Made in SA

Mon Oct 24, 6:30 PM

2022

88 minutes

Unclassified 15+

These South Australian shorts showcase the breadth of talent and deft creativity of local filmmakers and crew. Traversing many different genres and media, no stone is left unturned in this vibrant cross section of SA filmmaking. Featuring the World Premiere of two cutting-edge Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund shorts, this is a night you don’t want to miss.

The Made in SA Short Film Showcase Red Carpet, Screening and Awards Ceremony will take place at Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas, and will be followed by a party at The Howling Owl in Vaughan Place, with many filmmakers in attendance.

Dress Code: Independent Style

Screens with: Are You Really The Universe?

Mon Oct 24, 6:30 PM

Director: Tamara Hardman

Australia

12 minutes

Unclassified 15+

Alfie is a hopeless romantic. Despite nearing 30, he remains gloriously naïve, a youthful bright spark of a human being. When he meets Effie in a real-life meet cute, he believes they are destined for forever. That’s the way it happens in the movies, right? But Effie, the daughter of the kind of parents who never hold hands, is much more realistic. In a series of nostalgia-soaked memories of their blossoming relationship, we see the world through Alfie’s eyes. Falling in love, moving in together, becoming the kind of comfortable partners that people yearn for. When the cracks start to show, is it reality seeping in? Can we trust what we are seeing? Can Alfie trust his own memories? This is an intimate, visceral exploration of love, relationships and the way we cling to the past in order to ignore our present.

Screens with: Blind Body

Mon Oct 24, 6:30 PM

Director: Allison Chhorn

Australia

15 minutes

Unclassified 15+

Partially blind, grandmother Kim Nay depends on touch and sound to navigate her daily routine of eating, resting and listening to Khmer news. Time moves fluidly as Kim's sense of self slowly begins to dilate, conjuring long-dormant memories.

Screens with: Bunker: The Last Fleet

Mon Oct 24, 6:30 PM

Director: Rowan Pullen, Stephen Potter

2022

Australia

14 minutes

Unclassified 15+

"The year is 2057. For six years the extraterrestrial invaders have occupied our world. The harvest of humankind has begun. When they arrived, everything was lost. The people, the land, the system gone".

Screens with: Downpour

Mon Oct 24, 6:30 PM

Director: Henry Reimer-Meaney, Tom Chalmers

Australia

12 minutes

Unclassified 15+

A flip-book of modern young love, Lou and Cleo weave through the complex feelings present in any meaningful relationship. Their story is a downpour of everything, all at once.

Screens with: Finding Sergeant

Mon Oct 24, 6:30 PM

Director: Luke Wissell

2022

Australia

11 minutes

Unclassified 15+

An immigrant aged care worker’s compassion for a troubled veteran becomes the key to re-connecting with her teenage son.

Screens with: It Happened in Copley Street

Mon Oct 24, 6:30 PM

Director: Guy Nelson

Australia

5 minutes

Unclassified 15+

A tough man discovers an artistic life through poetry. This is the true story about former working class man now author, poet and orator, Geoff Goodfellow.

Screens with: Last Elephant On Earth

Mon Oct 24, 6:30 PM

Director: Johanis Lyons-Reid

14 minutes

Unclassified 15+

When an earth-destroying meteor appears in the sky, 15-year-old amateur biologist Elle and her best friend Jen wait for the adults to finally act. But when Elle confronts her recently widowed father, Richard, he refuses to acknowledge her fears, or the meteor hurtling towards earth. Instead, he sends Elle to see Dr Humboldt, a sinister child psychiatrist who convinces Richard that Elle is actually a critically endangered Sumatran elephant. Convinced he’s doing right by his daughter, Richard locks Elle in a cage in the backyard. As the meteor rushes towards Earth, Elle desperately tries to convince her father to see the truth, but he refuses to listen, even as rose bushes spontaneously combust and dead birds fall from the sky. With the end seemingly days, or even hours, away, Elle simply wants to see Jen one last time. But will Richard finally see reason, or will Elle spend her last days on Earth in a cage?

Screens with: On Film

Mon Oct 24, 6:30 PM

Director: Emma Hough Hobbs

6 minutes

Unclassified 15+

Animated digitally, On Film explores the technology behind shooting on film, how to tell when a film is shot on film and why there’s an enduring passion and appreciation for the format.

Screens with: Are You Really The Universe?

Screens with: Blind Body

Screens with: Bunker: The Last Fleet

Screens with: Downpour

Screens with: Finding Sergeant

Screens with: It Happened in Copley Street

Screens with: Last Elephant On Earth

Screens with: On Film

CWA: Judgement Day

Sweet As

My Old School

Hidden Letters

Fledglings

The Blue Caftan

Close

The Last Daughter

The Banshees of Inisherin

Triangle of Sadness

Broker

Watandar, My Countryman

The Plains

Meet Me In The Bathroom

Monolith

Ribspreader

Talk to Me + Filmmaker Q&A

Bones And All

TÁR

AFF Talks: In Conversation with Rolf de Heer and Julie Byrne

AFF Talks: The Horror, The Horror

AFF Talks: Up, Up and Away

The Angels: Kickin’ Down The Door Opening Night Gala

Hello Dankness

Cosmic Atomic

Ferns

Film Concept Lab

Heavy Red

The Bad Realms

Balaclava

Possum

The Hunter

Salt of the Earth

Reunion

Reptile

Look the Part

101 Days of Lockdown

We Are An Image From The Future

The Secret of Mt Trolla

Dream on Leon

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)

Freedom Swimmer

Right Here

Valentine

Warsha

We Never Asked for This

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

Cuties

Donkey

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

Talk to Me

Carmen

The Giants

Dr Bob Brown: 2021 Bettison & James Award recipient