International Shorts

THURSDAY 29 APRIL | 8:30PM
ACMI CINEMA 2

Total runtime: 82 minutes

Screening location: ACMI Cinema 2, Federation Square, Melbourne | Plan your visit to ACMI **Please enter through the Fed Square entrance

ALONG THE WINISK RIVER

Janna Kyllästinen / USA / 2020 / English / 10 / Documentary / Aus Prem 

A remote Indigenous community embarks on a caribou hunt in the freezing subarctic winter. Witness their struggle for survival in the age of climate change — where traditional practices have been made both dangerous and difficult.

Mawhialeo Ote Alowha (Our Love)

Valeriya Golovina / New Zealand / 2020 / Tokelauan, English / 16 / Documentary / Aus Prem

Meli and her husband Avito reflect on the pivotal decision of their lives. With much trepidation they left the tiny atoll of Tokelau for New Zealand seeking a better life for their son. 43 years on, they find themselves pulled between family and a longing for home.

EXCESS WILL SAVE US

Morgane Dziurla-Petit / Sweden / 2019 / French / 14 / Documentary / Aus Prem

In a small village north of France, the beginning of the dove hunting season and an argument between drunk Polish workers sets off an alarm around the country. An absurd unravelling that asks us to examine our own paranoias.

A CONCERTO IS A CONVERSATION

Kris Bowers, Ben Proudfoot  / USA / 2021 / 13 / Documentary / Aus Prem

In this 2021 Oscar-nominated short, a virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family's lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

THE SHIFT

Laura Carreira / United Kingdom, Portugal / 2020 / English / 9 / Narrative / Aus Prem 

Anna, an agency worker, takes her dog for a morning walk before doing her shopping. As she heads towards the checkout, her agency calls—she has lost her shift. The film reveals the ever-close distance separating employment and poverty, security and tumult.

A Horse Has More Blood Than A Human

Abolfazl Talooni / Iran, United Kingdom / 2020 / Azerbaijani, Persian / 20 / Documentary / Aus Prem

This understated documentary focuses on an Azeri couple’s home village, whose only means of survival is by risking everything to smuggle Afghan refugees across the Turkish border.