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Watch the Best of ROMANCE/RELATIONSHIP Shorts (in case you missed it)

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JP Cenzo – What You Want (It’s Not Me) Official Story Video, 4min,. USA
Directed by Paul Cenzoprano
JP Cenzo band music story video, the birth, life and death of a relationship.

https://www.instagram.com/jpcenzo/

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-jp-cenzo-what-you-want

The Abiding, 10min., USA
Directed by Ally May
A lonely woman reminieces about the three great loves of her life while she decides if trying again is a risk worth taking.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-abiding-film

She Loves Her John, 7min., USA
Directed by Ivan Alejandro Rivero
“She Loves Her John” is a story about redemption, the feelings that arise after betrayal, and the thoughts of moving forward.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-she-loves-her-john-film

Sun Poisoning, 13min,. Canada
Directed by Chelsea Hana Williams
Sun Poisoning is a coming-of-age short film that follows Ellie and Neil – a young couple who begin to realize that the foundation of their lifelong relationship is not as steadfast as they once thought. Coming to terms with losing what was once an anchor point of certainty, they embark on a poignant journey as they navigate towards unfamiliar roads.

https://www.instagram.com/sunpoisoning.shortfilm/

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-sun-poisoning-film

Watch Today’s FREE Festival: CHICAGO Shorts Festival

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FREE festival starts at 8pm EST tonight at http://www.wildsound.ca/browse

Go directly to the main page to watch: https://www.wildsound.ca/events/chicago-shorts-festival

CONFESSION, 10min., USA
Directed by Paul Schwartz
A desperate man has just ten minutes to prove he is a winner.

http://www.nelsonavidon.com/

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

Career Stall, 8min., USA
Directed by Nima Nourani
A businessman’s routine bathroom break turns surreal when he’s trapped in a stall, witnessing a cascade of bizarre events.

https://www.nimzeeproductions.com/career-stall-film

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-career-stall


The American Trail, 21min., USA
Directed by Tomer J. Keysar
The American Trail follows two friends who embark on a journey to walk across the United States. It’s not as glamorous as it seems — they’re pitching tents on the side of the highway and trudging through mud for six months.

https://tomerkeysar.com/the-american-trail

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-american-trail


Clothe Trouble, 2min., Australia
Directed by Tony Zhang
Clothe Trouble depicts the story of a main character who lacks the motivation to clean the house, becoming increasingly distracted by social media apps while continuously adding dirty clothes to a growing pile. Suddenly, the pile collapses, and a mysterious entity emerges, confronting the protagonist.

https://runtomanto-folio-site.squarespace.com/
https://www.instagram.com/runtomanto/

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-clothe-trouble

Meevil the Weevil: Breakfast of Champions, 4min., USA
Directed by Kyle Arneson
Meevil https://filmfreeway.com/submissions/32428116#ff_javascriptthe Weevil is a little bug with big dreams of being a stuntman. “Breakfast of Champions” mixes stop motion animation with live action footage where we follow Meevil’s thrilling ride across a 1970s breakfast table on rocket roller skates.

https://www.instagram.com/stunt.bug/

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-meevil-the-weevil

The Interrogation, 5min., USA
Directed by Brady Jacquin, Kyle Riggs, Dylan Lighthall
A Russian mob interrogation goes awry when an over-eager enforcer tries to pitch in, but can’t get his mind out of the gutter.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-interrogation



Within the Flow of Existence, 2min,. USA
Directed by Truth Tran
A short, surreal visual meditation that invites viewers to reflect upon impermanence and interconnectedness, the illusion of self, and our place within the universe’s grand cosmic interplay.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-within-the-flow



Bluebottle Theory, 10min., UK
Directed by John J. Sanders, Luke O. Roberts
Ever wanted to take the shot? Drew does. Every bloody day. Bluebottle Theory is a darkly comic noir-style nine-minute thriller with a twist.

https://instagram.com/Bluebottlefilm

Watch Today’s FREE Festival: SCI-FI Winning Feature: SPELONK

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Festival goes live at 8pm EST today!

Watch here: https://www.wildsound.ca/events/festival-sci-fi-winning-feature-spelonk

Spelonk unfolds in a dystopian Cape Town in the year 2044, a world ravaged by climate collapse and social upheaval. At its heart is Dante, a disillusioned bounty hunter, grappling with the moral dilemmas of his task to hunt rebels fighting over scarce water supplies. His fateful encounter with Ophelia, a rebel leader with secrets that could change the world, sets the stage for a thrilling, emotional journey of redemption and revolution.

