Best Of Australian Shorts 5 – 2023

Good Fortune

After being dumped by her ex, Liza finds herself opposite a psychic in the hopes of figuring out if there’s a cosmic plan for her and what that looks like.
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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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 

Perspectives

Based on a true story, a young soldier suspects a man on an Israeli bus of being a suicide bomber. She must now choose between the other passengers’ lives and a potentially innocent man, with the world watching via live-streams.
WORLD PREMIERE

Something’s Not Quite Right

One morning David Sleet wakes up and feels out of sorts. Desperate for answers, he sets out on an absurd quest to find out what’s not quite right about his day.
WORLD PREMIERE

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Six Months

Mirrored realities where the roles reverse. A social commentary on what happens when we strip away all the noise of life. What’s left? How does that affect the way we relate to ourselves and in turn affect our relationships.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE 

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Solitude

When an intoxicating friendship between two childhood friends becomes suffocating for one, a resurfacing old secret reveals the dark nature of their codependency
WORLD PREMIERE

Lucky Peach

A visually imaginative, deeply personal story about the tensions that develop between an immigrant mother and a young woman as she prepares to head abroad.
NSW PREMIERE

They Will Know

While Jackson meets his girlfriend Sophia’s parents for the first time, a mysterious stranger observes from outside.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Hopeful Romantic

Daisy learns things aren’t always as perfect as they seem and decides the only way to find love – is to be herself.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE