A showcase of the best of new films from around the world today.
AUDIENCE AWARDS (from FEEDBACK Film Festival):
Best Feature Film: THE LAST RECKONING
Best Short Film: THE SEA
Best New Media: RED CLOUD: A NEW DAY
Best Performances: I WISH I WAS A DOG
Best Story: W. MULBURRY ST.
Best Micro-Short Film: MOVEMENTS
Best Comedy: YOGA GIRL
Best Genre Film: INTERNAL COLOR
Best Animation Film: BIGGITY BAGGITY BOO
Best Music Video: BLACK SPACE DIGGER
Best Experimental Film: A DANCE AWAY
Best Direction: GARDEN VALLEY
Best Student Film: HEPHAESTUS AND APHRODITE
RED CLOUD: A NEW DAY, 80min., USA
Directed by Alex Kruz
Based on Red Cloud Comic Book Issues 1-6. Vigilante contractor Jake Red Cloud wages a covert war against the Yakuza sponsored human trafficking in the golden triangle. Retaliation by the criminal organization strips Jake of his family, forcing him on the run. While in hiding he forms a deep, spiritual bond with neglected young Anne Parker, becoming the protector she never had—until a violent confrontation with his enemies forces him to make a devastating choice that shatters her childhood.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-red-cloud
THE LAST RECKONING, 102min., Canada
Directed by Garnet Campbell
A prestigious attorney colludes with his impulsive brother to hide a manslaughter, but when an innocent is charged, their plans spiral out of control, leading to moral reckoning and inevitable judgment.
https://www.instagram.com/grant.gladish
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-last-reckoning
THE SEA, 10min., Canada
Directed by Son Roberts
This experimental short film is a “Jazz Monologue” presented by an elusive oracle. Through rage and reflection, incendiary prose and inspirational poetry, he reminds us of the legacy of lies that define our human journey. And he insists that we embrace the redemptive power of truth, from generation to generation.
https://www.instagram.com/thesonroberts
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-sea
I WISH I WAS A DOG, 12min., Canada
Directed by Katherine Costal
When a young woman’s desire to become a true member of her favourite art club turns her into a dog, she finds the newfound relationship between her and the members poses a different kind of challenge.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-i-wish-i-was-a-dog
W. MULBERRY ST., 18min., USA
Directed by Michael Donaldson
A paranoid driver gets caught in a time loop on her way to a high school reunion.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-w-mulberry-st
MOVEMENTS, 5min., Canada
Directed by Roger Gallant
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-movements
YOGA GIRL, 9min., USA
Directed by Kaitlyn Furey
A woman struggles to stay committed to her daily wellness rituals while on the brink of a mental breakdown.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-yoga-girl
INTERNAL COLOR, 16min., USA
Directed by Davïd Asambadze, Anastasïa Asambadze
A troubled woman reconnects with her unborn child.
https://instagram.com/migrantfilm
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-internal-color
Biggity Baggity Boo: Enter The Bagaverse, 3min., USA
Directed by Jeremiah Williams
After a devastating storm destroys their family farm in Normieville, USA, Harold, a hardworking farmer and devoted father, meets a mysterious, talking blue bag named Baby Blickey.
https://instagram.com/bagsbromusic
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-biggity-biggity-bo
BLACK SPACE DIGGER, 4min., Austria
Directed by Bernhard Riegler, Heinz Sambs
When money is no object, art is the answer. In honor of Rene Benko—Austria’s fallen investment star—who blew €2.7 billion.
Startseite
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-black-space-digger
GARDEN VALLEY, 28min., USA
Directed by Manuel Navarro
Inspired by the horrific Mann family murders of spring 1988, Garden Valley follows two friends lost in a haze of hard rock, reckless choices, drugs, and volatile romance. Set against the bleak landscape of the Garden Valley trailer park on San Antonio’s Southside, the story unfolds over one fateful day—April 14, 1988—when their lives descend into chaos, obsession, and the lingering psychological shadows of violence.
https://www.instagram.com/bxrfilms
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-garden-valley
A DANCE AWAY, 14min., USA
Directed by Maxwell Gilbert
A Dance Away tells the story of Ava, a college dancer who breaks her ankle during a performance a few months prior. Still traumatized and scared to go back on stage, her best friend, Riley, gives her a strange necklace, which mysteriously transports her into a realm. From there, she meets three dancers who give her a dance away.
https://www.instagram.com/adanceawayshortfilm
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-a-dance-away
Hephaestus and Aphrodite, 8min., USA
Directed by Daniel R. Allen
In the Ancient Greek myths from old antiquity, many songs were sung of Hephaestus and Aphrodite. Their fraught marriage, full of jealousy and wrath, spurred each other Into lies and betrayal. But the muse’s whisper of another tale. An unexpected love, between the hurt and the lost finding solace in each other
https://www.instagram.com/re_danimator
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-hephaestus-and-aphrodite
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