Best Of International Shorts 3 – 2022

Bad Seeds

Bad Seeds takes us to a bizarre world populated by carnivorous plants that can change shapes the way a chameleon changes colours. The veteran director of Carface deftly connects growth with rivalry and evolution with competition, crafting an increasingly shocking duel that’s peppered with allusions to the western, the Cold War, board games, and much more.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Attached (Imposible Decirte Adios)

When Paula’s painful breakup with Raúl causes her to stop seeing his son Dani, Paula will have no choice but to challenge a hypocritical legal system that ignores the custody rights of a loving, non-biological parent.
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The Human Torch

Textbook examples of humanity
WORLD PREMIERE

Leave To Remain

Things get wild at the ‘VISA and immigration services’ when Karim, a young Iranian father living in the UK is mistakenly threatened with deportation.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Astel

It’s October, the end of the rainy season in Fouta, an isolated region in the north of Senegal. Astel (13) accompanies her father every day in the bush. Together, they look after their herd of cows. But one day, in the middle of the desert, the meeting between the young girl and a shepherd disrupts the peaceful daily life between Astel and her father.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

The Orange Child

In deep introspection, a Black actor sought for some answer when he found his childhood computer, he explores a video game he started creating when he was 11, when he didn’t see himself as being black, but as orange.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

A Few Miles South

Acclaimed actors Toby Jones and Ivanno Jeremiah comprise a very memorable double act in this delightfully macabre tale of two taciturn travellers on a wintry expedition that takes a desperate turn
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Shower Boys

After a heated training match with the team, twelve-year-old Viggo and Noel go home to challenge each other’s limits and masculinity. A sudden stop to an innocent game questions what a male friendship is allowed to be.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

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Silence

A young man wanders around the city, where people wearing masks come and go. One day, he finds a girl dancing ballet in an abandoned building.
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