Flickerfest 2025 Launches In Style – Don’t Miss Our First Weekend’s Highlights!

18th January 2025

FLiCKERFEST 2025 KICKS OFF WITH A BANG!

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! 


SUPER SATURDAY AT FLiCKERFEST The juries in the house and today’s programmes includes unforgettable shorts from at home and around the globe.At 4pm, 6.30pm and 9pm the Best Of Australian Shorts 1, 2 & 3 will delight. Be uplifted, inspired, and moved by the next generation of the world’s and Australia’s most talented filmmakers,.We are proud to welcome International and local filmmakers introducing their films today and during the 10-day festival! Book your tickets to meet them and learn more about their films.Check out today’s programmes. 


SUNDAY HIGHLIGHTS

BEST OF INTERNATIONAL SHORTS 2

At 1.30 pm enjoy the Best Of International Shorts 2 in our air-conditioned theatre at Bondi Pavilion. Highlights include the funny and clever No More Pool Time where a new pool owner finds himself in a moral dilemma between a promise kept between himself and his daughter and helping his new partner’s charity event for a water project in Africa. Then dive into My Mother is a Cow, an Australian Premiere by Moara Passoni of Brazil. This story depicts Mia, a child who’s left in her aunt’s care on a family ranch, on the edge of the burning Brazilian wetlands. Mia is only 12 and desperate for her mother’s love whilst being in fear of a jaguar coming to eat her family. But in a beautiful series of events, love comes to her in a beautiful way…


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BEST OF DOCUMENTARY SHORTS 1

At 4PM on Sun 19, book your tickets to the Best Of Documentary Shorts 1, featuring the best of International & Australian Documentary short films in competition, with International & Australian filmmakers vying for the prestigious Flickerfest Academy Qualifying Award for Best Documentary. Recomposing Earth (UK) features scenes of Orkney where the only recording of Scottish composer Erland Cooper’s unheard album lies, under two feet of soil. This thought-provoking film taps into the mind of an artist and the magic of the Orkney Islands. Interviews feature with Paul Weller and Sir Ian Rankin. 
Also featuring is The Conversation, a World Premiere depicting Judith who suspected she was secretly adopted but had always been too afraid to ask her mother. A short but intriguing tale re-creating this important conversation. 


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BEST OF DOCUMENTARY 2 SHORTS

At 6.30 pm on Sun 19 join us for the screening of Best Of Documentary Shorts 2, in competition. Portugese short, Percebes and a recent Oscar nominee for this year is set in the beautiful Algarve region where we follow the life of a special shellfish or goose barnacle called Percebes. Through exploring this unique creature, we learn more about the region and those who reside in it. 

Then we fly over to Norway where filmmaker Dina Mwende has created With Grace, a film about a 13-year-old girl with big dreams and the rare and beautiful gift of making everyone around her laugh. We look into her childhood years with her close-knit family in Kenya and how they overcame many obstacles together.


BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 4 SHORTS

At 9 pm, enjoy the Best Of Australian Shorts 4, under the stars, featuring the best of Australian short films in competition. Our home-grown talent battle it out for the prestigious Panasonic Award for Award for Best Australian Short Film, Academy Qualifying. Highlights include the bizarre but wonderful Glove. When Isobel, the lead character orgasms, she produces knitted scraps of wool from her mouth. She accepts her idiosyncrasy and continues to secretly steal lambs to feed her strange habit. But then an unlikely encounter leaders to soulmates finding one another and a heartfelt connection is discovered.

And don’t miss the worrisome but fascinating Locked In, a contemporary tale based in yours truly, Bondi Beach where Gemma has her first shift at a bar. All goes smoothly until she realises she’s a part of a initiation game…


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