Thursday 16 June

Program 1 2.00pm – 2.45pm
	Session Highlight Film: Fuel Director: Nash Edgerton Country: Australia Genre: Drama Duration: 17 min Festivals: Sundance, Cinevegas, Edinburgh, Dead by Dawn
A young married couple enjoy a long drive, across lonely countryside, until their car runs out of petrol.
Film: Ming (Bright) Director: Sijun Zhou Country: Australia Genre: Animation	Duration: 4 min Festivals: Brisbane, 1st Chinese Animation FF
Bright Light. Bright Eye. Bright Mind. Bright World.
Film: Journey of Fire Director: Ken A Young Country: Australia Genre: Documentary	Duration: 15 min Festivals: Heinerfest (Germany)
In the space of one night, 12 year old Erwin Sauerwein lost his father, his home, friends, relatives, his sense of security, and most of all, his childhood innocence.
Film: Marco Solo Director: Adrian Bosich Country: Australia Genre: Comedy	Duration: 9 min Festivals: London, Winner Best Student Live Action at Palm Springs, Chicago, Tribeca, Cannes, Flickerfest
Poor 9 year old Marco still shares his parent’s bedroom. Using a vivid imagination, an obsession with Dame Edna, and warped Catholicism, he seeks his own space.

Friday 17 June

Program 2 2.00pm – 2.45pm
	Session Highlight Film: The Tooth Director: Nathan Stone Country: Australia Genre: Animation Duration: 5 mins Festivals: Winner Best Animation at Manhatten, Palm Springs, Uppsala, Flickerfest, Winner Best Animation at St Kilda FF, Winner Best Film at Homebrewed
A young alien named Xeno endures much pain to extract a troublesome tooth. This seemingly small act results in effects of an epic scale.
Film: History Director: Nick Fernandez and Nick McInerney Country: Australia Genre: Drama	Duration: 9 min Festivals: Palm Springs, Homebrewed, St Kilda FF
A man returns home from work to find a stranger waiting for him.
Film: Khatabah Director: Ridwan Hassim Country: Australia Genre: Drama	Duration: 8:30min Festivals: Montreal, Sydney, Women of Colour
A young woman named Yasmeena meets a matchmaker (Khatabah) to help her find her perfect match.
Film: Titsiana Booberini Director: Robert Luketic Country: Australia Genre: Comedy/Musical	Duration: 14 min
Retrospective: Robert went on to direct Legally Blonde, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton and most recently Monster-in-Law. Tania Lacy shines as the painfully shy Titsiana Booberini, a checkout chick with a painful crush on her hunky store manager. It's bad enough that poor Titsiana sees herself as being a little on the plain side. So what's a girl to do, except break out into song in the hope of winning over her man?
Film: The Twelve Months Director: Jonathan Nix Country: Australia Genre: Animation	Duration: 8 min Festivals: Flickerfest, San Diego Children's FF, St Kilda, Aspen, Fitzroy Shorts
An original adaptation of the traditional Russian fairy tale, The Twelve Months.

Program 3 8.30pm – 9.30pm This session is complimentary for people who attend the Panel Discussion at 7.30pm (Friday 17 June)
	Session Highlight Film: Moustache Director: Vicky Sugars Country: Australia Genre: Comedy Duration: 14 min Festivals: Venice, Adelaide, Leeds, Lesbian and Gay FF London, New York Gay and Lesbian FF, Fitzroy Shorts, Flickerfest, World of Women, Tirana
Something is missing from Betty’s married life, so mother-nature lends a hand.
Film: Little Terrorist Director: Ashvin Kumar Country: India/UK Genre: Drama	Duration: 15 min Festivals: Academy Award® nominated 'Live Action' short film, Tehran - winner grand prize, Flanders - winner best film, Winner Best Film at Manhatten, Audience Favourite at Sao Paulo, Telluride, London, Rotterdam, Bangkok, Palm Springs, Chicago, Berlin
Jamal, a ten-year old Muslim Pakistani mistakenly crosses the boarder between India and Pakistan.
Film: Pentuphouse Director: Cate Shortland Country: Australia Genre: Drama	Duration: 13 min
Retrospective: Cate Shortland went on to direct Somersault, one of the most successful Australian films ever. Della, a 45-year-old wannabe, couldabeen jazz singer and her lover Dale, a 23-year-old small time crim are in the final stages of their dysfunctional relationship.
Film: Blandville Director: Stuart Parkyn Country: Australia Genre: Documentary	Duration: 6 min Festivals: St Kilda, Bondi, Snowyfest
Blandville Court, a Sydney housing estate built in the 1960s, stands high on a hill in Gladesville, its austere and grey modernist lines suggesting little life or interest. Once inside the building however, passion, love, kindness, loneliness, humour, colour, eccentricity and zeal abound in the stories of its elderly residents. Their passions and beliefs build another structure, the structure that has supported them through their lives.
Film: The Great Oz Love Yarn Director: Jack Feldstein Country: Australia Genre: Animation	Duration: 5 min Festivals: Down Under International FF, Coogee, Mudgee, Wollongong
The greatest untold love story ever. The story of Wes and Francine. An Oz love yarn told in Neon Film.
Film: Gopher Broke Director: Jeff Fowler Country: USA Genre: Animation	Duration: 5 min Festivals: Academy Award nominated 'Animation' short film, Palm Beach, San Diego International Children's FF, Malibu, Brooklyn
A hungry gopher devises a scheme that he hopes will provide him with a tasty snack.

Saturday 18 June 2005

Program 4 1.30pm - 3.00pm
	Session Highlight Film: Alice Director: Garth Davis Country: Australia Genre: Drama Duration: 16 min Festivals: pre-selection Cannes, Sydney, POV Sydney
Alice is a story of a young couple who are expecting their first baby. We see Amanda’s anxiety and trepidation at the impending change in her life, and what it will mean to her. After tragedy strikes, we see the couple’s crushed hopes and grief at their loss, and how they eventually move towards an acceptance of what has happened in their lives, and of each other.
Film: Le Violoncelle Director: Adam Sebire Country: Australia Genre: Experimental/New Media	Duration: 4 min Festivals: Sydney, Jackson Hole (Wyoming, US), Archipelago (Rome), St Kilda, Recontres Internationals Du Cinema Des Antipodes (St Tropez), Paris, The London Australian Film Festival, Flickerfest, Thai Film Foundation, World Film Festival (Montreal), Art Gallery (NSW)
Beyond the frame of Man Ray’s most famous photograph we venture into the half-waking/half-dreaming world of the artist’s studio, where Kiki de Montparnasse comes to life amidst a melange of poetry, music, sensual and surreal shapes.
Film: Wasp Director: Andrea Arnold Country: UK Genre: Drama	Duration: 23 min Festivals: Winner Academy Award® Best 'Live Action' Short film, Best of the Festival Award at Palm Springs, Winner Golden Dragon at Cracow, Best Live Action Film at Worldwide Film Festival, Best Live Action Short Film at Cork, Special Jury Mention at Ireland, Special Jury Recognition at Aspen, Best Short Film at Stockholm
When single mum Zoe gets asked on a date she lies about having kids and leaves them outside the pub.
Film: Ray Director: Tony Mahony Country: Australia Genre: Drama	Duration: 9:30 min Festivals: Interfilm Berlin, St Kilda, Flickerfest, Australian Film Festival London, Darwin
A little kid stranded, growing up in a country town he hates. The locals reckon it’s a paradise, but as far as he can see, the only interesting stuff happens to a guy the whole town dismisses as a dimwit, Ray.
Film: In Too Deep Director: Rene Hernandez Country: Australia Genre: Comedy	Duration: 5:30 min Festivals: Commonwealth (UK), Aspen, Palm Springs, Canberra, Homebrewed
A fisherman with a conscience becomes a sales assistant’s major dilemma in this big fish story sure to hook you right through to the end credits.
Film: The Scree Director: Paul McDermott Country: Australia Genre: Fantasy/Horror	Duration: 15 min Festivals: Berlin, Flickerfest, Brisbane, Sydney, St Kilda
Five strange friends set out on an adventure in a tiny boat. They discover a mysterious island filled with bizarre vegetation and deadly creatures. One by one they meet a tragic end.
Film: Flowergirl Director: Cate Shortland Country: Australia Genre: Drama	Duration: 17 min
Retrospective: Cate Shortland went on to direct Somersault, one of the most successful Australian films ever. Daisuke, Hana and Tetsu are three young Japanese sharing an apartment at Bondi Beach in Sydney. After a year of carefree living, Daisuke has to return to Osaka to work in his father's butcher shop. He is secretly in love with his flatmate Hana. A lyrical vignette of final days and secret videos.

