Best Of Australian Shorts 2 – 2025
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 18 Jan, 6:30pm | Runtime: 112 mins | Classification: under 15 to be w/adult
-
Sweetmeats
Sweetmeats City Times news reporter Paxton Paddlepop is on location at MOSA (the Museum of Sweetmeat Art) to learn what’s truly baked under the crust of contemporary Sweetmeat art. Through a series of one-on-one conversations, Paddlepop explores the confectionery stories behind a slew of emerging and prominent Sweetmeat artists as he seeks to answer the modern art question of our day: “Why art?”
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
-
Asian Male, 60s, Lead
63-year-old Filipino-Australian actor Alex Montes is given 48 hours to prepare for the biggest opportunity of his life. But his scattered enthusiasm takes over and the rest of his life falls apart.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
-
A Thousand Odd Days
A young man reflects on a day spent with his estranged mother, in an attempt to understand her enduring trauma and its effect on their relationship.
NSW PREMIERE
- Runtime: 14min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
-
Before The Son
Amidst a tumultuous economy a young man battles his friend’s addiction and the struggle of feeding his new born – leading him to turn to petty crime.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
-
Say
With her partner behind the wheel, 21-year-old Dana decides to take control for the sake of her 3-year-old daughter.
- Runtime: 12min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
-
Oi
When a turbulent teenage girl undergoes a traumatic sexual experience, she must face her own violent bravado head-on. Oi explores the stigma around “catfights” and how hyper-sexuality can occur when feminine rage isn’t accepted and queerness is ignored.
NSW PREMIERE
- Runtime: 16min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
-
Apartment 42
Before fleeing the country to escape his past, a drunken man is forced to bide his time with a well-meaning yet forceful neighbour intent on saving his soul.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 20min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
-
Joan
After discovering her much-loved rescue dog, Brian, has committed an unforgivable house-sitting crime, Joan must go to ridiculous lengths to cover his tracks.
NSW PREMIERE
- Runtime: 13min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia