Best Of Australian Shorts 1 – 2025
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® qualifying award for Best Australian Short Film.
Screening: Sat 18 Jan, 4pm | Runtime: 116 mins | Classification: under 15 to be w/adult
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Baggage
Three girlfriends check in their baggage at the airport, but one is carrying a little more than the others. As they travel along the conveyor belt to security, can she hide what’s inside? AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 5min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Typo
After graduating from university a year ago, Astrid has been struggling to find a job that fits with her Asperger’s characteristics. Dependent on her pregnant sister and brother-in-law, time is running out for her to gain her independence before the baby is due. A misguided idea to hold an ‘art’ garage sale unexpectedly opens the door to pursuing her passion for typography as a career. However, the question remains: can she overcome the challenges of her Asperger’s and succeed in the interview?
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 13min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Over
A father must confront his apathy towards the world’s big issues when his disabled son, who is terrified of open water, steals his boat and refuses to come back to shore until his Dad has saved the world.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 18min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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The Disconnected
A story of a Kurdish guy who has immigrated to Australia from Turkey and did not achieve what he hoped for. Chemil’s lost himself and his purpose and his life is like a leaf in the wind. He now has a simple human desire that he wants to die in Turkey, the land of his birth. But he has to pay for the ticket and it won’t be easy.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Travels On My Donkey
In the film Lee travels back in time on her donkey to meet her great great uncle John Reed Hill in Egypt in 1837. John and his wife Ann run a hotel in the Frank quarter of Cairo. When Lee arrives Mr Hill is about to join an expedition led by an eccentric English aristocrat, Colonel Howard Vyse, to explore the pyramids of Giza. Lee rides along and her journey quickly becomes the adventure of a lifetime.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 32min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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A Good Boy
‘A Good Boy’ is a poignant coming-of-age short film told through the perspective of Michael, who harbors a dark, shameful secret that threatens his budding relationship with Aisha. The film examines the burden of childhood trauma & the transformative power of healing through friendship.
WORLD PREMIERE
View Trailer- Runtime: 14min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Agoge
Placed in detention after a physical altercation on the school playground, two teenage boys find their developing friendship challenged by the limits of their emotional honesty.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 13min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Honey Cake
An obsessive nutritionist argues with his partner about the inclusion of honey in a luncheon cake.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 6min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia