WTF Shorts

Films for freakmaxxers, fetishists and other fans of flickering filth.

¡PIKA!
Alex Fischman Cárdenas, 2025, Peru, 17 mins.
Driven wild by an inexplicable itch, a desperate man seeks relief in a city’s seedy underbelly.

A Shot at Art
Ilke Paddenburg, 2025, Netherlands, 17 mins.
Rogue retired female art festival volunteers take aim at a provocative phallic artwork – and the patriarchy it pretends to critique.

Everything You Own
Raghav Rampal, 2026, Australia, 16 mins.
A couple locked out of the housing market roam the neighbourhood for a place to mark their territory. From there, things only get more disgusting.

Fingerbang
Kim Yeonwoo, 2026, South Korea, 15 mins.
A lonely woman’s torrid affair with a severed finger turns toxic in a macabre gothic tale that warns not to lose yourself to digital love.

Man Eating Pussy
Emily Lawson, 2026, Canada, 12 mins.
In this utterly original vignette, a dying man visits a unique sex worker who can give him the release he craves.

Praying Mantis
Joe Hsieh, 2025, Taiwan, Hong Kong, 18 mins.
Splattered in copious animated sex and gore, this body-horror tale follows a vicious predator who’s part woman, part deadly insect … and all mum.

Content: Melbourne International Film Festival