MUFF 25 Shorts — 2025 Short Film Sessions

An agoraphobic man seals himself inside a spacesuit to escape the deadly consequences of his condition.

Barney’s dental appointment turns nightmarish when a substitute dentist steps in — and the power goes out.

After a super-volcano eruption renders Western Europe uninhabitable, a survivor races flowing lava aboard the final eastbound train.

A backpacker drunkenly responds to an ad for free accommodation… only to find it’s actually a personal classified for a senior sex-life reboot.

A seemingly insignificant puddle becomes astonishingly beautiful when transformed by light and wind.

After a child is murdered and the mother goes missing, a detective uncovers a sinister past — unleashed by an old Babushka doll.

In a dystopian future Australia, nature’s hard-man Lyll puts three strangers through an ancient outback rite.

Four friends journey through time and space in a sensuous, alchemical celebration.

A 27-year-old woman fights to resuscitate her dying marriage in the suffocating haze of suburbia.

Based on the cult book trilogy: a reporter is recruited by a mad genius and anarchists to thwart an Illuminati conspiracy.

A fortune-teller’s reading becomes a fight for survival when her client’s past is revealed.

An actor spirals into endless pre-shoot choices while the crew waits in a tragicomic limbo.

During Melbourne’s notorious COVID lockdowns, a woman’s fear and unraveling mental health drive her to drastic measures to protect her daughter.

A pacifist must defend her badly injured housemate from a mysterious night creature lurking in their apartment.

Convinced God told her she must win Miss Teen Indiana by pity vote, Marlo clashes with her alcoholic sister, Rose.

A composer revisits a childhood dream of dissolving into sea and wind — a meditation on acceptance and dying.

David and Terry’s robbery goes awry when Terry gets cold feet.

A broke woman brews and sells poison to survive — until a hitman uses it to target her sister’s teacher.

2004 Sydney: A night-shift DVD-store clerk finds VHS tapes of snuff films visible only to him.

Left home alone again, a 10-year-old roams chaotic NYC in search of a glimpse of open sky.

A captive girl faces a father’s brutal revenge and the lesson: you reap what you sow.

A hardened PI searches for a missing husband and uncovers a terrifying truth.

Two hand-painted 35mm films project out of sync, creating shifting visual stereo and echoing sound.

A 1950s housewife spirals into madness.

Screen-printed iPhone footage and archival fragments collide: Norwegian forests meet urban Oslo and cyberspace.