A showcase of the best DOCUMENTARY films in the world today.
AUDIENCE AWARDS (from the FEEDBACK Festival Screening):
Best Feature Film: PINBALL – THE AMERICAN GAME
Best Environmental Film: THE 3100
Best Micro-Short Film: ASHEVILLE IS CALLING: A Climate Change Emergency
Best Society Film: THE BIRDS WILL SING AGAIN ANNIE’S STORY
Best Experimental DOC: VYR COLLECTIVE
Best Cinematography: A KNIGHTER’S TALE
Best Direction: RHYTHMS: An Indivisible Marathon Swim
Best Inspirational Film: THE TABLE WE SHARE
Best Human Interest Film: THE PRICE OF DREAMS
PINBALL – THE AMERICAN GAME, 74min., USA
Directed by Mark Helms
One Ball, Infinite Stories.
Explore this unique American game from a totally new perspective. From Pinball’s origins in the 1600s to the present day, never-before-seen footage of the original first pinball machine from 1871, along with other rare pinball machines from Pinball’s past.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-pinball-the-american-game
The Birds Will Sing Again Annie’s Story, 37min.,
Directed by Leslie Michael Dektor
Having lost all. Step by step Annie is able to rebuild.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-birds-will-sing-again
VYR collective, 10min., UK
Directed by Ellada Ludogovska
“VYR” is a 10 minute poetic short documentary exploring the ancestral power of creativity among Ukrainian artists in exile. Set in London, the film follows a theatre collective founded by a Ukrainian woman, Vyr, as its members engage in intimate conversations, folk rituals, and symbolic visual practices. Through circles, songs, and meditative gestures, the documentary reflects on how artistic energy becomes a refuge, a connection to cultural memory, and a source of resilience far from home. Combining lyrical observational cinematography with traditional lullabies, ambient sounds, and abstract visual motifs, VYR presents creativity as a living, ancestral force that unites generations and sustains identity in displacement.
https://www.instagram.com/vyr.collective/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-vyr-collective
A Knighter’s Tale, 81min., Ireland
Directed by Barney Edwards
Deeply in debt and abandoned by his backer, hemmed in by storms and further twarted by a global pandemic, world champion motorcyclist David Knight must cut a path to his lifelong dream of racing in that deadliest of races: The Dakar.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-a-knighters-tale
Rhythms: An Indivisible Marathon Swim, 16min., USA
Directed by Zayde Naquio
On September 22, 2025, Chef Matthew Biancaniello embarked on one of the greatest challenges of his life: a 21 mile swim from Catalina Island to Palos Verdes, CA. While his journey is inspiring on its own, he didn’t do it just for himself. The swim was a vehicle to raise money and awareness for Indivisible Arts, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching consciousness and creativity to kids.
https://instagram.com/frequency.creative
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-rhythms-an-indivisble-marathon-swim
Asheville is Calling: A Climate Change Emergency, 6min., USA
Directed by Hai-Lam Phan, Olivia Mowry
Extreme weather disasters are becoming more common, more powerful, and more deadly. Today, more than ever, federal agencies that help Americans prepare, respond, and recover from natural disasters need to be fully funded and ready to act. Changes enacted by the Trump administration are leaving communities to fend for themselves against extreme weather disasters, and the oil and gas CEOs behind these fossil-fueled climate disasters are fueling, funding, and concealing it all. Americans deserve better than a government that abandons them when disaster strikes.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-asheville-is-calling
The Table We Share, 7min., USA
Directed by Brock Edwards
In America’s breadbasket, a Kansas town confronts the paradox of hunger amid abundance — revealing how community, care, and courage redefine what it means to share the table.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-table-we-share
The Price of Dreams, 19min., Canada
Directed by Diễm Hà Lệ
At just 15, Ngân longs to study and sing—but in northwest Vietnam, where child marriage and dowries still dictate futures, her life has already been planned. Her dowry—coins worth $400 CAD, a bottle of rice wine, and a kilo of pork—has already been paid. Now, she dares to ask for something radical: to return it and choose her own path. Will her mother agree? Directed by Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Hà Lệ Diễm, The Price of Dreams unfolds through Ngân’s own diary entries and reflections, capturing a quiet yet courageous fight for freedom and self-determination.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-price-of-dreams
THE 3100, 49min. USA
Directed by Mark Fisher
The 3100™ is a cinematic exploration of Idaho’s 3,100 miles of navigable whitewater, the most found anywhere in the Lower 48. This film showcases the state’s most rugged and revered whitewater river systems while highlighting the power of experiencing wild places at any age. Through the voices of those who know these rivers best, this film reveals the transformative power of Idaho’s whitewater rivers.
https://www.instagram.com/visitidaho/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-3100
Documentary Film Festival. Los Angeles & Toronto 