A showcase of the best films in the world today.
AUDIENCE AWARDS:
Best Experimental: Where Death Dwells
Best Musical: Mauthausen
Best Dance Film: I love ABC
Best Music Video: Cabaré
Best Micro-Short: Lakme
Best Direction: Don’t Say My Name
Best Cinematography: Plié (On Eggshells)
Best Editing: clipping. – Run It
Best Performances: Winona
Best New Media Film: Yep
Best Story: I’m back
clipping. – Run It, 5min., USA
Directed by Lawrence P. Klein
Sub Pop Music Video – International Spy Game of Shadow characters and conspiracies set to the clipping. style of cyberpunk future,
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-clipping-it
WINONA, 7min., USA
Directed by Nico Poalillo
Examining the lengths men go to love themselves — through deception, delusion, and the elaborate lies.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-winona
Yep, 6min., China
In the fluidity of identity, we are always at risk of becoming outsiders—watching the world unfold from the margins, caught between belonging and detachment.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-yep
I’m back, 4min., Ukraine
Directed by Ilya Noyabrev
“I’m back” is a heartfelt song about coming back home after a long absence. The singer reflects on the warmth and familiarity of her homeland, where every breath feels easier and every moment more meaningful. Through vivid imagery of maternal love and the embrace of the earth, the song captures the deep emotional connection to one’s roots, offering a sense of peace, freedom, and rediscovered desire for life.
https://www.instagram.com/anna_khanina/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-im-back
Cabaré, 6min., Brazil
Directed by Emerson de Lucca Brandt
Drama, body, poetry. Dude São Thiago breathes new fire into brazilians João Bosco & Aldir Blanc’s classic “Cabaré”—a standout from his debut double album O Sexo do Vento. This isn’t just a cover—it’s a reinvention. A ritual. A reclamation.
https://www.instagram.com/dudesaothiago/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-cabare
Don’t Say My Name, 29min., UK
Directed by Shobana Jeyasingh, Teresa Griffiths
Claudio Monteverdi’s II Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda – a fierce combat set in the first Crusades between a European knight and a female Saracen warrior – is given a contemporary twist. A group of dancers rehearsing the work in a studio and on tour abroad encounter a stranger who seems to have stepped out of their story but does not want to be in it. Shot in locations in London and Spain, (Don’t) Say My Name is a poetic and layered exploration of otherness, conflict and reconciliation.
https://www.instagram.com/shobanajeyasinghdance/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-dont-say-my-name
Plié (On Eggshells), 14min., Spain
Directed by Virgo Martinez
From dawn to dusk, set in the Danish countryside, ‘Plié’ captures the beauty of youth combined with the absurd and inevitable lack of presence when a heart goes through loss. The heart, like the ballet movement of a plié, is extra careful and delicate when faced with a fragile situation. This film portrays a refreshing perspective of love and lust behind the scenes of the high-level ballet culture.
https://www.instagram.com/virgomartinez/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-plie-on-egg
I love ABC, 4min., USA
Directed by JIA WU
Two girls, good friends. Side by side, room to room, they explore, invent, compete, confide. They remember being little and imagine being grown.
They dream of horses. Their journey has begun.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-i-love-abc
Lakme, 1min., Mexico
Directed by Paulina Daemmrich, Piotr Redlinski
Gorgeousness, poetry and miracle of human body in motion. Evolving in spirals, dancing through spaces.
https://paulina.yoga/art-collaborations
http://instagram.com/paulina.dakini.art
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-lakme
MAUTHAUSEN, 10min., Greece
Directed by Panagiotis Kountouras, Aristarchos Papadaniel
Swan song of the world-renowned Greek composer, freedom fighter and cultural icon Mikis Theodorakis (ZORBA, Z, Serpico). Resurrecting the memory of the concentration camp survivor and founder of the modern Greek post-war theatre Iakovos Kambanellis.
https://www.behance.net/Aristarchos
https://www.instagram.com/aristarchos_p/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-mauthausen
WHERE DEATH DWELLS, 14min., Canada
Directed by Lee Levi Cochran
A chance encounter with the daughter of one of her victims forces Undead Skye Wallace to confront the dark reality of her existence.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-where-death-dwells
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