorly-justified press pass, however it shakes out) the must-see event is the Wicker Man Spotlight which features a screening of the documentary The Last Sacrifice, followed by a… challenging double feature of the 1973 original version of The Wicker Man, plus the rather less well-regarded 2006 remake starring Nicolas Cage.

That’s just scratching the surface – I’ll throw together a few hot picks in the very near future. In the meantime, hit the SXSW Sydney website for the full program, passes, and whatnot.