1. The Sampler
Sit back and enjoy some of the best and most vibrant short films from Aotearoa New Zealand and around the world. This collection provides a great way to sample what Show Me Shorts is all about. Witness magical Colombian furniture, vicious Scottish lightning and village edicts from a powerful Sudanese matriarch. Fly a starship with your dad, or just chill with him and your imaginary friend. Just try to avoid the hitman…
Total length: 105 minutes
Rating: M Drug use & offensive language.
Don vs Lightning


Comedy, 13 mins, United Kingdom
Dir: Big Red Button
Writ: Johnny Burns
Prod: Sonya Sier
All Don wants is a quiet life in the Scottish Highlands. Unfortunately the universe has other plans.
Al-Sit


Drama, 20 mins, Sudan/Qatar
Dir/Writ/Prod: Suzannah Mirghani
Prod: Eiman Mirghani
Special message from the filmmaker(s)
In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, 15-year-old Nafisa has a crush on Babiker, but her parents have arranged her marriage to Nadir, a young Sudanese businessman living abroad. Nafisa’s grandmother Al-Sit, the powerful village matriarch, has her own plans for Nafisa’s future.
El tamaño de las cosas (The Size of Things)


Fantasy, 12 mins, Colombia
Dir/Writ: Carlos Felipe Montoya
Prod: Isabel Cristina Vásquez
Diego lives with his father in a house without furniture. One day Diego finds a chair deep in the woods but his father makes him return it. The next day Diego tries again to find it but he and the chair have changed.
Snorrie (Mustachio)
Comedy, 11 mins, Netherlands
Dir/Writ: Victoria Warmerdam
Prod: Trent
Freek returns to his family home to help pack up. He is reunited with his imaginary friend from the past, who is looking for closure.
Landline – The Phoenix Foundation
Music Video, 4 mins, New Zealand
Dir/Writ/Prod: Ezra Simons
Prod: Gussie Larkin, Caleb Corlett
Espionage and intrigue follow a giant phone and an oversized ear around a south coast Wellington dream-scape.
Green
Drama, 16 mins, New Zealand
Dir/Writ: Rachel Ross
Prod: Morgan Leigh Stewart, Samantha Dutton
An estranged father and daughter, both with life altering illnesses, smoke marijuana together for the first time and it becomes healing in more ways than one.
The Last Ferry From Grass Island


Drama, 14 mins, United States/Hong Kong
Dir/Writ: Linhan Zhang
Prod: Clifford Miu
A hitman retires to become a fisherman on the peaceful Grass Island in Hong Kong. One day, his Chinese apprentice shows up, tasked to kill him before the last ferry departs.
Space Invader


Comedy, 16 mins, New Zealand
Dir/Prod: Isaac Bell
Writ: Matt Kelleher
Prod: Lissandra Leite
Max is a small boy with a big imagination and a loyal co-pilot of a dad. But when Dad gets a new girlfriend, Max must find a way to confront this new menace before she steals his dad forever.
Screenings
Arrowtown – Dorothy Browns
Sun 17 Oct |
5:00 PM |
Auckland Central – Rialto Cinemas Newmarket
Sun 10 Oct |
5:30 PM |
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Thu 14 Oct |
6:00 PM |
Devonport – The Vic Devonport
Fri 8 Oct |
8:30 PM |
Great Barrier Island – Barrier Social Club
Mon 18 Oct |
7:15 PM |
Matakana – Matakana Cinemas
Sun 17 Oct |
6:15 PM |
Waiheke Island – Waiheke Island Community Cinema
Sun 10 Oct |
7:30 PM |
Takapuna – Monterey
Sun 17 Oct |
5:30 PM |
Titirangi – Lopdell House
Fri 8 Oct |
7:30 PM |
Christchurch – Alice
Sun 10 Oct |
6:00 PM |
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Wed 13 Oct |
6:15 PM |
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Wed 13 Oct |
8:30 PM |
Wigram – Silky Otter Cinemas
Sun 17 Oct |
5:30 PM |
Ōrākei – Silky Otter Cinemas
Sun 17 Oct |
5:30 PM |
Picton – Endeavour Park
Sat 9 Oct |
7:30 PM |
Wellington – Light House Cuba
Sun 10 Oct |
5:45 PM |
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Sat 16 Oct |
4:15 PM |
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Wed 20 Oct |
6:00 PM |
Dunedin – Rialto Cinemas
Sun 17 Oct |
5:30 PM |
Gisborne – Dome Cinema
Sat 16 Oct |
7:00 PM |
Sun 24 Oct |
6:30 PM |
Hamilton – The Lido
Wed 20 Oct |
8:00 PM |
Katikati – The Junction Theatre
Sat 9 Oct |
1:30 PM |
Sat 9 Oct |
6:30 PM |
Sun 10 Oct |
1:30 PM |
Sun 10 Oct |
6:30 PM |
Matamata – Matamata Little Theatre
Fri 15 Oct |
7:30 PM |
Napier – Suter Gallery
Sat 16 Oct |
7:30 PM |
Sun 17 Oct |
7:30 PM |
New Plymouth – 4th Wall Theatre
Thu 14 Oct |
7:30 PM |
Ōtaki – Māoriland Hub
Sun 17 Oct |
6:00 PM |
Renwick – Sports & Event Centre
Sat 16 Oct |
7:00 PM |
Stewart Island – Bunkhouse Theatre
Wed 5 Jan |
7:30 PM |
Takaka – Village Theatre
Sat 9 Oct |
8:00 PM |
Sat 16 Oct |
5:00 PM |
Tauranga – Rialto Cinema
Sun 17 Oct |
5:45 PM |
Ōpōtiki – Ōpōtiki De Luxe Theatre
Mon 18 Oct |
6:30 PM |
Waikaia – The Lodge 223
Wed 13 Oct |
7:30 PM |
Wanaka – Rubys Cinema
Sun 17 Oct |
5:30 PM |
Whangarei – Whangarei Film Society
Thu 14 Oct |
6:00 PM |
Thu 14 Oct |
8:00 PM |