Short film | Comedy | German premiere | 2023 | Australia | 9:40 min | English with German subtitles | Directed by Aarushi Chowdhury
This screening will take place at Colosseum.
Synopsis
It's turning out to be a pretty perfect Sunday for eight-year-oldSAMI (Samira). Lurking in the shadows, fake axe abreast,ready to strike her apparently distracted older sister JIYA until - thirteen-year-old ELIZA shows up.
Jiya and Eliza do everything together, EVERYTHING! And what'sworse - always without Sami. While she isn't quite fond of dressing up in itchy, tight clothing and talking in accents or swapping secrets on the couch, Sami tries her best to do it anyway, it’s better than getting left behind right?
However, Sami's little heart is crushed when she takes a tumble in her mother's heels and realises that Jiya is too busy to notice her. Sami’s hurt can’t be consoled, even with her mother’s poor attempts at teaching her the exciting rules of chess.
Sami hears Jiya and Eliza leave the house and seizes the opportunity to find out why her sister doesn’t like her anymore. She makes her way to Jiya’s room and discovers the sparklingly glorious world of makeup.
At first, this seems to be another attempt of Sami's to be a part of her sister’s glamorously exclusive world. But when Jiya and Eliza arrive, they are met with the creepiest clown-child who has an unsettling likeness to ‘Pennywise’. Sami gets to land the scare of a lifetime and thrillingly chase her victims with her little plastic axe.
Director’s Bio
Aarushi Chowdhury is a writer and director fascinated by chaos in the mundane, even more by the people who create it. Her debut film, 'Clown', premiered at SXSW Sydney and MIFF. She has just completed an eight-month director’s placement on an Apple TV series and is currently in production for her next short film fully funded by Creative Victoria.