TILDE Festival: AFTRS Presents: Our Future – Third Edition

As part of TILDE Festival, Our Future features a screening of short films and video works by gender-diverse filmmakers from around Australia, and a filmmaker in-conversation event. 

Our Future returns for its third edition as part of TILDE, spotlighting visionary gender-diverse filmmakers from across the country. Featuring award-winning shorts and world premieres, these are the voices shaping the future of cinema.

Expect fruity-ness, satanic rituals, pregnancy tests, and filmmakers in-person, with a TILDE Q&A.

Program:

• Bloodfire (music video) – Dir. Sione Teumohenga & Bella Waru | 2025 | 7 min | Australia | Classification: Unclassified 15+ | Captioned
• Flight Risk (comedy) – Dir. Mohammad Awad | 2025 | 16 min | Australia | Classification: Unclassified 15+ | Captioned
• Hope (comedy) – Dir. Izzi Harris & Ada Tzinis | 2025 | 20 min | Australia | Classification: Unclassified 18+ | Captioned
• They Persist (drama) – Dir. Lachlan Salvestro | 2025 | 8 min | Australia | Classification: Unclassified 18+ | Captioned
• Soyboy (comedy) – Dir. Moo Renzaho | 2025 | 17 min | Australia | Classification: Unclassified 18+ | Captioned
• The Museum of Lost Things (comedy) – Dir. Polly Garrett | 2023 | 13 min | Australia | Classification: Unclassified 18+ | Captioned
• The Dysphoria (horror) – Dir. Kylie Aoibheann | 2025 | 13 min | Australia | Classification: Unclassified 18+ | Captioned

Content notes: gore, homophobic and transphobic slurs, nudity and drug use.

For more information about the program and films visit the TILDE Festival website.

Presented by TILDE Festival, Fed Square and AFTRS.