Australian Showcase – Official Opening

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MIAF 25 opens with our annual showcase of the best new Australian animation. Australian animators are a creative and inventive bunch. The films they produce vividly reflect their eclectic approach to making wildly entertaining animated shorts that blend the best of international ideas and technologies with a uniquely Australian voice, look and flavour. The big screen is where these films look and sound their best and celebrating Australian animation is MIAF’s most important mission. Many of the filmmakers will be present to introduce their film and the bar will be open in plenty of time so be part of getting MIAF 25 off to a flying start!

Trap
Dennis Tupicoff
Australia, 3’50, 2024
One fatal trap leads to another as a mouse takes control of a man’s television—and his life. A cartoon set in black, with no frame and no words. Just revenge.

The Devourer’s Den
Oliver Wilson
Australia, 2’58, 2024
A young dungeon robber thinks he’s found the jackpot, but realises he is mistaken as he faces down a fearsome creature.

Ladies Night
Lucy Bubalo, Shayla Nguyen
Australia, 3’30, 2024
Out clubbing one night Fiona helps her best friend, Viv, score a hot new babe to move on with (and shove it in her stupid ex’s face).

Lost And Found
Edzalyn Gaudinez
Australia, 4’27, 2024
A young Nino has to learn how to find his way through a strange new world, and accept what he has lost.

Felled
Joy Zou
Australia, 4’54, 2024
A tree spirit finds that her tree has been cut down and plots revenge against the evil perpetrator.

Chrysalis
Lachlan Plain
Australia, 7’20, 2024
A beguiling animated meditation on metamorphosis – the moon waxing and waning, cells dividing and grubs becoming butterflies.

Moment
Andrew Kimberley
Australia, 2’22, 2025
A meditative 3D-animated short set in a surreal, textured world, reflecting on harmony, and the beauty of fleeting moments.

Forest Brain_Brain Forest
Paul Fletcher
Australia, 5’11, 2025
A forest as a brain, my brain as a forest. A place where all good things can grow.

Magick
Georgiy Margvelashvili
Australia, 2’56, 2024
With the lighting of four candles and from between two giant horns atop a desert mountain, a surreal journey begins.

Insomnia
Ruyu Fan
Australia, 2’20, 2024
A girl who cannot sleep is taken to a dreamlike world and keeps falling into the endless vortex. But is this chaos where answers and solutions might be found?

Membrane Wulf
Indigo
Australia, 2’00, 2024
A short gothic journey that contemplates humans’ relationship to their sense of humanity through the lens of a canine community.

Point Of Return
Nicholas Kallincos
Australia, 1’22, 2024
Watching the movie of your own thoughts can lead you back to a point of return. A perfect nexus of poetry and animation.

Mr. Legs
Sean Zwan
Australia, 1’38, 2024
A story of friendship, vulnerability … and long legs.

The Cycle Of Life
Matt Bissett-Johnson
Australia, 3’27, 2024
A comedic documentary about the life cycle of animals in a world that could only be conjured from the imagination of Bissett-Johnson.

Good Chef Bad Chef
Nicola Lucisano
Australia, 2’30, 2025
The competition is heating up. It’s all or stuffing!

Bin Night
Luca Brisbane
Australia, 2′ 58, 2024
A boy takes the bins out on an especially dark and spooky night hoping for the best but preparing for the worst.

Plumpin
Ivan Dixon
Australia, 2’43, 2024
A plump, little bird lands in a quiet backyard and spreads love to all its various inhabitants.

Cellular Automata
Will Beattie
Australia, 5’50, 2024
In a world of automation, does human input really remain important?

Fool’s Gold
Alex Weight
Australia, 5’28, 2024
Two goblin thieves raid a temple for gold, awakening a monster guardian and triggering a treacherous and chaotic chase.

This session is classified: Unclassified (M) Mature, not recommended for viewers under 15 years.