Every year Australian filmmakers of all ages and experience compete in the short film festival Tropfest. We watched the 16 finalists a couple of nights ago and as usual, a couple stood out for me.
One, The Story of Ned, was a quirky animation where the characters are stories and the main character has some problems with its ending. Worth a look, but not much to say about Australia culturally so nothing to write here.
The other, Between the Flags, was set on the day of the Cronulla riots in 2005 and showed a white and a Lebanese Australian who turn up at the wrong beach and end up playing beach cricket and chatting about tastes in music, cars etc. We see as the mild animosity turns to respect rather than racial hatred. A clear winner.