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BIFF’s program of short films celebrates the unique craft of short-form filmmaking — a platform for emerging filmmakers that delicately balances the nuanced skill of storytelling and visual language, with imagination the only limitation. QAGOMA is thrilled to present its inaugural BIFF Short Film Awards in 2019, including the Screen Queensland Short Film Award for Queensland-made shorts, with the goal of discovering and supporting the next generation of Queensland’s creative talent.

Desperate Pleasures

In a heated exchange over the merits of their home town, a dissatisfied cocaine-dealing real estate agent and a lonely office worker have their own biases exposed.

Marion

On her 35th birthday, a lonely webcam girl decides to go on a date with her teenage neighbour.

Hard-ish Bodies

A plus-size male stripper knocks on the wrong door and is thrust into the criminal underworld. His only chance to save the club and himself is to do what he does best . . . dance!

POV

A man wakes to find a live feed of his own kitchen on his TV as a sinister mystery unfurls.

Wild Will

When the neighbourhood dog catcher William Page is found wandering the streets disorientated, he is brought back to the local police station for assistance. However, the situation soon disintegrates.

Roughnut

The friendship of two teenage boys growing up in Australian suburbia is strained after a brutal incident of bullying.

A Jar of Nuts

After his beloved mother chokes to death on a pistachio, a lonely 40-year-old’s intricate plan to take his own life is repeatedly thwarted in this dark comedy.

Ages 18+