Today's Film Festival
Today's film festival showcasing new movies from around the world in various genres.
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Best of DIVERSITY Shorts Festival
PITH, 4min., USA
Directed by Olivia Tirol
This short film was initially adapted from a student poem. Pith, the white insides of an orange, reflects the author's personal relationship with the world around them and their own gender expression.https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-pit...
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Best of LGBTQ+ Short Film Festival
A Priest Walks into a Bar, 7min., Canada
Directed by Timothy Lenko
Scandal, grace, and mistaken identity collide when a priest approaches a man day-drinking alone.https://www.instagram.com/heartswornfilms
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-a-priest-walks-into-a-bar
Wat deng Aen...
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LGBTQ+ DOC Shorts Festival
I Know Who My God Is, 28min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Smita Adhikary
"I Know Who My God Is" explores the role of faith within the LGBTQ+ community, delving into how belief, spirituality, and identity intersect in deeply personal and often complicated ways. For centuries, mainstream religious... -
SPORTS DOC Feature Festival
A Knighter's Tale, 81min., Ireland
Directed by Barney Edwards
Deeply in debt and abandoned by his backer, hemmed in by storms and further twarted by a global pandemic, world champion motorcyclist David Knight must cut a path to his lifelong dream of racing in that deadliest of races: The Dakar.
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Best of HUMAN INTEREST DOCS Festival
VYR collective, 10min., UK
Directed by Ellada Ludogovska
"VYR" is a 10 minute poetic short documentary exploring the ancestral power of creativity among Ukrainian artists in exile. Set in London, the film follows a theatre collective founded by a Ukrainian woman, Vyr, as its members engage in int... -
NATURE DOC Shorts Festival
Asheville is Calling: A Climate Change Emergency, 6min., USA
Directed by Hai-Lam Phan, Olivia Mowry
Extreme weather disasters are becoming more common, more powerful, and more deadly. Today, more than ever, federal agencies that help Americans prepare, respond, and recover from natural disasters ... -
Best of ENVIRONMENTAL Shorts Festival Films
Cosmic Rhapsody : A Symphony for our Planet, 5min., USA
Directed by susan Mey Lee Lim, Manu Martin, Christina Teenz Tan
In 2020, the world seemed to be on the brink. A global pandemic raged, wildfires scorched the earth, and anxieties soared. Yet, amidst this turmoil, a spark of hope ignited: NAS... -
Best of THRILLER/SUSPENSE Shorts Festival
Scriven, 17min., USA
Directed by David E Baugnon
Two strangers bond over traumatic experiences.https://www.davidbaugnon.com/
https://www.instagram.com/davidbaugnon/https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-scriven
XY, 12min., USA
Directed by Stephen Fleet
A repressed convenience stor... -
Best of ROMANCE/RELATIONSHIPS Shorts Festival
4 Parties, 17min., USA
Directed by Warren Myers
Over the course of a year, Vince and Mia keep crossing paths, drawn together by sharp humor, shared tastes, and mutual disillusionment. As they orbit each other through messy relationships, bad habits, and unexpected moments of connection, “4 Partie... -
Winning FEMALE DOC Festival Feature
The Flight of Jackie Cochran, 43min., USA
Directed by Jessica Anderson
The Flight of Jackie Cochran tells the story of the most famous pilot you’ve never heard of—a woman who shattered aviation records, broke the sound barrier, and helped change the course of history, only to be largely forgotten... -
Best of FEMALE EUROPEAN Filmmakers Festival
Walk With Me Through The Fire - The Curse of KK Hammond, 6min., UK
Directed by K.K. Hammond
Spaghetti Western meets horror music video from slide blues guitarist and friends.https://www.instagram.com/thecurseofkkhammond/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-walk-with-me-through-th...
