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


Breakable
Oct
30

Breakable

Screens with: Gloiavale

An avid believer in a self-help community invites his recently bereaved friend to a healing weekend to help deal with grief, only to realise he might be the one who needs help.

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Prokop
Oct
30

Prokop

Screens with: Faithbreaker

Belgrade’s central train station, is alive architectural organism which drags traces from many epochs in which existed, however it was never completed. The station itself was never a train station only, and it was always absorbing consequences of human act.

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Beneath The Light
Oct
30

Beneath The Light

A surrealist figure explores a liminal space, a space of transition where one must embark on a journey of acceptance in order to move on from a reality that no longer exists.

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Swallow The Universe
Oct
30

Swallow The Universe

Screens with: Faithbreaker

Swallow The Universe is a Japanese Emaki manga (a hand-painted horizontal scroll) which tells the grandiloquent blood-and-thunder saga of a young child lost in Manchuria’s deep jungles. His sudden presence creates complete anarchy in the local fauna’s until-then perfectly organized and primitive world. Gifted with a striking beauty, the child’s presence awakens in the monkeys, tigers, anteaters and amphibians, envy and need of possession, originally human passions.

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Kitten
Oct
29

Kitten

Screens with: Patou: In Black and White

Kitten Smith is the biggest country singer you’ve never heard of. Existing in his own imagination, he struggles to connect with others and the realities of his semi-vagrant lifestyle. But that hasn’t stopped him from pursuing his big dreams of becoming the next Hank Williams - performing to an audience of none in shopping malls, parking lots, and karaoke booths. That is until his music finally lands with one woman, Rose, who sees him for exactly who he is.

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Not To Be
Oct
29

Not To Be

Screens with: My Old School

An eccentric Shakespearean actor decides that this performance will be his final curtain call.

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JASON FROM NIMBIN - HOUSING AFFORDABILITY
Oct
29

JASON FROM NIMBIN - HOUSING AFFORDABILITY

Screens with: Sweet Adventures

Jason from Nimbin tackles the housing crisis with his unique mind.

Join Jason as he takes a look at the impending doom of ‘gentrification’ on the local area of Nimbin NSW Australia, daring us to take action in creative and unique ways.

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Hatchback
Oct
29

Hatchback

Screens with: Sweet Adventures

Vince attempts to dispose of a dead body for the mob, but when he reluctantly enlists the help of his dim-witted brother-in-law Ted, things don’t go to plan.

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Abrupt Chaos
Oct
29

Abrupt Chaos

Screens with Sweet Adventure

In the aftermath of a murder, two desperate souls are stuck with the clean-up work. Unbeknownst to them, bad company is right around the corner.

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You Know How He Is
Oct
29

You Know How He Is

Screens with: Everybody Hates Johan

When 10 year old Otis is given the task of looking after his autistic younger brother, a game of tag with his friends becomes a test of his integrity.

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TWO KINDS OF WATER
Oct
29

TWO KINDS OF WATER

Screens with: The Power of Activism

‘Two Kinds of Water’, explores the lives of a family living in the Guet Ndar fishing community on Senegal’s north coast – a country whose name literally means ‘our boat’. The 5,500km coastline of West Africa, is home to some of the most diverse and dangerous fishing grounds in the world. It provides a livelihood to eight million people as skills are handed down from generation to generation, yet climate change, over-fishing and contested waters are producing new and deadly threats every day.

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We Are Our Totem: A Native American Tale
Oct
29

We Are Our Totem: A Native American Tale

Screens with: The Power of Activism

Around the globe, First Nation cultures respect and pay tribute to the guardians and protectors of their world, connecting with the animals as their totems. We adventure into the Native American culture with Bobby Runningfox, a Medicine Man, to share the beauty of animal spirits, destruction of the planet and why we, as humans, are not the hierarchy after all. Indigenous wisdom might save us all…

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CHRYSALIS
Oct
29

CHRYSALIS

Screens with: The Power of Activism

Chrysalis is an expression through dance of a woman's inner journey during the Coronavirus Pandemic. It's a story of transformation and a connecting back to self and nature.

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Capitalista
Oct
28

Capitalista

Screens with: Manscaping

Power. It is everywhere. It shapes our experience of the world and the way we learn to love within it. 'Capitalista' presents a brief yet potent essay on the manner in which power moves menacingly through society, and the responsibility of young men to make it right.

This segment originally featured in the feature documentary 'I'm Not Gay' (2021) - also available on Film Freeway - which explores power and masculinity in modern day Australia through the eyes of a gay man.

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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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Ishmael
Oct
27

Ishmael

Screens with: Savage Waters

A blending of Herman Melville's Moby Dick with a personal story of a battle with terminal illness.

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Silence
Oct
27

Silence

Screens with: Savage Waters

Adryen is an amateur apneist. Far from clichés about this discipline, he tells us about his sensations and takes us into deep immersion, in search of his first 60 meters.

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Design Story: Lune De Sang
Oct
26

Design Story: Lune De Sang

Screens with: Unseen Skies

Relics in the landscape, three complementary projects offer themselves as deceptively simple concrete and stone carcasses; like ancient structures that have been rediscovered and made exquisitely habitable, but which may at some stage be reclaimed by the forest…

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JASON FROM NIMBIN - HOUSING AFFORDABILITY
Oct
25

JASON FROM NIMBIN - HOUSING AFFORDABILITY

Screens with: See Mandy Run

Jason from Nimbin tackles the housing crisis with his unique mind.

Join Jason as he takes a look at the impending doom of ‘gentrification’ on the local area of Nimbin NSW Australia, daring us to take action in creative and unique ways.

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The Last Tree
Oct
24

The Last Tree

Screens with: See Mandy Run

An average Joe who reflects on Easter's ecological fate wakes up, and everything suddenly stops working. Is it Murphy's law, or is "The Overshoot Day" haunting him?

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Where is my Darling?
Oct
24

Where is my Darling?

Screens with: See Mandy Run

"Where is My Darling?" follows Lanz Priestley, a charismatic homeless man who owns nothing but a phone and a Facebook page. When Lanz discovers that taps have run dry in the drought-stricken outback, he raises the money to deliver drinking water himself.

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Heaven Is On My Side
Oct
23

Heaven Is On My Side

Screens with: Waterman

A short film on gratitude and big-wave surfing featuring João “Massas” de Macedo, “Heaven is on my Side” is simultaneously a documentary and a meditation on environmental consciousness through Macedo's experience at the world’s biggest wave in Nazaré, Portugal.

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7LBS 8OZ
Oct
23

7LBS 8OZ

Screens with: My Old School

When a young mother moves into 8th street, Jersey City, NJ, she learns about the value of the community and how her own perception determines her own experiences.

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