Birdie

Directed by Shelly Lauman · Starring Maeve Dermody, Sam Parsonson, Joshua Brennan, Lynette Curran · 2018

A woman walks alone to an underground train platform and trades a smile with a young man. That small gesture draws her into a subtle, increasingly sinister game.

This tense Australian short turns a passing smile on a train platform into a chilling, all-too-familiar study of everyday menace.

A woman walks alone to the train station. As she descends the stairs to the underground platform she smiles at a young man, he smiles back. With the smallest of gestures, the woman becomes caught in a subtle and sinister

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