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Best Of Australian 1 – 2020

The 1st of seven programmes featuring the best of Australian short films in competition.

Our home-grown talent battle it out for the prestigious Academy® accredited award for Best Australian Short Film.

Screening: Sat 11 Jan, 4pm | Runtime: 112 mins | Classification: under 15 to be w/adult

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  • The Void In Joy

    There is a void in Joy and nothing has been able to fill it. But, a devastating medical diagnosis triggers a rapid realignment of priorities.
    AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

    • Director: Si Berg
    • Writer: Si Berg
    • Producer: Si Berg
    • Runtime: 4min
    • Year: 2019
    • Country: Australia

  • Sohrab And Rustum

    A teacher reads a poem based on a Persian legend to her class of teenage girls.

    • Director: Lee Whitmore
    • Writer: Lee Whitmore
    • Producer: Lee Whitmore
    • Runtime: 14min
    • Year: 2018
    • Country: Australia

  • Clap

    After a long day of being bullied at school, Stephanie begins to think that her stutter wont get any better, until she meets and befriends Delores. WORLD PREMIERE

    • Director: Sophie O’Connor
    • Writer: Sophie O’Connor
    • Producer: Sophie O’Connor, Richard Di Gregorio, Carla McConnell
    • Runtime: 6min
    • Year: 2018
    • Country: Australia

  • Blackwood

    A novelist and her teenage son face their own unique challenges over the course of a day, finding recognition and respect difficult to come by in small-town Australia.
    NSW PREMIERE

    • Director: Kalu Oji
    • Writer: Kalu Oji
    • Producer: Mimo Mukii
    • Runtime: 12min
    • Year: 2018
    • Country: Australia

  • Way Out Assistance

    In the near future a woman finds herself in need of help and uses technology to facilitate a new human connection.
    NSW PREMIERE

    • Director: Stef Smith
    • Writer: Stef Smith in collaboration with Bus Stop Films
    • Producer: Stef Smith, Brianna Miller
    • Runtime: 8min
    • Year: 2019
    • Country: Australia

  • How Things Are Born

    A young woman approaching motherhood must decide when to give and when to take a life.
    WORLD PREMIERE

    • Director: David Willis
    • Writer: David Willis
    • Producer: David Willis
    • Runtime: 14min
    • Year: 2019
    • Country: Australia

  • Living Room

    Masayuki lives with his elderly mother, pretending to work night, but really wandering the streets gambling and drinking. A mysterious stranger comes into his life just as he is planning his exit.
    NSW PREMIERE

    • Director: Jessica Barclay Lawton
    • Writer: Rhys Mitchell, Jessica Barclay Lawton
    • Producer: Rhys Mitchell, Jessica Barclay Lawton
    • Runtime: 17min
    • Year: 2019
    • Country: Australia

  • My Name Is Mudju

    1950’s Australia, Mudju’s daughter Munna has been stolen, helpless against the Mission governance, she must find the strength within to reunite with her daughter.
    NSW PREMIERE

    • Director: Chantelle Murray
    • Writer: Chantelle Murray
    • Producer: Helen Morrison, Belinda Miller
    • Runtime: 14min
    • Year: 2019
    • Country: Australia

  • Bloom

    On Junie’s eighteenth birthday, the secret of her late period and potential pregnancy puts her sisterhood and close family ties at risk of breaking apart.
    NSW PREMIERE

    • Director: Isobelle Amie
    • Writer: Isobelle Amie
    • Producer: Sarah Clayton
    • Runtime: 13min
    • Year: 2019
    • Country: Australia

  • Wine Lake

    A homeless Irish alcoholic and an artistic backpacker clash on a Sydney street over a misunderstanding.
    AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
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    • Director: Platon Theodoris
    • Writer: Ailis Logan
    • Producer: Platon Theodoris
    • Runtime: 10min
    • Year: 2019
    • Country: Australia
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