Underground Dawn Shorts

Directed by Orly Beringer + Owen Lawie, Tyler Bain + Miso Bell, schnüdlbug | 77 minutes overall minutes | 15+ | VIC Premiere (for some)

4:15 PM, Saturday, 14 November 2026 | Buy Tickets | Buy Pass

3 FILMS FACING THE VOID WITH CRACKED GRINS AND ARMS WIDE OPEN

A program of modern movies where suburban dreamers, lonesome pet parents, and desperate pilots struggle for connection and reasons to go on in the wasteland. Ego death is easier with company. Each invigorating short shoots for the moon in different ways, but all find pleasure and spectacle in big faces and bigger, hungrier skyboxes. Screens with a live Q&A for It’s Gonna Rain and Lost Dog + a prerecorded interview for ROACH. IT'S GONNA RAIN (2022, dir. Orly Beringer + Owen Lawie, 26 mins, Australia) The suburbs are a place to wait around for the sky to fall in this dreamy ensemble hangout co-directed by Orly Beringer and Owen Lawie (Quantum Suicide, BUFF 2026). Drift between aging philosophers debating aliens from a kiddie pool, pirates forging a friendship, lovers attempting to reignite their spark through backyard karate, and a solitary cat dancing in the street: you may find that the ordinary and the sublime are close neighbours. LOST DOG (2026, dir. Tyler Bain + Miso Bell, 20 mins, Australia) Two hapless weirdos join forces to search for their respective lost dogs, but all is not as it seems in this spooky and beguiling buddy comedy. Co-directors and stars Tyler Bain and Miso Belle have a strange, loopy chemistry that seems worth chasing into the deep dark. ROACH (3D Screening!) (2022, dir. schnüdlbug, 31 mins, Canada) In this minimalist animated techno chase nightmare, a young pilot narrowly escapes the destruction of her home in a stolen ship, friendly intelligent operating system included. But there’s a huge bug on their trail … Presented in anaglyph 3D, ROACH promises to envelop and then spit you back out into the cinema. 3D GLASSES PROVIDED CONTENT NOTES: Flashing lights

""I'm scared! I'm crying! I'm feeling my feelings watching these freaky nobudget pictures!"" - Felix Hubble, BUFF Fest Director

Country: Australia, Australia, Canada
Year: 2022, 2026, 2022
Language: English