Best Of Australian Shorts 7 – 2025
The 7th 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: Wed 22 Jan, 9pm | Runtime: 100 mins | Classification: under 15 to be w/adult
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Candy Bar
A young girl thinks a man in the candy bar line looks like her dad.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 6min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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The Audition
Milan, 21, is a talented Kurdish singer, currently auditioning for a major singing competition. When Milan hears her father has left their family for another woman, she’s expected to plead with him to return home. All Milan wants is to make her own choices in life, and with this audition, for her mother, Emine, not to sabotage her. Distracted, Milan almost messes up the audition, but Emine – for once – comes to her rescue, giving Milan the courage she needs to sing powerfully.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 10min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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The Perfect Shot
A world renowned photographer gives a masterclass to a student who couldn’t care less.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 11min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Basketball Bert
Basketball Bert is a 10-minute film exploring masculinity and body image through a tense basketball game between rivals and friends.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 8min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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The Manic Helm
A penniless father gambles on winning the Doctor’s game of mind manipulation, in order to create a better life for his son.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 6min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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End Pointe
In the not-too-distant future, climate change has forever altered our way of life; a reliance on fossil fuels leads to inhospitable living conditions. An emergency shelter-in-place order traps a group of women in a scout hall during their adult ballet class. They soon discover it’s not only the outside world they need to survive, but each other.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 13min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Housekeepers
A tween’s childhood comes to a premature end in light of her non-English mother’s sacking, upending their parent-child relationship.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 12min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Echoes
In “Echoes,” Lena, a resilient immigrant, navigates the challenges of displacement in a tent. Inside her tent, she grapples with the scars of her past, revealing the resilience and determination of those living on the margins of society.
NSW PREMIERE
- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Rash
Set over one afternoon, Rash follows two young brothers navigating the recent death of their mother. Unsettled by their father’s inability to cope with their grief, Quinn and Max embark on a tumultuous encounter with their new babysitter. Exploring the cataclysmic disruption and instability of early experiences of grief, Rash is an unnerving yet tender portrait of two children struggling with an unthinkable loss and the unwitting outsider inadvertently caught in the crossfire.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 13min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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And The Ocean Agreed
Vina is fading away, lost to dementia, but on a rare outing to the ocean, she finds herself and a chance for freedom.
NSW PREMIERE
- Runtime: 14min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia