Australian Shorts

On at the same time

Faceless
Faceless
English | First Nations | Drama | William Jaka, Fraser Pemberton | Indigenous | Short | Chris C.F., Theo McMahon | Dogmilk Films | William Jaka, Stephen Hutchison, Lucille Bone, Aaron James Campbell | William Jaka, Fraser Pemberton, Chris C.F. | Alex Walton | Chris C.F. | Josh Peters
Sat 25 Oct 4:30 PM
The Mercury
28 Mins mins
An Indigenous man navigates three parallel realities; at once a rough-sleeper, an aspiring actor and the employee of a mining corporation. Can he find a place within Australian society or is he bound...
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Fear of Songs
Fear of Songs
Human Rights | Hannah Moore | English, Arabic | Experimental | Short | Hannah Moore
Sat 25 Oct 4:30 PM
The Mercury
10 Mins mins
In 2002, a young Palestinian asylum seeker is released from Australian detention — but the footage capturing this pivotal moment vanishes, never archived. Fear of Songs is an experimental short film...
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Birthright
Birthright
English | Madman Entertainment | Family | Zoe Pepper | Australian | Black Comedy | Cody Greenwood | Michael Hurst, Linda Cropper, Maria Angelico, Travis Jeffrey | Zoe Pepper | Michael McDermott ACS | Luca Cappelli | James Peter Brown | Fiction | Australia | World Premiere | Drama | Dead Dog | Short | Shorts | Kieran Altmann | Short | Kieran Altmann, Katie Schiller | Kieran Altmann | Geneviève Lemon, Kieran Altmann | Kieran Altmann | Michael Tessari | Babs Laco
Sat 25 Oct 6:00 PM
The Piccadilly: Cinema 1
102 Mins mins
Evicted and jobless, Cory and his pregnant wife move back in with his boomer parents. What begins as uneasy dependence spirals into paranoia, as both generations confront their failures and fears....
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If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
English | Psychological | Drama | Women | Mary Bronstein | Black Comedy | Sara Murphy, Ryan Zacarias, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Eli Bush, Conor Hannon, Richie Doyle | Vvs Films | Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien, Danielle Macdonald, A$ap Rocky, Ivy Wolk | Mary Bronstein | Christopher Messina | Lucian Johnston
Sat 25 Oct 6:00 PM
The Regal Theatre
113 Mins mins
Rose Byrne is astonishing as a working mother hanging on by the barest thread in this darkly comic dramedy. Therapist Linda’s 10-year-old daughter has some mysterious illness, is being fed by tube...
$0.00 to $25.00
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Australian Shorts

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Sat 25 Oct 4:30 PM

The Mercury
General Admission
Unclassified 15+
89 Mins
October
Sat 25 Oct
4:30 PM

The pain and confusion of isolation, the complexities of adult friendship and the quiet horrors of growing up all simmer to the surface in these Australian short films, all of which offer their own fresh take on life on this vast continent.

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Mates
Mates
English | Drama | Rory Pearson | Australian | Comedy | Short | Marcus A.T | Rory Pearson | Marcus A.T, Roy Molloy | Marcus A.T, Rory Pearson | Leo Townsend | Marcus A.T, Rory Pearson | Declan O’Doherty
Sat 25 Oct 4:30 PM
The Mercury
14 Mins mins
When Blake “Prick” Daniels turns up at the door of an Enmore terrace with a food delivery, he comes face-to-face with his former mate Roy. What follows is a long night of banter and old wounds...
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The Body
The Body
English | Women | Louris van de Geer | Crime | Short | Louris van de Geer, Laura Wheelwright, Ruby Jones, Daniel Hartley-Allen | Louris van de Geer | Laura Wheelwright, Trudy Hellier, Liam Seymour, Susie Dee, Lee Beckhurst, Leone White | Louris van de Geer
Sat 25 Oct 4:30 PM
The Mercury
12 Mins mins
Jane is cast as a dead body on a crime TV show. As she goes through the motions on set, the role begins to seep into her private life.
$0.00 to $25.00
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Fear of Songs
Fear of Songs
Human Rights | Hannah Moore | English, Arabic | Experimental | Short | Hannah Moore
Sat 25 Oct 4:30 PM
The Mercury
10 Mins mins
In 2002, a young Palestinian asylum seeker is released from Australian detention — but the footage capturing this pivotal moment vanishes, never archived. Fear of Songs is an experimental short film...
$0.00 to $25.00
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Faceless
Faceless
English | First Nations | Drama | William Jaka, Fraser Pemberton | Indigenous | Short | Chris C.F., Theo McMahon | Dogmilk Films | William Jaka, Stephen Hutchison, Lucille Bone, Aaron James Campbell | William Jaka, Fraser Pemberton, Chris C.F. | Alex Walton | Chris C.F. | Josh Peters
Sat 25 Oct 4:30 PM
The Mercury
28 Mins mins
An Indigenous man navigates three parallel realities; at once a rough-sleeper, an aspiring actor and the employee of a mining corporation. Can he find a place within Australian society or is he bound...
$0.00 to $25.00
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Some Kind of Blue
Some Kind of Blue
Rae Choi | English, Cantonese | Disability | Health & Mindfulness | Music | Short | Eleanor Somerville, Sheree Ramage, Rae Choi | Rae Choi | Rainbow Chan, Stefan Singh, Jason Klarwein, Cate Feldmann, Polly Ma | Rae Choi | Lee Muller | Joshua Tate | Rainbow Chan
Sat 25 Oct 4:30 PM
The Mercury
16 Mins mins
After moving into her late mother’s home by the beach, a musician is confronted by another kind of loss as mysterious mementos and phantom noises blur reality and memory.
$0.00 to $25.00
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The Shirt Off Your Back
The Shirt Off Your Back
English | Umbrella Entertainment | Coming of Age | David Robinson-Smith | Crime | Experimental | Short | Julia Corcoran, Ari Harrison | Eden Wendt, Blye Hawk | David Robinson-Smith | Jaclyn Paterson | Phoebe Taylor | Wade Keighran, Joel Byrne
Sat 25 Oct 4:30 PM
The Mercury
9 Mins mins
A dark fairytale about two brothers re-living a strange encounter with a man on Christmas Day, their memories shifting until the truth becomes something unknowable—something that quietly, irrevocably...
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October
Sat 25 Oct
4:30 PM

The Mercury

13 Morphett St Adelaide, South Australia, 5000