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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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • process film, reactions DANCE Festival

    process, 4min., Japan
    Directed by Ryo Kobayashi
    Trapped between expectation and self, the body resists.

    https://www.instagram.com/kobaryo4565/

  • The Making of Star Among the Cosmic Clouds film, reactions MUSIC Festival

    The Making of Star Among the Cosmic Clouds : from Song to Symphony, 12min., Singapore
    Directed by Suan Lim
    Journey behind the curtain to witness the creation of "Star Among the Cosmic Clouds," a powerful new song from the album ALAN: Cosmic Rhapsody. This documentary delves into the creative proc...

  • Joy ~ Sorrow ~ Hope film, reactions MUSIC Festival

    Joy ~ Sorrow ~ Hope, 5min., USA
    Directed by Lindsay Gauthier
    Drawing on the inspiring verse of 13th-century Sufi poet Shams of Tabriz, this short dance film weaves Odissi dance with an original music composition to explore resilience — not as endurance, but as transformation.

    https://abhyasaodi...

  • WHEN YOU WAKE UP EARLY film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival

    WHEN YOU WAKE UP EARLY, 2min., USA
    Directed by Luke Paranjpe,
    Poetry Movie series. When you wake up early, you notice things that you don’t when the sun is shining on a summer afternoon. You notice the last tiny water droplets falling on your windows from the heavy clouds that darkened the fields...

  • Rêves au Vent film, reactions MUSIC Festival

    Rêves au Vent, 3min., Switzerland
    Directed by Cooper Andrews
    A poem written fifty years ago by a little-known Swiss poet from the Jura mountains sleeps in a drawer, waiting. When his granddaughter rediscovers the manuscript in a moment of grief, she shares it with singer Noga and her son Asher Va...

  • Songs of A Lost Tribe, in a Cosmic Rhapsody film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL 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...

  • Stairway film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival

    Stairway, 9min., Canada
    Directed by Jerry Trieus
    Grieving the passing of her mother, lonely disabled Seraphina leaves her shop late one night and discovers that the elevator in this old heritage building has broken down. Now she must climb the fourteen floors of a grand stairwell, and as she desc...

  • She Wants To Go Dancing film, reactions DANCE Festival

    She Wants To Go Dancing, 4min., USA
    Directed by Cami Lea Bertossi
    When the monotony of office life becomes too much to bear, two office ladies celebrate the urge to break free and just dance.

    https://www.instagram.com/bcam_media

  • BEING WITH YOURSELF film, reactions DANCE Festival

    BEING WITH YOURSELF, 4min., USA
    Directed by Mike Godlewski
    A short dance film in which painted layers of words gradually reveal the layers of self that are put out into the world.

  • R&sonances [1. On void] film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival

    R&sonances [1. On void], 2min., Belgium
    Directed by Nicolas Van Achter, Stéphanie Paillet
    In this solo from the R&sonances series, we invited Italian dancer and visual artist Francesco Misceo to Belgium, in the heart of Wallonia — one of the earliest and most decisive geographic epicentres of glo...

  • CATCH film, reactions DANCE Festival

    CATCH, 2min., USA
    Directed by Audrey Baran
    Short dance film exploring sensations of confinement and release created through internal and environmental challenges.

  • THE TESTIMONY film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival

    The Testimony, 18min., Netherlands
    Directed by Ellen van Kempen
    'The Testimony' is a intimate crossover between theatre and film, in which a woman makes an irreversible decision, fueled by revenge and driven by love for her daughter.

    https://www.instagram.com/iris.heusschen

  • LIGHT BETWEEN BREATH film, reactions DANCE Festival

    LIGHT BETWEEN BREATH, 2min., Canada
    Directed by Laina Brown, Dominique Rey
    Light Between Breath is an experimental dance film—born from a collaboration between artists and dancers—that transforms the human body into a shifting, energetic canvas. Rather than focusing on traditional choreography, t...

  • pLEasurEs 650 film, reactions DANCE Festival

    pLEasurEs 650, 6min., UK
    Directed by Oscar Oldershaw, Joseph Campbell
    Born from live improvisation between dancer and musicians, this film evolves through further improvised layers — a continuous conversation between movement, sound, and image.

  • SURGE film, reactions DANCE Festival

    SURGE, 6min., USA
    Directed by Elijah Beyer
    A swarm of dancers intertwine together, as they make their way through the different rooms and spaces of a mysterious place.

  • Grandpa's Got a Brand New Pill film, reactions MUSIC Festival

    Grandpa's Got A Brand New Pill, 9min., USA
    Directed by Jacob McCaslin
    Based on true events “Grandpa's Got a Brand New Pill,” is singer-songwriter Jeffrey George Moline's ode to the grand tradition of the comical country songs of his youth, as performed by his alter ego Queer Country Superstar Awe...