SXSW Sydney Unveils 2024 Short Films Slate

SXSW Sydney has unveiled its short films program for this year.

The diverse slate is set to showcase an incredible collection of stories by filmmakers from around the world, including films by creators from Japan, New Zealand, Canada, and the US.

Highlights include “ILY, Bye,” which follows Siobhan (Meg Stalter), a quirky, socially anxious person who can’t seem to keep a job. Thanks to the help of her best friend Gary (Kanoa Goo), she scores an interview with his boss, Mr. Litchfield (played by “The Office” star Rainn Wilson). When her call to schedule the interview goes to voicemail, Siobhan panics and leaves a series of unhinged messages. Not wanting to lose the interview, she embarks on a chaotic mission to delete the voicemails herself.

From New Zealand, “The Red Room” looks at the unravelling of a shy office worker’s life after he fails to read the terms and conditions at a pseudo-health clinic.

Alice Yang directs “Finding Jia,” a film about Mei, a young immigrant, who yearns for the type of Western way of living she sees on TV, while the Canadian film “Wildmen of the Greater Toronto Area” sees citizens of Toronto begin to renounce their “personhood” en masse to legally become animals, forming a society of Wildmen in the city’s vast ravine network.

Check out the full short films program below. Find more information about SXSW Sydney 2024 here.