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
  • CROSSING short film, reactions Under 5 Minute Festival (interview)

    CROSSING, 3min., Italy
    Directed by Alessia Ambrosini
    Late evening in Tokyo. A man is on his way home on the subway after a day's work, lost in his daily routine. Suddenly there is an explosion. The man is catapulted into another dimension.

    https://filmitalia.org/en/film/324/207005/

    Get to know...

  • BUG EYE short film, reactions Under 5 Minute Festival (interview)

    Bug Eye, 4min., USA
    Directed by Clint Green
    A marriage is tested by a man's obsession with bugs.

    https://www.youtube.com/@imjstudiosproductions
    https://www.instagram.com/clintjgreen

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this film?

    I've always had a profound love for bugs ...

  • EXPERIMENTAL Feature Film: CATABASE FIRST PART : AD LOVE. March 6/7 event

    CATABASE FIRST PART: AD LOVE. 97min., France
    Directed by Nicolas Pereira
    Two lovers fall into madness.

    https://www.instagram.com/nicolaspereiratheater/

    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-catabase

  • EXPERIMENTAL/MUSIC Shorts Festival. March 5/6 event

    See the full lineup of films:

    Into the Gamba-Verse, 6min., USA
    Directed by Julianna Emanski, Christophe Skupien, Joy Bollinger, Molly Hammond
    In 2024, Lumedia Musicworks and Bruce Wood Dance Dallas joined forces to create "Into the Gamba-Verse", a visually captivating short film that merges the...

  • DANCE Shorts Festival: March 4/5 event

    See the full lineup of films:

    Ikigai, 3min., UK
    Directed by Marina Waltz

    http://www.marinawaltzfilms.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/waltzmarina/

    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-ikigai

    One Human Show, 8min, USA
    Directed by Yue Zhu
    “One Human Show” delves into the essence of...

  • Redundant - Official Music Video, reactions LGBTQ+ Festival (interview)

    Redundant - Official Music Video, 3min., UK
    Directed by Roni Skaly
    Redundant is a queer activism fan funded project raising awareness to abuse done on transgender and non-binary youth through conversion therapy. At the time this project was produced, the gay conversion therapy ban in the UK did n...

  • longing/belonging film, reactions LGBTQ+ Festival (interview)

    longing/belonging, 3min,. Canada
    Directed by Rachael Withers, Niamh Wilson
    longing/belonging follows a queer femme struggling to break out of the mold of their straight relationship and their journey to discovering identity and community.

    https://instagram.com/longingbelonging.film

    Get to know...

  • NO DISINTEGRATIONS (Star Wars fan fiction) short film, 16min., Sci-Fi/Thriller

    After the events of “Scorekeeper”, Bossk and Boba meet up and head to Honor’s Keep; a cantina on Mon Cala. There they reminisce of past hunts and we learn why the dreaded Darth Vader told Boba Fett, “No Disintegrations” on screen May 21st, 1980. Now, on May 21 2022, on the 42nd anniversary, we ar...

  • THE GIRLS OF BATHROOM B short film, 5min., Canada

    Tensions ebb and flow during a busy morning in 1980 as impatient teenagers wait to use the girls' bathroom.

    https://www.saleigh.com/
    https://www.facebook.com/sal.eigh.info/
    https://www.instagram.com/sal_eigh/?hl=en

    Director/Writer: Sal Eigh

  • Feb. 2025 SCI-FI/FANTASY Filmmaker Q&A After Screening

    Question & Answer session after festival screening with filmmakers from the February 2025 SCI-FI/FANTASY Festival at the Carlton Cinemas, in downtown Toronto, Canada.

    METAMORFOSI film:

    Artists Milana Zilnik & Arty Sandler

    Moderated by Matthew Toffolo

  • OKAY short film. 22min. Egypt. Horror

    OKAY, 22min., Egypt, Horror
    Directed by Seif Sayed Abdel Raouf
    A young man experiences strange events when his parents send him to their newly bought house.

    Director Statement
    I believe that real life moments could sometimes be more horrific than your typical ghost story. This is what "Okay" tri...

