Rainbow Shorts – 2026
Flickerfest is celebrating LGBTQI+ stories from around the world in our 9th year of Rainbow Shorts, curated by award winning queer filmmaker Craig Boreham.
Screening: Fri 30 Jan, 6.30pm | Runtinme: 123 mins | Classification: under 15 yrs to be w/adult
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Bleat!
An elderly Malaysian-Tamil couple discovers their male goat, set for ceremonial slaughter, is pregnant. Torn between faith and the expectations of their community, they struggle to decide whether to slaughter it or face the wrath of the gods.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Malaysia, Philippines
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Two Black Boys In Paradise
A movingly tender animation, based on Dean Atta’s eponymous poem, sees two boys (Edan, 19 and Dula, 18) on a journey of self-acceptance and love – for each other and themselves. “The whole project is an ode to belonging. And how complicated, difficult and messy that journey is. It’s an ode to love. Which is and will always be the greatest anything that life has to offer.”
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 9min
- Year: 2025
- Country: UK
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Mardochi
Vincent returns from Rabat, where he has failed to find the childhood home of his father, who left Morocco at independence. On the way to the hospital where his father is dying, Vincent meets Ahmed, a Moroccan student.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 27min
- Year: 2025
- Country: France
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Casi Septiembre
Casi Septiembre follows Alejandra, a young girl who lives year-round with her family in a Camping Resort. The story explores her struggle with the fear of abandonment, especially as a new romance with a Madrilenian tourist brings these insecurities to the surface.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 30min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Spain
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Purebred
During a heatwave, a transgender man returns to the flat of his on-off-again lover after taking a pregnancy test.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Ireland, UK
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I’m The Most Racist Person I Know
When Lali unexpectedly ends up on a date with another woman of colour for the first time, it unravels prejudices she has long ignored.
- Runtime: 13min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Sleazy Tiger
Hopeless but horny romantic Alan is determined to do things differently on his date with vegan hottie Blair who he thinks might be his future husband. But when Blair gives Alan a jar of homemade kimchi, Alan gets aroused and finds himself in Horny Hell, struggling to find the line between metaphor and reality and even reckoning with his inner Alan Cumming on his quest to get back to his date.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 14min
- Year: 2024
- Country: UK