But it’s time for you to scrap your preconceived anti-everything that comes along with winter, and get a good warming from the Bayside Film Festival. With its dynamic, life-affirming selection of short films and documentaries from Australia and abroad, the ninth annual is guaranteed to banish those winter blues!
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