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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New Releases
  • Watch Today's Film Festival: Best of CHICAGO Festival Shorts

    Desert Reforestation: Rivals and the Dropped Camera, 5min., Czechia
    Directed by Stanislav Skricka
    The film captures real, unplanned moments in which divided communities — rivals in politics, work, and sport — come together in a desert reforestation project. In a place where conflict might be expe...

  • THE TRANSITION ROOM film, reactions WILDsound Festival

    THE TRANSITION ROOM, 13min., USA
    Directed by Aaron Penney
    A grieving widower attempts to chase his late wife down in the afterlife only to be stopped by two extremely polite obstacles in his path.

    https://instagram.com/onthesetfilms

  • Song of A Lost Tribe, in a Cosmic Rhapsody film, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Fest

    Song of A Lost Tribe, in a Cosmic Rhapsody, 4min., Singapore
    Directed by Susan Mey Lee Lim, Matthieu Eymard, Christina Teenz Tan
    In a vibrant tapestry of color and sound, "Song of a Lost Tribe in a Cosmic Rhapsody" follows the journey of an ancient tribe of alpacas, each adorned in a dazzling arr...

  • THE ROAD BETWEEN US film, reactions WILDsound Festival

    The Road Between Us, 65min., Nepal
    Directed by Manish Prasai
    The Road Between Us is a documentary about fifteen runners journeying 200 kilometers across Tasmania, capturing their endurance, brotherhood, and the power of unity that connects people beyond distance.

    https://www.instagram.com/white...

  • PASSAGE HOME: Tulalip Tribes remove barriers to salmon habitat film reactions

    Passage Home: Tulalip Tribes remove barriers to salmon habitat, 8min., USA
    Directed by Charles Atkinson, Jeff Ostenson
    Restoring fish passage to spawning habitat is one of the most cost-effective ways to recover salmon runs. The Tulalip Tribes are leading the way in the Snohomish watershed to rem...

  • THROUGH THE ROOTS film, reactions WILDsound Festival

    THROUGH THE ROOTS, 3min., Japan
    Directed by George Komuro
    A short poetic film depicting a conversation between two trees, reflecting on the past, present, and uncertain future of the natural world.

    https://japanscreenhub.com/

  • PUMPING GAS film, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Festival

    PUMPING GAS, 6min., Australia
    Directed by David Foreman
    Music Video based around a live gig with composer Richard Glatz performing his protest rock song, Pumping Gas.

    https://www.instagram.com/enpleinairambience

  • MONOLITH film, reactions WILDsound Festival

    MONOLITH, 11min., USA
    Directed by Brennan Tomas Haley
    In a near-apocalyptic future, a son discovers the unsettling truth about his father’s creation and embarks on a reckless mission against his mother to reconnect with him in his catatonic state.

  • BOLD GOLD film, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Festival

    BOLD GOLD, 3min., USA
    Directed by Richard Power Hoffmann
    Fast-paced, fun, and visually striking, this handmade stop-motion short brickfilm offers a bold call to action. It urges foundations to unlock more -- or even all -- of their $2 trillion in endowments today to tackle the defining challenges...

  • THE CITY'S GREEN ROOM film, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Festival

    THE CITY'S GREEN ROOM, 4min., USA
    Directed by Stacy Whittle, Jon Abrahams
    Filmed in New York City in September 2025, The City's Green Room features internationally acclaimed opera star, Rolando Villazón, caring for the big apple's street trees. While directing a new production of Bellini’s La Son...

  • DOCKUMENTARY film, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Festival

    DOCKUMENTARY, 56min., Canada/USA
    Directed by Mara Miksch
    Dockumentary chronicles life on, under and around the Olga public dock, a fascinating “boundary object” where curious land dwellers encounter colorful sea creatures. From crabs to crabbers, sailors to seals, each puts the pier to their own ...

