Director: James Vaughan

　　Country/Region: Australia

　　Synopsis: Friends and Strangers is a surreal comedy-drama that explores displacement, disconnection and ennui in contemporary Australia through the eyes of two upper-middle class millennials.Boldly framed and delicately layered, the film presents several sketches from life as experienced by Alice and Ray, two nearly-thirty drifters born into privilege but seemingly incapable of navigating the featureless ocean of casual employment, limp romances and half-assed entrepreneurial schemes.Gingerly abandoning teenage daydreams of careers in the arts, both are grasping for a way to channel their advantages into something meaningful. But in a society built on simulated images, words, ideologies, choices...Where can authenticity be found?This meandering, pensive search for the unfindable, and the misadventures that follow, cuts to the heart of Friends and Strangers.