Inspired by South Africa’s “Day Zero” water crisis, the film’s themes resonate globally, addressing pressing issues like climate change, resource inequality, and moral leadership in times of crisis. Spelonk blends local folklore, steampunk aesthetics, and intense action to craft a narrative that is both culturally authentic and universally relevant.

http://www.splelonkfilm.com/

https://www.instagram.com/directordes/

Director Statement
The world of Spelonk is one which we seldom see on
screens. The beautiful Cape Town that we know and
love, is transformed as the backdrop of the futuristic
apocalyptic film. The population has been broken
into tribes, clans, groups of people that stay
together to survive, based on functional needs.
Spelonk draws inspiration from diverse African
cultures, languages, and topical matters. I love the
African patterns, colours, and designs. Ancient
weapons, diverse fighting styles, unique costumes
and rich folk tales are the things I’m working with to
create the distant world of Spelonk. It is exciting to
create this action-packed futuristic movie, showing
for the first time post-apocalyptic South Africa.

Watch Today’s FREE Film Festival: BLACK Filmmakers Festival

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Festival goes LIVE at 8pm EST today (Thursday June 5th)

Watch the festival here: https://www.wildsound.ca/events/black-filmmakers-festival

Black People Don’t Tango, 14min., USA
Directed by Robert Xavier Clark
An African American man learns to tango after a trip to Argentina.
Based on a true story.

https://www.instagram.com/llucindajclark2

Pisho, 16min., Pakistan
Directed by Aun Ul Haider
Journey of a seven-year-old girl, Ruqayya, on a mission to find her lost kitten. Suspecting her mother and neighbors, she embarks on a whimsical search. During her quest, Ruqayya stumbles upon a protest against a recent terrorist attack. Inspired by the demonstrators’ placards, she creates her own sign seeking help to find her missing kitten.

https://www.instagram.com/aunulhaider/

OTIS, 37min,. USA
Directed by Mark Eric Ridley
Otis, a former soldier and POW Has just been released from the army and has an unlikely connection with a little girl who accepts his strangeness. To the concerns of her parents. All unaware that they would both play a significant role in each other’s life

https://www.instagram.com/Markridley

In Case You Missed it, WATCH: ANIMATION Feature Showcase (Fox & the Tiny Demon)

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Qaqsoss naka Wahantuhsis (Fox & the Tiny Demon), 80min,. Canada
Directed by Tara Audibert
Qaqsoss naka Wahantuhsis is an animated allegory about Qaqsoss, a fox who is haunted by Wahantuhsis, a tiny demon. Set in an enchanted forest, the film explores themes of mental illness, trauma, and generational pain through Qaqsoss’ struggles with both her inner demons and the mischievous demon that follows her. As Qaqsoss faces her fears, she discovers resilience and growth. Ultimately, the story intertwines Indigenous culture and personal experience, showcasing the importance of self-healing and the understanding of others. The film, told in Wolastoqey, is a poignant exploration of survival and connection.

http://moxyfox.ca/

https://www.instagram.com/moxyfoxstudio/

Watch Todays FREE Film Festival: ANIMATION Feature Showcase (Fox & the Tiny Demon)

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Festival goes LIVE at 8pm EST today (Tuesday June 2nd)

Watch the Festival: https://www.wildsound.ca/events/animation-feature-showcase-fox-the-tiny-demon

Qaqsoss naka Wahantuhsis (Fox & the Tiny Demon), 80min,. Canada
Directed by Tara Audibert
Qaqsoss naka Wahantuhsis is an animated allegory about Qaqsoss, a fox who is haunted by Wahantuhsis, a tiny demon. Set in an enchanted forest, the film explores themes of mental illness, trauma, and generational pain through Qaqsoss’ struggles with both her inner demons and the mischievous demon that follows her. As Qaqsoss faces her fears, she discovers resilience and growth. Ultimately, the story intertwines Indigenous culture and personal experience, showcasing the importance of self-healing and the understanding of others. The film, told in Wolastoqey, is a poignant exploration of survival and connection.

http://moxyfox.ca/

https://www.instagram.com/moxyfoxstudio/

Watch Today’s FREE Film Festival: THE PAINTERS OF THE FUTURE (winning doc feature)

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Festival goes LIVE at 8pm EST today (Saturday May 31st)

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Directed by Kurt Poersch

Those who stayed constantly talk about the future.

Every other house in Freimfelde, a former working-class neighbourhood, is empty. The lack of jobs, the absence of local suppliers, and the presence of decay are long-term effects of structural decline: in these parts of former Eastern Germany, the reunification of 1989 led to the closures of vital companies, caused high unemployment rates, and resulted in massive out-migration.

