SUFF - Aussie Shorts CTC

SUFF’s annual celebration of local and homegrown shorts! HOMEBAKED offers an eclectic range of engrossing tales from Australia’s most promising cinematic visionaries. From tales of the extraordinary: mythical mermaids, and interdimensional travel, to tales of revolution and crime capers gone wrong rendered with deft realism and compassion, this collection of shorts demonstrates that the future of Australian film is as bright and wild as ever. 101 DAYS OF LOCKDOWN Dir. Jelena Sinik & Nicolette Axiak | 2022 | 02:10 | AUS | WORLD PREMIERE 101 Days of Lockdown explores the mundane domesticity of aloneness of the 2021 Australian pandemic. BATTLE OF GAMAN Dir. Auryn Rotten | 2021 | 06:35 | AUS In the Battle of Gaman, you carry your demons on your back. BLEED AUSTRALIAN Dir. Kii Belling | 2022 | 10:26 | AUS Vigilante couple Matt and Tahlia get much more than they bargained for when they stop in for a simple drink at a secret Nazi watering hole. COME WITH ME Dir. Trevor Clarence | 20222 | 03:25 | AUS A bored couple is trying to decide what to have for dinner when a portal to another dimension opens up in their living room. HATCHBACK Dir. Riley Sugars | 2021 | 12:00 | AUS Vince (Stephen Curry - The Castle) attempts to dispose of a dead body for the mob, but when he reluctantly enlists the help of his dim-witted brother-in-law Ted (Jackson Tozer - Rostered On), things don’t go to plan. JUNGLE Dir. Kieran Wheeler | 2021 | 15:42 | AUS A drug addicted young couple steal drugs from a local dealer, but the plan soon unravels when the boy overdoses and the girl is left all alone in a hostile world with criminals closing in on her. PEBBLE Dir. Anastasia James| 2021 | 6:54 | AUS Posey gets side-tracked on a customer service call and begins to overshare. PINK REEF Dir. Chloe de Brito | 2021 | 10:20 | AUS A mermaid struggles with identity in an alienating suburban world without running water. REVOLT Dir. David Burrowes | 2021 | 10:05 | AUS When a disgruntled climate activist bumps into the CEO of a massive oil conglomerate in her local coffee shop she recognises that this is her big shot to finally DO something about the end of the world. SHALLOW BREATH Dir. Robbie Studsor | 2021 | 05:03 | AUS A drowning survivor must confront the dangerous fixation she has on the near fatal accident, and the woman who saved her. SISYPHUS Dir. Edward King | 2021 | 07:47 | AUS In a mechanised world of rigorous order and repetition, one worker attempts to break free from this cycle, unknowingly setting in motion a new sequence of inescapable certainty. THE DEBUTANTE BALL Dir. Cameron Davies | 2022 | 07:48 | AUS Mandy, a young woman struggling with a dissociative streak, makes her way across her city in the final hours before an unnamed existential threat ends all life on earth. THE SECRET OF MT TROLLA Dir. Tristan Barr | 2022 | 06:10 | AUS/KOREA A pilot crashes in remote mountains, and before his badly injured co-pilot dies he hands a camera with a haunting message in Korean, “The judgement day is coming..” VISION OF THE VAMPYRE Dir. James Caley | 2022 | 06:10 | AUS/GER When Vivien takes on a modelling job on a fashion shoot a dark secret within her is already seeking her next victim.