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Truth, Lies and All Besides
July 16, 2022 4:45 pm
Shorts Showcases / 2022 / 75 min
A selection of short dramatic films that explore the complexities of the human condition, the choices we face, the decisions we make, and the shifting changes that mark all of our lives. Poignant, moving, evocative, and human, these films reveal the storytelling power of the short film to affect the audience.
FILM TITLES
Shorts / 2021 / USA / 14min / Directed by Jefferson Stein
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Set in southern Arizona, twenty miles from the Mexico border on the Tohono O’odham Nation, a six-year-old Indigenous girl discovers a Hispanic migrant her age who has lost her father while traveling through the Tohono O’odham tribal lands into the United States.
Shorts / 2020 / Australia / 6min / Directed by David Baeumler
Schoolboys eat lunch and hang out like any other day, until a violent game begins to elicit more primal behaviour.
Shorts / 2021 / Australia / 15min / Directed by Jaimie Conlon
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
After two years away, Cally returns to her sleepy hometown for an abortion, accompanied by her ex-boyfriend. Over the course of one night at a paddock-party, the two awkwardly navigate their tumultuous feelings surrounding her pregnancy, and Cally attempts to reconnect with an estranged once-best-friend.
Shorts / 2021 / Australia / 15min / Directed by Kieran Wheeler
A young woman awakens to find herself in the midst of a living nightmare.
Shorts / 2021 / Canada / 25min / Directed by Rodrigue Hammal
AUSTRALIAN/WORLD PREMIERE
Two strangers who meet on a bridge in an unprecedented situation. Events go completely different from their expectations.
Date: 16 July 2022
Time: 4:45pm
Location: Luna Cinemas, Leederville