Austin Film Festival 2025 Preview: Wake Up Dead Man, Jay Kelly, No Other Choice and more

The Austin Film Festival is just around the corner and stacked with Texas premieres of major films like Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire, Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice and Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet. Ahead of this year’s festival, which runs from October 23–30, take a look at the feature films and documentaries our Hyperreal Film Journal writers can’t wait to see.

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Ne Zha II: Hands in His Pants, He’s Here to Save the World

In 2025’s record-breaking animated epic Ne Zha II, the direct sequel to Ne Zha (2019), writer/director Yu Yang 杨宇 (credited as Jiaozi 饺子) presents loud, bright, unbelievable artistic direction with a crew three times that of its predecessor, giving intricate visual details to every element on the screen.

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