Short Films: Life Beats

Life Beats includes the BIFF | Screen Queensland Short Film Award nominee Speech of Foxes 2019 as well as Australian shorts Grevillea 2019, Djuwaḻpada 2019, Sunburn 2020, Lost Boy 2019 and We’re Not Here 2019 with the international film N’diajnemo 2020.

Join us after the screening for a 20-minute pre-recorded conversation with our local and international short filmmakers.

QAGOMA is thrilled to again present the BIFF Short Film Awards in 2020 with the goal of discovering and supporting the next generation of creative talent.

SPEECH OF FOXES
10 MINUTES, AUSTRALIA, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR/SCRIPT: COREY DONALDSON / CAST: WILLIAM TODD, RON KELLY, TARA PAGE

GREVILLEA
13 MINUTES, AUSTRALIA, ENGLISH AND HEBREW WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES / DIRECTOR/SCRIPT: JORDAN GIUSTI / CAST: LUCAS PITTAWAY, REUVI KRAMER

DJUWAḺPADA
14 MINUTES, AUSTRALIA, ENGLISH, DJUWAḺPADA, ROPER KRIOL, WÄGILAK, RITHARRŊU, FRENCH AND HEBREW WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES / DIRECTORS: DANIEL WILFRED, NICOLA BELL / SCRIPT: DANIEL WILFRED / CAST: DANIEL WILFRED

SUNBURN
12 MINUTES, AUSTRALIA, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR: JASLYN MAIRS / SCRIPT: CLAUDIA BAILEY / CAST: BRENNA HARDING, ZOE TERAKES

LOST BOY
12 MINUTES, AUSTRALIA, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR/SCRIPT: PETER SKINNER / CAST: MICHAEL SHEASBY, ALEXANDRA NELL, BEN OXENBOULD

WE’RE NOT HERE
11 MINUTES, AUSTRALIA, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR: BONNIE MOIR / SCRIPT: ADAM SPELLICY, BENJAMIN RIGBY / CAST: BENJAMIN RIGBY, PEKKA STRANG

N’DIAJNEMO
13 MINUTES, MALI, USA, FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES / DIRECTOR/SCRIPT: HABIB YAZDI / CAST: DAVID JOËL KONATÉ, CHEICK NOMOKO, NAFISSATOU TRAORÉ, ALHASSANE LY