Today's Film Festival
Today's film festival showcasing new movies from around the world in various genres.
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Watch Today's FREE Festival: WILDsound Feature DOC: SARIKA
SARIKA, 89min., Israel
Directed by Malka Shabtay
This is a story about a woman named Sarika, my mother - "the lady who records"...
"Addicted" to documenting her life in photos and video, and to the memories they bring up for her, over and over again.
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Best of WILDsound Shorts Festival
LUTEAL, 15min., Canada
Directed by Robert Morrison
Caught between intimacy and isolation, Abbie wants to move in with her partner when she’s at her best but retreats each month during the luteal phase of her menstrual cycle. Her partner, Kar, struggles to navigate these tumultuous waters, strivin... -
WILDsound EXPERIMENTAL Shorts Festival
The Encarne Trilogy, 16min., USA
Directed by SI Reasoning
The Encarne Trilogy is a series of no-budget shorts regarding the creation of my son and his entrance into the physical plane. It won Honorable Mention for Best Experimental Film at the 2025 Paris Around Films International Film Festival (... -
Watch Today's FREE Festival: Best of WILDsound Shorts Festival
LUTEAL, 15min., Canada
Directed by Robert Morrison
Caught between intimacy and isolation, Abbie wants to move in with her partner when she’s at her best but retreats each month during the luteal phase of her menstrual cycle. Her partner, Kar, struggles to navigate these tumultuous waters, strivin... -
Best of FANTASY Shorts Festival
TEXAS STRANGE, 9min. USA
Directed by Justin Eugene Evans
After two months on a distant planet, John Thurston returns to his ragtag crew of criminals and thieves. He expects a heroes welcome...instead they've held themselves a vote.https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-texas-strange-...
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Best of CRIME Shorts Festival
HANDYMAN, 3min., France
Directed by Thomas Faccinihttps://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-handyman-crime-thriller
WHEN FIGHTING MONSTERS, 18min., USA
Directed by Sherill Quinn
A bereaved detective struggles to make sense of his daughter's untimely death.https://www.instagram.com/w...
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Best of THRILLER/SUSPENSE Short Film
THE HUNTED, 23min., USA
Directed by Josh Harum
A suspense thriller set in the world of doomsday preppers. John, a devoted follower, joins Gary, a conspiracy theorist Youtube personality, to establish an off-the-grid commune called the 'True Way.’ When nothing changes in the world, John’s commitme... -
Best of LGBTQ+ Shorts Festival
Ten Poem Project (Auntie), 4min., USA
Directed by Nakoa Taggart, Gabriel Vazquez
Ten Poem Project is a hybrid dance film that brings together poetry, movement, and lived testimony to explore migration, identity, and artistic resilience. Emerging from a larger practice-as-research monograph, the f... -
FEMALE Festival: Best of North American Shorts
SMALL TOWN GIRLS, 4min., USA
Directed by Layal Hamdeh
Feeling confined by their small empty town and unambitious locals, Jasmine and Sarah entertain the idea of moving away to New York.https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-small-town-girls-female
BLINK, 16min., USA
Directed by Tru... -
FEMALE Film Festival: Best of FOREIGN Films
Friday Night Flop, 16min., UK
Directed by Simon Friedberg, Elliott Gerner
A mother tries desperately to reconnect with her estranged daughter.https://www.instagram.com/fridaynightflop
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-friday-nght-flop-female
DESERTION, 30min., Luxembourg
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CHICAGO Festival Short Winners
How We Hamsters Die, 6min., USA
Directed by Phoebe Burdick, Mio Gribskov
A comedic 2D animated short film that tells the absurdly tragic stories of hamsters from the after-life. Built upon interviews & true stories, the film aims to entertain while promoting responsible pet ownership and proper t... -
Best of CHICAGO Festival - Foreign Shorts
The Voice of Time, 5min., Italy
Directed by Carlo Guttadauro
