Short films from local and emerging Melbourne filmmakers and international films screening at Kindred Studios.

Dash - Comedy
Dir. William Qoro
Australia 3:27
Set from the perspective of a car dashcam, a woman is driving home from work when she's flagged down by a suspicious stranger, shortly before things go terribly wrong.

Olga's Eyes - Comedy
Dir. Sarah Carlot Jaber
Belgium 22:08
Olga, a music-loving octogenarian, is tired of killing humans. Could it be the vampire blues? For her daughter Simone, she’s just being picky! Olga is placed in a care home where she can deal with those “who have one foot in the grave”.

Through the Fog - Documentary
Dir. Mark Hellinger
Australia 5:01
A mother details her struggles with addiction. 

What Was - Drama, Medieval
Dir. Nathan Martin
Australia 14:48
A nihilistic warrior struggles with murdering an eccentric cultist he has sworn an oath to kill, as the two come to reflect on the bleak medieval world around them, knowing they are both certain to die in battle the next day.

Phaedra - Drama
Dir. Christopher Artis
Australia 15:20
Phaedra is a short period drama, loosely based on a true story, set in the 90s within the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne. Phaedra, a forty-five-year-old dentist, after an emotional breakdown, approaches Nectarios, a twenty-five-year-old service station worker, to help her end her life.

Last Chance - Drama
Dir. Zak Marrinan
Australia 11:04
A sports bar supervisor must navigate her way through a dreary graveyard shift with a variety of rough customers. 

Pyre - Experimental
Dir. Paul Burns, Louis Walter
Australia 4:01
Exploring helplessness, Pyre is an experimental short film that personifies death as a ghoul in a dress, drawing closer and closer until striking.  

Connected - Sci-Fi
Dir. Kelly Nicholson
Australia 18:48
Sarah’s sense of reality begins to shift when her digital assistant, Spirit, attempts to haunt and possess her.