Emerging voices and fresh perspectives from across Australia and New Zealand.
Arrival
Ahmed Osman, 2025, New Zealand, 14 mins.
After arriving in Aotearoa as refugees, a mother and daughter find their roles upended in the face of a new and unfamiliar world.
Daddy’s Little Meatball
Yael Grunseit, 2025, Australia, USA, 14 mins.
An angsty teenage girl tags along with her feminine-hygiene-product salesman dad on a business trip to New York, where their relationship gets put to the test.
Last Chance to Evacuate Earth
Andrew Dang, Jak Scanlon, 2026, Australia, 17 mins.
In this cosmic coming-of-age gem, a casual abduction takes a pair of estranged besties on a rural road trip – and towards a looming celestial event.
Socks
Todd Karehana, 2025, New Zealand, 15 mins.
A beautifully restrained tale of queer yearning, in which a young Māori boy develops an unlikely bond with a Mormon missionary in rural New Zealand.
Sublet
James Nolan, 2026, Australia, UK, 13 mins.
Tension escalates when a young Aussie woman is left alone in a London share house with an unsettling stranger.
The Native Police
Charles Perrurle Perkins, 2025, Australia, 11 mins.
In 1884, an officer working for the native police, in service of a white constable, is ambushed by a small band of Arrernte men.
Content: Melbourne International Film Festival
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