Category: BEST MUSIC VIDEO – 2025 WSXA AMSTERDAM

(Finalist)

Original Film Title: A Silent Cry

Director’s Name: Donna Weng Friedman

Writer’s Name: Donna Weng Friedman

Producer: Donna Weng Friedman

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes 31 seconds

Film Description:

“A Silent Cry” is a two-and-a-half-minute microfilm set in the Himalayan Mountains—one of the world’s most vital and fragile ecosystems. The film uses evocative visuals and music to highlight the urgent need to sustain and protect this unique environment, which is essential for countless species and provides life-sustaining resources for millions of people.

Without narration or dialogue, the film’s artistry lies in its imagery and sound. Through its brief yet impactful journey, A Silent Cry explores themes of loss, resilience, and hope, inviting viewers to reflect on the significance of the Himalayas—not only as a symbol of natural beauty and cultural heritage for India, but as a crucial part of our planet’s environmental health. Their silence is not emptiness, but a call: to witness beauty, to feel the weight of what may vanish, and to remember that resilience endures in every shadow and song.

A Silent Cry is a visual and musical meditation, offering a powerful message about the importance of protecting what is irreplaceable.

(Finalist)

Original Film Title: PRITHVI – The Living Earth

Director’s Name: Surbhi Sondhi

Writer’s Name: Surbhi Sondhi

Producer: Surbhi Sondhi

Country of Origin: India

Country of Filming: India

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes 14 seconds

Film Description:

“Prithvi” is a poetic short film that reimagines Earth as a divine feminine force — wounded, wild, and endlessly reborn. Inspired by ancient myths and modern resilience, the story follows the Earth Goddess as she rises from mud and silence, awakening with the power of nature, rage, and sacred love.

Through striking visuals and soul-stirring music, Prithvi explores themes of rebirth, rooted strength, and the timeless bond between woman and Earth. It is not just a story — it’s a call to remember where we come from, and what still lives within us all.

She doesn’t burn to destroy.
She burns to awaken.

(Finalist)

Original Film Title: Do You Feel It

Director’s Name: Starry Venus

Writer’s Name: Starry Venus

Producer: Kira Mele

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 59 seconds

Film Description:

s a visual journey through the awakening of consciousness — expressed in feminine creation, movement, and elemental force. Each figure is a variation of Venus, embodied as Goddesses carrying a unique charge of memory and power.

Rather than follow a traditional narrative, the film moves through atmosphere, emotion, and rhythm. Water becomes language. Light becomes memory. Movement becomes the act of remembering. These Goddesses don’t rise alone — they activate one another, sparking liberation through connection.

Set across dreamscapes — from cave to emerald light — the film traces a return to source, where the feminine reclaims herself not as myth or object, but as a force of original creation.

“Do You Feel It” is a question and a transmission — a moment to remember that awakening is never solitary. It’s cinematic, embodied and alive – a restoration of our shared feminine consciousness.

(Honorable Mention)

Original Film Title: LOSING ACE

Director’s Name: SALLY DORA Clack-Manning

Writer’s Name: SALLY DORA Clack-Manning

Producer: SALLY DORA Clack-Manning, DAVID PAUL MANNING

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 10 seconds

Film Description:

Confessional rap song – Dark love story rap “As Rapper Shampagne, I want everyone to know that ‘Losing Ace’ comes straight from real life. I met him in Miami—cool as ice in a Lamborghini, neon lights bouncing off his shades—and in that moment I felt the raw pulse of danger and desire. That encounter lit the spark for this track; his story demanded to be told.”On her deathbed in Miami, a woman recounts the fatal allure of a Lamborghini-driving gangster who stole her heart. In a hushed, slow-burn narrative rap, she recalls the rush of first love, the sting of betrayal, and the moment a gun pressed to her temple. Each verse peels back layers of passion and violence—late-night fights, whispered apologies, and the intoxicating thrill of danger. As blood paints her final world in vivid colour, she confronts the question that haunts her last breath: why did she love someone who only knew how to break her?“ this is a slow burn narrative rap Miami love gone wrong”

(Winner)

Original Film Title: Vitebsk

Director’s Name: Keith Ellis Mitchell

Writer’s Name: Janice Mautner Markham

Producer: Janice Mautner Markham, Corey Wilburn

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 5 minutes 24 seconds

Film Description:

(Finalist)

Original Film Title: SEEING

Director’s Name: Matthias Krohn

Writer’s Name: Matthias Krohn

Producer: Matthias Krohn

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: Germany

Language: English

Runtime: 50 minutes

Film Description:

SEEING is a multifaceted 50-minute music video, a feast for the eyes and ears that evokes emotions, inspires reflection, and broadens perception. In seven musical stories, the film combines colorful images with expressive sounds, taking the audience on a journey through sensuality, emotion, and imagination: Where does the dream begin? What is reality? A congenial work of art as a synesthetic delight.