A selection of family-friendly shorts on the Big Screen in Federation Square.

Please note that this compilation also screens on the Big Screen on Fri 18 Sep at 3.30pm.

The following short films, and more, will also be freely accessible on the touchscreens in the ACMI Australian Mediatheque every day of the festival until, and including, Wed 23 Sep, from 6pm until the start of the last film.

TONY AND MR. ILLNESS (TONDA A BACIL)
Director: Kateřina Karhánková | 2014
Czech Republic | 4 min
A short film in which a young live-action boy pits his wits against a malevolent animated lurgy.

MARIO AND THE MAGICIAN (MÁRIO A KOUZELNÍK)
Director: Michaela Pavlátová | 2014
Czech Republic | 5 min
A jaunty animated short from one of the great Czech animators, inspired by a Thomas Mann novella about the dangerous ability to manipulate crowds.

FORCE OF ATTRACTION (SILA PRÍŤAŽLIVOSTI)
Director: Eva Sekerešová | 2014
Slovakia | 4 min
Attraction works differently in space. It may even be able to bring an astronaut and a cosmonaut together.

LOVE (LÁSKA)
Director: Maja Brnušáková | 2014
Slovakia | 13 min
A moving documentary portrait of an elderly woman who recalls life with her late husband.

THE POTATO EATERS (JEDLÍCI BRAMBOR)
Director: Martin Kukal | 2014
Czech Republic | 4 min
An atmospheric homage to Vincent Willem van Gogh, the artist who walked the land of Brabant.

HIBERNATION
Director: Stepanka Cervinkova for STEASH Films | 2015
Australia | 5 min
In Capital’s dreamy music encounters the legacy of Karel Zeman’s beautiful animation.

THE ENTANGLED (ZÁPLETKA)
Director: Stanislav Sekela | 2014
Czech Republic | 9 min
An animated drama about the strong connection between two lovers from a treacherous, metallic plant kingdom.

GREEN LINE (ZELENÁ VLNA)
Director: Martina Buchelová | 2014
Slovakia | 12 min
A woman at her wits’ end is loath to take seriously fantastical claims made by her father and son.

FONGOPOLIS
Director: Joanna Kožuch | 2014
Slovakia | 13 min
A violinist whose big break should be just ahead of him is overwhelmed by chaos at a railway station.

WATERFALLING
Director: Alesh Macak | 2012
Australia | 5 min
The story of Alouf, who finds himself fighting for his life as he takes the wrong turn on a river.

HALF BÁBKA
Director: Jasmine Elsen | 2014
Slovakia | 5 min
Drawn animation in which a lonely old woman takes her cat everywhere she goes.