An evening of shorts, courtesy of Flickerfest, even at a lustrous cinema like the Kino in the Sofitel complex off Collins Street, is bound to be a mixed experience because the short film is a form that allows a director to try things out. But James Menelaus Rush’s Tadpoles – a moving evocation of the strangeness and beauty of other creatures from the rapt perspective of childhood – is an expertly composed piece of work, full of feeling and truth.