DNFF: AUSSIE SHORTS SHOWCASE 2025
AUSSIE SHORTS SHOWCASE
Ten of the best new Australian short films from young, emerging, and established filmmakers. Be part of this exciting gala experience, meet and support the local talent, and vote for the Best Aussie Short Film Audience Award at the end of the session. Winner announced at Closing Night Awards Presentation.
STRANGERS AT SUNDOWN
(Dir: Victoria Wharfe McIntyre/8m) A lonely frontiers woman in the colonial bushland makes an unlikely connection with a world-weary traveller.
THE EARTH, THE WORM
(Dir: Reswin Bahas/14m) A biology teacher’s dark secret unfolds as he takes extreme measures to spare a bullied student from the pains of growing up. NSW Premiere.
HUMAN RESOURCES
(Dir: Joel Stephen Fleming/12m) A struggling musician’s first real job becomes a corporate nightmare, where employees are forced to feign happiness or end up as prey to their evil boss. World Premiere.
DON’T IGNORE ME
(Dir: Charli Fletcher/8m) A mobile phone app seemingly begins to stalk and terrorise its followers. Australian Premiere.
MAXX_D
(Dir: Andrea May Ann Tan/15m) A young man grapples with his relationship to the virtual world, and how much he is willing to give of himself, literally, to partake in it. Australian Premiere.
WOMBO
(Dir: Angus Lowe/8m) Molly and Dave argue their way through a night out camping when a deranged bushman alerts them to the dangers of a carnivorous marsupial.
THE TRIAL
(Dir: Kirsty McKenzie/15m) Haunted by an abusive past, a young woman fights to be part of a new drug trial to help her deal with her past and deliver the closure she longs for.
AN ARTIST’S CURSE
(Dir: Steven J. Mihaljevich/10m) Art and traumatic memory collide when a girl becomes a mother and struggles with her delusions and the shocking truth of her daughter. NSW Premiere.
GUARDIAN ANGEL
(Dir: Charles Olsen/9m) A young doctor gets in over her head moonlighting as the backyard bullet-wound surgeon for a crime gang.
IN A PLACE LIKE THIS
(Dir: Shannon Glover/19m) A day in the life of Horace, an outback isolationist, who holds within him a dark and violent secret.
Rating
Unclassified 15+
Duration
120 min
Language
English
Director
Various
