Put your duck on a leash, we’re headed south, where the Incredible Burt Wonderstone, James Franco, and a big-ass spider are all vying for your dollar. Though you can’t go wrong with festival favorites like The East, Mud, and The Spectacular Now, we have fourteen picks to put on your bill.

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A woman juggles her husband’s Alzheimer’s, son’s cerebral palsy, and handyman’s past (Homeland’s Marc Menchaca and the co-director) in the Texas Hill Country. We’re thinking: All the Real Girls meets What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.

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Brie Larson stars as a troubled foster-care facility supervisor. It’s based on the eponymous short film, which won Sundance 2009’s Jury Prize, and comes from the guy who did I Am Not a Hipster.

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Brooklynite Ben Nabors crafts a documentary about a 14-year-old Malawian who gets power from junk, saves his family from poverty, and becomes a whirlwind sensation. So what have you done lately?

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Searching Sugar Mountain for her sister, Charlotte and a boozy ex-Marine stumble upon a church of crazies headed by a snake-handling preacher. It’s psychedelic creepiness that recalls Kevin Smith’s Red State and comes from the mind of a Lynch fan.

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Kate and Luke work at a brewery but have more in common than Sam and Adams. SXSW vet Joe Swanberg’s latest comedy peers at monogamy through beer goggles and stars Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, and Ron Livingston.

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The man who penned Borat and Brüno finds the director’s chair for a comedy about the happily ever after. Anna Faris, Rose Byrne, and Simon Baker lead the cast.

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It’s the night before his wedding, and the character known only as Man (Adam Brody) is off cleaning up messy breakups in Party Girl director Daisy von Scherler Mayer’s modern-day Candide.

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The woman who was friends with The Beatles longer than they were friends with each other dishes on the band’s making of cultural history.

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We’d like to interrupt this broadcast to bring you the true story behind Afghanistan’s TOLO TV, a.k.a. the scariest place in the world to work. Eva Orner, producer of Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side, debuts behind the lens.

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Despite the morbid title, Jones, a UK film collective, directs an inspiring story about two unlikely souls who find a reason to live. See: Tyrannosaur with porn and pot.

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Mary is an elementary teacher who eats Vicodin and frolics through alternate realities, but it’s the actor/director/son of John — Nick Cassavetes — who schools the mind-trip starring its writer Heather Wahlquist, with Sienna Miller, Max Thieriot, and Ray Liotta supporting.

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Just acquired by Drafthouse Films, the punk doc premiered last year at LAFF and hits theaters this summer. Made up of a trio from Detroit, Death was dead until Internet fans demanded their revival 30 years later. Maybe this is SXSW’s Searching for Sugar Man.

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If you’re going to see a Midnighters movie, may as well see something that’ll give you nightmares. Rob Zombie writes and directs this fright fest starring his dreadlocked Sheri Moon. Basically, these Lords send a DJ their record, and shiz starts spinning.

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And that about covers it.

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