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 - We're Still Breathing, Amhara Genocide in Ethiopia. DOC Fest Sept. 2024

    We're Still Breathing, Amhara Genocide in Ethiopia is a short documentary about the systemic silent genocide of the Amhara people in Ethiopia.

    https://www.amharaamerica.org/post/secure-your-seat-documentary-film-we-are-still-breathing-amhara-genocide-in-ethiopia

    https://twitter.com/AAA_Amhara

    ...

  • Watch - FEMININE SINGULAR feature. DOC Festival Sept. 2024

    FEMININE SINGULAR, 72min., Argentina
    Directed by Dorian Shine
    An evocative cinematic and performance art voyage through the lives of 30 extraordinary Argentinian women between 4 years old and more! Within each woman's story, a treasure of resilience and strength appears through their unique persp...

  • Watch - THE EXAMINED LIFE. DOC Festival September 2024

    THE EXAMINED LIFE, 14min., USA
    Directed by KA Chinery
    What is this journey we call life? And what is its purpose? Is there a goal or a destination? Throughout this profound journey, we experience so much joy and so much suffering. But what we must know is that the triumphs and struggles that we e...

  • Watch - THE SECRET OF PREHISTORIC MOTHERS. DOC Festival Sept. 2024

    THE SECRET OF PREHISTORIC MOTHERS, 53min,. Germany
    Directed by Anja Krug-Metzinger
    What was motherhood like in prehistoric times? Most recent archaeological findings prove that the cooperative support of mothers within a community became a successful reproductive strategy.

    http://www.krug-metzi...

  • Watch - THE RAZOR'S EDGE. DOC Festival Sept. 2024

    THE RAZOR'S EDGE, 67min., Greece
    Directed by Christos N Karakasis,
    The first Greek documentary about the art of Kung Fu by the Director and Producer Christos N. Karakasis with the central figure being the teacher Sifu Kyriakos Eleftheriou.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32143636
    https://www.fac...

  • HOME short film, reactions WILDsound Festival (interview)

    HOME, 16min., USA
    Directed by Al Chang
    Seo-won navigates a fragmented reality filled with emotional encounters and haunting memories, seeking solace and clarity in her search for home.

    https://www.instagram.com/4lcfilm

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?

    When ...

  • MOISTURE short film, reactions WILDsound Festival

    MOISTURE, 25min., Brazil
    Directed by Duda Gorter
    Brazil: In a gray city in the near future, religious sects and rats live on the prowl. It rains non-stop.

  • SCREENPLAY MOVIE: Tamara's Escape, by Rebecca Robinson

    In 2052 after the dissolution of the United States 30 years earlier, a young woman, 17 year-old Tamara O’Neal, is smuggled out of the Confederacy to New Albion, liberal bastion based in the Colorado Rockies, to what her father thinks is safety. After a difficult transition to life in New Albion a...

  • FEM/DOM - Empowered short film, reactions WILDsound Festival

    FEM/DOM - Empowered, 15min., USA
    Directed by Mitchell Suikess
    Violet is a resourceful, independent, and modern woman. By day, she works as a soft-spoken assistant for an abusive, and misogynistic boss, Mr. Mann. By night, Violet swaps her powerlessness for power, when she moonlights as a dominatr...

  • CHHAVA short film, reactions WILDsound Festival (interview)

    CHHAVA, 39min., India
    Directed by Anurag Srijit, Arman Shaikh
    Set in the storied Apshinge Military Village in Maharashtra, 'Chhava' offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of families bound by centuries of military service, from the reign of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj to today. Crafted with ca...

  • TORII short film, reactions WILDsound Festival

    TORII, 13min., Germany
    Directed by Martin Gerigk
    Torii ?? is a short film in the form of an audiovisual composition about the traditional Shinto gates of the same name in Japan. The film uses these gates which symbolically mark the transition from the mundane to the sacred as representatives of a...

