New Releases

New Releases

New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.

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  • DIVERSITY Festival: March 16/17 event

    See the full lineup of films:

    Pondering Potatoes, 1min., UK
    Directed by Kessiah Leah Arthur
    A rare insight into the lives of potatoes and finally answering that question of what they're really thinking

    https://www.kessiahfilmdesign.co.uk/pondering-potatoes
    https://www.instagram.com/llamafacest...

  • Short Film Trailer: SECONDS IN ETERNITY. Directed by Christian Schu

    Seconds in Eternity, 42min., Estonia/Germany
    Directed by Christian Schu
    An elegant woman in her later years feels the relentless march of time as she mourns her lost youth and missed chances. Alone in a dimly lit room, her life seems to fade with each cigarette she smokes. She observes a vibrant ...

  • BEST Scene Reading: The Fold, by Robert Cooke

    Using his tech capabilities, Matt puts a team together to help build a virtual reality world that is a mirror if the real world, however, lack of funding needs they need to find some way get the project off the ground. Matt decides to impress the Dean of Engineering by telling him about a special...

  • DOC Shorts Festival: March 15/16 event

    SOUTH GEORGIA. In the heart of the wild, 30min,. Ukraine
    Directed by Andrii Andreiev
    As it sometimes happens in this vast Universe, a remarkable coincidence brought together a multitude of talented cinematographers, musicians, and film editors in the making of a documentary about South Georgia. W...

  • BEST Scene Reading: SPIDERSILK, by Akutra Ramses Atenosis Cea

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    With an imaginative technical view on the mechanics of time and space, Akutra weaves a schematic of logic that explores the fringes of reality in ways that are within the realm of the possibility and reality. Cre...

  • UNDER 5 MINUTE Festival: March 13/14 event

    See the full lineup of films:

    Bug Eye, 4min., USA
    Directed by Clint Green
    A marriage is tested by a man's obsession with bugs.

    https://www.youtube.com/@imjstudiosproductions

    https://www.instagram.com/clintjgreen

    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-bug-eye

    Pushing Up Daisies, 2...

  • ANTISEMITE, 13min., USA, Drama

    Seth, a college senior, is home for winter break. He’s spending a day relaxing and shopping on Fairfax Avenue when he’s suddenly confronted by an Orthodox Jewish man asking Seth if he’s Jewish. Seth’s chance encounter leads to a profound spiritual experience with life-changing implications.

    http...

  • THE CALL, 14min., USA, Film Noir, Thriller

    1965. A small man in a big world works hard to close a deal, doing everything he can to please his boss. But the clock is ticking, and someone is out to get him.

    https://www.instagram.com/oneiro_films/

    Directed by Ryan Jafri

    Cast: Tom Martin, Alex Hebert

    Director Statement
    I've always been in...

  • YOU CAN'T BE HERE, 16min., USA, Sci-Fi/Drama

    After humanity's destruction, one man wanders the wasteland in search of a safe place to settle down, until one day he is confronted by a group of people who don't belong.

    https://www.instagram.com/zac_pope/

    Directed by Zachary Pope

    Cast: Tanner Thomason, Ketta Kachemov, Alvin Heng, Lauren Tay...

  • LGBTQ+ Shorts Festival. March 12/13 event

    See the full lineup of films:

    longing/belonging, 3min,. Canada
    Directed by Rachael Withers, Niamh Wilson
    longing/belonging follows a queer femme struggling to break out of the mold of their straight relationship and their journey to discovering identity and community.

    https://instagram.com/lon...

  • MOVIE TRAILER FESTIVAL - March 2025

    See the full lineup of trailers:

    TREE, 3min., Iran
    A girl plants a sapling in her garden. But as the years pass, the tree feels lonely because the girl has forgotten it, and it emerges from the soil and leaves the girl. Until the girl goes back to the tree.

    FLICKER, 1min., USA
    For the most par...

  • TEST DRIVE, 15min., USA, Sci-Fi/Action

    In war-torn 2062, a grounded fighter pilot agrees to raise a genetically-modified child, only to discover his precocious daughter's DNA is designed for nefarious purposes.

    https://www.instagram.com/samtahhan

    Directed by Sam Tahhan

    Cast: Tasos Hernandez, Isabella Salazar, Steven Dudley, Jade Ho...

