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SHOW ME SHORTS – THE SAMPLER

Enjoy some of the top short films from this year's Show Me Shorts Film Festival. Designed to entertain and delight, this collection shows off rising talent from Aotearoa and abroad. Total run time: 102 mins
Rating: M – Offensive language, sexual references & suicide references 

This screening is open to the public – all tickets $10 (AFS members free). Tickets on sale now at Academy Cinemas
and from the AFS desk in the cinema foyer from one hour before the screening starts.

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Muscat

Philippe Grenier
Canada  ·  16 mins 

A 16-year-old Moroccan fisherman discovers his attraction towards men when he meets a tourist travelling with his wife.
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7 Minutes

Ricky Gervais
UK  ·  10 mins

A desolate train track seems the perfect spot to end it all, until someone else turns up with the same idea. Awkward.
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Stella

Alison Titulaer
​Aotearoa New Zealand  ·  ​14 mins

Stella is out for a special date with her husband Stanley, whose mind is failing. She yearns for connection, capturing brief moments of lucidity before he slips away.

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Las Visitantes

Enrique Buleo
Spain ·  15 mins
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Three retired women travel on a bus on their way to Europe. They have been listening to people talking about the wonders of tourism all their lives and are dying to experience it firsthand.

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Just Kidding – I Actually Love You

Anna Rose Duckworth
Aotearoa New Zealand  ·  10 mins

A runaway fiancée breaks in to execute an ill-advised romantic gesture, and finds her ex is happier without her.

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The Life of Lester Wink

Cassidy C Harrison
USA ·  ​17 mins

A door-to-door pet insurance salesman with a phobia of talking to strangers must make a sale by 5pm or get fired.


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Ministry of Jingle

Maddie Dai
Aotearoa New Zealand  ·  13 mins
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Melody is the new hire at a government department in charge of creating public safety jingles about the nation's most pressing issues: bathmats, scam calls, littering.

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  • HOME
  • ABOUT
  • SOCIETIES
    • AUCKLAND
    • HAMILTON
    • TAURANGA
    • NEW PLYMOUTH
    • WHANGANUI
    • PALMERSTON NORTH
    • CARTERTON
    • WELLINGTON
    • NELSON
    • CANTERBURY
    • TIMARU
    • OAMARU
    • QUEENSTOWN
    • DUNEDIN
    • WESTPORT
  • 2025 SEASON
    • SWEDISH CINEMA
    • KUROSAWA
    • PECKINPAH'S WEST
    • COMEDY CORNER
    • GHOST STORIES
    • NZ FILM
    • RETRO CLASSICS
    • FRENCH CONNECTIONS
    • GERMAN CINEMA
    • WORLD CINEMA