News & Events
Follow our News & Events page to keep updated about Down Under Berlin and trends and talents in Australian and New Zealand film.
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The life and career of Frances Calvert
On 2nd September 2018, filmmaker, producer, and lecturer Frances Calvert passed away unexpectedly. Co-Director Sabrina Wittmann remembers.
A few months ago, my fellow DUB colleagues and I got some unexpected and very sad ne (...)
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Expat Filmmakers in Berlin – Aaron Lucas
For Aussie filmmaker Aaron Lucas, the decision to move to Berlin in June 2018 was very spontaneous – he didn’t know anyone here, didn’t speak German, but it still seemed like a great idea. Well, we’ve seen Free Therapy (...)
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The Rise of the Short Film
Why are short films so important? Guest blogger Holly Barnard asks this burning question to filmmakers and finds out why the short film format is so universally loved and what we need to do to keep them being made.
The medium o (...)
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DUB board members: from Australia to Berlin and back.
The Down Under Berlin board members are going through a little change, so we thought it a good idea to keep you informed at what they are up to.
Since its inception in 2011, the Down Under Berlin film festival has had three boa (...)
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Submissions are OPEN!
Down Under Berlin's Call For Entries for the 2019 festival is open!
It's true, the moment you've all been waiting for! (well, waiting since the end of the last festival at least!) Submissions are open for this year's festival. (...)
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Past Festival Films
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The Battle of the Shorts: AUS vs. NZ - Round 2
Diverse directors | AUS & NZ | 2015-2017 | 76 min | English & Samoan | Diverse Premieres
In this short film slot, Australian and New Zeland short films battle for pride and glory - and a one-year premium membership sponsored by film community platform FilmUp! The Fox Louise Turley | AUS | 2016 | 11 min | Europea (...) -
Ross & Beth
Hamish Bennett | NZ | 2014 | Drama | 15 min | English | European Premiere
The story of a humble farming couple, a sudden upheaval and an unlikely saviour. (...) -
Short Films: Hope & Betrayal
Diverse directors | AUS | 2014 - 2015 | 57 min | English | Diverse Premieres
In this short film slot, Down Under Berlin serves its audience a fine selection of exquisite film nibbles. Bon appétit! Foal Vanessa Gazy | AUS | 2015 | Drama | 24:02 min | German Premiere The Ern Malley Affair Rowena Pot (...) -
Copycat from Ballarat
Stig Wemyss | AUS| 2016| Drama| 09:31 min | English| International Premiere
On the morning a gunman is sentenced to death for randomly killing people at his workplace. Tom, a young building worker from Ballarat, mirrors the attack, fuelled by a lifetime of abuse. (...) -
She Said
Candy Royalle & Patch Sinclair | AUS | 2013 | Experimental | 3:34 min | English| International Premiere
A lyrical musing on a love affair that ended in heartbreak. A poetic meditation on the transience of time and being. (...) -
A Silent Waltz
Issac Still | AUS | 2013 | Drama | 12 min | English| European Premiere
Madeline is excited for the regional dance, but she must overcome her deafness to ask Wyatt for a silent waltz. (...) -
Pop Up
Stuart McBratney | AUS| 2015| Comedy, drama | 91 min | English| German Premiere
"Pop-Up" is a triptych of stories about people affected by one event: An unemployed father (Eugene Gilfedder) finds a camera containing a single photo of a woman's face. Smitten, he tracks her down. A Romanian immigrant (Clara Vod (...) -
Hotel Coolgardie
Pete Gleeson | AUS | 2016 | Documentary | 84 min | English, Finland-Swedish | European Premiere
Fresh off the plane, two female Finnish backpackers find themselves the latest batch of "fresh meat" sent to work as barmaids at the only pub in a remote Australian mining town. Confronted with a culture of alienation and impunity (...) -
The Fruity
Jamieson Pearce | AUS| 2014| Drama | 10:13 min | English| World Premiere
Lindsay is at his usual barstool, awaiting a regular night at his gay pub bar. But a proposition from the spunky new bartender, Jorge, tempts him to take to the stage. (...) -
Solus
Adam Jamsek | AUS | 2016 | Drama, Mystery | 22 min | English | European Premiere
A father and his seven year old son who is terminally ill, go tracking into the heart of a forest in search for a magical healing bird. (...) -
Bo Mi
Andrew Lee | AUS | 2013 | Drama | 13:30 min | English | International
Alone on an island, two people depend only on one another for company and for love. But can they move on from their past and the moment that changed both their lives? (...) -
The Disappearance of Willie Bingham
Matthew Richards | AUS| 2015| Comedy, crime, drama, horror | 12:44 min | English|
Willie Bingham is the first man to undergo a radical new justice program. The government has introduced Progressive Amputation as a punishment for capital crime, performed live in front of victims’ families, stopping only at the (...) -
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Taika Waititi| NZ| 2016| Adventure, comedy, drama | 93 min | English| German Premiere
Taika Waititi is back with a fulminant new film which takes you on a hilarious hunt through NZ wilderness in search of an unusual couple: misfit kid Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison) and grumpy uncle Hec (Sam Neill). Full of nerdy but (...) -
Once My Mother
Sophia Turkiewicz | AUS | 2013| Documentary | 73 min | English and Russian w. English subtitles| German Premiere
In this multi-award winning documentary Sophia Turkiewicz looks into her mother's incredible and harrowing journey from eastern Poland to a prison camp in Siberia, to a refugee camp in Africa and finally to Australia where she lea (...) -
Makeover
Don Percy | AUS | 2013 | Comedy, drama | 7 min | English | German Premiere
Lonely widower Horrie undertakes an unconventional home-style makeover for a blind date. (...) -
Waiting
Amberley Jo Aumua | NZ | 2017 | Drama, Coming-of-Age | 13 min | English | German Premiere
Starsky has never met his father. So when he receives a letter from him that he wants to talk, he skips school with his best friend Kenny to wait at the payphone outside the local shop. (...) -
Waltzing Tilda
Jonathan Wilhelmsson | AUS | 2017 | Coming-of-Age | 15 min | English | German Premiere
Tilda wakes up and finds herself all alone. With only her bunny rabbit Shane for company, she goes out into the empty world. (...) -
Mother
David Rusanow | AUS | 2017 | Drama, Dark Comedy | 13 min | English | European Premiere
A suburban housewife finds a used condom while vacuuming her house. It could only have come from one of two people, her fifteen-year-old daughter or her husband. (...) -
Eagle
Gus Berger | AUS | 2015 | Drama | 10 min | English | International Premiere
After a death in the family, Coombra lost himself in a life of drugs and crime sinking deeper into despair, he finds support in an indigenous community program. (...) -
Shorts: Discover Your Self
Diverse directors | AUS & NZ | 2016 | 65 min | English | Diverse Premieres
In this short film slot, the protagonists of these Australian and New Zeland short films discover their past, future and their inner truth. Deep Storage Susan Earl | AUS | 2016 | 14 min | International Premiere Without Cons (...)