  • CHICAGO Festival Shorts Best of - March 11/12 event

    See the full lineup of films:

    ORANGE BLUES 24, 5min., USA
    Directed by Alyssa Dann
    One man seeks refuge from the world's crazy in the arms of his muse -- the love of his life! Alyssa Dann has taken this tongue-in-cheek Blues piece and brought it to life in a charming manner.

    https://oledudesong...

  • QUEER MONGOL, 16min., Mongolia, Documentary/LGBTQ+

    Queer Mongol follows four characters over the course of Mongolia's LGBTQ+ Pride Festival, who embody a diversity of gender and sexual identities. The film is a meditation on queerness in the non-west and a nuanced glimpse into a nascent movement on the Central Asian Steppe.

    Directed by Brandt Mi...

  • SALT, 3min,. Germany, Fashion/Experimental Film

    Salt tells the story of a group of people who shed their fear of the elemental forces of nature and instead rediscover the power of nature, returning more to their own roots.

    Directed by Dominik Hill

    Cast: Sophia Friesen, Marika Welling, Rachel Rep, Lotte Kleihaue, Aminata Sanogo, Nicola Müller...

  • SAUDADE, 6min., USA, Dance/Experimental

    A dancer faces a ghost of her past and has to come out victorious to find her true self once again.

    Directed by Josie Hull

    Cast: Gica Pucca, Constantin Augustinus Sieve

    https://www.gicapucca.com/portfolio
    https://www.instagram.com/gica.pucca/

  • Short Film Trailer: BUG EYE. Directed by Clint Green

    Bug Eye, 4min., USA
    Directed by Clint Green
    A marriage is tested by a man's obsession with bugs.

    https://www.youtube.com/@imjstudiosproductions
    https://www.instagram.com/clintjgreen

    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-bug-eye

  • Chicago DOC Shorts Festival: March 10/11 event

    See the full lineup of films:

    My Block My Hero, 25min., USA
    Directed by Gina D'Onofrio
    Jahmal Cole is the founder of My Block My Hood My City, a Chicago-based non-profit with a mission to inspire youth and empower local communities. He has been shot twice in his day-to-day life, an unfortunate ...

  • ROGUE REFLECTION, 5min., USA, Experimental/Dance

    A tap dancer, discovering that her reflection refuses to mirror her movements, engages in a playful battle with herself.

    Directed by Juliet McMains

    Cast: Rachel Zuraek

    https://www.instagram.com/julietmcmains/

  • ZARDA, 17min., Pakistan, Drama/Family

    ARDA (Sweet-rice, a local desert in Pakistan) is a slice-of-life, Docufiction film.
    We peek into the life of a young Pakistani teenage girl Shella who comes from a conservative, lower middle-class family but dreams with an open heart. Slowly stepping out into the real world, Shella is fascinated ...

  • A STATE OF BLISS, 17min., USA, Romance/LGBTQ+/Drama

    A user goes on a virtual, blind date to meet an individual that challenges their process of life and death.

    Directed by Abriana Blount

    https://blountabriana.wixsite.com/filmfruit

  • EOSPHERE, 16min., Canada, Animation/Sci-Fi

    A grieving scientist struggles to accept help from his robotic creation; which is trying to address the cause of his guilt.

    Directed by Kolton Alexander Nowaczynski

    https://www.instagram.com/eospherefilm/

    Director Statement
    I love creating and telling simple narratives with complex characters ...

  • Triggered, a Cinematic Superhero Fan Film, 21min,. USA, Action/Comic Book

    A brilliant madman known as The Director believes that Superheroes are a threat to humanity. With Captain Marvel and Blade in his clutches, their rivals Wolverine and Rogue must escape before they too are turned into one of his minions.

    Directed by Mario Ricardo Rodriguez, Marcus Nel-Jamal Hamm
    ...

  • MINI-DOCS Film Festival. March 8/9 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    I Am 18, 40min., India
    Directed by Sasi Kumar
    "I am 18" is a powerful documentary set in India that delves into the lives of young adults as they reach the significant milestone of turning 18. This age marks a pivotal moment in many cultures and societies, symboliz...