SHORT FILMS BY AFTRS STUDENTS

(AUSTRALIAN FILM TELEVISION AND RADIO SCHOOL)

All God’s Creatures
Directed by: Brendon McDonall
Australia, 2013, 19 mins. 

Having just lost their father, brothers Asher and Charlie’s already fragile relationship undergoes a test of almost mythic proportions when one of them commits an act of mindless cruelty. 

Blanca
Directed by: Jamieson Pearce
Australia, 2014, 4 mins. 

On her way home, Blanca looks through a window and is swept up in a dance of lust and longing, of discovery and desire. When she is returned to the outside world, will she choose to retreat into the night, or reach out to the man inside?

Embrace
Directed by: George-Alexander Nagle
Australia, 2013, 16 mins. 

On the eve of his brain-damaged daughter’s 19th birthday. Daniel Shaw must find a way to reconnect with his family. 

Eric
Directed by: Andrew Lee
Australia, 2014, 15 mins. 

Tucked away in a motel, a ‘lad’ encounters a returning soldier coping with post-traumatic stress disorder. The brief encounter is a soft collision of two characters, both lost and trying to find themselves within each other. 

Driftwood Dustmites
Directed by: Malina Mackiewicz
Australia, 2014, 10 mins. 

Aishe sees her father kiss his new love for the first time since her mother’s death. Unable to sleep, she wakes up her younger sister for company. 

Heck
Directed by: Tanya Goldberg
Australia, 2011, 8 mins. 

In this black comedy, 75-year-olds Ray and Mary Horsborough decide to take fate into their own hands – but their double suicide pact doesn’t go according to plan.

Stuffed
Directed by: Warwick Young
Australia, 2013, 22 mins. 

Peter Murphy loves his mother, so when she dies, he can’t bear to live without her and does all that he can to keep her with him.

Festivals:
Cannes Antipodes – Cannes Film Festival / Marché du Film