Best Of International Shorts 3 – 2025
The 3rd 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: Mon 20 Jan, 6.30pm | Runtime: 112 mins | Classification: under 15 to be w/adult
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Maybe Elephants
Three rebellious teenage daughters, a restless mother, a father struggling with potatoes, and maybe some elephants, find themselves in Nairobi. What could possibly go wrong?
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 17min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Canada
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Ado
Ms. Hopkins is rehearsing Much Ado About Nothing with her middle school theatre class when it becomes a rehearsal unlike any other. Starring Jenifer Lewis in a tour-de-force as Ms. Hopkins.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 16min
- Year: 2025
- Country: United States
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The Boy With White Skin
Entrusted by his father to a group of gold-miners, an albino child embodies all of their hopes.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 14min
- Year: 2024
- Country: France, Senegal
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Dawn Every Day
Set in 1956, 8 year old Nabil navigates through new social norms he cannot fathom that impact his next door best friend in post nationalized Egypt. Inspired by true events.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 20min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Egypt
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One Punch
A misguided young prisoner confronts his overwhelming guilt when he is visited by the compassionate parents of the boy he killed
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 10min
- Year: 2024
- Country: United Kingdom
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The Brown Dog
Night after night, a watchman clocks into a lonely security booth in the empty parking lot of an upscale apartment complex. Voiced by the late Michael K. Williams, the character – identified only as “NOBODY” – spends his shifts composing endless security logs to stay awake. As the darkness slowly closes in on him, he abandons his post and goes in search of a mysterious brown dog.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 14min
- Year: 2024
- Country: United States
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The Cascade
A man discovers he’s been crying for several months without even noticing. Strangely, his tear ducts have decided to work in an inverse manner, transforming his interiors into a waterfall. The man will have to find a way to stop a cry that he can’t even feel.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 20min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Mexico