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Best of SPORTS Festival Shorts from around the world
INNSBRUCK. POWDER. PEOPLE. short film, 17min., Austria, Sports Documentary
Directed by Neil Williman, Timm Schröder
After many winter seasons and competitions at the highest level all over the world, a professional freeride skier from New Zealand named Neil Williman ends up in Innsbruck. There he... -
Best of CHICAGO Film Festival
HOW WE ROLL, 16min,. USA
Directed by Anthony Ciancio
What started as a little idea becomes a local phenomenon. Meet the passionate folks who have reinvigorated this ancient game as a means of escape and finding common ground in their community. Meet The Elmwood Park Bocce League.https://www.wil...
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Watch Best of WILDsound Shorts Festival
HEAVENS APART, 15min., Canada
Directed by Steven Kumala
After serving time in prison for a crime that shattered her family, a mother returns to reconnect with her estranged daughter for the first time in fifteen years, only to realize that her daughter is on the verge of moving overseas to start ... -
Watch Best of WILDsound Shorts Festival
HEAVENS APART, 15min., Canada
Directed by Steven Kumala
After serving time in prison for a crime that shattered her family, a mother returns to reconnect with her estranged daughter for the first time in fifteen years, only to realize that her daughter is on the verge of moving overseas to start ... -
CHICAGO Animation Festival
The Town Without Laws, 3min., USA
Directed by Kiarra Angelique Moore
A rag tag trio of criminals are tasked by the devil, to hunt down an outlaw trying to outrun his debt.https://www.instagram.com/nightielightie/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-town-without-laws
Mare in ...
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Watch Today's Festival: CHICAGO Animation Festival
The Town Without Laws, 3min., USA
Directed by Kiarra Angelique Moore
A rag tag trio of criminals are tasked by the devil, to hunt down an outlaw trying to outrun his debt.https://www.instagram.com/nightielightie/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-town-without-laws
Mare in ...
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Best of WILDsound ANIMATION Shorts
dystopia, 9min., Switzerland
Directed by bellopropello -
Soap bubbles infiltrate a robotic armaments factory.
Subversiveness versus logical reasoning.
Who will get the upper hand?https://instagram.com/bellopropello
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-dystopia
What we imagined, ...
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HORROR Shorts Festival
Twilight of the Undead, 23min., USA
Directed by Leonardo Daccarett
In the sleepy mountain town of Oakhurst, California, terror rises from the grave! The Torres family and their loyal friend William are running for their lives… from an ARMY OF THE UNDEAD! Thunder cracks, zombie groans echo But the... -
Best of HORROR MICRO-SHORTS
LOOK AT ME, 2min., Canada
Directed by Cameron Morin
A man casually brushes his teeth in the bathroom, until things take a turn as he stares closely at his own reflection.https://www.instagram.com/the_cameron_show_/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-look-at-me
OUTRO, 3min., US... -
Winning WILDsound MICRO-SHORT Film Festival
Timeless, 4min., USA
Directed by Keanu Cordero
In Timeless, Juic3 opens a book by the pool in modern-day reality — but what unfolds is anything but ordinary. She’s swept into an imagined 1960s world: a life filled with warmth, love, and everything she’s ever dreamed of. A beautiful home. A devote... -
Best of COMEDY Shorts Festival
Vapor Trails, 11min., USA
Directed by Matt Jenkins
Mandy has just given Jethro an ultimatum, quick vaping or else. His friend Chuck thinks its going to be easy to quit.https://www.instagram.com/misfits_of_film/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-vapor-trails
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Best of ACTION/THRILLER Festival
Temporal Takedown, 8min., Norway
Directed by Martin Sofiedal
A woman with mysterious time freezing powers infiltrate a dirty car workshop in hopes of gaining information about a nefarious gangster. The mechanics are not compliant to her request and an epic and time-bending fight ensues.https://...
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Best of FANTASY Festival
The Planet That Doesn't Exist, 8min., Israel
Directed by Nadav Embon
Professor Star l'Etoile set at her desk, her notes, were packed into spiral leather bound notebooks, stacked one atop of the other.https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-planet
DEMON, 18min., USA
Directed by P...