SHORT FILMS

MOST FEATURE FILMS AT BBFF ARE PRECEDED BY SHORTS.

SHORT FILM AFICIONADOS WILL LOVE OUR INTERNATIONAL SHORTS AND OUR YOUNG AUSTRALIAN FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR SESSIONS

Filtering by: “Dramatic Short Films”

Right Here
Oct
28

Right Here

Screens with: Manscaping

After coming out as non-binary to their parents, Grace materialises at their future selves’ birthday party and realises everything they want to be is inside of them, right here.

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Break Bug
Oct
23

Break Bug

Screens with: Everybody Hates Johan

A humanoid finds a severed, big mechanical hand in the desert, during a period of time that robot junkyards have become roadside attractions.

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ABSENCE
Oct
22

ABSENCE

Screens with: Unseen Skies

A homeless man collapses violently on the ground, and remains frozen on all fours. The journalists' sudden interest in this man takes us into a grotesque and absurd media vortex.

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Giants
Oct
22

Giants

Screens with: Every Koala Counts

Intermittently filmed on the same farm over a period of 18 months, Giants plays out amongst the changing landscape during the worst drought in Australia’s history.

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Murder Tongue
Oct
22

Murder Tongue

Screens in BBFF International Short Session

In May 1992, a state sanctioned ‘operation’ has put the city of Karachi at constant unrest. Abdul Aziz Ansari wakes up at night and is informed by his daughter in law Naseema that his son hasn’t returned home. What follows is known today as the most brutal chapter of the city’s history.

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