SXSW London Announces High-Profile Premieres, Highlighting Jane Schoenbrun’s Slasher Film

The Screen Festival segment of SXSW London, running June 1-6, announced two high-profile premieres. Jane Schoenbrun’s slasher Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma will close the event, while Olivia Wilde’s horror-thriller The Invite will debut in the United Kingdom. Both titles join a program that also features Sofia Coppola’s Marc Jacobs documentary and a re-scored screening of the 1928 silent classic The Cure Meets The Man Who Laughs.

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SXSW London’s Screen Festival, an offshoot of the broader SXSW brand, curates international cinema for UK audiences. The latest slate adds four world premieres—Bruno Safadi’s The Playoffs, Thanasis Neofotistos’s The Boy With Light-Blue Eyes, Sam McConnell’s Test, and Christ Atkins’s Getting Away With It—plus a collaborative silent-film event with Silents Synced, underscoring the festival’s push toward genre-bending and emerging voices.

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Director Jane Schoenbrun returns after the critical success of I Saw the TV Glow. The closing film stars Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder. Festival head Anna Bogutskaya, who oversees programming, highlighted the project’s thematic ambition. Olivia Wilde directs The Invite, featuring Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton. Sofia Coppola contributes the Marc Jacobs documentary.

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• Festival dates: June 1-6, 2024.

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• New world premieres announced: four.

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• High-profile premieres: two (Schoenbrun’s film and Wilde’s The Invite).

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• Special screening: one re-scored silent-film event.

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• Total highlighted titles in the announcement: sixteen, spanning narrative features, documentaries, and experimental works.

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Anna Bogutskaya praised Schoenbrun’s evolving oeuvre, noting that Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma extends the director’s exploration of horror, fandom, memory, and identity. She described the film’s central performances as “so charged” that the screen seemed at risk of catching fire, emphasizing the festival’s confidence in its boundary-pushing ambition.

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The inclusion of Schoenbrun’s slasher as the closing night signals SXSW London’s willingness to foreground bold, identity-focused horror within a mainstream festival context. Pairing the film with established talent such as Anderson and Einbinder may attract broader audiences to independent genre cinema and influence future programming choices toward more experimental narratives.

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• “Jane Schoenbrun has been building one of the most fascinating bodies of work in cinema today,” — Anna Bogutskaya, Head of the Screen Festival

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• “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma builds on every touchpoint of Schoenbrun’s work, exploring horror, fandom, memory, and identity, and pushes it further.” — Anna Bogutskaya, Head of the Screen Festival

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The festival opens with Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day, runs a series of international screenings, and concludes on June 6 with the world premiere of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. The Invite and the curated silent-film event will also be screened during the six-day run.

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