Official Selection 2025
Comedy
Through oddball encounters, digital delusions, and awkward romances, this year's Comedy programme revels in the art of getting it gloriously, hilariously wrong. Whether it's angry telemarketers, unsolicited choirs, or having to reclaim your identity from a viral Vegas doppelgänger, these films find humour in the strange ways humans combine, clash, and try to make sense of each other.
Saturday 20th September, 4.25pm
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YEAH THE BOYS
Dir: Stefan Hunt
An observation of Australian masculine identity and drinking culture, this choreographic film scored by The Avalanches invites us to join six young Aussie men sinking beers over an afternoon and well into the night. Emoting only through movement, they somehow say everything without uttering a single word.
CALLER NUMBER NINE
Dir: Sandy Honig
A telemarketer with a severe anger problem accidentally calls into a radio show. He wins a radio contest and enters a standoff with the unhinged host, played by Patti Harrison.
BELAY ON
Dir: Johnny Frohman
Travis and Allie are an insecure couple whose awkward public displays of affection and petty feelings of jealousy come at the expense of those around them.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANIEL
Dir: Bonnie MacRae
What happens when we attach feelings, memories - and faces - to inanimate objects? A novelty birthday present given between a young couple haunts them both post break-up.
HI FROM A MAYFLY
Dir: Myles Wheeler
A mayfly meet cute; when a woman befriends a wide-eyed insect and introduces him to the world, their fleeting bond becomes a bittersweet ode to joy, wonder, and saying goodbye.
TEA
Dir: Blake Rice
While rehearsing asking out the girl of his dreams, a lonely and highly allergic Circuit-Shack employee gets stung in the throat by a hornet. Starring Michael Gandolfini and Olivia Nikkanen.
SORRY I'M LATE (BUT I BROUGHT A CHOIR)
Dir: Håkon Anton
Nina isn't exactly thrilled when Stian shows up late to her housewarming party - with an entire choir he picked up on the tram. Boisterous, drunk, and silly, the motley troupe in the stairwell quickly tests the hostess's patience.
HELLO BEAUTIFUL PLEASE FOLLOW BACK
Dir: Amandine Thomas
Her grandmother's relationship with an online romance scammer leads to a filmmaker's exploration into the ways in which we strive to connect through the internet.
COREYS
Dir: Dan Streit
Corey’s identity is hijacked by a viral party-animal doppelgänger in Vegas. He tries to take it back, but the lines between them blur faster than he expects.
Official Selection 2025
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