LA BELLE FOLIE

A desperate actress attempts to write, direct and star in her own French period drama, as part of an elaborate attempt to prove to her agent that she is a suitable candidate for a French-language film audition. The results are disastrous.

Nominated:
Acting Award - Anna Koval

POLES APART

In a harsh Arctic landscape, a hungry and solitary polar bear has to decide if a naïve Canadian grizzly bear is her food or her friend.

Nominated for:
Animation Award - Paloma Baeza
Sound Design Award - Morgan Muse

THE LAST PORTRAIT

Based on my own experience, working in a Japanese company that specialises in producing photographs of the deceased. The film captures the contemporary Japanese funeral ritual with a narrative element of having an evocative moment of recalling her own childhood memory.

Nominated for:
Animation Award - Hina Fujimoto

FUNEMPLOYED

A masochistic teenage girl is saved from a life of scrounging and skiving after she develops an obsessive crush on David Cameron. Totally irreverent in tone, Funemployed exploits whimsical pop-video imagery to playfully present a dreamworld of jobseeking far removed from the grey reality of being young, broke and directionless.

Nominated for:
Production Design Award - Sophie Ansell

BLACKBIRD

Ever jumped through hoops for what you thought was the perfect job? BLACKBIRD - A Playfully Absurd take on The Post-Grad Employment Crisis: Temping

Nominated for:
Acting Award - Daniela Pasquini

GOOD GIRLS

Bonnie, Pinkman’s finest student and head girl takes us on a tour of her school as she tries to round up the school captains in time for the school photo.

Nominated for:
Production Design Award - Caitlin Allen

RAMONA AND THE CHAIR

Ramona takes all her therapist’s advice as the word of God. But instead of enlightenment, she finds herself in a trinity of confusion with an empty chair.

Nominated for:
Composing Award - Marina Elderton

MORDECHAI

Daniel, an ultra orthodox Jew, hasn’t seen his identical twin brother Mordechai in years; Mordechai’s ‘life choices’ were a bit too much for the family to handle. But today is the day of their father’s funeral… Mordechai is a funny and touching fable about family, faith and the roles we play.

Nominated for:
Producing Award - Maria Caruana Galizia