Enjoy an Aussie-themed reception at 6:15 p.m. with complimentary snacks (including Tim Tams!), drinks, and giveaways from Boomerang’s Pies.

AFS founder Richard Linklater joins Australian Short Film Today producer Chris Beale for a discussion after the screening. Beale served on the selection panel for the films.

AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILM TODAY returns to AFS with a 90-minute program of award-winning shorts. Witness the creativity coming out of Australia in this traveling program, which recently screened in Berlin, Saint Tropez, Boston, Paris, and New York.

The line-up includes PEEL, a retrospective screening of Jane Campion’s student film that won the Palme d’Or for best short film at Cannes in 1986. The Academy-Award nominee THE ELEVEN O’CLOCK is another highlight – a comedy in which a psychiatrist’s patient thinks he is the psychiatrist.

The diverse lineup also features ADELE, a drama about a 14-year old African schoolgirl in Australia in an arranged marriage imposed on her by family tradition; KILL OFF, a comedy/drama in which a girl with an intellectual disability forms an unusual friendship with a Sudanese man based on their shared interest in rap; HICCUP, a 3-minute comedy in which a simple cure may have unexpected complication; LOST PROPERTY OFFICE, a stop-motion animation in which Ed, the custodian, may not be what he seems to be; WELCOME HOME ALLEN, a drama in which Viking warriors return from an ancient war to a modern world; THE UNICORN, a drama set in Paris in which a young couple is about to make love when a phone call sends their night into disarray; and LIBRARY OF LOVE, a musical comedy about a librarian who reads too many romance novels.