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Best Of Australian 6 – 2020

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 14 Jan, 8.45pm | Runtime: 109 mins | Classification: under 15 to be w/adult

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  • The Granny Flat

    While their parents are off trainspotting, two siblings wake to find an elderly woman baking scones in their kitchen.
    NSW PREMIERE

    • Director: Rachel Mackey
    • Writer: Rachel Mackey
    • Producer: Nicola Macindoe
    • Runtime: 8min
    • Year: 2018
    • Country: Australia

  • Strangers

    Lillian lives at an aged care facility. When her family finds her in the bed of another woman, they must wrap their heads around their mothers sexuality, and work out the right thing to do.
    NSW PREMIERE

    • Director: Jamieson Pearce
    • Writer: Jamieson Pearce
    • Producer: Cyna Strachan, Liam Heyen
    • Runtime: 13min
    • Year: 2019
    • Country: Australia

  • My First Panic

    On her way home from a night of hedonistic partying, Ruby, an anxious young woman, experiences her first ever panic attack.
    WORLD PREMIERE

    • Director: Michaela Holmes
    • Writer: Michaela Holmes
    • Producer: Gia Frino, Alexis Talbot-Smith
    • Runtime: 20min
    • Year: 2019
    • Country: Australia

  • The Egg

    Under the punishing and watchful eye of an elderly woman, a young girl, bored and lonely in a world of foreign suburbia, becomes determined to claim a larger Easter egg as her own.
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    • Director: Jane Cho
    • Writer: Jane Cho
    • Producer: Jane Cho, Ilana Lazar
    • Runtime: 10min
    • Year: 2019
    • Country: Australia

  • A Day In Your Life

    A meditation on homelessness, A Day In Your Life is quiet, thoughtful and deeply human, it is a gentle look at the world around us and the people pushed to its margins.
    AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

    • Director: Milena Bennett
    • Writer: Milena Bennett
    • Producer: Emma Diaz
    • Runtime: 17min
    • Year: 2018
    • Country: Australia

  • A Morning Ritual

    A desperate man renews himself with a strange ritual.
    NSW PREMIERE

    • Director: Jack Peddey
    • Writer: Jack Peddey
    • Producer: Jack Peddey, Alisha Hnatjuk
    • Runtime: 3min
    • Year: 2019
    • Country: Australia

  • Sweet Tooth

    Sweet Tooth is the untold story of the Wicked Witch and her infamous gingerbread house.
    NSW PREMIERE

    • Director: Shannon Ashlyn
    • Writer: Shannon Ashlyn
    • Producer: Katherine Shearer
    • Runtime: 23min
    • Year: 2019
    • Country: Australia

  • 37 Things

    A man with a brain condition that prevents him from ever knowing more than 37 things must fight to retain his most precious memory in our information-dense world.
    WORLD PREMIERE
    view 37 Things trailer

    • Director: Zane Roach
    • Writer: Zane Roach
    • Producer: Adam Lemmey, Debra Liang
    • Runtime: 15min
    • Year: 2019
    • Country: Australia
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