Question & answer session after the festival screening with filmmakers from the September 25th, 2025 festival at the Carlton Cinemas, in downtown Toronto, Canada.

Conversation with creators:
- Deb Ethier (The Once Upon a Time that Never Was)
- Ash K Tysowski (After the Spread)
- Atoosa Moshash...

BEEKIND, 11min. Canada
Directed by Olivia Bronwyn
Follow Gregg Scott and the keepers of Circling Hawk Honey & Mead, as we’re taken under their wing to get an up-close look at the species so relied upon by our kind. Beekind gives insight on the nature of the honeybee as a member of the colony, the...

Lovebirds, 4min., USA
Directed by Maria Corso
Betty and Ray, a wild couple on the run, live fast and love hard while staying one step ahead of the law. With their lives on the line and a clean getaway just out of reach, they attempt one more job — one which may cost them more than they can afford...

LIST of Trailers:

The Skin Game: A Pornumentary, 1min., USA
Directed by Sharon King
The rise of the internet resulted in the explosion of the information age, allowing us to download a wealth of data in nanoseconds. It also gave us instantaneous access to porn. Lots and lots of porn.

https://w...

Joseph Michael Cerra "When We Were Boys"
Literary Fiction, 788 Words

A group of first-generation Italian-American boys spend their endless Pennsylvania summers playing baseball by day and listening to distant radio broadcasts by night, their games infused with imagination, hero worship, and com...

The World Needs You, 3min., Portugal
Directed by 4.ºB Class Colégio do Marítimo
In a world where unity makes a difference, small gestures build bridges, but a lack of cooperation builds walls. And you, will you be part of the problem or the solution?

(mis)Match, 3min., Portugal
Directed by Grupo...

Da Terra, 30min., Portugal
Directed by Miguel Chichorro
Emília Pedro e Fernanda Jorge revisit childhood memories to identify over 70 land parcels inherited from their father. As physical traces fade, memory and oral tradition become the only way to ‘see’ what is no longer visible. The film captur...

STAG, 20min,. USA
Directed by Nick Giannetto
A queer son and his conservative father venture into the Sierra Nevadas for a hunting trip heavy with silence, grief, and unspoken truths. In the stillness of nature, their clash over identity and tradition becomes a test of love, acceptance, and wheth...

Cloistergeist, 3min., France
Directed by Paige Hering
A monk’s quiet monastery life is upended by a playful ghost, and just when he’s about to exorcise the spirit, he discovers the ghost has a secret soft side.

https://www.instagram.com/cloistergeist.film/

What They Say About Carmen, 2min., Portugal
Directed by Eve Ferretti, Pedro Mota Teixeira
"What They Say About Carmen" brings to light the story of a 10-year-old girl who was born without arms, narrated by a voice that uses a “borrowed” discourse, typical of those who “say that...” This narrative...

Oh！My God, 1min., China
Directed by Urchin Shang, I-Wen Chn
An elderly man meditates, but his mind is overwhelmed with worries, preventing peace. He makes a wish to the Rabbit God, symbolized by a pendant on his necklace. The Rabbit God guides him to a realm where his worries fade away, but he fi...

IRABŪ of the Kudaka Island, Okinawa, 102min., Japan
Directed by Kazuo Okada
　Kudaka Island in Okinawa is home to just over 200 people and holds a sacred cultural legacy centered on the grand IZAIHŌ festival, celebrated once every 12 years for more than six centuries. The island is renowned for it...

Olivia Millin "TTYL", 3min. USA
Directed by Kevin Charge
Jpop Music Video shot in New York City's Times Square

https://instagram.com/oliviaamillinn

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feed-back-olivia-millin-ttyl

Interview with Musician Olivia Millin:

1. What motivated you to make this ...

Voice Over by Val Cole

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POEM;

First, we would load up the car, with salty
sunflower seeds in our pockets and thermos’
in hand, and when we took to the lot
we used buckets that we filled with blackberries
bursting in the August sun. We took them home,
and sat purple mouthed with fingers
br...

Voice Over by Val Cole

Voice Over by Val Cole

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POEM:

1) What is the theme of your poem?

The theme of Where Dreams Sit and They Soak is about pausing long enough to appreciate the moment with someone you love and not wanting that moment to end. Not many things in life are promised, and nothing lasts forever. Ev...

Voice Over by Val Cole

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POEM:

Impossible.

And yet, quite real.

No power, no barrier relevant
when eyes lock
and deep waters move

with landscapes ever-changing,
fortunes good and none.
The candle never to fall

or flicker.

Impossible.

And yet, rooms with light
and music.

Smell of boo...