A showcase of the best experimental films from around the world today.
AUDIENCE FEEDBACK:
Best Micro-Short: Dead Umbrella Bostonella
Best Direction: Come Home Now
Best Story: Turmoil – Chapter One
Best Visual Design: 7eventh 7irkle
Best Experimental Film: 12th House
Best Poetry Film: The Way Back Home
Dead Umbrella Bostonella, 1min., USA
Directed by Anya Belkina
Experimental animated music video about the fate of umbrellas on the windiest corner of Boston.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-dead-umbrella
COME HOME NOW, 6min., Canada
Directed by Mitsuko Noguchi
On an empty train alone at midnight and addicted to the perturb of the in-between. COME HOME NOW is a scream for sanctuary, a cry from mother, a siren amidst dissolution. I’m high, I’m floating, as I run both to and from home.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-come-home-now
Turmoil – Chapter One, 6min., Lebanon
Directed by Sary Andre El Asmar
A young woman lives between two worlds: Europe, where she’s built a life, and Lebanon, the home she can’t stop longing for. Torn between memory and desire, she drifts back and forth, riding the emotional rollercoaster of exile, identity, and belonging.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-turmoil-chapter-one
7eventh 7irkle, 16min., USA
Directed by Ty Brueilly
The 11th installment of Ty Brueilly’s ‘Shucks’ cinematic world, audiences should prepare to be transported into the seventh circle of the inferno with a new interpretation on CANTO XIII with symbolic images that will engage your innermost imaginations while unlocking new fears that you will face and conquer on the way to enlightenment or confinement, you choose.
https://www.instagram.com/filmbybrueilly/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-7eventh-7ircle
12th House, 13min., USA
Directed by Ilona Laboy
12th House is a surreal meditation on grief, identity, and spiritual transformation. After losing her husband, a woman descends into a liminal dreamworld where memory fragments and archetypes guide her inward. Haunted by illusion and tethered to love, she confronts her shadow through symbolic rituals of self-loss and rebirth. Blending myth, psychology, and visual poetry, 12th House explores the sacred undoing required to become whole—and the alchemy of carrying love beyond death.
https://instagram.com/illusionoffamellc
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-12th-house
The Way Back Home, 2min., Lebanon
Directed by Angy Akly
The Way Back Home is a two-minute poetic film that unfolds underwater, where a woman’s expressive movements accompany a powerful monologue on identity, womanhood, and self-ownership — written, directed, and narrated by the filmmaker herself. As the performer drifts through silence and resistance, the voice rises against the weight of judgment and expectation — reclaiming scars, softness, and the right to become. A cinematic meditation on finding one’s way back to the self.
https://www.instagram.com/angyaklyjammal/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-way-back-home
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