A showcase of the best DOCUMENTARY films in the world today.
AUDIENCE AWARDS (from the FEEDBACK Festival Screening):
Best Feature Film: SHANYA’S PATH
Best Short Film: GREENFIELD
Best Direction: HOW WE SEE
Best New Media FilM: BOUNTY UNCHARTED – The Alphonso James Story
Best Micro-Short Film: WAWAHTEW
Best Society Film: MEETING THE ONES WHO CARE
Best Political Film: FIGHTER’S DIARY – BRAZIL
Best Story: CLEANUP
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 on only homegrown and foraged food, and giving up every possession, Robin challenges what it means to live in harmony with the Earth. As he walks barefoot from Canada to Mexico with nothing to his name, his radical simplicity invites us to question what we truly need to be free, fulfilled, and human.
https://instagram.com/earthconsciouslife
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-greenfield
Cleanup, 25min., USA
Directed by Kailer Riley
Chuckie, a hitman’s cleaner, lives by one rule: no kids involved at work. His boss understands through their “business of relationships,” which has held them close for ten years. But when a new job with more bodies turn up, Chuckie becomes more unsure of the task at hand, one that could break his code and cost him his life.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-cleanup
HOW WE SEE, 26min., USA
Directed by Christiane Arbesu
This film tells the deeply personal and moving story of Tom Monte, a blind musician and piano tuner, who has navigated the streets of Manhattan for more than fifty years. In the face of unimaginable loss—including the deaths of his two children and his wife, Rita Montauredes, whose own life was shaped by her struggle with glaucoma—Tom’s resilience and quiet courage continues to shine. His journey is a testament to perseverance, dignity and the enduring strength of the human spirit.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-how-we-see
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, resilience, and renewal. At just 17 years old, Alphonso was wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit and sentenced to life in prison. He spent 32 years behind bars without wavering in his innocence before being exonerated and released on February 14, 2017, through the efforts of the Wisconsin Innocence Project.
https://instagram.com/bountyuncharted
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-bounty-uncharted
Wawahtew, 6min., Canada
Directed by Derrek Visentin
Documentary Short on Emery Wesley an indigenous man who tells his story on how immersing himself in his culture and becoming a POW WOW singer and drummer saved his life
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-wawatew
Meeting the Ones Who Care, 27min., France
Directed by Coralie Bonnaire
Meeting the Ones Who Care is a documentary series that travels across France to meet local associations supporting children facing illness, disability, poverty, violence, or social exclusion.
https://www.aveceux.com/alarencontredesasso
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-meeting-the-ones-who-care
Fighter‘s Diary – Brazil, 34min., Qatar
Directed by Khaled Elsalakawy
Deep in the Brazilian Amazon, on the Arariboia Indigenous territory, Olimpio Santana Guajajara leads a frontline resistance to protect the forest from illegal logging and environmental destruction. As president of the Guardians of the Forest, he commands a network of Indigenous volunteers who risk their lives to defend one of the last strongholds of biodiversity on the planet.
https://www.instagram.com/aljazeera360
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-fighters-diary
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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 trans people is scarce in her home town, Shanaya leaves for New Delhi, but her desire to become her true self is met with hostility, shame, and fear.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-shanayas-path
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