Queer Shorts

Celebrating the best in LGBTQIA+ short filmmaking.

Runtime

88 Minutes

Classification

Unclassified 18+

Screening with Queer shorts:
Sugar (Simon Croker)
Delay (Wang Han-Xuan)
The Wind in Ash (Sun Kun)

Baby Talk (Lizzie Cater)
The Night Moses Died (Lilah Benetti)
Stallion and a Crystal Ball (Christian Avilés)

Film Credits

Program Strand

Shorts

Screens With

Sugar

Sugar

Oscar, a young sex worker, spends the night with an older client who introduces him to GHB and promises care, until the night takes a dangerous turn.

Director

Simon Croker

Country

Australia

Runtime

13 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 18+

Delay

Delay

A Chinese father hopes to accompany his children to his son’s wedding in Paris, but their trip becomes unpredictably delayed.

Director

Wang Han-Xuan

Country

China

Runtime

15 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

The Wind in Ash

The Wind in Ash

A tomboy returns to her hometown for a funeral, sparking a journey of self-discovery and a shift in her perception of her mother.

Director

Sun Kun

Country

China

Runtime

18 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

Baby Talk

Baby Talk

As her wedding to the father of her unborn child looms, Leo steals a precious day with best friend Amy to find a wedding dress on the final leg of a road trip home.

Director

Lizzie Cater

Country

Australia

Runtime

12 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

The Night Moses Died

The Night Moses Died

Weighed down by others' ideas of who they should be, nineteen-year-old Moses carries more responsibility than most while searching for space to become themselves. An unlikely kinship with retired showgirl Carmel opens the door to another life, where sequins and stories illuminate a nuanced coming-of-identity story celebrating selfhood and survival.

Director

Lilah Benetti

Country

Australia

Runtime

14 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

Stallion and a Crystal Ball

Stallion and a Crystal Ball

In the silent darkness of his room, a secluded teenager sick with a burning desire casts a spell. As surreal visions warm his reality, a bubble threatens to burst.

Director

Christian Avilés

Country

Spain

Runtime

19 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

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