Short film programmes

Small but perfectly formed.

Are You Kidding?

Prepare to abandon your expectations, for what begins as light-hearted and mischievous descends into darker, more absurd stories to twist and turn your perceptions of reality.

Discovering Home

Whether trying to settle into a new country, seek familiarity while abroad or find escape from their houses, these shorts examine how our sense of home shapes our identities.

Mapped Out Futures

From war-torn homelands and displaced identities to livelihoods society has forced on them, these shorts examine how people push beyond the futures that the world has already mapped out.

Pulling the Rug Out

From heart-racing horror that will make you wince, to eerie stories that get under your skin, these short films are sure to leave you unsettled.

Roots and Branches

The many facets of family and community come together in these shorts, examining the people we turn to when the traditional family isn’t there, and the power community can bring.

Show Me Who I Am

Stories from girlhood to womanhood that battle the world’s expectations and preconceptions. These shorts explore tales of self-discovery, humour, heartache and pain, encapsulating femininity in all its forms.

Experimenta shorts

Anatomy of Place, Sites of Becoming

Films in this programme consider how spaces hold the weight of what came before and the traces of what may emerge, moving through landscapes where memory, body and terrain shifts and transforms against time.

Back and Forth Across the Line

This programme of films interrogates a myriad of borders. Some are physical, geo-politically determined, others are socially inscribed. Many more are difficult to define. All are porous, even when it seems they’re not.

Cadences of Refusal

Activated by political urgency and defiance, these five works envision a collective reimagining and remaking of the world. Each crafts a counter-grammar to traditional non-fiction cinema – grounded in poetry, fragmentation, inquiry and the voice.

In the Clouds Flecks of Memories Pass By

These films embody memories: some personal, others inherited or found. At times they’re mesmerising, yet fissures can appear in the depicted recollections. Subjectivity comes into focus. Established narratives are destabilised.

Shadows of the Living

Here, human and more‑than‑human lives intermingle in peculiar ways. Each film uncovers untamed stories where power, survival and transformation twist into unanticipated forms.