A showcase of the best of new films from around the world today.
AUDIENCE AWARDS (from FEEDBACK Film Festival):
Best Feature Film: LET’S MAKE IT A BLOCKBUSTER NIGHT
Best Documentary: THE ROAD BETWEEN US
Best Performances: ACT OF CONTRITION
Best Short Film: MONOLITH
Best Micro-Short Film: THROUGH THE ROOTS
Best Direction: THE TRANSITION ROOM
The Road Between Us, 65min., Nepal
Directed by Manish Prasai
The Road Between Us is a documentary about fifteen runners journeying 200 kilometers across Tasmania, capturing their endurance, brotherhood, and the power of unity that connects people beyond distance.
https://www.instagram.com/whitebalance.pdn
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/the-road-between-us-audience-feedback
ACT OF CONTRITION, 37min., USA
Directed by Nathan Clarkson
A beautiful movie-star walks into an old church to confess a dark sin to a complicated priest.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/act-of-contrition-audience-feedback
MONOLITH, 11min., USA
Directed by Brennan Tomas Haley
In a near-apocalyptic future, a son discovers the unsettling truth about his father’s creation and embarks on a reckless mission against his mother to reconnect with him in his catatonic state.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/monolith-audience-feedback
THROUGH THE ROOTS, 3min., Japan
Directed by George Komuro
A short poetic film depicting a conversation between two trees, reflecting on the past, present, and uncertain future of the natural world.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/through-the-roots-audience-feedback
THE TRANSITION ROOM, 13min., USA
Directed by Aaron Penney
A grieving widower attempts to chase his late wife down in the afterlife only to be stopped by two extremely polite obstacles in his path.
https://instagram.com/onthesetfilms
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/the-transition-room-audience-feedback
LET’S MAKE IT A BLOCKBUSTER NIGHT, 80min., USA
Directed by Amir Shah
An Italian-American foreign language instructor and aspiring actress auditions for a role in a German lollipop commercial. An Iranian actress auditions for the same role. Little do both actresses know, that this German TV production company and the lollipop commercial casting , is not really what it seems .
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