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Created from a desire to see the kind of contemporary queer representation he felt was missing from the screen, Jasper Caverly’s immersive short film Pleasure takes its audience deep into Australian Eshay subculture on a night of graffiti, blood and relentless banter. Brimming with tension, to the point where you can almost hear the air crackle between its characte...

Kaylee has just moved into a social media content house. Between the pressure of creating content to pay the rent and making new friends, adjusting to this new life isn’t easy, until she gets closer to one of her roommates, who might offer her the opportunity to go viral. In WassupKaylee, writer/director Pepi Ginsberg explores the daily lives of young social media ...

Cinema can be bold, brash and confrontational, but spectacle isn’t the only way filmmakers leave a lasting impression. As Amie Song demonstrates with her Cannes-selected short Three, quietness can be just as powerful. A deeply reflective film that places as much importance on silence as dialogue and on everything left unsaid, its most dramatic moment may arrive in ...

Named after a Malay word describing a violent and uncontrolled rampage, it should come as no surprise that Balázs Turai’s Annecy-winning short Amok is something of an assault on the senses. A brightly coloured animated film following a heavily scarred man as he battles his inner demons after a car crash involving an evil Santa Claus gnome, Turai’s 12-minute short tac...

Many of us know what it is like to be an anonymous individual living our lives in a city that doesn’t make space for us. We arrive in these sprawling urban ecosystems without warning and spend our days working, studying, and loving while attempting to piece together the narrative of our own lives in relative peace. But what happens when someone suddenly decides that’s not o...