Accelerator Shorts 1
Short films by emerging filmmakers from Australia participating in the MIFF Accelerator Lab 2021. See the work of tomorrow’s hottest directors today.
Accelerator Shorts 2
Short films by emerging filmmakers from Australia participating in the MIFF Accelerator Lab 2021. See the work of tomorrow’s hottest directors today.
Accelerator Shorts: MIFF 68½
Animation Shorts
Aurora
An unplanned pregnancy unites two very different Costa Rican women in unique ways.
Australian Shorts
Beautiful They
A chance meeting paves the way for a deeper connection.
Bodies in Motion
Bonanza!
Commissioned by Chunky Move, this playfully experimental work traverses ritual, body modification and algorithms.
Call History
Claudie seeks advice from an old flame as a new love is born from the embers.
Geeta
This true story of an acid attack survivor’s fight to alter her daughter’s destiny is an inspiring and heartwarming call-to-action.
Girls | Museum
A guided tour through art history as seen through the female gaze – and a savvy, subversive rejoinder to centuries of representation from the eyes of the male beholder.
Hot Mother
Attempting to quell some tension, a mother and daughter head to the hot springs… but more heat isn’t what they need.
I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face
Cannes’ 2020 Short Film Palme d’Or winner depicts the lengths a young man goes to in a bid to see his girlfriend one last time.
International Shorts 2
Reptile
You always have to watch out for those early warning signs.
Slap
An intimidating encounter with a group of teens forces a 12-year-old to ponder her place in the world.
Step Into the River
This DOK Leipzig Silver Dove for Short Documentary and Animated Film winner grapples with China’s one-child policy through a story about two friends.
Sunburn
Zoe Terakes and Brenna Harding star as best friends mutually overcoming a tragedy.
Yellow Girl and Me
On the cusp of turning 10, a Jamaican girl is about to learn how not to drown.
You and Me, Before and After
Yael Stone and Emily Barclay star as frenemy sisters in this sibling dramedy by Madeleine Gottlieb.