Best of MWFF Next Gen Shorts – Award Winners

The Melbourne Women in Film Festival continues its 10th anniversary celebration with this special selection of its award-winning student short films from 2018 to 2025 festival programs.

Films include:

Lucky Peach (Grace Tan, 2022)

Moth (Hannah Aimer, 2019)

Wild (Leticia Cáceres, 2017)

Old Haunt (writer Libby Witheford-Smith, dir. Michiel van Echten, 2022)

Bustard Head (Lucy Lakshman, 2022)

Mother Tongue (Jessica Li, 2020)

Golden Rollers (JP Piper, 2021)

Frightened Rabbit (Eloïse Boutry, 2018)

An Act of Love (Lucy Knox, 2018)

Tabbeh (Sara Ghassali, 2024)

A Plastic Flower (Shirin Shakhesi, 2020)

We Vanish (Astrid Dominguez, 2018)

The films contain open captions.

Content Advice: This package of shorts contains films with themes relating to suicide and femicide, and depictions of sexual violence. Content advice warnings will appear and viewer discretion is advised.