A showcase of the best short films in the world today!
AUDIENCE AWARDS:
Best Short Film: DESERT INN
Best Micro-Short: UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE
Best Music Video: LIGHT
Best Performances: TRIGGERED 2.0.
Best Story: TENDON
Best Action Film: SCOREKEEPER: A STAR WARS FAN FICTION
Best Cinematography: LEFT
Best Direction: SWEET DREAMS
Best Drama: MONDAY’S CHILD
Best Student: SYMPHONY OF SCREAMS
Best Documentary: DANCING WITH WAVES
Best Visual Design: 10 MIN. MORE
Until the last minute, 3min., Ukraine
Directed by Ilya Noyabrev
A Ukrainian woman sees her husband off to war. She prays for her husband’s return and makes a folk amulet (a motanka doll) with her own hands. In her prayer, the woman promises her husband to be with him until the last minute. (The video uses real photos from the beginning of the war in 2022).
https://www.instagram.com/anna_khanina/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-until-the-last-min
LIGHT, 5min,. Panama
Directed by Alberto Serra
The song, music video and story reflects the light within us and how external challenges can dim it. Darkness, simply the absence of light, becomes a metaphor for the protagonist’s descent into villainy.
https://www.instagram.com/pabx507/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-light
DESERT INN, 8min., USA
Directed by Yuanhao Zhang
Arthur, a primitive anti-electronics hillbilly, must confront Jim, the young electronics-enthusiast receptionist at a smart-device hotel in the desert, in order to find a room for the night and defend his traditional way of doing things.
https://www.instagram.com/desertinn_shortfilm/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-desert-inn
Triggered 2.0., 22min,. USA
Directed by Mario Ricardo Rodriguez, Marcus Nel-Jamal Hamm
A diabolical madman known as The Director 2.0, with a vendetta against Wolverine, plots a way to take his powers and use him as a distraction as he enacts his ultimate means of destroying all superpowered beings, by pitting him against his one ally, Blade, in a fight to the death. Lucas Bishop must find a way to break free of his control so he can save his friends and the rest of humanity.
https://instagram.com/triggeredfanfilm
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-triggered-2-0
Tendon, 13min,. USA
Directed by Jannik Ehret
Recovering addict Rene sees a creature poison the city’s water supply and has to convince his skeptical sister and her no-nonsense boyfriend to stay away from the tap water.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-tendon
Scorekeeper: A Star Wars Fan Film, 16min., USA
Directed by Roman Santa Croce
An Elite Rebel Team infiltrates an Imperial outpost on a mission of securing an asset that has vital information. Unbeknownst to them, they are not the only ones on the hunt.
https://www.instagram.com/creativeforcefilms/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-scorekeeper-a-star-wars-fan-film
LEFT, 15min., Egypt
Directed by Seif Abdel Raouf
“Loay,” a young man invites his friend “Oday” over to help him move into a new house. As “Oday” finishes bringing in boxes, “Loay” asks him for one last favor: to take a specific box upstairs while warning him to avoid the mysterious room on the left. Curiosity gets the better of “Oday”, and he enters the forbidden room, initially finding it ordinary. However, he soon hears unsettling knocking from the room bathroom and discovers that each time he closes the door, the knocking resumes.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-left
SWEET DREAMS, 34min., USA
Directed by Gary Alvarez
Set in the near future when most people can no longer dream, “Sweet Dreams” follows the story of Esperanza, a young woman who’s excited to be a mom for the first time. Weeks before the baby is due, her partner Kiké goes missing. As she searches for him and her savings dwindle, she comes across an opportunity to make some quick money: surrogate dreaming, a new technological advancement which allows her to sell the dreams of her unborn child through a dreamcatcher clinic. After a trial run, Esperanza begins to suspect that the clinic is somehow connected to Kiké’s disappearance.
https://www.instagram.com/sweetdreams_film/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-sweet-dreams
MONDAY’S CHILD, 22min., USA
Directed by Jodi Leib Coden
Monday’s Child speaks to the heart of a woman’s right to choose. After the fall of Roe v. Wade, Jenny faces untenable circumstances when she learns that her inviable pregnancy will compromise her health. As her sense of self begins to unravel, Jenny must make the most difficult choice of her life.
https://www.instagram.com/newbornshortfilmagency/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-mondays-child
Symphony of Screams, 11min., Brazil
Directed by Fernando Lazzarini, Jordan Mihailovsky
Two lazy sound guys from Chile are on a film shoot in Uruguay. They are upset because they have to work on their day off. They decide to exploit a local man to do their job for them, but soon realize that he harbors a dark truth they never suspected.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-symphony-pf-screams
Dancing With Waves, 29min., USA
Directed by Emmitt Thrower
Tammi Judge, the founder of a transformative dance program, leads young dancers on a journey of self-discovery and personal growth, using the power of movement to heal, inspire, and change their lives forever.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-dancing-with-waves
10 MIN. MORE, 9min., Canada
Directed by Atoosa Moshashaee
A schoolgirl is waiting for her mom to pick her up from after school and the last 10 minutes seems very hard to get through, until her drawing comes to make her companionship.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-10-min-more
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