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Coconut
Ravi Chand, 2025, Australia, 12 mins.
A young Fijian-Indian Australian rapper and his grandma bond over a time-honoured cultural tradition: swearing up a storm.
Fertile Ground
Geraldine Hakewill, 2026, Australia, 12 mins.
Acclaimed stage and screen actor Geraldine Hakewill stars in her directorial debut, a near-future drama about a pregnant woman facing an impossible choice in a world gone to ruin.
Flesh Fruit
Madison Hislop-Stoessel, 2025, Australia, 11 mins.
A dark, claustrophobic and unsettling slice of social satire and body horror, in which a struggling farmer looks to a sickly stranger to turn his fortunes around.
G.O.A.T
Kimberley Benjamin, 2026, Australia, 11 mins.
Hilarious small-town hijinks ensue as a young queer Aboriginal woman falls head over heels for an apparently indifferent new colleague.
Lion Rock
Prisca Bouchet, Nick Mayow, 2025, New Zealand, 16 mins.
While driving along an eerie ocean road, a teenage boy and his mother hit something with their car. She insists it was nothing, but he begins to doubt her story.
Raft Race
Chloe Kemp, 2026, Australia, 9 mins.
An unsettling encounter with older men has a life-changing effect on a young girl on a camping trip.
Sound That Summons
Petra Leslie, 2026, Argentina, Australia, 12 mins.
In this dreamy, meditative slice of sensory immersion, a young sound recordist captures the world around him on returning to his hometown.
Too Few to Mention
Jeff Zechen Hu, 2025, Australia, 12 mins.
Before disappearing from her life, an undocumented father shares a final moment with the daughter for whom he’s sacrificed everything.
Content: Melbourne International Film Festival
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