The second edition of SXSW London is nearly upon us, with Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day, starring Haley Bennett, Jack Whitehall, Lily Allen, Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders, Sally Phillips, Misia Butler and Elyas M’Barek, opening the 2026 Screen Festival on Monday, June 1.
The rom-com from director Tina Gharavi and screenwriter Justine Waddell is an adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel Night and Day. But the movie is just one of a few dozen, along with short films, that are unspooling in the British capital throughout the June 1-6 event.
Peter Glanz’s darkly satirical Savage House, whose cast includes Richard E. Grant, Claire Foy, Bel Powley and Jack Farthing, is also among the headliner premieres of this year’s SXSW London, along with an exclusive first-look screening of the first two episodes of Adult Swim animated series Get Jiro, based on the DC/Vertigo graphic novel from Anthony Bourdain and starring the voice of Brian Tee (A House of Dynamite), which is set in a not-too-distant future Los Angeles where master chefs rule the town and people literally kill for a seat at the best restaurants.
Among international features getting their U.K. premiere at SXSW London are The Other Side of the Sun, directed by Tawfik Sabouni, Juan Pablo Sallato‘s The Red Hangar, Roya by director Mahnaz Mohammadi, Vladlena Sandu’s Memory, Remake from director Ross McElwee, and Only Rebels Win by director Danielle Arbid. SXSW London is owned and produced by Panarise, which operates under license from SXSW LLC, which is owned by Penske Media Corporation, the parent company of The Hollywood Reporter.
