TALL POPPY (Qld, AU)

Set inside a brutalist museum after hours, three teenagers attempt a high-risk heist. Rendered in stark black-and-white noir, the film reframes theft not as crime, but as confrontation — a collision between institutional value and personal meaning. What makes something valuable? Scarcity? Protection? Naming? Or the simple act of deciding it matters? As walls protect what is deemed “priceless,” the film explores how value is constructed, who controls it, and how ownership reshapes belonging. In the dark, value becomes unstable. And sometimes what seems small holds everything that was missing.