A showcase of the best new films from around the world today.
AUDIENCE AWARDS (from audience feedback festival):
Best Short Film: SNOWDRIFT
Best Micro-Short Film: CHASE 8
Best Direction: SPUDS
Best Story: HELLO, HUMANS
Best Visual Design: THE FIRST TEAR
Best Genre Film: LITTLE RED
Best Documentary: MAYBE IT’S THIS
Best Experimental: IVY
Best Animation: A RIVERSIDE QUARTET
SNOWDRIFT, 14min., USA
Directed by Noel Thompson
A grieving father, a disillusioned barmaid, a sketchy barman, a newlywed couple, and a sheriff converge in a rural bar during a violent snowstorm, but little do they know only four of them will make it out alive.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/snowdrift-audience-feedback
Hello, Humans., 14min., USA
Directed by Kimberly Henrickson
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/hello-humans-audience-feedback
THE FIRST TEAR, 8min., South Korea
Directed by Bo Kim
On a distant ark carrying thousands of robots, Unit 7 begins to question the purpose of their endless journey. When the crew arrives on a world filled with life, a single unexpected moment changes everything.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/the-first-tear-audience-feedback
SPUDS, 15min., USA
Directed by Vance Mellen Mellen
A senile old man wakes up after falling into an abandoned potato cellar. Trapped in the pit, the old man is tortured by the voice of his long-gone wife as he desperately schemes to make his escape.
https://vancemellen.myportfolio.com
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/spuds-audience-feedback
LITTLE RED, 2min., USA
Directed by Talia Fidler
A troubled young woman alone on the subway is stalked by a shadowy wolf determined to keep her afraid.
https://www.instagram.com/littlered_film_2026
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/little-red-audience-feedback
CHASE 8, 2min., Armenia
Directed by Hrant Yeritsian
https://www.instagram.com/hrant.yeritsian
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/chase-8-audience-feedback
Maybe It’s This, 27min., USA
Directed by Tori Beach
What begins as a 30th birthday gift to herself, a pole dancing class, becomes an unexpected journey of self-discovery, grief, and healing for filmmaker and narrator, Tori. Set inside a pole dance studio, the film weaves together intimate portraits of a community of women who each arrived searching for something and found far more than they expected. Part personal essay and part community portrait, the film explores how the most unexpected spaces can become sites of profound transformation.
https://www.instagram.com/maybe_its_this
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/maybe-it-s-this-audience-feedback
IVY, 4min., USA
Directed by Will Bradley
An astronaut explores a vast, empty world. On her journey she is stalked by a spindly robotic creature. She comes across a castle which contains a network of information transfer which runs on an infinite army of rabbit-like creatures capable of running faster than light. In order to escape her stalker, Ivy grabs onto one of the rabbits and falls into an endless void underneath the world.
https://www.instagram.com/slog_dawg
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/ivy-audience-feedback
A Riverside Quartet, 3min., USA
Directed by Channing Christ
A stop motion short following four creatures as their paths intersect for but a moment at the riverside.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/a-riverside-quartet-audience-feedback
Chicago FEEDBACK Film Festival 