GASFF: Australian Shorts

A 90-minute selection of short films from Greek Australian filmmakers. Click 'more' for more details on the titles.

Adult

Dir: Jamieson Pearce | Starring: Victoria Haralabidou, Madison McKoy

2016, 12min, Australia

After the death of her son, an elderly Greek woman discovers his involvement in the LA gay porn industry. She enters an adult store in search of redemption.

Allie

Dir: Jeremy Nicholas | Starring: Chantal Contouri, Nigel Tripodi

2016, 19min, Australia

Depressed, middle-aged and suffering from a skin disorder that keeps him confined to the house throughout the day, Allie’s only source of human interaction is his overbearing mother. To liberate himself from the voids in his life Allie will have to look outside.

Annex

Dir: Jim Stamatakos

2016, 5min, Australia, Greek with English subtitles

An old lady struggles with a heavy burden that must be released. She carries all the pain and suffering in the world in her shopping trolley in this tribute to experimental filmmaker Jim Stamatakos’s grandmother and his Greek heritage.

Boy Saviour

Dir: Arthur Angel | Starring: Arthur Angel, Greg Stone, Elle Mandalis, Jude Fotiou

2017, 8min, Australia, Greek with English subtitles

Michael is a small boy with the weight of the world on his shoulders, tasked with the heavy responsibility of translating his mother’s darkest thoughts during counselling.

Homebodies

Dir: Yianni Warnock | Starring: Sally Bourne, Shane Gardiner, James Frecheville

2015, 13min, Australia

Shannon cooks dinner whilst speaking to a perverted stranger online. Andrew takes a bath wrapped in seared Christmas lights. What could possibly shock these lost souls from their malaise? A short film about being alone together.

Lifting Clouds

Dir: Stella Dimadis | Starring: Linda Whitaker, Robyn Svojtka, Isabella Svojtka, Makani Alexandra Gladman

2017, 13min, Australia

Three generations of women struggle together while facing the ailing health of the family matriarch and confront her final journey into the unknown.

Please Resist Me

Dir: Luka Lesson

2012, 3min, Australia

Australian Poetry Slam Champion Luka Lesson brings his unique style of verse and hip-hop to the screen, raising awareness for marginalised members of the community, immigrants, the downtrodden and the cast-aside, and giving voice to those you pass on the street every day.

Pillar

Dir: Joshua Valageorgiou | Starring: Irene Sarrinikolaou, Eleni Elefterias, Chloe Corkran, John Stournaras, Nicholas Valageorgiou, Luca Carniato

2016, 15min, Australia, Greek with English subtitles

After being randomly selected from her co-workers for involuntary redundancy, a woman undergoes a reapplication process involving a coffee cup reader and a set of self-imposed tasks to quell her anxieties about being unemployed.

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