In “That Alien, Sound,” the debut feature from writer/director/editor Brando Topp, a young woman named Mika (Mia Danelle) becomes possessed by a soundwave that’s been floating around in outer space.

Space is silent, or so we’re told. In the vast vacuum between stars and planets, sound waves can’t travel as they do on Earth. But what if that silence is just an illusion? What if the cosmos is ...