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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  • EUPHORIA short film, reactions WILDsound Festival (interview)

    EUPHORIA, 19min., Taiwan
    Directed by Hsiao-Tsun CHIU
    As nightfall cast shadows on their secrets, the woman schemes under the shroud of darkness, returning to the house to share her clandestine plans with her partner in crime. Yet, an otherworldly aura permeates the air, revealing the lovers' true...

  • HIDDEN CURRENTS short film, reactions Chicago Festival

    HIDDEN CURRENTS, 8min,. USA
    Directed by T.E. Hirschler
    https://gracefilm.squarespace.com/

  • GRACE short film, reactions Chicago Festival

    GRACE, 5min,. USA
    Directed by Jason Ivy
    Originally created during the SAG-AFTRA strike as part of the SAG-AFTRA Short Film Series, the film "Grace" features a crew of actors working together for the first time to navigate the tale of a young woman dealing with the powerful manifestation of grief ...

  • AKABEI short film, Crime/Mystery festival review (interview)

    AKABEI, 12min., Poland
    Directed by Marcin Kolodziejczak
    A young woman dreaming of a stable relationship discovers that her current partner is just wasting her time, so she plans swift revenge.

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?

    There were three main reasons ...

  • CHOMP short film, reactions HORROR Underground Festival

    CHOMP, 10min., USA
    Directed by Carter Bowden
    A young man is challenged both psychically and psychologically when he takes part in an experiment led by a mysterious scientist.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27892673/
    https://www.instagram.com/carterbowdenfilms/

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY Shorts Festival - May 17/18 eventg

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    INCURSIO, 9min,. USA
    Directed by Jonathan Sackman
    On the day of Singularity, an ordinary man finds himself in the midst of an artificial intelligence attack.

    http://jonathansackman.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/jsfilmandtv/

    Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
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  • FOREVER BOUND short film watch, Fashion/Experimental, Italy

    Directed by Rob Bell
    Written by Elisa Messi

    Poetry by Vittoria Aganoor Pompil

    For Forever Bound, we wanted to explore the theme of fate’s adversarial role in a relationship, how destiny, if you believe in such a thing, plays an important role in how our lives turn out. It’s an exciting challen...

  • Best of WILDsound Shorts Festival - May 16/17 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    BENEATH THE SOIL, 4min., Australia
    Directed by Peter Edward Hartwig
    A deeply introspective experimental film, delving into the psyche of an eclectic artist on a quest to complete his most important art. In 4 minutes, we journey through the artist's emotional landsc...

  • CHICAGO Shorts Festival - May 15/16 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    WEEK 11: SLAPSTICK, 2min., USA
    Directed by William (Sharp) Walker
    After a little boy loses his ball on a roof, he tries increasingly outlandish strategies to get it back.

    Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/slapstick-feedback

    HALCY...

  • SREBENICA short film watch, 1min., Political/Black & White

    This work is about Srebrenica, Bosnia, place of the last european genocide where thousands of muslim people were killed.

    The video can be seen both as a retranscription of the events and a reflection about the human condition.

    Firstly, the possibility of the horror in the human condition. The b...

  • HORROR Festival Feature - THE YORKIE WEREWOLF. May 14/15 event

    THE YORKIE WEREWOLF, 74min., USA
    Directed by Michael DiBiasio-Ornelas
    A rebellious teen witch is turned into a tiny werewolf and thrown into the middle of a decades-old war between one small town's creatures of the night -- and the local mafia.

    https://www.instagram.com/michaeldibiasio/
    https:/...

  • Short Film Trailer: DOWN IN FLAMES: THE TRUE STORY OF TONY 'VOLANCO' VALENCI

    DOWN IN FLAMES: THE TRUE STORY OF TONY 'VOLANCO' VALENCI, 29min., USA
    Directed by William Joseph Stribling
    Meet Tony Valenci and his bona fide sideshow of eccentric colleagues. Tony has spent his life dreaming of setting a world record. Despite numerous failures, Tony has never stopped believing ...

  • THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival Shorts - May 13/14 event

    See the Full Lineup of Films:

    A BEAUTIFUL LIFE, 15min., USA
    Directed by Zsolt Kormendy
    Two detectives investigate a mysterious kidnapping in Vác, Hungary. One of them is relentlessly being pursued by a malevolent dark figure that will stop at nothing to undermine the case and his life.

    https:/...

  • CHANCE ENCOUNTERS feature film, reactions MUSIC Festival

    CHANCE ENCOUNTERS, 75min., Canada
    Directed by Hasi Eldib
    Chance Encounters documents a one-person show of the same name by Juno award-winning musician and interdisciplinary artist Jesse Stewart. Combining storytelling and innovative music performed on a variety of unusual instruments, the film ex...

  • TRUTH - Live at Convict Lake short film, reactions MUSIC Film Festival

    TRUTH - Live at Convict Lake, 5min., Brazil
    Directed by Carlos Gayotto
    https://www.instagram.com/carlosgayotto/

  • SEEDS film, reactions Dance Festival

    SEEDS, 4min., USA
    Directed by Ariyan Johnson
    The climate conference in Dubai that took place on December 1, 2023, revealed the U.S. as the second biggest contributor to global emissions of greenhouse gas pollution. Although China is the number one culprit of pollution, per capita individuals in t...

  • EARTHLOVE short film, reactions MUSIC Film Festival (interview)

    EARTHLOVE, 6min., Sweden
    Directed by Felicia Konrad, Johan Haugen
    EarthLove is a poetic music/dance film with 6 dancers, filmed in the city of Malmö, south of Sweden. "There’s a revolution that needs to happen and it starts from inside each one of us. We need to wake up and fall in love with Eart...

  • TAKE YOUR ZEN film, reactions Dance Festival

    TAKE YOUR ZEN, 1min., USA
    Directed by Travon Trammell
    A talented ballerina uses her headphones to escape and find her voice as a performer.

  • FR:AGILITY film, reactions Dance Festival (interview)

    FR:AGILITY, 8min., Singapore
    Directed by Amanda Tan
    The film lenses the body and its form as sculpture; its undulating curves and slopes as landscape; and the skin we live in and shed as texture.

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?

    I was motivated by the desire...

  • YOU ARE SO CLOSE short film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival (interview)

    YOU ARE SO CLOSE, 5min., UK
    Directed by Craig McNulty
    Short experimental film follows a woman seemingly trapped in a derelict art gallery repeatedly viewing images and gradually becoming more frustrated. Unable to leave, and refusing the offer of help.

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motiva...

  • CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso - BAÑO MARÍA short film, reactions MUSIC Film Festival

    CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso - BAÑO MARÍA, 10min., USA
    Directed by Brian Kazez
    A full day of touring and lows through Buenos Aires. There's weed, pills, alcohol, and various moods. Euphoria, dancing, public bathrooms, afters, another after, fights, kisses, another after, more touring, more lows, halluc...

  • REFLECTION film, reactions Dance Festival

    REFLECTION, 9min., Canada
    Directed by Zav Jenabian
    On competition day, a tireless ballet dancer grappling with the recent loss of her father, runs into her love interest. To her, love is a mere escapist fantasy so when her feelings are exposed, the continuation of her fantasy is put into question.

  • A MOVEMENT DEEPER THAN DANCING film, reactions MUSIC Film Festival (interview)

    A MOVEMENT DEEPER THAN DANCING, 2min., France
    Directed by Katya Mokoto
    https://www.kitsuney.com/

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?
    It was a spur of the moment decision, we met through a mutual friend whom was convinced that we could do cool things together a...

  • QUARCE UPON A TIME film, reactions Dance Festival

    QUARCE UPON A TIME, 14min., Italy
    Directed by Tommy Pascal
    She never cries. She never smiles. She never dies. After centuries buried under the ground, Christina lives again. And what if she would tell her story herself this time ?

    http://www.tommypascal.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/tommypascal