August 25

Australia

CFS presents a varied and challenging program of short films available on 35mm.  Alas, in this instance, our requirement for film in 35mm format is a limiting factor as many of the most cutting edge experiments in film are now created and stored digitally.  That said, we are sure that you will be stimulated and entertained by this change of pace in our programming.

The program has been curated by John Arkins and will be screened with the technical assistance of Reading Cinemas’ projectionist Damian George.

Kin  19 mins

Director/Writer:  Stephen Carroll.

Cast: Callum MacBain, Grace Anderson, Siobhan Jackson

Photography, Ari Wegne, Set and costume design, Genevieve Bevan-John

Producer VCA

Separated since birth siblings Jack (Callum Mcbain) and Amy (Grace Anderson) reunite in their teens. Their attraction is innocent but intense. Carroll’s detached camera doesn’t make it easy for us, asking us to bear witness to something that - though wrong – appears somehow inevitable. This is a mature albeit disturbing enquiry into what happens when a relationship isn’t simply ‘black and white’.

Storage 14 mins

Director//Writer: Siobhan Jackson

Cast: Nick Farnell, Steve Adams, Dawn Klingberg, Dai Paterson, Bella Metherall, Rohan Jones

Families are the strangest things.  Grieving families even stranger.

Snow 15 mins

Director//Writer: Dustin Feneley

Cast: Robert Menzies, Rian Barlow

Producer, Kate Beverley

In a remote alpine area of Australia a boy explores the thin line between life and death and his relationship with his father who is powerless to stop his search.  Chosen to screen at Cannes in 2006.

The Unique Oneness of Christian Savage 19 mins

Director//Writer: Jennifer Ussi

Cast: Sipho Ngwenya, Byron Taylor, Connor Dowds

Cinematography, Digby Young

A12-year-old farmboy, spends his childhood years with Nyadze, the son of his mother’s Zulu domestic worker. Growing up in vastly different cultures, the boys explore the delights of Africa - the land, the people and their religions. Doubts grow in Christian as he questions the values of his family and church, until one day his friend’s beliefs are etched in his soul forever.

Titsiana Booberini 14 mins

Director//Writer: Robert Luketic

Cast: Tanya Lacy, Sophie Lee, Roz Hammond, David J. Berman

Producer, Ann Turner; Original Music, Markus Stone, Cinematography, Louis Puli

A despised checkout chick desperately dreams of popularity. The crushing banality of her day-to-day life is remedied by daydreams that transform her supermarket existence into a stage of possibility, infused with colour and musical interludes.