In Freiimfelde, people’s sense of the present is challenged by two absent levels of time: the no-longer of the past, which everybody remembers differently, and the not-yet of a future – fragile and in contradiction to the municipality’s vision of the seemingly empty neighbourhood.

An intimate portrait of five residents, “The Painters of the Future” examines current living conditions in Freiimfelde, tensions between post-industrialization and gentrification, and the ubiquitous call to “participate” in urban development.

Watch Today’s FREE Film Festival: Best of DOC Shorts Fest

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Festival goes LIVE at 8pm EST today (Friday May 30th)

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Watch Today’s FREE Film Festival: Best of DOC Shorts Fest

Scheduled for Friday, May 30, 2025 8:01 PM EDT

hurricane, 6min,. Cuba
Directed by Héctor Almeida
An inner hurricane summons errant images and drifting fragments of time, dragging them toward a threshold that resists form. A voice, part invocation, part echo, emerges from within the storm. Between the lived and the imagined, memory disintegrates and reconfigures, not to be understood, but to be felt. This is a ritual of passage: where chaos becomes a kind of language, where what is lost is not retrieved, but transformed, and what dies, opens.

EIGHT MINITES, 7min,. Australia
Directed by Tim Stiles
Award-winning actor, filmmaker, and comic book creator Big Tim Stiles talks about his struggles with depression and suicide.

https://instagram.com/bigtimstiles

Tango in Twilight, 11min., Argentina
Directed by Teresa Herminia Mular MD
This film explores the life of a 74 year old man, a chemist, who developed blindness at age 28 presumably from an innocent post graduate party prank, going awry at some point. Although this is a presumptive diagnosis one can’t rule out glaucoma as a primary illness.

Srebrenica, 2min,. France
Directed by Thibaut Fleuret
This work is about Srebrenica, Bosnia, place of the last european genocide where thousands of muslim people were killed.

https://www.instagram.com/thibaut.fleuret

ComVida-20, 3min,. Italy
Directed by Ana Cavazzana
It makes us reflecting about who we are and who we will be from now on. The title is a Portuguese wordplay: «ComVida» is similar to «CoVid» meaning, simultaneously, «With Life» and «Invite». With life we are invited to stay alive!

https://instagram.com/anacavazzana

Cupid’s Treasures, 7min., USA
Directed by Bryce Mackie
A humorous look into one of the largest adult sex boutique stores in the Midwest.

the small world, 2min., Iran
Directed by Sadegh Ghasemi
The watchmaker has made a small world out of his broken watches.

Universe of Ukraine, 3min., Ukraine
Directed by Alexander Sparinsky
«Universe of Ukraine” is a documentary music video-essay for all people who want to know what war in Ukraine is and what are Russian killers today, in the 21st century; about all the troubles and griefs that this invasion brought…

https://www.instagram.com/aleksandr.sparinsky/

Watch the THE STARS MY DESTINATION (Action Feature Winner)

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The Stars My Destination, 135min., Japan
Directed by Keishi Suenaga
A retired Russian-Japanese soldier Eiji Onodera (Keishi Suenaga) was going to his hometown in Japan. But on his way, he was caught and given a new mission by his ex-colleague Captain Vadim Dadikov (Gohnosuke Tokuda). Onodera and his father would never be free unless he completes the secret mission. He and the Master Sergeant Zinaida Zasyekina (Satoko Enmei) go to Hokkaido to monitor an ex-officer of Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, Toshio Honda (Taiyo Sawa). Honda has killed 27 people including his colleagues, and is hiding in a mountain with a mysterious beauty, Risa (Riho Yoshioka)…

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13385702/
https://www.instagram.com/keishi_suenaga_filmmaker/

Watch Today’s FREE Festival: THE STARS MY DESTINATION (Action Feature Winner)

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Festival goes LIVE at 8pm EST today (Thursday May 29th)

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The Stars My Destination, 135min., Japan
Directed by Keishi Suenaga
A retired Russian-Japanese soldier Eiji Onodera (Keishi Suenaga) was going to his hometown in Japan. But on his way, he was caught and given a new mission by his ex-colleague Captain Vadim Dadikov (Gohnosuke Tokuda). Onodera and his father would never be free unless he completes the secret mission. He and the Master Sergeant Zinaida Zasyekina (Satoko Enmei) go to Hokkaido to monitor an ex-officer of Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, Toshio Honda (Taiyo Sawa). Honda has killed 27 people including his colleagues, and is hiding in a mountain with a mysterious beauty, Risa (Riho Yoshioka)…

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13385702/
https://www.instagram.com/keishi_suenaga_filmmaker/