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
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Physics of Noseriding
Screens with: Birth of The endless Summer
The physics of noseriding
The science of surfing’s fluid dance.
The noseride is one of surfing’s peak moments; part fluid dynamics, part magic.
The Buckleys: Take It As It Comes
Screens with: Patou: In Black and White
A young Australian band’s journey as they record their new EP in Nashville, TN.
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.
Not To Be
Screens with: My Old School
An eccentric Shakespearean actor decides that this performance will be his final curtain call.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
Ishmael
Screens with: Savage Waters
A blending of Herman Melville's Moby Dick with a personal story of a battle with terminal illness.
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.
Consensual
Screens with: The Road to Patagonia
Guru Déë Pród offers an incredible opportunity to come take a ride in his magical van.
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…
Positive!
Screens with: See Mandy Run
One family’s story about being positive... 32 days in isolation with covid.
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.
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?
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.
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.
THE ROCK POOL WALTZ
Screens with: Waterman
During COVID lockdown, a boy’s affinity with nature eases his loneliness and leads to an incredible friendship.
Momento
Screens with: Waterman
Momento is a short surf film inspired by reflection, womanhood and Mother Nature.
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.