Best Of Australian Shorts 2 – 2023

The Best Dumplings In Melbourne

Three friends decide to embark on the most impossible adventure in Melbourne… to find the best dumplings.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Blvck Gold

Tormented about his past by ongoing nightmares, amateur athlete Tino uses running as a way to escape old wounds. His attempts are foiled when his childhood friend, Frederick, reconnects with him, seeking to redeem himself, and presents Tino with a plan and a mysterious object wrapped in a paper bag.
NSW PREMIERE

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Jia

Ming, a grieving Chinese mother, arrives in Australia to embark on a road trip with a young Caucasian man to remember a loved one.
WORLD PREMIERE

Sushi Noh

Trapped in the care of her lonely uncle, a young girl’s nightmares about a bizarre kitchen appliance manifest into reality.

The Holy Path

Young couple Hunter and Olive navigate their relationship with Olive’s disapproving and obsessively religious mother. But, when a mysterious hole appears in the floor of their new home, things start to heat up…
WORLD PREMIERE

Sleepover

After witnessing a traumatic family event, a young boy must choose: tell his mother the truth but destroy his brother’s trust, or stay silent, break from his childhood world and his mother, and join his brother with their dirty secret.
WORLD PREMIERE

Eating The Other

An enigmatic South Asian woman carefully navigates her love life, work life and family life as racial tensions simmer. But as she reaches a boiling point, a force from deep within begins to crave a pound of flesh.
WORLD PREMIERE

Wonder Down Under

Barb Barrett is a superhero. Or, at least she used to be. Now she must overcome her toughest challenge yet and rejoin the workforce in her fifties.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE