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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  • Female Best of Shorts

    BEFORE THEY FORGET, 8min., USA
    Directed by Teresa Garza
    In a dystopian future where families are torn apart, a mother is granted one annual reunion with a digital simulation of her child — a fragile ritual that tests the limits of memory and love.

    CAMERA AND BODY, 4min., Slovenia
    Directed by And...

  • THE BARMY HORDE, 60min Animation/Comedy Feature

    THE BARMY HORDE, 60min,. UK
    Directed by Calvin O'Neill
    Do you like silly little cartoons, but are too OLD and HAIRY to watch them without feelings of shame and fear that you are some kind of MENTALLY STUNTED BABY PERSON? Well, you are in for a right treat mate! Because these cartoons are SPECIFIC...

  • FAN FICTION Shorts Fest

    TREE, 3min., Iran
    Directed by Majid Farzolahi
    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.

    https://www.instagram.com/majidfarzolahi

    F...

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: FAN FICTION Shorts Fest

    TREE, 3min., Iran
    Directed by Majid Farzolahi
    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.

    https://www.instagram.com/majidfarzolahi

    F...

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: FEMALE Shorts Festival

    BEFORE THEY FORGET, 8min., USA
    Directed by Teresa Garza
    In a dystopian future where families are torn apart, a mother is granted one annual reunion with a digital simulation of her child — a fragile ritual that tests the limits of memory and love.

    CAMERA AND BODY, 4min., Slovenia
    Directed by And...

  • THE NINETEEN YEAR HUNT film, reactions DOCUMENTARY Festival

    THE NINETEEN-YEAR HUNT, 18min., Hong Kong
    Directed by Kelly Siu
    On the sea‑facing walkways of Wah Fu Estate, Jing has spent nineteen years shadowing a syndicate she believes traps and kills stray cats, feeding a clandestine meat trade.

  • THE CALL film, reactions DOCUMENTARY Festival

    The Call, 64min., USA
    Directed by Laura Boyd Owen, Charles Edwin English
    The Call is a powerful documentary that breaks the silence around firefighter mental health, offering an unflinching look at the trauma, PTSD, and suicide crisis facing first responders. Through raw interviews, real-life sto...

  • San Esteban: Freedom, Mysticism and Nopales, reactions DOC Festival (interview)

    San Esteban: Freedom, Mysticism and Nopales, 27min., Mexico
    Directed by Francisco Herrera
    At the foot of the mountains of Zapopan, Mexico, lies San Esteban — an indigenous town whose identity has been shaped for generations by agriculture, ritual, food, and an intimate bond with the land. Shelter...

  • NORTH NODE film, reactions DOCUMENTARY Festival (interview)

    NORTH NODE, 12min., Canada
    Directed by Tatjana Green, Nicole VanStone

    Get to know filmmaker Tatjana Green:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?
    North Node was born from a deep respect for the resilience and wisdom of Indigenous women in Northern Ontario. I was motivated by a desire to witn...

  • RELICS OF LOVE AND WAR film, reactions DOCUMENTARY Festival

    Relics of Love and War, 45min., Canada
    Directed by Keith Lawrence Lock
    This documentary takes an existential approach to time and memory within the context of Chinese Canadian history during World War Two. Using still photos and contemporary footage, filmmaker Keith Lock narrates how his mother m...

  • DEFEND THE DEEP film, reactions WILDSOUND Festival

    DEFEND THE DEEP, 23min., USA
    Directed by Richard Allen Charter, Liz Ruben
    Documentary about the risks to our oceans from deep seabed mining,

    http://thedeepmovie.org/

  • HAPPINESS IS film, reactions DOCUMENTARY Festival

    HAPPINESS IS, 45min., Canada
    Directed by Jason Wayne Frye
    A search into the past reveals a journey of Love, Family and Connection

  • NO KINGS film, reactions WILDSOUND Festival

    NO KINGS, 16min., USA
    Directed by David Tardiff
    NO KINGS, by upcoming filmmaker David Tardiff, encapsulates the "No Kings" movement, march, and rally that took place on 14 June, 2025, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

  • HIDDEN - The Kati Preston Story film, reactions DOCUMENTARY Festival

    HIDDEN - The Kati Preston Story, 75min., Canada
    Directed by Daniel Matmor
    HIDDEN – The Kati Preston Story is a powerful journey seen through the eyes of a child—a firsthand account of a society’s slow and insidious descent into authoritarianism, dictatorship, and tyranny. Kati Preston’s joyful ch...

  • Sheitel- Beauty in the Hidden film, reactions DOCUMENTARY Festival

    Sheitel- Beauty in the Hidden, 86min., Canada
    Directed by Lynda Medjuck-Suissa
    “Sheitel – Beauty in the Hidden” is a documentary exploring the cultural, religious, and personal significance of hair covering among Jewish women, particularly in Orthodox and Hasidic communities. Through interviews i...

  • MISSION PEACE 2 film, reactions DOCUMENTARY Festival

    MISSION PEACE 2, 101min., USA
    Directed by Gregory T. Simmons
    Staunch Moderates’ MISSION PEACE 2 picks up where MISSION PEACE 1 left off, at the beginning of 2021: chronicling the movement’s evolution from a pandemic-era news source into a producer of music, film and videos distributed across a wi...

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY: ARTHUR PENDRAGON AND THE WANDERING WIZARD, by William A. Murphy

    A baby is born to a married woman and the father is a king. Her jealous husband has them both killed along with their entourage. The baby is left to the wolves who call upon the wandering wizard to get this baby back to the humans it belongs with. The wizard takes the child, Arthur, to a comrade ...

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: BLACK & WHITE Shorts Fest

    A BLACK AND WHITE STORY, 8min. Iran
    Directed by Mahdi Ghazi
    A young man, who always wears a mask of a smile, stands on the brink of a life-changing decision, enveloped in solitude and sorrow. In his quest to break free from this mask, he delves into the intertwined layers of memories and thoughts...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival Script: ANYBODY SEEN MY BABY, by Gerald Robinson (interview)

    A happily married father of four sons confronts his attraction to another man and must navigate between his devotion to family and his recognition that his life imitates art.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Michelangelo: Sean Ballantyne
    Homer: Shawn Devlin
    Lu-Lu: Hannah Ehman

    Get to kno...

  • BEST Scene Script Reading: FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES, by Rosemary Gallagher

    Rose is struggling to find that deep connection in her life, compared to her friends she's the only one without any kids, love or overall success.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Angel Bethany : Hannah Ehman
    Rose : Julie Sheppard

  • WILDsound RELATIONSHIP Shorts Festival

    Revival, 33min., USA
    Directed by Wendy Fleetwood
    "REVIVAL" follows the story of Emma, a young woman living in a historic condo in New Orleans. When her roommate, Lauren, abruptly moves out due to eerie occurrences, Emma finds herself in need of a new roommate to share the rent. As Emma navigates ...

  • Watch Today's FREE Film Festival: WILDsound RELATIONSHIP Shorts Festival

    Revival, 33min., USA
    Directed by Wendy Fleetwood
    "REVIVAL" follows the story of Emma, a young woman living in a historic condo in New Orleans. When her roommate, Lauren, abruptly moves out due to eerie occurrences, Emma finds herself in need of a new roommate to share the rent. As Emma navigates ...

  • Watch Today's FREE Film Festival: WILDsound RELATIONSHIP Shorts Festival