A showcase of the best DOCUMENTARY films in the world today.
AUDIENCE AWARDS (from FEEDBACK Film Festival):
Best Feature Film: THE PAIN AND THE POWER
Best Short Film: ROCKFORD TAKING FLIGHT
Best Micro-Short Film: FINDING YOUR HOME ON THE FIELD
Best Direction: NORTHERN VENTURE
Best Story: SPOKE
Best Human Interest Film: ESCAPE THE MATRIX
Best Environmental Film: SAND AND SOUL
Best Society Film: NOT SO SPECIAL
Best History Film: THE MAN WHO SAW THEM ARRIVE
Best Drama Film: TWOFOLD
Best Mockumentary: MENTAL
Best Humanity Film: SURVIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM
Best Nature Film: EYE OF THE FARMER
Best Visual Design: STORM ON STAGE
ESCAPE THE MATRIX, 2hr. 39min.,, Mexico
Directed by Darrell J Roodt
Escape The Matrix is a groundbreaking documentary from Dr. Darrell Wolfe, the Doc of Detox and the BraveheartNation. It challenges everything you think you know about reality, freedom, and who is really in charge. Part awakening, part personal evolution, it dares you to break the contracts, break the rules, and remember your true authentic self. This isn’t the ending. It’s the beginning. Follow the White Rabbit. Your destiny awaits.
https://instagram.com/docofdetox
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-escape-the-matrix
THE PAIN AND THE POWER, 107min., USA
Directed by Cai Indermaur
Decades after a sixteen-year addiction to cocaine, alcohol, and crack nearly ended his life, a Queer musician retraces his memory, music, and the wreckage left behind.
https://www.instagram.com/thepainandthepower
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-pain-and-the-power
Northern Venture, 126min., Canada
Directed by Daryl Scott Granger
For the first time, award-winning filmmaker Daryl Granger steps aboard the Great Lakes freighter Northern Venture for a one-week voyage across four of the five Great Lakes. Leaving behind the familiarity of land, he experiences firsthand the immense scale, beauty, and isolation of North America’s inland seas. From the towering Soo Locks to the engineering marvel of the Welland and Canal, the voyage reveals the skill and professionalism found on working freighters on the Great Lakes.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-northern-venture
SPOKE, 90min., USA
Directed by Bogdan Darev
They charge into burning buildings. They wash other people’s lives off the road. They come home, and they don’t talk about it. But who protects our protectors?
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-spoke
Sand and Soul, 65min., Canada
Directed by Richard LeSueur
Filmed in the Sinai wilderness, Sand and Soul is an hour and ten minute immersive experience into the solitude of the Sinai desert. Travelling by jeep with local Bedouin and legendary Sinai Guide Dr. Rabia, Richard LeSueur and two companions journey into the desert on an ancient pilgrim route that leads to the heights of Mount Sinai. Along the way aspects of the desert become poetic metaphors for reflection on the wilderness times of life. The video toggles between stunning visual experiences and reflective meditations, between landscape and inscape, between sand and soul.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-sand-and-soul
NOT SO SPECIAL, 96min., Canada/USA
Directed by Liz Plank
Award-winning journalist Liz Plank thought she was planning for motherhood, but instead uncovered a society quietly shaping a future without disability. What started as a personal journey became a gripping investigation into corruption and the hidden systems determining which lives are brought into the world.
https://www.instagram.com/notsospecialfilm/?hl=en
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-not-so-special
The Man Who Saw Them Arrive, 71min., Australia
Directed by Zev Howley
One night in 1968, Colin Cameron witnessed something that would consume the rest of his life. Filming unexplained phenomena in suburban Melbourne, his search for truth blurred the line between obsession and survival. Through family testimony and landmark UFO cases, this film explores a hidden chapter of Australia’s unexplained history.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-man-who-saw-them-arrive
twofold, 44min., India
Directed by Pranav T V
Smrithi and Manohar had been separately living for the past 8 months. She supposes her husband having an extra marital affair as he failed to show up the love they shared before and due to some random texts that she noticed on his phone. He never liked the job he did, hence his mind was upset as he was not able to go behind his passion to meet the day to day needs of life which made him consume alcohol every day.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-twofold
Mental, 28min., USA
Directed by Suzanna Turner
MENTAL is a darkly comedic, improvisational mockumentary exploring the chaotic, heartbreaking, and absurd world inside a psychiatric hospital
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-mental
Finding Your Home on the Field, 7min., Canada
Directed by Fabrice Rosier
As the world celebrates the beautiful game, discover the human stories unfolding far beyond the field. Presented by Unsinkable Quebec, Finding Home on the Field follows Nathan and Joel Goda, two brothers who recently immigrated from Cameroon to Montreal.
https://www.instagram.com/unsinkablestories
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-finding-your-home-on-the-field
Rockford Taking Flight, 25min., USA
Directed by Toni Ashley McLaughlin
Embark on a journey where one artist struggles to heal herself and a community through a collaborative art effort.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-rockford-taking-flight
Surviving the American Dream: Doris’ Story, 12min., USA
Directed by Noemi Figueroa Soulet
This 12-minute documentary follows a day in the life of Doris, a native of Colombia, as she works hard to keep her family together and struggles to pursue the American dream.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-surviving-the-american-dream
Eye of the Farmer, 9min., USA
Directed by Hunter Braun, Patrick Waechter
Supermarket closures across Pine Bluff, Arkansas have left large parts of the city without easy access to food, but urban farmer Bernard Iwegbu and his network of growers, artisans, and community leaders are working to change that.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-eye-of-the-farmer
STORM ON STAGE, 40min., Turkey
Directed by AHMET LULECI
Storm on the Stage is the story of an extraordinary challenge against time. With exactly three days to teach two highly demanding Turkish choreographies to American students, I faced a task that seemed almost impossible. Every rehearsal became a race against the clock—pushing through exhaustion, pressure, and doubt.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-storm-on-stage
