Jul11REV22: TRUTH, LIES AND ALL BESIDES 75 mins

Screening Mon 11 Jul - Sat 16 Jul at:

TRUTH, LIES AND ALL BESIDES

A selection of short dramatic films that explore the complexities of the human condition, the choices we face, the decisions we make, and the shifting changes that mark all of our lives. Poignant, moving, evocative, and human, these films reveal the storytelling power of the short film to affect the audience.
 
Burros
Jefferson Stein 
USA/14min/2021
Set in southern Arizona, twenty miles from the Mexico border on the Tohono O’odham Nation, a six-year-old Indigenous girl discovers a Hispanic migrant her age who has lost her father while travelling through the Tohono O’odham tribal lands into the United States. 

Reptile 
Jordan Giusti 
Australia/6min/2020
Schoolboys eat lunch and hang out like any other day until a violent game begins to elicit more primal behaviour.
 
Jellybean
Jaimie Conlon 
Australia/15min/2021
After two years away, Cally returns to her sleepy hometown for an abortion, accompanied by her ex-boyfriend. Over the course of one night at a paddock party, the two awkwardly navigate their tumultuous feelings surrounding her pregnancy, and Cally attempts to reconnect with an estranged once-best friend.

Jungle 
Kieran Wheeler 
Australia/15min/2021
A young woman awakens to find herself in the midst of a living nightmare.

The Bridge 
Rodrigue Hammal
Canada/25min/2021
Two strangers meet on a bridge in an unprecedented situation. Events go completely different from their expectations.