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

The Chieftain Of The Pudding Race
Screens with: Sweet Adventure
Amid diverse travelers and affluent locals, Sunny struggles to find solace within his hometown and amongst his friends.

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.

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.

The Chieftain Of The Pudding Race
Screens with: Noise of Engines
Amid diverse travelers and affluent locals, Sunny struggles to find solace within his hometown and amongst his friends.

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.

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.

A Night in the Cósmico (Una noche en el cósmico)
Screens with other Short Films
A struggling law student wrestles against his destiny: failure. He has to study for an exam, and since he can't concentrate, goes to the Cósmico bar with the idea of having a coffee and focusing.

BROTHER TROLL (TRØLLABEIGGI)
Screens in BBFF International Short Session
Once upon a time in the Faroe Islands, two lone brothers struggle to save their fragile relationship after the sudden loss of their older brother.

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.