WINNERS: August 2026 EXPERIMENTAL Festival

A showcase of the best EXPERIMENTAL films from around the world today.

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS (From Feedback Festival):
Best Short Film: CRYING BABY, DANCING BEE
Best Direction: TIGER
Best Documentary: CANDID GODDESS
Best Performances: CHIMERA
Best Poetry Movie: HANDS FREE
Best Visual Design: LUMEN SILENTII THE LIGHT OF SILENCE
Best Animation: THE CELERY SAGA

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…

http://a13mw.com/

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-crying-baby-dancing-bee

TIGER, 12min., USA
Directed by Sucheta Sunku Gupta
A lonely child wants peace in a kill-or-be-killed world but is forced to battle a relentless tiger, making her the terrifying beast she was trying to escape.

https://www.instagram.com/suchisunku

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-tiger-film

CANDID GODDESS, 14min., New Zealand
Directed by Maddie Wade
A short conversational film weaving the voices of fourteen women in Aotearoa on their unique connections to the goddess within, the ‘sisterhood’ and nature. In a world of holding face, who are we, when no one is looking?

https://www.instagram.com/candidgoddess

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-candid-goddess

CHIMERA, 13min., USA
Directed by Marlow Magdalene
Isabel’s world shatters when she realizes her brief relationship with the volatile, magnetic couple, Amelia and Theo, entangled her in Theo’s growing web of violence. Part dance film, part cheeky thriller, we follow Isabel’s internal and interpersonal duet with revenge as she heals from betrayal.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-chimera-film

HANDS FREE poetry movie, 6min., Canada
Directed by Rhonda Yates
Part of the WILDsound Poetry Movie series. Winning BALLAD poem by Rhonda Yates. A series of visual designs to bring the experimental poem of emotion to the screen. Performed by award-winning voice over artist Val Cole, with the visual design by up and coming director/visual designer Kaitlin Manalili.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-hands-free

LUMEN SILENTII THE LIGHT OF SILENCE, 6min., France
Directed by Philippe Verichoux
In a world consumed by silence, a mysterious light begins to emerge through the cracks of reality. Guided by hope and imagination, children awaken a forgotten energy capable of transforming their surroundings. *LUMEN SILENTII* is a poetic visual journey about inner light, human connection, and the rebirth of life.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-lumen-silenti