A showcase of the best of new films from around the world today.
AUDIENCE AWARDS (from FEEDBACK Film Festival):
Best Feature Film: Liquid Gold – The Wastewater Revolution
Best Short Film: Fangio: Courage or Destiny (Coraje o Destino)
Best Micro-Short Film: I Was Here
Best Music Video: Chaton – We Are Invincible
Best Visual Design: On Lungs Alone – Music Video
Best Animation: Boy Scientist: The Prequel to Forever
Best Documentary: 1724 NIGHTS
Best Family Film: Crying Baby, Dancing Bee
Best Performances: Casus
Best Story: Nix Figment
Best Direction: Reverence
Best Experimental: Treachery
Chaton – We Are Invincible (Official Music Video), 3min., USA
Directed by Marcus CB Soori
The multi-award-winning melodic techno artist Chaton returns with his second-ever single, We Are Invincible.
https://www.instagram.com/chaton_music
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-chaton-wildsound
I WAS HERE, 5min., Portugal
Directed by José Crúzio, Martin Gerigk
The short film I WAS HERE is part of the Portuguese I WAS HERE project, a series of short videograms conceived as records of visits to “non-places” and “places”—transitional or passing points, whether circumstantial or intentional. Through a process of revision and additional composition, these locations are given new value and meaning, incorporating sound and interpretations from different sources while simultaneously revealing their main references. The project ultimately takes the form of a collaborative work, particularly through the co-production of sound.
https://www.instagram.com/josecruzio
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-i-was-here
On Lungs Alone – Music Video (Alternative), 4min., USA
Directed by Steven Hillen
Full Ai Music Video render with Suno Studio 2.0 lyrics and vocals produced, created and sung by xobehtedistuO. Complete Ai rendering Music Video created with the use of Luma Labs, Inc. The song plays gloriously in the background as a story unfolds before your eyes of the life and person living through their journey in a theoretical and theatrical world of maintaining some semblance of life, merely “On Lungs Alone”. Leaving behind the emptiness resulting from lack of closure from fear of discomfort.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-on-lungs-alone
Boy Scientist: The Prequel to Forever, 5min., USA
Directed by Susan Lim
A 2017 lab bench time capsule: two medical students script a message of longing to their future selves, unaware they were creating the symphonic prequel to their own wedding.
https://www.instagram.com/fantasyofcompanionship
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-boy-scientist-wildsound
1724 NIGHTS, 65min., Spain
Directed by Silvia Staffolani
Michelle, an Afro-French woman, flees from Paris to Buenos Aires. In her attempt to protect her children from sexual abuse by their father, she must confront a loss of credibility, imprisonment, and isolation. Told through her first-person testimony and the voices of lawyers, a psychiatrist, a judge, and the vice-president of the organization Face à l’Inceste, this film is a portrait of institutional violence, racism, the migrant experience, intergenerational trauma, and the price of speaking out.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-1724-nights
Crying Baby, Dancing Bee, 12min., Canada
Directed by Another 13 Moon Woman
A spoke hand drawn journey through Fiatlandia with Buzzbee, a creature half bee, half human. They call her the African Bitcoin Queen and in this first episode we find out why…
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-crying-baby-dancing-bee-wildsound
CASUS, 14min., France
Directed by William Eguienta
To save the care center he works for from collapse, Akram, a driver for people with disabilities, finds himself drawn, against his will, into the world of drugs.
https://www.instagram.com/directedbywill
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-casus
Fangio: Courage or Destiny (Coraje o Destino), 15min., Argentina
Directed by Nicolas Pedro Villarreal
“Fangio: Courage or Destiny” follows a young boy as he is confronted with his future and the decisions he must make to fulfill his destiny. Inspired by the 1955 Formula 1 Grand Prix in Argentina, where Juan Manuel Fangio had to suffer third-degree burns on his leg in order to win the race.
https://www.instagram.com/nicolaspvillarreal
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-fangio-courage-or-destiny
Nix Figment, 19min., USA
Directed by Cassandra Dawn
An unsuspecting physiological thriller. Bending your mind to the possibilities of reality while lowly addressing issues like self worth & our expectations of our life. Letting comparisons be the thief of joy. You don’t know what you’ve never experienced.
https://www.instagram.com/nix_figment
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-nix-figment
REVERENCE, 16min., USA
Directed by Charles Evans Jr.
Artistry leads to freedom when a dancer’s early years behind the iron curtain equip him for a creative life beyond it.
Stefan Wenta
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-reverence
Treachery, 11min., UK
Directed by Keith Sargent
Dada manifesto by Tristan Tzara, Hill of Crosses, Basketball, R Mutt, pipes that are not pipes and World War One.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-treachery
Liquid Gold – The Wastewater Revolution, 50min., Germany
Directed by Philip Montasser
What we flush away every day is full of resources and information. Using high-tech methods, researchers are recovering what seems to be lost from wastewater: energy, raw materials and knowledge.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-liquid-gold
