Adelaide Film Festival
Australian Shorts
2026

Australian Shorts

Film Credits

Country

Australia

Type

Shorts

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Faceless

Faceless

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 to remain an outsider in his own land?

Director

William Jaka

Fraser Pemberton

Country

Australia

Runtime

28 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 18+

Fear of Songs

Fear of Songs

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 that attempts to reconstruct what was lost, blurring memory, media, and imagination. Through absence, it questions who gets to be seen, and what is remembered.

Director

Hannah Moore

Country

Australia

Runtime

10 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

Mates

Mates

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 resurfacing, as the pair navigate resentment, abandonment, and the uneasy question of what it really means to be mates.

Director

Rory Pearson

Country

Australia

Runtime

14 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

Some Kind of Blue

Some Kind of Blue

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.

Director

Rae Choi

Country

Australia

Runtime

16 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

The Body

The Body

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.

Director

Louris van de Geer

Country

Australia

Runtime

12 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

The Shirt Off Your Back

The Shirt Off Your Back

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 changes them.

Director

David Robinson-Smith

Country

Australia

Runtime

9 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

Flesh Fruit

Flesh Fruit

After a ruinous flood, a struggling farmer and his mother find hope in a mysterious stranger who washes up on their farm.

Director

Madison Hislop-Stoessel

Country

Australia

Runtime

11 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 18+

BUFF

BUFF

Lost in a toxic gym bro regime, Tee spirals into an obsession with building the ultimate Adonis body.

Country

Australia

Runtime

8 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 18+

The Squatters and the Fairy Princess

The Squatters and the Fairy Princess

On her 10th birthday, a self-identified Fairy Princess recounts her previous birthdays that have all taken place in a house amongst eccentric squatters.

Director

Jake James Whitford

Country

Australia

Runtime

7 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 18+

On Wild Horse Plains

On Wild Horse Plains

A man travelling across the central plains of Australia is bound to four mysterious bags in the tray of his ute - soon he must confront what they contain.

Director

Kyle Davis

Country

Australia

Runtime

13 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 18+

Third Space

Third Space

A charming record of the end of summer and start of winter inside a North Perth Town Hall.

Director

Baeley Amalfi

Country

Australia

Runtime

11 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 18+

Maŋutji

Maŋutji

Two young teens navigate their ever-growing draw toward one other, while maintaining cultural boundaries and kinship.

Director

Siena Mayutu Wurmarri Stubbs

Country

Australia

Runtime

10 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 18+

Flame

Flame

A performance artist stages a deeply personal work in an urgent effort to help someone close to them see the light.

Director

Katrina Channells

Country

Australia

Runtime

11 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 18+

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