We just love short films. We especially love high concept short films that push the form and audiences to new and unexpected places. This collection represents some of the best Australian and international films you’ll see and signpost the creative strength of those working in the field.

Fracture
Robin Kalus
Australia/2025/17 mins

When a man faking a leg injury meets a woman pretending to be pregnant, they strike an unusual connection based on shared dysfunction and a reluctance to face their past.

The Suit
Jesse Vogelaar
Australia/2025/11:58

A couple engaged in a bizarre legal proceeding confront the source of their problem.

August 32nd
Yunbin AN
South Korea/2025/15:00

Sejin, a boy on the verge of adolescence, is taken by his mother to spend the summer at his grandmother’s secluded mountain home. In the languid stillness of the countryside, time seems to stretch without end—until a girl named Heemin suddenly steps into his world.

At first an unwelcome disruption, her presence soon softens the edges of his solitary days, turning the ordinary into something quietly luminous. Yet just as Sejin begins to hope the summer might last forever, time itself unravels: the season resets, and his days begin to repeat, as if caught in an endless loop between memory and desire.

Produced through the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) 2025 Fantastic Film School SF AI Workshop

Huí Jiā
Alex Nesic
Australia/2025/6:13mins

On a day heavy with hidden meaning, Lian, a 70-year-old Chinese restaurant owner, quietly works in the shop she has tended for three decades. As the day unfolds, Lian finds herself drawn back to a letter she once sent to her father in her homeland—a letter in which she struggled to articulate her fractured memories of home and her father’s fading presence. Now, surrounded by her restaurant’s worn walls and the crumbling facades of her life’s work, Lian closes the shop and is left to reconcile the weight of what has been lost and what remains.

Lilith Goes Galactic
Dr Joshua Belinfante
Spain/2025/9mins

Lilith is a multi-disciplinary artist based on La Palma in the Canary Islands. Her artworks showcase a meeting between femininity, abstraction and quantum physics. Descended from Surrealist painters, poets and sculptors she was trained in the art of controlling light, the three-dimensionality of the canvas and through her own scientific investigations, the potential for passing through galactic dimensions. In 2021 an 85 day volcanic eruption from Cumbre Vieja caused 843 million Euros damage to the island, and engulfed and destroyed her family’s art history. Characterised by a rebellious spirit of invention and chaos she dreams of the potential for her art to become a form of time travel. She wonders out loud if she could go back in time to rescue her legacy. Her guide on her intergalactic travels is her cat, Minino, who becomes her vessel for both the viewer and herself to live out a time travel fantasy.

Animus
James Murray
Australia/2026/24:31mins

In a dystopian near-future where animal species are on the brink of extinction, a violent sociopath is interviewed by an institutional psychologist after confessing to a brutal attack. In search of a motive, the psychologist realises he must sink his teeth into the one thing that his subject finds meaningful: an obsessive fascination with animal nature and evolution.

Repose
Ant McPhail
Australia/2025/9.25mins
A grieving widower, Ben, talks to his 3-year-old daughter, Bella, before heading to the funeral home. There, he meets his late wife’s parents, Alessandra and Tony, as well as a funeral arranger, Sara, to discuss his wife’s final wishes.

Although his wife, Rosa, did not leave a Will and her parents want a traditional funeral, Ben explains that Rosa wanted to be cremated and her ashes transformed into a diamond—for Bella as a keepsake of her loving mother and unborn sibling.

Rosa’s parents were unaware of the unborn baby until Ben revealed an ultrasound. Despite their shock, Ben is resolute in fulfilling Rosa’s last request.

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