Best Of International Shorts 1 – 2025
The 1st of five programmes featuring the Best of International short films in competition.
Be uplifted, inspired and moved by the next generation of the world’s most talented filmmakers in competition for two Academy® qualifying awards; Best Short Live Action & Best Short Animation.
Screening: Sat 18 Jan, 1.30pm | Runtime: 112 mins | Classification: under 15 to be w/adult
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Beautiful Men
Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 19min
- Year: 2023
- Country: Belgium
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Caught In 4k
Someone is captured in 4K, high definition, caught red-handed on the internet.
Eleven-year-old Ava is home alone. She skilfully presents herself online. Takes Selfies. Dances. Puts on make-up. TOM_X12 likes this.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Austria
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Ebb And Flow
Determined to have her first kiss, Loulwa defies her tumultuous world in search of normalcy. As she braves the streets of Beirut in pursuit of her sexual awakening, she finds herself taking an instant leap into adulthood when her world erupts into a redefined “normal”.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 18min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Lebanon
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Spring Waltz
A man and a woman separated by a wall. However, their love doesn’t accept divisions, barriers, obstacles. They are a couple of street artists: freedom runs in their veins. Borders don’t exist. The man can’t tolerate the “death strip” that separates him from her. And day after day, with tenacity, imagination, love, he tries to return to her arms.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 12min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Italy
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Milk Brothers
A young single mother sees the boundaries blurring between breastfeeding and maternal instinct under the eyes of Ghali, her son, and Karam, the orphan she is breastfeeding between the walls of a Foundouk in the heart of Fez. But traditional Moroccan society does not view this attachment beyond blood ties favorably.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 19min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Morocco
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Changing Rooms
César is 12 when his older sister Lou is sexually assaulted. In the changing rooms of the fencing classes he attends, everything is measured by the yardstick of violence. César would like to take part in every fight, but he doesn’t have the weapons.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 19min
- Year: 2024
- Country: France
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Thanks For The Milk
A young delivery man realizes he’s the reincarnation of an elderly man’s beloved cat, rekindling a bond from a past life.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 8min
- Year: 2024
- Country: France
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The Three Sisters
Three sisters live a lonely life on an isolated island, each in their own small house. One day, circumstances develop in such a way that they are forced to rent out one of the houses.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Cyprus