The Voice of Time is a cinematic tale inspired by the essence of Opera, entrusted by the Consortium of Traditional Balsamic Vinegar of Modena PDO to director Carlo Guttadauro and his studio Anam Cara Comunicazione, with the creative pre... -
SCI-FI/FANTASY Short Film Festival
The Dying Knight, 22min., UK
Directed by Andrew Gladman
A knight, found on the brink of death, embarks on a quest to determine his fate.https://instagram.com/finalframecinema
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-dying-knight
Feet Don't Fail Me Now, 7min., USA
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Best of CRIME/MYSTERY Shorts Festival
HALF PAST, 20min., USA
Directed by Jonas Fryer
A group of con artists learn the importance of trust during a heist where everything goes wrong.https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-half-past
TRIGGER, 33min., Greece
Directed by Haris Gioulatos
If you were told there was an organiza... -
Best of HORROR Shorts Festival
The music of Erich Zann, 15min., Hungary
Directed by Dóra Barbara Sánta
The story features the figure of a silent old man who feverishly plays the violin in his attic room every night to stave off some unimaginable horror, which is not explained at the end of the novel. The story is told from the... -
Best of MICRO-SHORT HORROR Films
FIRESTARER, 8min., Germany
Directed by Marc Schiesser
During her lunch break, a pregnant woman encounters a stranger who knows more about her than he should. A fleeting moment – and her world falls into a nightmare from which she will never awaken.https://www.instagram.com/outsidetheclub/
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COMEDY Shorts Film Festival
Time Off, 20min., Israel
Directed by Yoav Geva
Two in reserve soldiers, not the sharpest tools in the shed, decide to rob their asshole officer's shop while home for some time off from the war.https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-time-off
Faire Play, 24min., USA
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ENVIRONMENTAL Festival Showcase
What Wine Owes to the Night, 2min., Belgium
Directed by Mathieu Blanchart
In the silent darkness, the vines whisper, the leaves quiver, and the earth still breathes. What the Wine Owes the Night is a visual and sensory poem, an intimate dive into the nocturnal life of a vineyard. With little or n... -
DOC Feature Winner (Shanaya's Path)
Shanaya's Path, 54min., Netherlands
Directed by Frank Röhrig
Shanaya’s Path follows the intimate journey of Shanaya, a young person from Darjeeling who identifies as a woman and dreams of transitioning despite immense social and familial resistance. Since gender norms are rigid and visibility for... -
HUMAN NATURE DOC Shorts Festival
Greenfield, 34min., USA
Directed by Rob Herring
Greenfield is an intimate look into the mind and mission of Robin Greenfield — one of the world’s most radical environmentalists. Known for his bold eco-experiments, including wearing a month’s worth of trash through Times Square, living a full year... -
SOCIETY DOC Shorts Festival
Bounty Uncharted - The Alphonso James Story, 11min., USA
Directed by Jeff Ragovin
Bounty Uncharted follows Alphonso James on a quiet day at sea off the coast of the Hamptons during his first ever fishing experience. What begins as a simple outing becomes a deeply personal reflection on freedom, r... -
Best of DIVERSITY Festival Films
Voyeur, 6min., Iran
Directed by Maryam Hashempour
A girl enters a coffee shop while waiting for her friend. An unknown number sends her a photo of her, taken just before she enters the coffee shop. The unknown person sends the photo several times until...
The Great Human Crime, 19min., Sweden
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Best of COMEDY Shorts Festival
Roaches, 2min., Canada
Directed by David R Creighton
The Bridge Street Mission has a problem with roaches... They can talk. A cautionary tale.Hedgehog in Africa, 3min. Ukraine
Directed by Oksana Karpus, Alexander Sparinsky
Musical adventures cartoon for the youngest; because this continent attr... -
Best of ANIMATION Shorts Festival
Beyond The Fringe, 5min., Spain
Directed by Han Tang, Costanza Baj, Giulia Zanette
In a quiet evening, an intriguing little paper figure magically emerges from a notebook. At first, it was full of curiosity and excitement. But soon, when the little paper figure suddenly discovers just how small a...