  • ACT OF CONTRITION film, reactions WILDsound Festival

    ACT OF CONTRITION, 37min., USA
    Directed by Nathan Clarkson
    A beautiful movie-star walks into an old church to confess a dark sin to a complicated priest.

  • SOUTH AFRICAN Film Festival

    Hopefield, 8min., South Africa
    Directed by Jessica Lombard
    A farmer is jolted awake by a shriek in his fields when his dog manages to escape his home. While searching for his best friend he realises he's being stalked by a sinister presence lurking in the dark.

    https://www.instagram.com/hopefie...

  • Watch the July 4th Film Festival: SOUTH AFRICAN Film Festival

    Hopefield, 8min., South Africa
    Directed by Jessica Lombard
    A farmer is jolted awake by a shriek in his fields when his dog manages to escape his home. While searching for his best friend he realises he's being stalked by a sinister presence lurking in the dark.

    https://www.instagram.com/hopefie...

  • Best of AFRICAN Short Film Festival

    Behind the Behind the Scenes, 8min., Kenya
    Directed by James Ongige
    Behind the Behind the Scenes is a 2025 mockumentary film written and directed by James Ongige. The film pulls back the curtain on the hilarious disasters of student filmmaking. The story follows The Director, a delusional perfect...

  • Watch the July 3rd Film Festival: Best of AFRICAN Short Film Festival

    Behind the Behind the Scenes, 8min., Kenya
    Directed by James Ongige
    Behind the Behind the Scenes is a 2025 mockumentary film written and directed by James Ongige. The film pulls back the curtain on the hilarious disasters of student filmmaking. The story follows The Director, a delusional perfect...

  • Winning African Feature Film: MWANANGA

    Mwananga, 69min., Namibia
    Directed by Elisabeth Tonata Hamukwaya
    In a dark and tense city, Lusaka, gripped by the mysterious disappearances of newborns, a tenacious pregnant detective who tries to hide the trauma of losing her husband by overworking herself is at the forefront of the investigatio...

  • Watch the July 2nd Film Festival: Winning African Feature Film: MWANANGA

    Mwananga, 69min., Namibia
    Directed by Elisabeth Tonata Hamukwaya
    In a dark and tense city, Lusaka, gripped by the mysterious disappearances of newborns, a tenacious pregnant detective who tries to hide the trauma of losing her husband by overworking herself is at the forefront of the investigatio...

  • Best of MOROCCO Short Film Festival

    UnBeing: ceci n'est pas une fiction, 13min., Morocco
    Directed by Sami Nait Bachir
    A young man undergoes a lobotomy. As anesthesia takes hold, reality fractures into hallucinations exposing an intimate struggle between institutional control and the inner identity.

    https://www.instagram.com/el.ma...

  • Watch Today's Film Festival: Best of MOROCCO Short Film Festival

    UnBeing: ceci n'est pas une fiction, 13min., Morocco
    Directed by Sami Nait Bachir
    A young man undergoes a lobotomy. As anesthesia takes hold, reality fractures into hallucinations exposing an intimate struggle between institutional control and the inner identity.

    https://www.instagram.com/el.ma...

  • Best of TUNISIA made short films

    THE BURIED, 10min., Tunisia
    Directed by Yassmine Naceur
    This documentary film tells the story of Hnia, a resilient rural woman, who recounts her experience with mardouma, a traditional method of charcoal production. Through her testimony, the film revisits her past, tracing her life journey and h...

  • Watch Today's Film Festival: Best of TUNISIA made short films

    THE BURIED, 10min., Tunisia
    Directed by Yassmine Naceur
    This documentary film tells the story of Hnia, a resilient rural woman, who recounts her experience with mardouma, a traditional method of charcoal production. Through her testimony, the film revisits her past, tracing her life journey and h...

  • LOCA film, reactions DANCE Festival

    LOCA, 5min., Canada
    Directed by Véronique Paquette
    A female silhouette, sketched with fine white lines, disintegrates. A few bars ring out from “Loca”—a classic tune from the golden age of Argentinean tango.