Animation Shorts
2026

Animation Shorts

A celebration of the best in Animated short filmmaking from Australia and around the world

Runtime

68 Minutes

Classification

Unclassified 15+

Screening with Animation Shorts:
Our Choir Has Always Been Travelling (Judith Pungarta Inkamala, Marjorie 'Nunga' Williams, Nelson Armstrong)
Daughters of the Late Colonel (Elizabeth Hobbs)
What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor? (Nathan Robinson)
Venezia Diorama (Nicolas Piret)
Hugs (Nicolas Fong)
Trading Cards (Radheya Jang)

Film Credits

Type

Shorts

Program Strand

Shorts

Screens With

Autokar

Autokar

Eight-year-old Agata leaves her Polish homeland to take a bus to Belgium by herself. Along the way she tumbles into a fantastical world inhabited by strange half-human, half-animal passengers.

Director

Sylwia Szkiladz

Country

Belgium

Runtime

17 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

Our Choir Has Always Been Travelling

Our Choir Has Always Been Travelling

Central Australian choristers celebrate the international legacy, intergenerational impact, and joy of the Hermannsburg Choir and successive iterations.

Director

Judith Pungarta Inkamala

Marjorie 'Nunga' Williams & Nelson Armstrong

Country

Australia

Runtime

9 minutes

Rating

All Ages

Daughters of the Late Colonel

Daughters of the Late Colonel

After the death of their ill-tempered and controlling father, two middle aged sisters try to find the courage to begin their lives anew.

Director

Elizabeth Hobbs

Country

Germany

Runtime

9 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?

What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?

A Captain and his crew are sailing the high seas when their voyage is unexpectedly interrupted by the arrival of the authorities.

Director

Nathan Robinson

Country

Australia

Runtime

5 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

Venzia Diorama

Venzia Diorama

A blend of archival footage, animation, and contemporary observation reveal a crumbling city, suspended in time.

Director

Nicolas Piret

Country

Belgium

Runtime

7 minutes

Rating

All Ages

Hugs

Hugs

A cyclist witnesses two people in a tender embrace, and begins to view the world through a new lens.

Director

Nicolas Fong

Country

Belgium

Runtime

7 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

Trading Cards

Trading Cards

A man travels back in time to revisit the nostalgia of trading cards but discovers something much more personal.

Director

Radheya Jang

Country

Australia

Runtime

15 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

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