Best Of Australian Shorts 6 – 2021
The 6th 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: Tues 26 Jan, 9pm | Runtime: 105 mins | Classification: under 15 to be w/adult
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The Gods Of Tiny Things
The Gods of Tiny Things thinks about threats to life; the shift to the right across the world, the tolls of colonialism, climate catastrophe and conversely the kaleidoscopic pleasures of life itself, at all scales, in all its teeming, hectic, clamouring fertility.
NSW PREMIERE- Runtime: 5min
- Year: 2019
- Country: Australia
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The Reality
A mild-mannered florist volunteers for a reality show where she must swap jobs with a paramedic.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 12min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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The Handyman
Evelyn attempts to end her life, but is interrupted by the arrival of Jack, a handyman desperate for work.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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Widowers
‘Widowers’ is a meditation on suburban masculinity as two aging men negotiate grief, rage and forgiveness without exchanging a word.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 12min
- Year: 2019
- Country: Australia
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The Immortal
A man who fears death discovers the secret of immortality, but learns that eventually, everything dies – everything except him.
NSW PREMIERE- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2019
- Country: Australia
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This River
During an Australian 1990’s summer, Jacquie celebrates graduating high school with her friends and family. But when a boy she likes breaks her trust at a party, it shatters her sense of self. As Jacquie begins her process of healing, she connects with loved ones and natures, finding the strength to move on.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 13min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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Pyrocene
Pyrocene responds to the catastrophic Australian bushfires of the summer of 2019/2020, imagining the event in retrospect, as a catalyst, and force that would bring the ending of the world as we know it.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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Carmentis
A grief stricken miner finds himself injured on the desolate planet Carmentis and must overcome his personal demons in order to survive, but can he get there before the planet freezes?
NSW PREMIERE- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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Sunburn
In the wake of a tragedy, Charlie takes her best friend Em on a road trip in the hope it will help them heal. Along the way they find their friendship is tested like never before.
NSW PREMIERE- Runtime: 12min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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Smashed
Faced with the potential of losing their long-term Queensland share house at an open home, two twenty-somethings scheme a haunted plan to keep their home and their smashed avo breakfasts.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 14min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia