Best Of Australian Shorts 5 – 2025
The 5th 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: Mon 20 Jan, 9pm | Runtime: 110 mins | Classification: under 15 to be w/adult
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Mr. Wonderful
A young man races through early adulthood while trying to find his childhood dog.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 3min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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The Dog
A sick dog mysteriously appears in the clinic of a struggling vet (Kate Walsh, GREY’S ANATOMY) and tries to negotiate their own death, leading both on a surreal journey through life and mortality.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 12min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Why We Fight
An aspiring teen boxer, haunted by his father’s death, tries to save his mother from throwing in the towel on the anniversary of his passing — but Andreas will discover that his greatest fight will be learning how to save himself.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Beautiful Smile
Leah, an aspiring model, sees her upcoming photoshoot with Hamish as a chance at her big break. However, when she come face to face with the prodigious photographer she is left reeling, as she faces a predator intent on shattering boundaries she didn’t know she had.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Sisters
Jacqui’s sister Leia comes home for a week to help her decide whether to sell their late mother’s house. Leia thinks Jacqui should learn to communicate with the dead.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 17min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Recipe For Jam
On a quiet orchard, a simple shelf becomes the centrepiece of a couples love story, weaving together moments of joy, heartache and the beauty of life’s small treasures.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 18min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Skin Hunger Winter Love
What begins as a narrative drama bends into an experimental fever dream: skin hunger winter love is lockdown, in the winter of a couple’s love. Mark tries to do something nice for Shelly, and the taste of a passion fruit hurls us into a feast of memory. But who is the observer and who is observed? And what happens to desire, when it has nowhere to go?
WORLD PREMIERE
View Trailer- Runtime: 9min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Rehabilitating
A woman with chronic pain is stuck in a rehab hospital, unable to leave until she can find a way out of her fears and pain with the help of a new friend.
- Runtime: 18min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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7 Minutes To Rice
Seven housemates prepare separate meals as they wait for the rice to cook. When they discover that there isn’t enough rice, a witch hunt for the culprit begins. For the crime of ruining their meal the punishment is DEATH!
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 8min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia