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Best Of Australian Shorts 2 – 2021

The 2nd 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 23 Jan, 6.30pm | Runtime: 107 mins | Classification: under 15 to be w/adult

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  • A Man And A Cat (Un Homme Et Un Chat)

    A lonely salesman stumbles upon a stray cat and opens the door to his house… and heart.
    NSW PREMIERE

    • Director: Kevin Spink
    • Writer: Kevin Spink
    • Producer: Kevin Spink, Colin Kratzing
    • Runtime: 12min
    • Year: 2020
    • Country: Australia

  • Objects Of My Disaffection

    After splitting up with her partner, a young mother externalizes her feelings of loss and resentment through the family’s possessions.
    NSW PREMIERE

    • Director: Sarah-Jane Woulahan
    • Writer: Sarah-Jane Woulahan
    • Producer: Sarah-Jane Woulahan
    • Runtime: 16min
    • Year: 2020
    • Country: Australia

  • Don’t Forget To Go Home

    Two sisters miss their cousin’s wedding to go on a drug-fuelled bender.
    NSW PREMIERE

    • Director: Victoria Singh-Thompson
    • Writer: Victoria Singh-Thompson
    • Producer: Lottie Aspinhall, Linus Carey Gibson
    • Runtime: 12min
    • Year: 2020
    • Country: Australia

  • System Error

    Every day, George works his job at a dingy convenience store, desperately hoping for a friend – but George is also an immobile robotic service unit, and immobile service units do not have friends.  Not yet anyway.
    NSW PREMIERE

    • Director: Matt Vesely
    • Writer: Matt Vesely
    • Producer: Kirsty Stark
    • Runtime: 13min
    • Year: 2020
    • Country: Australia

  • The Story Of Lee Ping

    Set in the rural backlots of 1920s Australia, “The Story of Lee Ping” is a tale of a young Chinese woman, an imprisoned erotic dancer who plots her freedom.  Lee meets Jack, an aboriginal farm hand, who changes the way she sees herself forever.
    WORLD PREMIERE

    • Director: Jasmin Tarasin
    • Writer: John Collee
    • Producer: Lucy Maclaren, Jo McNulty-Clark
    • Runtime: 13min
    • Year: 2020
    • Country: Australia

  • Painting By Numbers

    A child’s encounter with classic masterpieces triggers a confronting epiphany.
    WORLD PREMIERE

    • Director: Radheya Jegatheva
    • Writer: Radheya Jegatheva
    • Producer: Matt Hearn, Jay Jay Jegathesan
    • Runtime: 4min
    • Year: 2020
    • Country: Australia

  • Torch Song

    An XXY teenager is rejected by his father at a suburban burning man ceremony.
    WORLD PREMIERE

    • Director: Stephen Lance
    • Writer: Stephen Lance
    • Producer: Stephen Lance, Madeleine Allen
    • Runtime: 12min
    • Year: 2020
    • Country: Australia

  • Prom Night

    An experimental exploration of imposter syndrome, through a colonised Asian female gaze.
    WORLD PREMIERE

    • Director: Lydia Rui
    • Writer: Lydia Rui
    • Producer: Lydia Rui
    • Runtime: 3min
    • Year: 2020
    • Country: Australia, UK

  • Ecdysis

    In a small rural town, a beaten middle-aged woman reaches breaking point as her cruel, con-artist husband attempts to corrupt a rookie police officer.
    AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

    • Director: Roscoe Portelli, William Stanforth
    • Writer: William Stanforth
    • Producer: Roscoe Portelli, William Stanforth, William Ewing
    • Runtime: 14min
    • Year: 2020
    • Country: Australia

  • A Problematic Gesture Toward Auteur Theory

    An egomaniacal Auteur has a moment of Anagnorisis when he learns about the concept of Anagnorisis.
    NSW PREMIERE

    • Director: James Robert Woods
    • Writer: James Robert Woods
    • Producer: James Robert Woods, Stephanie Jane Day
    • Runtime: 7min
    • Year: 2020
    • Country: Australia
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