FlickerUp Youth Shorts – 2026
The finalists short films in our National Youth competition for school students & filmmakers eighteen years & under.
Screening: Sat 31 Jan, 4pm | Runtime: 112 mins | Classification: PG
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Greedy Hands
What would you ask a magic robot that grants wishes?
- Runtime: 3min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Running Away
Ignored by his busy older brother, a bored 13-year-old decides to run away, but while packing, he finds a forgotten card game they made as kids.
- Runtime: 5min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Ego
A music video exploring Sigmund Freud’s “Id, Ego and Superego” theory.
- Runtime: 3min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Something Bigger
The story of two friends and their love for e-biking, shining a little light on what it’s like to grow up, embrace friendship, life, and letting go.
- Runtime: 8min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Man Of The Match
Ever since he was a little kid, Lachy has aspired to become a soccer star. While he is practising his skills one afternoon, Lachy imagines he is Lionel Messi and that his backyard is a large soccer pitch.
- Runtime: 1min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Light In Dark Places
After a near-fatal accident, Beau is thrust into an out-of-body experience where confronting the darkest places within himself becomes the only way back to life and the light he’s been searching for.
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Technoference
A cautionary tale on the insidious nature of technological addiction and humanity’s growing unhealthy dependence on it in contemporary society.
- Runtime: 8min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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The Hunt
Henry and Grace, find themselves on an Easter Egg Hunt at a haunted headland, but are they the ones hunting or being hunted?
- Runtime: 4min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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A Glimpse Of Her
A photographer, obsessed, detached from reality. One day, he stumbles upon a subject that triggers his unresolved past.
- Runtime: 4min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Dreaming Boats
A boy sees a boat that cannot be submerged into water, he wakes up and walks across a field and finds a newspaper which he folds into a paper boat. He runs to a stream and places the paper boat inside of it.
- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Colo(u)rful 3D Square
Every day is normal in his black and white world, until it shows up.
- Runtime: 6min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Sentio Ergo Sum
An AI is conditioned to consider human nature and explore her own mind-scape, situated in an introspective world of self-doubt as she is challenged by her own artificiality.
- Runtime: 8min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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The Weight Of Water
A traumatised teen faces a compulsory school swim test as past and present collide, revealing a life-altering loss caused by migrant inexperience with the duality of Australia’s coastline: beauty and danger.
- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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The One Underneath
In the stillness of the 1800s, before the noise of modern distractions, a young girl wanders through untouched landscapes, offering gratitude to Mother Earth.
- Runtime: 2min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Time To See
A teenage girl who wakes up in a plain, empty room. She puts on a VR headset and is thrown into a virtual world.
- Runtime: 4min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Red String (紅線)
Two lovers find themselves bound together by fate through a red string, exploring their relationship through high school to adulthood.
- Runtime: 4min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Turn Off The Lights
A young girl struggles with her fear of the dark, she conjures sounds and voices, whispering and calling her from the shadows.
- Runtime: 1min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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