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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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. (...) -
Kill Off
Genevieve Clay-Smith | AUS | 2017 | Drama, Comedy | 16 min | English | German Premiere
A woman with an intellectual disability forms an unlikely friendship with a Sudanese refugee through their mutual love of the street dance, Krump. (...) -
Terror Nullius
Soda_Jerk | AUS | 2018 | Political Satire | 55 min | English
This revenge fable offers an un-writing of Australian national mythology. As a radical critique of Australian masculinity, refugee policy and the treatment of Indigenous Australians it works entirely within and against the officia (...) -
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 Unicorn
Chloé Boreham | AUS | 2017 | Drama, Thriller | 11 min | French, English | German Premiere
Sophie and Christophe are on the verge of making love when they are interrupted by a strange phone call which sends their night into disarray. (...) -
The Bookshop
Ashley Pollard | AUS | 2018 | Romance, Comedy | 9 min | English | World Premiere
A desperate writer tries to woo a publisher into taking on his manuscript. But has his arrogance, and stupidity, got in the way of something more real than a book deal? (...) -
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. (...) -
Library of Love
Miranda Edmonds, Khrob Edmonds | AUS | 2017 | Musical, Romance, Comedy| 12 min | English | German Premiere
Isabelle is a hopeless romantic who spends her days as a librarian reading too many romance novels and dreaming of true love. Can she pull her nose out of the books long enough to write her own love story? (...) -
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. (...) -
Welcome Home Allen
Andrew Kavanagh | AUS | 2016 | Action, Drama | 11 min | no dialogue | German Premiere
Four soldiers return to a home they don’t recognise and that doesn’t recognise them. (...) -
After the Apology
Larissa Behrendt | AUS | 2017 | Documentary, Indigenous | 82 min | English | International Premiere
Four Aboriginal grannies each face their own battle to challenge government policies to bring their grandkids home. Their grassroots actions spearhead a national conversation to curb the skyrocketing rates of child removal. (...) -
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 (...) -
Bad Dog
Gabby Hanrahan | AUS | 2017 | Animation, Action, Drama | 3 min | no dialogue | International Premiere
K is a hitman in a dog eat dog world who has one target he can’t bring himself to hit. (...) -
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. (...) -
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. (...) -
I Will Not Write Unless I Am Swaddled in Furs
Wade Shotter | NZ | 2017 | Drama, Comedy | 6 min | English | German Premiere
A fussy writer prepares to conceive a great work of art, but his list of preparations grows longer and more specific, revealing his love and obsession with writing. (...) -
Black Divaz
Adrian Russell Wills | AUS | 2018 | LGBTQI, Indigenous | 60 min | English | German Premiere
Following the inaugural Miss First Nation pageant where six Aboriginal drag queens from around Australia battle it out over five days for the coveted crown, Black Divaz goes beyond the glitz, glue guns and glamour of black drag to (...) -
Whoever Was Using This Bed
Andrew Kotatko | AUS | 2016 | Psychological Drama | 20 min | English | Berlin Premiere
A married couple is woken in the dead of night by a mysterious phone call. Unable to sleep, they are drawn into an unsettling examination of their fears and desires. (...) -
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. (...) -
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. (...)
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