Animated Shorts

Fri Oct 28, 6:00 PM

81 minutes

Unclassified 15+

Long gone are the days of shorts films simply being proof of concepts for long form projects. Short films are an industry unto their own and the competitive quality has risen exponentially. Shorts provide an outlet for bold and provocative storytelling on an international stage. In 2022, AFF presents a slate of premium short films in four diverse packages. These provide a crisp and concise insight into the issues and ideas raised by filmmakers from around the world.

Programs curated by Emma Hough Hobbs

Screens with: Cuties

Fri Oct 28, 6:00 PM

Director: Theo W Scott

2021

United Kingdom

5 minutes

Unclassified 15+

A film not to be missed on the big screen, a hand-drawn sequential telling of human history in all its horror and how we continue forward in spite of our proclivity for violence and destruction.

Screens with: Donkey

Fri Oct 28, 6:00 PM

Director: Jonathan Daw, Tjunkaya Tapaya OAM

Australia

6 minutes

Unclassified 15+

Made in collaboration with 20 Tjanpi Desert Weavers artists, this gorgeously crafted stop motion tells the story of how donkeys came to be malpa wiru, valuable friends and helpers, in the desert community of Pukatja.

Screens with: Freedom Swimmer

Fri Oct 28, 6:00 PM

Director: Olivia Martin-McGuire

United Kingdom

15 minutes

Unclassified 15+

Combining hand-drawn animation and film, in this extraordinary and captivating hybrid film we see the retelling of a grandfather’s perilous swim from China to Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution.

Screens with: Hike

Fri Oct 28, 6:00 PM

Director: Justin Wight, Alexander Rodeghiero-Smith

Australia

3 minutes

Unclassified 15+

Exploring grief, memory and growth in the wake of a tragedy. A teenager honours the memory of their mother, following the same trail they hiked together and revisiting their relationship.

Screens with: Honekami (A bite of bone)

Sat Oct 29, 6:00 PM

Director: Honami Yano

Japan

9 minutes

Unclassified 15+

A visual splendour of a film unlike anything you will see this year. Painstakingly animated with tiny dots, this film explores the relationship between a young girl and the death of her father.

Screens with: Local Middle Schooler

Fri Oct 28, 6:00 PM

Director: Sanjna Bharadwaj

United States

10 minutes

Unclassified 15+

In this jam-packed explosion of a film, a girl with wish fulfilling magic eyelashes battles the weight of the world with the weight of being a middle schooler.

Screens with: Money and Happiness

Fri Oct 28, 6:00 PM

Director: Ana Nedeljković, Nikola Majdak Jr.

Serbia

10 minutes

Unclassified 15+

A dark and entrancing stop motion set in Hamsterland, a perfect state with a perfect economy. The hamsters live and work here where there is no unemployment and 100% of the population declare themselves happy.

Screens with: Something in the Garden

Fri Oct 28, 6:00 PM

Director: Marcos Sánchez

Chile

6 minutes

Unclassified 15+

Unforgettably atmospheric, in this expertly animated short we catch a glimpse of night-time in the suburbs, the calm stillness is interrupted by a strange presence, a creeping and sinister being that lurks in the dark.

Screens with: The Future of Everything (Unlimited Ducks)

Fri Oct 28, 6:00 PM

Director: Mike Greaney

Australia

4 minutes

Unclassified 15+

In this quirky and clever short a team of scientists in 2025 discover proof that the universe is a simulation. It doesn't take long to chaos to ensue.

Screens with: The Hork

Fri Oct 28, 6:00 PM

Director: Nicole Stafford

United States

4 minutes

Unclassified 15+

Every second filled with mind bending animation, in this short set in an alternative dimension, the stoic god of Power-Unrecognised waits for unrelenting Greed to come and consume her power.

Screens with: Without Us (Uten Oss)

Fri Oct 28, 6:00 PM

Director: Julie Engaas

2022

Norway

9 minutes

Unclassified 15+

In this hauntingly beautiful short we observe what it would look like if all human beings vanished from the face of the earth. How nature would react relieved from the constant pressures of humanity.

Screens with: Cuties

Screens with: Donkey

Screens with: Freedom Swimmer

Screens with: Hike

Screens with: Honekami (A bite of bone)

Screens with: Local Middle Schooler

Screens with: Money and Happiness

Screens with: Something in the Garden

Screens with: The Future of Everything (Unlimited Ducks)

Screens with: The Hork

Screens with: Without Us (Uten Oss)

CWA: Judgement Day

Sweet As

My Old School

Hidden Letters

Fledglings

The Blue Caftan

Close

Triangle of Sadness

Broker

Watandar, My Countryman

The Banshees of Inisherin

The Last Daughter

Made in SA

The Plains

Meet Me In The Bathroom

Monolith

Ribspreader

Talk to Me + Filmmaker Q&A

Bones And All

TÁR

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Hello Dankness

Cosmic Atomic

Ferns

Film Concept Lab

Heavy Red

The Bad Realms

Balaclava

Possum

Reptile

The Hunter

Salt of the Earth

Reunion

Look the Part

101 Days of Lockdown

The Secret of Mt Trolla

Dream on Leon

We Are An Image From The Future

Hike

Honekami (A bite of bone)

Local Middle Schooler

Money and Happiness

Something in the Garden

The Future of Everything (Unlimited Ducks)

The Hork

Without Us (Uten Oss)

We Never Asked for This

Will You Look At Me (Dang Wo Wang Xiang Ni De Shi Hou)

Cuties

Donkey

Freedom Swimmer

Right Here

Valentine

Warsha

Are You Really The Universe?

Blind Body

Downpour

It Happened in Copley Street

Last Elephant On Earth

On Film

Finding Sergeant

Bunker: The Last Fleet

For Love

Pat Rix: 2022 Bettison & James Award recipient

David Jowsey in conversation with Margaret Pomeranz AM

Death in the City