Short Laughs Comedy 2 – 2025
The 2nd of two programmes of clever off-kilter selections of comedy shorts from home & across the world.
Screening: Sat 25 Jan, 9pm | Runtime: 114 mins | Classification: under 15 yrs to be w/adult
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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
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Rejoyce!
After the death of her husband, an elderly vicar’s wife re-discovers a book of erotic fiction that she wrote in her youth.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2023
- Country: United Kingdom
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The Head On Him
A Coming-of-age Dramedy about a young, biracial boy who moves to Ireland in the ’90s. He shaves off his Afro in order to fit in and it works…but then his Afro grows back, bigger and bigger, until it traps him in his room and he has to find a way out.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Ireland
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Robbed
A bickering couple’s marriage is tested while they cower on the floor, as hostages during a bank robbery.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 10min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Nip It In The Bud
We meet a young woman with tousled hair and sleepy eyes, who goes through her daily morning routine check in the mirror. She notices a thin long hair on her chin and tries to pluck it. To her great dislike, the hair stretches out and becomes longer instead of yielding to the tweezers. She becomes more and more desperate, and resorts to stronger and stronger tools, but the hair remains stubbornly stuck, and grows longer for each attempt to remove it. But after a moment of dark hopelessness, she gets a brilliant idea.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 4min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Norway
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Grave Error
Emma embarks on a bureaucratic odyssey to get her life back after an administrative error leaves her legally dead.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 12min
- Year: 2024
- Country: United Kingdom
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Oasis
A suburban dad becomes stranded under the shade of an ice cream cart where the vendor charges rent for shelter.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 14min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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7 Minutes To Rice
Seven housemates prepare separate meals as they wait for the rice to cook. When they discover that there isn’t enough rice, a witch hunt for the culprit begins. For the crime of ruining their meal the punishment is DEATH!
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 8min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Free The Chickens
A rescue mission to free chickens from a factory farm goes radically wrong, and a group of four activists is forced to escape into the wilderness to experience a series of borderline situations and ethical dilemmas that lead to new insights, such as that nature is not a safe place for animals.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Slovakia
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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