  • PAGES IN THE WIND film, reactions LGBTQ+ Festival (interview)

    PAGES IN THE WIND, 14min., USA
    Directed by Lucas Haviland
    As Bailey sits in the park, he starts to reminisce about his journal entries over the past month. Through flashes to these entries, Bailey and his boyfriend, Gavin, experience the various intricate elements of their relationship. All the w...

  • DEAD GIRL film, reactions LGBTQ+ Festival

    Dead Girl, 9min., USA
    Directed by Kenz Benmosbah
    After her untimely death, Dani comes back from the dead on Halloween night and goes on a quest to win her fiancée back.

  • Jake & Pete's Christmas Special film, reactions WILDsound Festival (interview)

    Jake & Pete's Christmas Special, 20min., UK
    Directed by Luke Marley
    When the spirit of Christmas seems to have left a small town in Gloucestershire, Jake and Pete must find a way to restore it in time for Christmas.

    https://www.instagram.com/jakeandpeteshortfilm/

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    ...

  • Surge of Power: Where There's Smoke film, reactions LGBTQ+ Festival

    Surge of Power: Where There's Smoke, 68min., USA
    Directed by Vincent J. Roth, Jeff Rector, Mario DeAngelis
    Enjoy the latest installment of the “Surge of Power” indie superhero movie franchise known for having lots of celebrities from the sci-fi and superhero genres! “Where There’s Smoke” follows ...

  • WAVE MEDICINE film, reactions DIVERSITY Festival

    WAVE MEDICINE, 64min,. USA
    Directed by Karin Ochsner
    As a fearless explorer with a disability, surfer and surf coach Karin Ochsner immerses herself in the raw beauty of nature. Her remarkable healing journey unfolds in the face of adversity.

    https://www.instagram.com/surfingtosurvive

  • 20:15 MÉXICO DF film, reactions LGBTQ+ Festival

    20:15 MÉXICO DF
    Directed by Alejandro Di Meglio
    In the vibrant heart of Mexico City, two women meet and begin a tender, reflective journey together. Through intimate conversations, they explore themes of memory, love, and the passage of time. Their connection becomes a window through which they g...

  • THE CHILD short film, reactions WILDsound Festival

    The Child, 19min., USA
    Directed by Hemzah Naveed
    [email protected]

    https://www.instagram.com/hemzah/

  • WILDsound Festival Documentaries. May 3rd/4th event

    See the full lineup of films:

    Echoes of the Ice (Indigenous Geographic), 18min., Canada
    Directed by Matt LeMay
    In Echoes of the Ice, Inuk filmmaker & Indigenous Geographic Co-founder Crystal Martin embarks on a journey to Iqaluit during late spring to delve into contemporary Inuit life and the ...

  • Best of WILDsound Shorts Festival. March 1/2 event

    See the full lineup of films:

    Sowing the Seeds of Love, 18min., USA
    Directed by Riley Young
    Sowing the Seeds of Love explores the obscure and peculiar sex lives of animals through the eyes of Hulk Hogan (1980’s WWE wrestler icon), Joyce DeWitt (Janet Wood from the popular 1970’s sitcom Three’s ...

  • Short Film Trailer: ROCK ISLAND PRISON 1864. Directed by Joy Shannon

    Rock Island Prison 1864, 7min,. USA
    Directed by Joy Shannon
    Guarding Confederate POWS in a Civil War prison, a runaway slave now Union soldier, desperately fights for power, or faces returning to slavery.

    https://www.rockislandprison.com/

    https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-rock-...

  • Poetry Reading: Hinds County 215, by Elizabeth Curley

    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    In pauper’s field, no flowers lie,
    on our graves of chosen number.
    How different is grief from public outcry?
    There is no comforting answer.

    Is God or the state our true gatekeeper?
    Both took away our chance to say goodbye.
    But which one silently buried us here,
    ...

  • Poetry Reading: Anastasia, by Murphy Carpenter

    Performed by Val Cole

  • FAMILY Short Story: Rif The Snow Dog, by Michelle Murray

    Performed by Val Cole