STAY STRANGE

OFFICIAL SELECTION | SHORT FILM SESSION

INCLUDES WORLD PREMIERE OF STRANGE ATTRACTOR

Stay Strange - Because normal is a myth…this short film session at BBFF2025 flips the bird to conformity and celebrates the beautifully unconventional.

Headlining the line-up is the World Premiere of Byron filmmaker Hadley Perkins’ Strange Attractor, a darkly funny outback tale where volatility, satire and mischief meet in unexpected ways. Perkins’ film crowns a collection that refuses to play it safe, laughing at the rules even as it tears them apart.

The shorts in this session range from the mischievous to the soulful, the spiky to the surreal. Some spark laughter with sharp wit, others linger with poignancy or take unexpected leaps into the absurd. Together they refuse to play it safe, offering fresh perspectives and memorable moments that keep you on your toes – always with a streak of humour that makes the sting go down sharp and sweet.

Stay Strange is for the outsiders, the rebels and the curious - an invitation to celebrate the beauty of difference and the thrill of disruption.

STROKE OF GENIUS

SHORT | 12 MIN | DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: KAREL VAN BELLINGEN | UK
A quiet morning waiting for a letter becomes a confrontation with cosmic turmoil, as a man wrestles with existential uncertainty about legacy and purpose.
MAJONEZË

SHORT | 22 MIN | DIRECTOR: GIULIA GRANDINETTI | PRODUCERS: GIULIA GRANDINETTI, RICCARDO NERI + VINCENZO FILIPPO | ITALY
In Ersekë, Albania, Elyria lives under her father’s strict rules, masking anger with obedience until a rising urge for rebellion drives her to a bitter but necessary act of revolution.
RUBBER DUCKY

SHORT | 9 MIN | DIRECTOR: ALEXANDER ANGLISS-WILSON | PRODUCERS: ASHRITHA GOVIND + NATASHA KAMINSKY | AUSTRALIA
Attempting to recover a confiscated rubber ducky, a young mother incites a violent brawl with her daughter’s teacher.
THEY KILL BY NIGHT

SHORT | 16 MIN | DIRECTORS: GRACE + SAM UTHER | PRODUCER: GRACE UTHER | AUSTRALIA
With reports of a serial killer on the loose, a curious woman locked out of her roadside motel room turns to the stranger next door for help.
WHITCH

SHORT | 5 MIN | DIRECTOR: HOKU UCHIYAMA | PRODUCER: KELLY KING | USA
After putting her daughter to bed, Aura discovers an intruder in her house: an elderly lady who acts strangely familiar, and who is hell-bent on performing a bloody ritual before midnight.

STRANGE ATTRACTOR

WORLD PREMIERE | SHORT | 19 MIN | DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: HADLEY PERKINS | COORABELL

In a future dystopian Australia, nature’s hard-man, Lyll, disrupts the domestic enclosures of three unsuspecting victims connecting them with an ancient rite of passage deep within the Australian outback.

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