On The 8th Day
It took 7 days to create the world, it only took one to disrupt its balance.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Director: Agathe Sénéchal, Alicia Massez, Elise Debruyne, Flavie Carin, Théo Duhautois
Writer: Agathe Sénéchal, Alicia Massez, Elise Debruyne, Flavie Carin, Théo Duhautois
Producer: Carlos De Carvalho
Runtime: 8min
Year: 2023
Country: France
Clodagh
A lonely priest’s housekeeper encounters a young Irish girl of exceptional promise.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Director: Portia A. Buckley
Writer: Michael Lindley Producer: Serena Armitage, Michael Lindley
Runtime: 17min
Year: 2023
Country: Ireland
Stella
Stella is out for a special date with her husband Stanley, whose health and mind are failing. She yearns for connection, capturing brief moments of lucidity before he slips away, again. One final dance recalls memories of their first, and Stella accepts that their life together is ending.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Director: Alison Titulaer Writer: Alison Titulaer
Producer: Emma Mortimer
Runtime: 14min
Year: 2023
Country: New Zealand
The Masterpiece
Leo and Diana, a rich couple, bring a broken TV to a recycle point. They meet Salif and his son, two scrap dealers. Diana asks them to come to their house to get more objects. Once there, Leo looks at them collecting objects with mistrust, until they see the scrap dealers have something they want.
WORLD PREMIERE
Director: Àlex Lora
Writer: Lluis Quilez, Alfonso Amador
Producer: Sandra Trave, Lluis Quilez
Runtime: 20min
Year: 2023
Country: Spain
A Day In The Life Of A Female Frame
While a large painting of a naked woman is being transported from the studio to the exhibition, she seems to fall victim to a harsh and masculine outside world.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Director: Ilke Paddenburg
Writer: Ilke Paddenburg
Producer: Rachel van Bommel, Ivo Siebum, Hanna van Vliet, Hannah van Helden, Hannah Schwarz
Runtime: 7min
Year: 2023
Country: Netherlands
My Name is Edgar and I Have a Cow
Edgar’s ordinary life is disrupted by a newborn calf he sees on a tourist trip to a slaughterhouse.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Director: Filip Diviak
Producer: Bara Prikaska, Zuzana Mistrikova
Runtime: 8min
Year: 2023
Country: Czech Republic
My Week With Maisy
Mrs Foster, a retired, middle-class Daily Mail reader, whose cup is half empty, is starting chemotherapy and is understandably anxious. The last thing she needs is to have to share the treatment room with a ‘know-it-all child’ who wants to grow up to be a lesbian. But through their unexpected friendship, Maisy gives Mrs Foster much more than just a glimmer of hope.
WORLD PREMIERE
Director: Mika Simmons
Writer: Mark Oxtoby
Producer: Georgina French
Runtime: 18min
Year: 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Last Days Of Summer
A recurring mysterious sound from mountains in the Himalaya is heard only by two curious young shepherds. Unable to convince the villagers of the scary nature of such sound, they journey into the unknown to unravel the mystery.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Director: Stenzin Tankong
Writer: Stenzin Tankong, Jigmet Wangchuk
Producer: Flore Cavigneaux, Jérôme Blesson, Stenzin Tankong, Urgain Phuntsog
Runtime: 14min
Year: 2023
Country: India
The Film Might Be White
A final feedback meeting is being held before the release of an art school’s new commercial. Everyone is happy, but then a thought arises as to whether the commercial can be perceived as too white. The meeting suddenly escalates into a debate about how it happened, if it can be solved, and above all – whose fault it is.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Director: Sebastian Johansson Micci
Writer: Sebastian Johansson Micci, Manne Indahl
Producer: Manne Indahl, Sebastian Johansson Micci
Runtime: 14min
Year: 2023
Country: Sweden
