Pre-Show Shorts

We have prepared a tantalising menu of bite-sized stories from around the world to help set the mood for your feature film feast. These bold, brilliant stories are the perfect entrée, bound to get your palate tingling. Bon appétit!

Glory Hole - Screens with Flush 
Dir. Andoni Fernandez • Spain • 15 mins 
Language: Spanish (with English subtitles) 
Borja finds a glory hole in the bathroom of a nightclub and eventually decides to try it. When he realizes that he cannot pull his penis out of the hole, Borja has to face his fate in the most unusual of places. 

Instagram Auto Surgery – Screens with Lenore
Dir. Ian Haig • Australia • 2 mins
The idealised, cosmetically augmented bodies and selfies of Instagram are depicted in all their visceral surgical reality.  

Parasomnia – Screens with Dead Eyes
Dir. Charlton Lansley • Australia • 7 mins 
Language: English  
Through POV storytelling, Parasomnia follows a data analyst in the 90s whose solitary lifestyle has been derailed by sleep paralysis and constant nightmares. As the nightmares escalate it becomes clear that something is watching – and it's getting closer.  

Road at the End of the World – Screens with Squids 
Dir. Tom Lawrence-Doyle • Australia • 10 mins 
Language: English 
A manic driver rockets across the Eyre Highway, the longest stretch of road in the Southern Hemisphere, battling fatigue, the heat and strange streamers flying across the road. 

The Way of the Wind – Screens with Cruel Hands
Dir. Nicholas Burt • Australia • 8 mins
Language: English  
Set in the early 20th century, we follow The Ragged Man as he runs across the vast and abandoned Australian Outback. His past catches up to him as he has to come to terms with his violent connection to a deadly sniper.