AGES 18+
SHORT FILM SESSION
WTF! Presents a package of confounding curiosities for the cinematically adventurous at heart. These films all venture into subject matter disturbing, delirious and deranged. Featuring films from Masters of the absurd Lathimos and Maddin, and some of independent cinemas’ brightest rising stars, this collection of shorts is so mind-meltingly weird, you’ll be left asking…WTF!
NIMIC
Dir. Yorgos Lathimos | 12 mins | Germany/UK/ USA | Drama | 2019 A professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.
STUMP THE GUESSER
Dir. Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson | 19 mins | Canada | Drama | AUS Premiere | 2019 He works at the fairground as “Stump the Guesser”, who can guess anything for a fee. But suddenly his tricks stop working. And then he unwittingly falls in love with his sister whom he believed to be lost. He sets out to scientifically disprove the theory of heredity and marry his beloved as soon as possible.
BREEZE
Dir. Elvis Xia | 7 mins | Australia | Animation | World Premiere | 2020 Two astronauts stumble across an unpredictable alien drug dealer and risk everything to save earth from crisis.
COIL
Dir. Spencer Ryerson | 12 mins | Canada | Horror | World Premiere | 2020 A young woman struggles to fight her anxiety, and the malevolent creature inside her, while she prepares to go out to a party.
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