  • Watch - UP AT NIGHT - Under 5 Minute Festival showcase Sept. 2024

    UP AT NIGHT, 2min., Switzerland
    Directed by Hassan Camara
    http://ashesproductions.com/
    https://facebook.com/hassancamara
    https://instagram.com/hassancamaraa


    Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-up-at-night

  • Watch - WEEKEND RELEASE. Under 5 Minute Festival Sept. 2024

    WEEKEND RELEASE, 1min., UK
    Directed by Susanda Wolf
    A woman waits for her son to pick her up from the police station, but he isn't coming.
    http://palmanda.com/

    Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-weekend-release

  • Watch - TURNING A NEW LEAF. Under 5 Minute Festival Sept. 2024

    TURNING A NEW LEAF, 2min,. USA
    Directed by Isabelle Alison Hibbard
    Hazel and Willow, two teenage theater club members, exit from backstage after a rehearsal. Willow is upset by her role, and Hazel argues that no, being a tree and chorus member is the best. Hazel breaks into song, and the girls en...

  • Watch - NOUMENA. Under 5 Minute Festival Sept. 2024

    NOUMENA, 2min., USA
    Directed by Coby Resnick, Yanni Economos
    "Noumena" is an experimental film that explores the Kantian principles of reality. It follows a student studying at a library late at night as she tries to understand concept of metaphysics. As she becomes deeper in thought, her environ...

  • Watch - THE NEW BEGINNING. Under 5 Minute Festival Sept. 2024

    THE NEW BEGINNING, 2min,. France
    Directed by Alexandre Diennet
    In a world in decline, Gareth questions his own survival. Along the way, he meets Jim, perhaps the last ray of hope capable of persuading him to remain among the living.

    Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
    https://www.wildsound.ca/v...

  • Watch - A PICCOLI PASSI. Under 5 Minute Festival Sept. 2024

    A PICCOLI PASSI, 5min., Italy
    Directed by Francesco La Barbera
    Antonio, a 12-year-old boy, defends a man from the abuses of his own friends. Following this event, the boy's present and future will be profoundly changed, together with that of those around him.

    https://www.instagram.com/_fralab24...

  • Watch THE LAND OF MEMORIES. Under 5 Minute Festival Sept. 2024

    THE LAND OF MEMORIES, 3min., Italy
    Directed by Rocco Losasso
    memories, happy or sad are always memories.
    a past time that can no longer return

    https://www.instagram.com/rocco___losasso

    Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-land-of-memories

    D...

  • Watch PIPPY AND THE TYPIST. Under 5 Minute Festival Sept. 2024

    PIPPY AND THE TYPIST, 5min., USA
    Directed by Rachel Nemez
    Our protagonist, Pippy, discovers that a magical typewriter controls the events happening down below.

    https://rachelnemez.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/rachelnemez/

    Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/au...

  • DANCE THE WALTZ short film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL/DANCE/MUSIC Festival

    DANCE THE WALTZ, 12min,. Isreal
    Directed by Alona Milner
    “It is a dancing, whirling, almost hallucinatory ecstasy, an increasingly passionate and exhausting whirlwind of dancers, who are overcome and exhilarated by nothing but ‘the waltz.’” Said Ravel about his masterpiece “La Valse”.

    https://y...

  • FITTED SKIN short film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL/DANCE/MUSIC Festival

    FITTED SKIN, 6min, USA
    Directed by Karen Gayle
    Set against the horizon of New York City, Fitted Skin is a dance short about finding comfort in the skin you’re in. Like a fitted sheet, it is almost impossible to get each corner to perfectly cover each edge. Paolo Nutini’s powerful score Iron

  • IN THE DISTANCE short film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL/DANCE/MUSIC Fest (interview)

    IN THE DISTANCE, 10min., France
    Directed by Laëtitia Daché
    "In the Distance" is a choreographic triptych presented as short films, offering a perspective on the notions of complementarity and duality, expressions of resilience in the face of challenges.

    https://www.instagram.com/contradancecomp...

  • NOT ALONE short film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL/DANCE/MUSIC Festival (interview)

    NOT ALONE, 5min., UK
    Directed by Maryam Imogen Ghouth
    A poetry film about creative expression, featuring the artist Sacha Jafri.

    https://www.instagram.com/maryamghouth

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?

    I felt compelled to speak up for artists and justify o...