2026 Geelong Short Film Festival @ Boronggook (FREE EVENT)
About
It's back! The Geelong Short Film Festival @ Boronggook returns to Drysdale to bring another great evening of short films and speakers.Presented in partnership by The North Bellarine Film Festival and Boronggook Drysdale Library to provide an amazing community event and opportunity for independent creatives to display their work.
This event is free but space is limited so register your attendance now!
Program
Run Like A Girl
Directed by Isabella Telfer
Finalist for the 2025 Emerging Filmmaker Award.
Walking home, a teenage girl is met with danger, leaving her preconceptions on what it means to run like a girl to be challenged in order to save herself.
Dad's Clock
Directed by Dik Jarman
An abstract, autobiographical stop motion animation which tenderly explores the life and relationship of the animator and his late father.
The Mediator
Directed by Roman Anastios
Two men cower in a five-star London hotel. Mick Gatto’s on his way to negotiate on behalf of a client. Why didn’t they run when they had the chance?
Big Johnny
Directed by Jeannie Kane
Winner of the 2025 Emerging Filmmaker and People’s Choice awards
After an unexpected encounter with Melbourne’s vibrant drag scene, a lonely warehouse worker finds the courage to embrace his true self when traditional male expectations threaten to hold him back.
Whisper From Ther West
Directed by Harley Biskup
Finalist for the 2025 Emerging Filmmaker Award.
Wylie meets a mysterious cowboy who offers him an escape from his boss’s daily harassment and to rediscover his identity through an adventure in the wild west...
Over
Directed by Duncan Ragg & Anna Phillips
A father must confront the world’s big issues when his son steals his boat and refuses to come back to shore until his dad has saved the world.
2020 Vision
Directed by Lisa Smithies
Sure, it’s wildly inappropriate to celebrate bush fires, a pandemic, and race riots through dance, but how else are these kids going to make sense of our crazy world?
Date
Wednesday 5 August 2026 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM (UTC+10)Location
Boronggook Drysdale Library
2-8 Wyndham Street, Drysdale Victoria 3222