26th January 2025
After a highly successful 10 day festival at Bondi the 34th annual FLiCKERFEST International and Australian awards were announced this evening at a star-studded ceremony at Bondi Beach.
Attended by celebrated guests from the Australian film industry, filmmakers and jury, the Closing Night ceremony honoured the esteemed entrants in this year’s competition and FLiCKERFEST’s Academy® Qualifying Awards, including the Flickerfest Award for Best International Short Film, Yoram Gross Award for Best International Animation, Panasonic LUMIX Award for Best Australian Short Film & Flickerfest Award for Best Documentary.
The Flickerfest Short Film Awards continue to cement the festival’s global position as a leading International Short film festival on the world stage.
FLiCKERFEST’s Festival Director BRONWYN KIDD has said: “We are thrilled that the 34th Flickerfest 2025 has been such a success, with many filmmakers present to introduce their films, passionate crowds and great enthusiasm expressed for the programmes screened. It’s been great to see short films so warmly embraced by audiences across our ten-day event. I would like to congratulate all of the films selected for Flickerfest in competition this year, our jury for their dedication and all of tonight’s award winners.” Flickerfest will now hit the road on a 40+ venue national tour to all states and territories across Australia.
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24th January 2025
Today is the last day to catch incredible showcases from at home and around the world, as we share our final weekend of screenings in Bondi before heading off on our national tour!
At 1.30PM, don’t miss out on FlickerKids Shorts, a delightfully entertaining family programme that will appeal to the kid in everyone. Follow the forgetful squirrel in Master Painter Ernst as he almost goes nuts looking for his acorns, Snow Bear, the beautifully illustrated animation about a lonely polar bear on a quest to find a friend and Mog’s Christmas, a much-loved children’s book that has been brought to life in a hand-drawn special by the same name.
At 4PM, Celebrate the amazing talent of young filmmakers 18 and under at our FlickerUp Youth Shorts competition! Be introduced to the creative Bubble Boy in a short-short that’s just one minute long, Mama Grub featuring an old woman collecting gumnuts for her stew and Tomber: To Fall about a ballerina’s descent into madness following a career-threatening injury.
At 6.30PM, be the first to watch shorts from brilliant Indigenous filmmakers and their teams in our Indigenous Spotlight programme. See Echoes of Dissent about the late Anthony Martin Fernando, an Aboriginal man who protested Indigenous rights over a century ago in Europe and the intimate Ornmol about a remote community in the North-West of Australia and their preparations for a culture festival and this is your last chance to see the much spoken about, Fix-It-Man And Fix-It-Wooman, a brilliantly crafted animation about two soft sculptures trying to impress each other with their moves.
At 9PM, join us for a fun after-dark screening session at our beautiful outdoor cinema. The 2nd programme of Short Laughs Comedy will take you on a laugh out loud journey. Check out the outstandingly hilarious The Head On Him from Ireland about a boy who cuts off his fro to fit in, only to have it grow back and cause some problems, then watch 7 Minutes To Rice about the bizarre bunch of roommates who start a witch hunt because there’s not enough rice in the house! Last but not least catch acclaimed actor Damon Herriman in the much-loved, Candy Bar, directed by Nash Edgerton.
Don’t miss your last chance to catch Flickerfest Bondi on the big screen. Grab your tickets below!
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24th January 2025
It’s Friday and only 2 more days until our Closing Night and what an amazing festival its been! It’s a huge day for filmmaker career development, as our sold out FlickerLab presented by AFTRS returns for an all day journey from Shorts to features. From 10 am to 5pm we give a warm welcome to our AFTRS FlickerLab film industry expert panelists who come to meet and share their wisdom with our emerging filmmakers. Dive into a day of the creativity and business of content creation with Australian writers, directors, producers, actors, and industry experts! A huge thank you to our sponsors who have helped to make FlickerLab happen – Screen NSW, AFTRS and Screen Australia.
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23rd January 2025
It’s Thursday and Day 7 at Flickerfest and we may have just tipped over the midpoint of our festival, but there are still so many incredible films to experience that we can’t wait to share. And don’t forget nothing rains on Flickerfest’s short film parade! If the clouds are bursting our indoor theatre is cosy and beckoning.
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22nd January 2025
It’s Wednesday and day 6 at Flickerfest and we just tipped over our halfway point of the festival. We’ve had a fabulously successful festival so far and we are excited to still have lots of incredible sessions to share. Catch some of the most clever and inspiring short films in the last two screenings of our official competition today! And if you’ve been waiting to see yourself on the red carpet, check out the Opening Night party photo gallery HERE.
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21st January 2025
Tuesday is day four at Flickerfest and promises to be yet another fantastic collection of shorts that aren’t to be missed. At 6:30PM Our Best Of International Shorts 4 programme features The Cockroach a moving tale based on the film makers own life and the beautiful Hearts of Stone about two statues in love, starring Swedish actress Noomi Rapace (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo). At 9pm don’t miss our outdoor screening of the Best Of Australian Shorts 6, featuring the World Premiere of Pending Pick Up about friends Bethany and Miles who go on a rainy weekend adventure picking up Marketplace bargains and The Sax about a prodigious young saxophonist who discovers an unexpected truth about his teacher, and then about himself. View today’s full programme below and grab your tickets now!
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20th January 2025
The first 3 days of Flickerfest have been a huge success, with many sold out sessions, great enthusiasm for the films screened and so many excited filmmaker guests from Australia and the world sharing their films for the first time. We’ve had an awesome cinematic journey so far, with many more to come!
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19th January 2025
Thank you for joining Flickerfest this opening weekend – we were pleased to welcome film lovers to our Australian and International programmes in competition. We’ve travelled together from Australia to Belgium, Ireland to France and even to China and seen many unforgettable short films from the comfort of our stunning Bondi Pavilion cinema, with many more to come!
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18th January 2025
It didn’t rain on our parade and we charged ahead with three jam-packed indoor theatres of fabulous short films for the Opening Night of Flickerfest and it went off with a bang! Thank you to all who came to celebrate the launch at our Sold Out Opening Night event and for cutting shapes on the dance floor at the After Party. We were thrilled to welcome so many excited filmmakers, audience members and festival partners and share a taste of our festival to come over the next 9 days. So much fun was had and we received an enthusiastic reception to the films screened, loved by all in attendance. Stay tuned for opening night pics which are coming soon! We cant wait to kick off our Academy Qualifying Australian and International programs today. Read on for some weekend highlights. Ticket are selling fast so don’t miss out on yours!
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11th January 2025
Our Opening Night on Friday 17th January is totally sold out & tickets to all other sessions are selling fast.
For those lucky people who have tickets for Opening Night, if the weather is fine the Screening & After-Party will be held in the outdoor lawn cinema in the Bondi Pavilion courtyard.
If it is raining the Screening will take place upstairs in the Pavilion in both the Seagull Room & the Indoor Theatre; & the After-Party will take place in the High Tide Room.
Just 1 week to go til Flickerfest launches our 10 day smorgasbord of the best short films from Australia & the world.
We cant wait to share it with you!
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