Best Of Australian 6 – 2018
The 6th 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: Tue 16 Jan, 8.45pm | Runtime: 106 min | Classification: under 15 to be w/adult
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Somersault Pike
A competitive diver faces her fears while taking on new heights.
NSW PREMIERE- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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Cold Hearts
Pitted against the harsh terrain of Australia’s Snowy Mountains, two colonial women haul a coffin to its final resting place, only to be confronted with a deadly surprise upon reaching their destination.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 18min
- Year: 2016
- Country: Australia
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Blight
Set in the early 20th century on Australia’s western frontier, a police Constable hunts down a band of dangerous Criminals aided by a young, female Aboriginal Tracker.
- Runtime: 13min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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Remembering Agatha
The hardest thing about being magical is pretending to be ordinary.
NSW PREMIERE- Runtime: 26min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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RED
Female power and complexity collides with the innocence of the child, and primal nature of the spider in a surrealist celebration of sex, birth, death and cannibalism.
- Runtime: 16min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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Outbreak Generation
In the midst of a global epidemic, Annie finds herself the sole carer of her eight-year-old nephew, but he has questions only a mother can answer.
- Runtime: 13min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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Melon Grab
Dysfunctional truth, rap and suspended youth – the final skate between two best friends.
- Runtime: 10min
- Year: 2016
- Country: Australia
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Your Call Is Important To Us
Your call is a short comedy that confirms our fears about what really goes on at call-centres when we’re asked, ‘Please hold?’
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia