The 2026 Sound of Silent Film Festival will premiere in Chicago on April 8th at the Music Box Theatre.
Cold Storage by Thomas Freundlich
On a desolate arctic shore, a lonely fisherman discovers his prehistoric counterpart frozen in the ice, and thaws him out as his newfound soul brother.
Music by Gene Pritsker
Cutouts by Mila Korshunova
A woman awakens in a strange, enveloping space. She moves, hesitates, and tests its boundaries in a quiet, intimate transformation where the contours of the unknown direct her journey.
Music by Seth Boustead
Remember Me When I Leave by Caitlyn Lim
Questioning their place in a world where physical spaces fade, a figure awakens in an unfamiliar home, forced to confront memories once forgotten.
Music by Paul Scherer
Do Not Feed the Pigeons by Zahm Waters
An orgiastic mutant monster post-modern pop art pigeon-fueled horror apocalypse!!!
Music by Gail Gallagher
Sound Asleep by Vadim Egoul
A mime battles insomnia over an Icelandic summer night.
Music by Amos Gillespie
The Ineffable Fixing of the Volatile by Arepo
A poignant elegy of solitude and longing that tells the tale of an elderly man, a mechanical bird and the fragile dance between captivity and freedom.
Music by David Keller
Tangled by Simran Sawley
A woman brushes her hair to soothe herself to sleep until a dream interrupts the ritual and forces her to confront the weight she’s been carrying in silence.
Music by Amy Wurtz
Leaves of Grass by Tzuman Tseng
An elder botanist is engaging specimen collection during a winter night. His stream of consciousness gradually being distracted by the past.
Music by Kaitlyn Raitz
Màiri by Brenda Davis
Màiri lives on a remote Scottish island, somewhere outside linear historical time. When she rejects a marriage proposal, her idyllic reality is ruptured by violence and she is forced to conjure her own escape.
Music by Charles Coleman
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