2025

Australian Shorts

Celebrating local emerging filmmakers, our Australian Shorts strand highlights innovative and passionate local storytelling.

Runtime

89 Minutes

Country

Australia

Classification

Unclassified 15+

The pain and confusion of isolation, the complexities of adult friendship and the quiet horrors of growing up all simmer to the surface in these Australian short films, all of which offer their own fresh take on life on this vast continent.

Film Credits

Country

Australia

Type

Short

Genre

Short

Screens With

Faceless

An Indigenous man navigates three parallel realities; at once a rough-sleeper, an aspiring actor and the employee of a mining corporation. Can he find a place within Australian society or is he bound to remain an outsider in his own land?

Director

William Jaka

Fraser Pemberton

Country

Australia

Runtime

28 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 18+

Fear of Songs

In 2002, a young Palestinian asylum seeker is released from Australian detention — but the footage capturing this pivotal moment vanishes, never archived. Fear of Songs is an experimental short film that attempts to reconstruct what was lost, blurring memory, media, and imagination. Through absence, it questions who gets to be seen, and what is remembered.

Director

Hannah Moore

Country

Australia

Runtime

10 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

Mates

When Blake “Prick” Daniels turns up at the door of an Enmore terrace with a food delivery, he comes face-to-face with his former mate Roy. What follows is a long night of banter and old wounds resurfacing, as the pair navigate resentment, abandonment, and the uneasy question of what it really means to be mates.

Director

Rory Pearson

Country

Australia

Runtime

14 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

Some Kind of Blue

After moving into her late mother’s home by the beach, a musician is confronted by another kind of loss as mysterious mementos and phantom noises blur reality and memory.

Director

Rae Choi

Country

Australia

Runtime

16 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

The Body

Jane is cast as a dead body on a crime TV show. As she goes through the motions on set, the role begins to seep into her private life.

Director

Louris van de Geer

Country

Australia

Runtime

12 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

The Shirt Off Your Back

A dark fairytale about two brothers re-living a strange encounter with a man on Christmas Day, their memories shifting until the truth becomes something unknowable—something that quietly, irrevocably changes them.

Director

David Robinson-Smith

Country

Australia

Runtime

9 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

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