Program 5 3.15pm – 4.45pm
	Session Highlight Film: Mona Lisa Director: Sotiris Dounoukos Country: Australia Genre: Drama Duration: 14 min Festivals: Winner Best Student Production at Melbourne, Edinburgh, Montreal, Brisbane, Athens, Calgary, Hollywood, Washington, St Kilda, Bondi
Over a single night in their small suburban home, widow Helen (62), and her only child, George (34), play out a volatile family ritual. Helen is lonely and terrified of a life spent alone. George has to decide whether to go out for the evening or stay and keep his mother company again. But faced with the intensity of their shared life, and their unresolved emotional issues, nothing is that simple.  This is a love story.
Film: Herman: The Legal Labrador Director: David Blumenstein Country: Australia Genre: Animation	Duration: 21:30 min Festivals: Next Wave, Raindance, Cinequest
A murder. A frame-up. A vindictive prosecutor. A secret clan of evil. It’s a serious case, and only a pants-wearing dog can solve it. Herman the Legal Labrador may be Melbourne’s foremost canine defence attorney, but can he save his friend Danny Hoang from the slammer?
Film: Guard Dog Director: Bill Plympton Country: USA Genre: Animation	Duration: 5 min Festivals: Academy Award® nominated 'Animation Short Film', Brooklyn, Florida, International Dog FF, Fantasia, Trenton, Tribeca
Why do dogs bark at such innocent creatures as pigeons and squirrels? What are they afraid of? This film answers that eternal question.
Film: Splintered Director: Peter Templeman Country: Australia Genre: Drama	Duration: 8:30 min Festivals: Best Film at 2005 St Kilda Film Festival, Slamdance, Snowyfest
After leaving his best friend stranded at the scene of their crime, teenager Gavin struggles with the guilt of his actions and desperately tries to regain his mate’s trust. A film about the unspoken rules of friendship.
Film: Swinger Director: Gregor Jordan Country: Australia Genre: Comedy	Duration: 4:30 min Festivals: Special Jury Award at Cannes Film Festival, Best Film at Tropfest
Retrospective: Gregor Jordan’s short film swinger won the special jury award at Cannes Film Festival and and Best film at Tropfest. He then went on to direct Two Hands, Buffalo Soldiers and Ned Kelly. In an inner city loft a disillusioned young man contemplates his life. A suspenseful and intriguing tale about the tenuous link between life and death superbly realised by Gregor Jordan's (Two Hands, 1999) languid cinematography.
Film: Green Eyes Director: Diana Leach Country: Australia Genre: Fantasy/Drama	Duration: 11 min Festivals: Santa Barbara, St Kilda, Boulder
Green Eyes is a tragic story about a young boy who is jealous of his newborn sister. A dark and timeless tale shrouded in the language of myth and fairytale. Green Eyes is rich in visual metaphor and emotion.
Film: Lift Director: Marc Isaacs Country: UK Genre: Drama	Duration: 25 min Festivals: Special Jury Prize at Claremont-Ferrand, Glastonbury, Best Film Winner at 2004 Fitzroy Shorts, BAFTA nominee, Future Shorts
Filmmaker Marc Isaacs sets himself up in a London tower block lift. The residents come to trust him and reveal the things that matter to them; creating a humorous and moving portrait of a vertical multicultural community.

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