Rainbow Shorts 2018
40 years after the first Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, Australia voted YES! to marriage equality. Flickerfest is celebrating LGBTQI+ stories from around the world in our first ever Rainbow Shorts program curated by award winning queer filmmaker Craig Boreham.
Screening: Sat 20 Jan, 6.30pm | Duration: 103 min | Classification: under 15 yrs to be w/adult
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Avec Thelma (With Thelma)
An Icelandic volcano has blocked air traffic and Thelma’s parents are stuck overseas. Until planes start flying across the sky again, Jean Vincent and Thelma share the same roof.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 13min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Belgium
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Pre-Drink
Alexe is a young trans woman, and CARL a gay man. Best friends since forever, an evening spent together destabilizes ALEXE, when both decide to have sex together for the first time.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 23min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Canada
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Wren Boys
On the day after Christmas, a Catholic priest from Cork drives his nephew to prison.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 11min
- Year: 2017
- Country: United Kingdom
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Paupiere Mauve (Iris)
Emanuelle is training on her stationary bike but she can’t get her mind off the image of Laura.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 10min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Canada
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I Live Here
In his first weekend of living in the place he’s always dreamed of, Stevie is excited to get out and explore the Bay Area.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 18min
- Year: 2017
- Country: United States
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Pop Rox
Jesse, an Iranian-American teenage girl, finally decides to tell her best friend, Roxanne, that she’s in love with her.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 14min
- Year: 2017
- Country: United States
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Little Potato
An autobiographical short about a boy growing up gay in the Soviet Union, his mail-order-bride Mum and their adventurous escape to America.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 14min
- Year: 2017
- Country: United States