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After the curtain fell on our biggest and best festival to date in 2019, our attention quickly turned to planning an even wilder SUFF 2020 and looking forward to bringing the Sydney film community together for the 14th edition of the festival.

However, 2020 had other plans. Too much uncertainty meant that we had to either postpone or find an alternative solution and so we decided to take advantage of the opportunities an online festival could bring. Now, we are bringing SUFF to you! Yes, it’s not the same as sitting in a dark theatre (and a lot of you know we pride ourselves on creating fun, cinema experiences at SUFF), but we hope that you can enjoy a crazy collection of shorts from the comfort and safety of your own home!

For the 2020 online festival we will be bringing you all our classic short films programs OZPLOIT!, REALITY BITES, WTF!, LOVE/SICK AND LSD FACTORY plus added extra-special new ones: SH!T SCARED and LATE NIGHT CARTOONS. You can also enjoy the madness that the Take48 challenge brings in 3 minute bursts and savour an eclectic program of Ukrainian shorts.

OZPLOIT! will bring you 12 of the best films from emerging Australian filmmakers – think dystopian sci-fi, mind-bending horror, and innovative animations. Short documentaries abound in two REALITY BITES sessions – docs for diehard film fans, films that explore gender and sexuality plus enjoy bizarre docs detailing clandestine monkey purchases and the race between Russia and the US to see who could dig the deepest hole! Our WTF! package is a standout and possibly our strangest ever collection. Headlined by a couple of big names, Yorgos Lathimos and Guy Maddin, this session will leave your jaws on the floor.

LOVE/SICK is always a favourite – a collection of films that are salacious, titillating and outright perverse. See just how much fun one man can have with a vacuum. Warning! Not for the faint of heart. LSD FACTORY will present a suite of works that challenge our perceptions of reality. This year’s festival will also see the inclusion of two new packages, LATE NIGHT CARTOONS, which will present a package of the year’s weirdest independent animations, for adults, best watched very late at night. SUFF will also present SH*T SCARED, a package containing the year’s most terrifying and atmospheric horror shorts.