8th Down Under Berlin | 19-23 September 2018
News & Events
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2018 winners announced!
Down Under Berlin 2018 has come to a close and here are all your winning films! Voted by our audience, 5 films have won prizes from our award sponsors. Read about who won which prize......did you cast your vote?
Congratulations (...)
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DUB 2018 - Staff Pics!
The Down Under Berlin 2018 Staff Picks list is released! Get the insights into the films our team liked the best, and why.
Learn a bit more about a few of our favourite films from this year, and how they hit a chord with us. (...)
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Closing night 2018 - Hotel Coolgardie
For our closing night, we are proud to screen Hotel Coolgardie - a documentary that represents another side of Australian culture that most people won’t experience. Described as both shocking and jaw-dropping, you’ll need t (...)
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Expat Filmmakers In Berlin - James Watkins
Our next Expat Filmmaker in Berlin heralds from the Australian surf scene and now runs his own music production company, helping filmmakers score their films with his music licensing platform startup called gnarles, based in B (...)
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Expat Filmmakers in Berlin - Eloise Walker
New to Berlin but already making a splash in the filmmaking industry is Eloise Walker, the director of DUB 2018 short film 'Lemons', and our next Expat Filmmaker In Berlin.
Eloise is from Sydney and trained at the University (...)
Program & Films 2018
Find out more about this year's festival program 2018 or click below for some samples.
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Tasty
Meaghan Palmer | AUS | 2017 | Drama | 15 min | English | German Premiere
Newbie queer teen, Ben, gets caught up in a police drug-raid during his first outing to gay nightclub in 1994. Inspired by a true event. (...) -
Lost Property Office
Daniel Agdag | AUS | 2017 | Stop-Motion | 10 min | English | German Premiere
Edward, a meticulous and thorough custodian of a large city transit’s Lost Property Office, is as lost as the items he is tasked to look after. Alone, in the basement office, he is kept company by a tiny toy robot and an old gra (...) -
The Marshes
Roger Scott | AUS | 2017 | Horror | 85 min | English | International Premiere
Deep in a remote marshland three young biologists conduct research but when they encounter evil, science ends and survival begins. (...) -
Battle of the Shorts: AUS vs. NZ - Round 1
Diverse directors | AUS & NZ | 2016-2017 | 87 min | English | Diverse Premieres
In this short film slot, Australian and New Zealand short films battle for pride and glory, and to win the audience's vote. Join the fun and vote for your favorite film! Winner Winner Chicken Dinner Claudia Holme (...) -
And Though The Music Ended, We Danced On Through The Night
Nick Pollack | AUS | 2017 | Drama | 29 min | English | German Premiere
The lives of three disparate people - a grieving mother, a man with early stage Alzheimer's and a lonely nurse - intersect through one tragic moment. (...) -
Hiccup
Gerald Lepkowski | AUS | 2016 | Comedy | 3 min | no dialogue | German Premiere
Sometimes small annoyances can be deadly. (...) -
Tama
Jared Flitcroft, Jack O'Donnell | NZ | 2017 | Drama | 9 min | English, Māori | German Premiere
Tama is about a young Māori Deaf boy who wants to perform the Haka. He is isolated within his family where communication is non-existent. His hearing dad, Hone, and younger brother Rongo do not know how to treat him well. One day (...) -
The Pretend One
Tony Prescott | AUS | 2017 | Drama, Comedy | 86 min | English | European Premiere
When young female farmer Charlie who lives alone with her father in the Australian outback begins to fall for Guy, a TV producer from the city, her imaginary friend Hugo realises he’s in love with Charlie. Unable to face losing (...) -
An Exercise in Discipline: Peel
Jane Campion | AUS | 1982 | Comedy | 9 min | English
A red-headed family's drive in the countryside begins an intrigue of awesome belligerence and obstinacy. (...) -
Cleaver
Alexander McKenna | NZ | 2017 | Drama, Thriller | 17 min | English
A lonely, detached young man lives next to a family who are stuck in a violent relationship, the effects of which begin to take its toll on his consciousness. (...) -
The Eleven O'Clock
Derin Seale | AUS | 2017 | Comedy | 14 min | English | German Premiere
The delusional patient of a psychiatrist believes he is actually the psychiatrist. As they each attempt to treat each other the session gets out of control. (...) -
Mrs McCutcheon
John Sheedy | AUS | 2017 | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 16 min | English | Berlin Premiere
Having always felt he was born in the wrong body and now at his third school, 10-year-old Tom is having trouble settling in and finding acceptance from his newfound peers - but a school dance is about to revolutionize it all. (...) -
Skin
Emma Blakey, Jason Lance David | AUS | 2017 | Drama, Fantasy | 17 min | English | German Premiere
When a lonely fisherman takes in a Selkie woman who is unable to return to sea, an unsustainable love forms with devastating repercussions. (...) -
Fifty-Two
Brodie Stephenson | AUS | 2017 | Stop-Motion, Sci-Fi | 9 min | no dialogue | German Premiere
An employee by a decade long work placement contract grows tired of the isolation in his underground station and attempts to find his freedom. (...) -
Fire in Cardboard City
Phil Brough | NZ | 2017 | Stop-Motion, Comedy | 9 min | English
When a city made entirely from cardboard catches fire it is up to the local fire chief and his brave deputies to save Cardboard City and its citizens from impending doom. (...) -
Battle of the Shorts: AUS vs. NZ - Round 2
Diverse directors | AUS & NZ | 2016-2017 | 90 min | English | Diverse Premieres
In this short film slot, Australian and New Zeland short films battle for pride and glory, and to win the audience's vote. Join the fun! Mute Adam Thorogood | NZ | 2018 | Drama, Coming-of-Age | 14 min | English, N (...) -
They Come Home
Rowena Potts | AUS | 2017 | Documentary | 21 min | English | European Premiere
The vibrant world of an enduring subculture comes to life in this observational portrait of two pigeon breeders who share a rooftop coop in Brooklyn. (...) -
Sunday Fun Day
Dianna Fuemana | NZ | 2016 | Drama | 15 min | English | European Premiere
A transgender teenager and her solo mum prepare to have fun on a Sunday. A booty call and a beating will bring them closer to understanding their connection to each other outside a system that doesn't know how they fit in. (...) -
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 (...) -
Motel
Lauren Porteous | NZ | 2017 | Drama | 15 min | English | European Premiere
A lonely rural motelier befriends one of her guests. For one night, the lives of someone who can't move, and another who can't stop, intersect. (...)
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