Question & answer session after the festival screening with filmmakers from the November 27th, 2025 festival at the Carlton Cinemas, in downtown Toronto, Canada.

Conversation with creators:

Director AJ Lutsky (EMOTIONAL STORAGE FULL)

Director Alexander Nonaka Galant (FIRST & LAST)

Director Ba...

Dead Umbrella Bostonella, 1min., USA
Directed by Anya Belkina
Experimental animated music video about the fate of umbrellas on the windiest corner of Boston.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-dead-umbrella

COME HOME NOW, 6min., Canada
Directed by Mitsuko Noguchi
On an empty trai...

Sensus Mori, 8min., USA
Directed by Sydney Rincón
When an elusive society agrees to be interviewed, a journalist must contend with their ideologies or risk falling prey herself.

https://instagram.com/sensusmori

Get to know the filmmaker:

1. What motivated you to make this film?

Sensus Mori a...

Fatal Harmony, 18min., USA
Directed by Nick Noyes
Fatal Harmony is a stylish descent into obsession, ambition, and the deadly cost of a comeback. The film follows once-famous pop star Lena as she retreats to a remote cabin with her manager to write her next big hit. But between the snowy isolatio...

Pain d'épices, 10min., USA
Directed by Reese Elizabeth Whipple
After being thrown to the landfill, a gingerbread man decides to dedicate himself to studying the meaning of life, and how animals exist. Being confused by his own anatomy, he befriends another one of his kind to dissect and take apar...

UNDER, 10min., USA
Directed by Nick Benjamin
Young siblings Ben and Mikey's innocent game of hide-and-seek takes a terrifying turn when they encounter a supernatural entity lurking under the bed. As the creature's dark presence grows increasingly menacing, the children must rely on their wits and...

Don't Trust the Dead, 19min., USA
Directed by Peter VanOosting
Consumed with grief over the death of his forbidden love, Frank seeks the help of a medium. As fate envelops him, he reaches deeper into the world of the dead, despite a dire warning.

Get to know the filmmaker:

1. What motivated yo...

FAMILIAR, 10min., France
Directed by Julien Homère
Elodie wakes up in the middle of the night, alone in the marital bed. Getting up to look for her husband, she comes face to face with his black silhouette at the end of the bedroom corridor. He has the same voice as her husband, speaks like her h...

Tripolar, 13min., USA
Directed by Rogelio Robles
A broken home, a broken mind. Will love overcome the difficulties Alyssa and Richard face?

The Recluse, 13min., USA
Directed by Matt Webb
In early 2025 a breach at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory puts residents of Oak Ridge and surrounding counties at risk. During a mandatory curfew imposed by local officials, a man reluctantly allows strangers who show up at his doorstep to spend th...

Haunting Within, 8min., USA
Directed by Megan Wynd
The Haunting Within begins with a woman (Shannon Sullivan) waking in her pajamas on an empty street—no memory, no direction, just the creeping sense that something is wrong.

http://www.apartofthechaos.com/

A MOTHER'S RECALL, 86min., Argentina
Directed by Mauro Iván Ojeda
A married couple welcomes young Genaro into their home through adoption. Upon his arrival, he meets his new siblings, Nuria and Samuel. But it doesn’t take long for Genaro to sense that something is deeply wrong within the househol...

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....

Pie In the Sky, 8min., USA
Directed Susan Lim
Pie in the Sky" is an enchanting music video that marries playful animation with the raw power of original recordings at Abbey Road Studio One, and a resplendent orchestral performance at the Barbican Concert Hall, London. The video opens with world-a...

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

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-jeff-hilliard-love-myself

Change - Kramon, 4min., USA
Directed by Mere...

JULIET & THE KING, 92min., Iran
Directed by Ashkan Rahgozar
The Iranian King gets an invitation to visit France. While visiting a "Romeo and Juliet" play in Paris, the actress catches his eye. He falls in love with her so deeply that he asks her to perform the same play in Tehran, so he can impre...

ALL EYES ON YOU, 23min., UK
Directed by Ted Clarke
Paranoid couple Adam and Claire move to the peaceful countryside for a fresh start, but quickly become unsettled by a series of sinister interactions with their new neighbours, putting their trust - and relationship - to the test…

Get to know th...

Three interconnected teams - firefighters, police officers, and 911 dispatchers - face relentless emergenies in Indianapolis, balancing personal struggles with the split-second decisions that determine life or death.

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Ross: Sean Ballantyne
Taylor: Shawn Devlin...

In 2058, A murder investigation leads two police detectives down a dangerous path during the early days of the colonization of Mars.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Daryl: Shawn Devlin
Matt: Sean Ballantyne

Nanny Ivy, an English nanny, is hired to help an American family with their troublesome children but when she arrives, it becomes clear that the adults and other people in the children's life are the problem so she enlists her charges to kill them all. They return to England to start a new life a...