Ready for a walk on the darker side of life? This selection leans more on the twisted end of the scale and we’ll definitely be keeping a list of names of those who attend to pass on to the authorities but until they come knocking, feel free to revel in these cool pieces of work. They’re mostly from Australia too!

Appetite of a Nobody
Amanda Kaye
Australia, 2025, 15:36
Gerald is a raw meat eating socially inept guy who wants nothing more than to make friends but when he follows the steps of an 80's self help video things take a bloodcurdling turn.

Dilemma
Nick Kozakis
Australia, 2026, 5:40
A mysterious Stranger offers a grief-stricken father a supernatural bargain: resurrect his murdered daughter by killing her killer. But when the Stranger’s deal transports him into the past and presents the killer as a sleeping child, the moral dilemma takes an absurd turn. As the father’s shockingly pragmatic solution upends the Stranger’s plans, a cycle of vengeance is set in motion that spins out of control, the story slyly poking fun at the very idea of “impossible choices,” blending dark suspense with a devilish sense of humour.

Rotting Hill
Anastasia Sidorova
Australia, 2025, 15:00
Girl meets boy, and chases the fantasy romance she’s always dreamed of… despite the zombie apocalypse. Sera is finding it hard to make friends as an adult. Let alone, meet the person of her dreams. Everyone is busy spending their days ‘staying alive’ and ‘fighting zombies’, and it’s impossible to meet new people.Until she meets the mysterious Hari, and unbelievably, Sera may have found what she’s really been fighting for the whole time.

ShoeBox
James Haddad, Ruby Rawlings
Australia, 2026, 21:27
Amid a housing crisis, two friends facing homelessness resort to sabotage at a rental inspection, forcing them to confront the price of survival.

Pleasure-seeking
Michaela Holmes
Australia, 2025, 14:20
Suffering a pervasive sense of loneliness, Sasha spends her days chasing a constant stream of dopamine—until a bizarre physical malady and a persistent neighbour unearth her unravelling mental state.

Dual
Nitasha Bhambree, Declan Mulvey
USA, 2025, 19:59
When an expecting couple retreats to their cabin in the woods during a global crisis, they discover the real threat to their security is more familiar than foreign.