GIFF SHORTS SESSION 2
Availability: Worldwide
Screening from 2-11 September 2022
THE EXIT PLAN
Director: Angus Wilkinson
Drama | 13m 54s | 2020
Australia | Language: English
GIFF22 Official Selection
In an overpopulated future, an elderly woman is visited by a young government official to check she is complying with the "Exit Plan" policy. However, when the agent interrogates her further he soon realizes she has something 'planned' for him.
A/V
Director: Daffa Sudaryono
Thriller | 8m 24s | 2022
Australia | Language: English
GIFF22 Official Selection
An operative of a mysterious government agency explores a hostile realm to recover a fellow agent before he is lost forever.
PRAIRIE FLOWERS
Director: Mariana Rivera
Documentary | 19m | 2021
Mexico | Language: Spanish | English Subtitles
GIFF22 Official Selection | Australian Premiere
Prairie of Flowers creates a ritual and poetic mourning alongside weaving women. Through this ritual, threads, dreams, and their craft are collectively woven together as an act of healing and resilience.
DAJLA: CINEMA AND OBLIVION
Director: Arturo Dueñas Herrero
Documentary | 15m | 2021
Spain | Language: Arabic, English, Spanish | English Subtitles
GIFF22 Official Selection | Australian Premiere
A refugee camp in southern Algeria, which has been forgotten for 45 years. Has a celebration with a film festival, which breaks the monotony.
LEISURE MACHINE
Director: Jim Batt
Music Video | 4m 11s | 2021
Australia | Language: English
GIFF22 Official Selection
A Retro futuristic vision of the isolation caused by a society that values the artificial over the real. Inspired by themes raised in Hans Christian Anderson’s morality tale ‘The Emperor and the Nightingale’ & Phillip K. Dicks dystopian novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”.
LIVE ANOTHER SECOND
Directors: Lorenz Killer + Tobias Sutter
Music Video | 3m 35s | 2021
Switzerland | Language: English
GIFF22 Official Selection | Australian Premiere
Life is too short to listen to false promises, an experience ‘A Head on Fire’ transported in their video message. Live your life according to your own principles: self-determined and liberated from fear.
