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 FREE Festival: Best of ASIAN Film Festival Shorts

    Life with AREZOU, 15min. Iran
    Directed by Amirali Mirderikvand
    It is about AREZOU (Rural girls with disabilities) and her family.....

    https://www.instagram.com/amirali.mirderik.vand

    MAKKU, 36min. Malta
    Directed by Maurice Micallef
    In the timeless tapestry of human existence, few relationships ...

  • Watch Today's FREE Festival: SHOT THE VOICE OF FREEDOM (Asian Festival Feature)

    Shot the Voice of Freedom, 70min., Afghanistan
    Directed by Zainab Entezar
    This is a story about two sisters who have decided to fight against the unfortunate fate that has befallen them in Afghanistan. They protest against the loss of their basic rights, including the right to education, work, cl...

  • DON'T MEANS DO film, reactions FEMALE Film Festival

    DON'T MEANS DO, 9min., USA
    Directed by Dana Plays
    “Part dramatic narrative, part improvisation, Don’t Means Do, explores the personalities of two young girls, and someone they meet while out walking. It is a simple and genuine encounter, in the light of a gentle afternoon between the moods of chi...

  • THE INSEPARABLE film, reactions FEMALE Film Festival

    The Inseparable, 12min., USA
    Directed by Jingling Li
    It’s 2014 in a suburban California town. Timid fifth grader, BETH (10), believes it’s her and her best friend against the world until she hears that periods are contagious and her best friend has suddenly been infected. Left in the dark about t...

  • SIBLING ARRIVAL film, reactions FEMALE Film Festival

    SIBLING ARRIVAL, 3min., USA
    Directed by Dan Plays
    An intimate documentary of a home birth; the eight-year old sibling is heard but not seen as she watches and reacts to her brother being born.

    https://www.instagram.com/danaplays/

  • ONCE MORE, LIKE RAIN MAN film, reactions FEMALE Film Festival

    Once More, Like Rain Man, 15min., USA
    Directed by Sue Ann Pien
    ‘It’s up to you to make a future that has you in it…’ We follow Zoe (Martinez) and her dad, Gerry (Jones) in a ‘day in the life’ of an autistic actress running the gambit of stereotypes she has to deal with - and her dad’s battle in s...

  • BEAUTIFUL DISASTERS film, reactions FEMALE Film Festival (interview)

    BEAUTIFUL DISASTERS, 14min., USA
    Directed by Trisha Lynn Furhman
    Of all people exotic dancers understand money can’t buy happiness. So where does it come from? This question sets Robin on a personal journey that takes her deep inside her desires and across the country; encountering hurricanes and...

  • CYCLES film, reactions FEMALE Film Festival

    Cycles, 8min., USA
    Directed by Chinwe Okorie
    Greta relishes in the comforting mundanity of the laundromat when a call from her sister snaps her back to reality. She is reminded that today is Father's Day, a holiday that triggers sadness for both sisters who grieve the loss of their father. Greta ...

  • CINDERS film, reactions FEMALE Film Festival (interview)

    Cinders, 11min., USA
    Directed by Renfang Ke
    Interior decorator Alice and college professor George have been married for fourteen years. They raise a son and a daughter together, and they are happily married in others' eyes. One night, Alice waits at home for George to get back from work. What she...

  • INDEFINITELY film, reactions FEMALE Film Festival

    Indefinitely, 6min. USA
    Directed by Aloha Lee
    The night of a legendary comet coincides with a disastrous tsunami. An astronomer has been waiting for this comet all her life. Meanwhile, the lighthouse keeper rushes everyone off the island before the big wave swallows the town--and his lover.

  • MACKENZIE film, reactions FEMALE Film Festival

    Mackenzie, 15min., Hong Kong
    Directed by Queenie Xinyue Wang
    A Shanghai born Hong Kong teenage actress has to confront her loss of friendship while getting on a feminine discovery journey that blurs the boundary of memory and present, fiction and reality.

  • JEFF HILLIARD - LOVE MYSELF film, reactions MUSIC Festival

    Jeff Hilliard - Love Myself, 3min., USA
    Directed by Jeff Hilliard
    Official music video for Tim Travers and the Time Travelers Paradox

    https://www.instagram.com/jeffhilliard

  • COME HOME NOW short film, reactions DANCE Festival

    COME HOME NOW, 6min., Canada
    Directed by Mitsuko Noguchi
    On an empty train alone at midnight and addicted to the perturb of the in-between. COME HOME NOW is a scream for sanctuary, a cry from mother, a siren amidst dissolution. I’m high, I’m floating, as I run both to and from home.

  • STALKERS film, reactions THRILLER/SUSPENSE Film Festival (interview)

    STALKERS, 107min., Canada
    Directed by Paul Thompson
    When a former porn star returns to her quaint hometown to raise the now teenage daughter she gave up for adoption, their fragile reunion is shattered by stalkers, secrets, and a string of murders — turning a hopeful second chance into a harrowin...

  • TURMOIL - CHAPTER ONE short film, reactions DANCE Festival (interview)

    Turmoil - Chapter One, 6min., Lebanon
    Directed by Sary Andre El Asmar
    A young woman lives between two worlds: Europe, where she’s built a life, and Lebanon, the home she can’t stop longing for. Torn between memory and desire, she drifts back and forth, riding the emotional rollercoaster of exile,...

  • THE CLAVICLE OF SOLOMON film, reactions THRILLER/SUSPENSE Film Festival

    The Clavicle of Solomon, 21min., Spain
    Directed by Jesus Sotomayor Navarro
    A team from the Civil Guard leads the official investigation of a murder, while a journalist, intrigued by the circumstances of the case, begins his own search. In his investigation, he uncovers a family that harbors a dar...

  • RED AVENUE film, reactions THRILLER/SUSPENSE Film Festival

    RED AVENUE, 11min., USA
    Directed by Tyler Holleman
    As a troubled mother finally discovers the last clue to unravel the mystery of her missing son, an unforeseen visitor challenges her strength.

    https://www.instagram.com/redavenue_film

  • THE WAY BACK HOME short film, reactions DANCE Festival

    The Way Back Home, 2min., Lebanon
    Directed by Angy Akly
    The Way Back Home is a two-minute poetic film that unfolds underwater, where a woman’s expressive movements accompany a powerful monologue on identity, womanhood, and self-ownership — written, directed, and narrated by the filmmaker herself....

  • DREAM'S DESCENT film, reactions DANCE Festival (interview)

    DREAM'S DESCENT, 10min., South Africa
    Directed by Sara Gouveia, Inka Kendzia, Gregory Maqoma
    “Dream’s Descent” is a hauntingly surreal dance film that traces the journey of a solitary dancer as he navigates a dreamlike landscape fractured by memory, identity and desire. Drawn into a shifting worl...

  • MELODIES OF THE ABYSS 2026 film reactions THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival (interview)

    MELODIES OF THE ABYSS 2026, 29min., Australia
    Directed by Sam Iwata aka Liu
    Logline: A rock star bound by a devil’s pact drifts toward oblivion, haunted by forever regrets. Across the veil, a fallen angel mourns lost grace. Each seeks redemption—and in that search, confronts what they truly are, ...

  • DAFFODILS film, reactions DANCE Festival

    Daffodils, 9min., Canada
    Directed by Sophie Barbarics
    No way out. These strings we have, both the visible and invisible.
    Tie us to places, people and faith.
    Hold us so tight even when we are literally running away.’

  • The Cupcake Chronicles 2 film, reactions FEMALE Film Festival

    The Cupcake Chronicles Vol. 2: The Cupcake Shop Ghost, 54min., USA
    Directed by Kevin Byrnes
    Is the cupcake shop haunted? Or are those strange noises coming from the stomachs of hungry customers? Either way, everyone ends up satisfied.

    https://kevbyrnes63.wixsite.com/fgdtproductions

  • MICHELE FRATERNALI - DEVILS CRY film, reactions MUSIC Festival

    Michele Fraternali - Devil's Cry, 25min,. Italy
    Directed by Michele Fraternali
    "Somewhere.. between reality and dreams, The Artist begins his Descent... towards the light"

    https://instagram.com/michele_fraternali_bass

  • WE DONT KNOW OUR NEIGHBORS film, reactions THRILLER/SUSPENSE Film Festival

    WE DON'T KNOW OUR NEIGHBORS, 12min., Saudi Arabia
    Directed by Noura bint Hussam .B Al-Saud
    Cousins break into an abandoned mansion for a game. The screams echoing down the halls seem like their own harmless fun, but after unlocking doors, they find out the cries don’t belong to them. What began a...