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AUS / 2007 / 3:30mins
director ARIEL KLEIMAN
World premiere

A man in a brown suit, with a brown briefcase, runs frantically up a series of wrought iron stairs.

AUS / 2007 / 14mins
director TOM JACKSON
NSW premiere

In the town of Hobart, Tasmania, people are partying to the music and puppetry of Australia’s number one* mobile disc jockey, DJ Dazz.

AUS / 2007 / 4:30mins
director JACLYN HEWER
World premiere

Sickly Sweet tells the story of one woman’s obsession with perfection; that is...until the arrival of an unexpected gift.

UK / 2008 / 5:45mins
director HUGH GRIFFITHS
Australian premiere

Turd on a String tells the story of the archetypal modern man: depressed, lonely, and alienated; yet with a burning ambition to succeed. One morning he is presented with an unmissable opportunity.

UK / 2007 / 3:48 mins
director DAVID FIRTH
Australian festival premiere

This is a health reminder. May I remind you to pay attention? This will save your life and eliminate your worries. You have no choice but to realise this. You have no choice but to understand.

AUS / 2008 / 6:20mins
director GEOFF ABESHOUSE
World premiere

John is a simple office worker who has discovered that his stapler has disappeared.

IRELAND / 2007 / 3:55mins
director KEVIN O’NEILL
World premiere

The best story ever told about a man and his ball.

AUS / 2007 / 30secs
director CHRISTOPHER PIERAGS
World premiere

Animals can’t ask for help, so we have to do it for them.

AUS / 2008 / 6:30mins
director JOSHUA FISHER
World premiere

Meet Carl, an abandoned mattress whose life’s journey is to find a loving home. Thrown out as hard rubbish on the footpath, Carl reminisces about Jenny, the woman of his dreams.

AUS / 2007 / 7mins
director KYLE SPENCE
World premiere

How many milks does it take to get to the centre of it?

UK / 2007 / 2mins
director ANTHONY SUTCLIFFE
World premiere

A strange man decides his only way to salvation is to be found through a rather brutal haircut.

UK / 2007 / 2mins
director ANTHONY SUTCLIFFE
World premiere

A master scientist has finally finished his greatest achievement. And now, history beckons.

AUS / 2007 / 2mins
director MICHAEL BURRELL
World premiere

A comedy that mixes an age old profession with recent political issues.

AUS / 2007 / 13:25mins
director MICHAEL WANNENMACHER
Sydney premiere

Two on-the-run criminals spend the night in a lonesome Hotel Motel which brings them into contact with individuals even more desperate than they are.

USA / 2007 / 3:30mins
director SHAD CLARK
premiere

Reality ruptures commercial bubbles in this socially explosive short.

AUS / 2007 / 30secs
director CHRIS PIERAGS
World premiere

Things aren’t always what they seem, especially when you’re dealing with your health.

AUS / 2008 / 90 mins
director GEORGE GITTOES
special preview

George Gittoes’ eagerly anticipated new film, The Miscreants (follows Soundtrack to War, Rampage) will be given three special Preview Screenings at this year’s festival.

A mind blowing and entertaining mix of doco and drama, darkness and light, The MISCREANTS does some serious film rule bending and asks: what is real, what is unreal, what is too real?

Gittoes takes us on an extraordinary journey to a forbidden zone, gathering an astonishing cast of characters and dodging the anti-entertainment forces to make the ‘last tele movie’, an over the top action drama, played out in what must be one of the craziest locations in the world - just a cave or two away from where the most wanted man in the world reportedly runs ‘Terror Central’.