Best of Australian Shorts – 2023 Tour Newcasltle

Married At First Fleet

Married at First Fleet follows a modern day 18th Century couple. Individuals matched together according to their common interests, attractiveness and lack of diseases.
WORLD PREMIERE

Sticky Beak

When a missing dog flyer shoots under her door, Maude, the neighbourhood’s serial sticky beak may be the only one who can figure it out.
WORLD PREMIERE

The Overthrow

One sweaty Australian summer, two girls roller skate across the outback from Sydney to Parliament House in an emission-less climate change protest that tests more than their friendship.
WORLD PREMIERE

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Mud Crab

Reflecting on her culpability, a woman recounts the traumatising assault she witnesses of a young man in a small Australian coastal town.
NSW PREMIERE

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Butter: A Love Story

Butter is a film about love, obsession, and finding purpose no matter the cost. At its heart, it is a twisted, yet tender love story, between a lonely woman and the greatest food of all: butter.
WORLD PREMIERE

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Katele (Mudskipper)

Martha, a Torres Strait Islander woman works tirelessly in a laundromat loading machines and folding washing, ready for the collection of her boss. When a mysterious visitor arrives, Martha is reminded of the life she has left behind.
WORLD PREMIERE

Teacups

For almost half a century, Don Ritchie would approach people contemplating suicide at the edge of a cliff, 100ft from his home. Teacups explores Don’s (voiced by Hugo Weaving) surreal interactions with hundreds of suicidal individuals and his journey to reconcile the suicide of his best friend.
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