Flickering into the New Year | Take A Trip Around The World!
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE FLiCKERFEST TEAM!
As we launch into 2025 we want to wish you all, our film-loving friends, a healthy, happy, fun & film-filled year ahead.
With just 2 weeks until Flickerfest hits the big screen, 17th to 26th January, we can’t wait for you to join us at the stunningly, revamped Bondi Pavilion, both in our palm-fringed lawn cinema under the stars and in the comfy air conditioned indoor theatre, offering an enticing summer festival venue befitting the incredible cinema on offer.
With over 215 shorts screening across 24 competitive programmes and showcase sessions, Flickerfest 2025 features a glittering line-up in an astounding programme of the best short films from at home and the world selected from a record 3,500 entries.
Tickets are very limited and selling fast! So get in quick to secure yours now.
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FLiCKERFEST 2025 OPENING NIGHT GALA!
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Join the filmmakers and stars on the red carpet under the stars at iconic Bondi Beach for the Flickerfest 2025 Opening Night Gala. Choose a screening only ticket to catch an eclectic and inspiring preview screening of festival highlights or grab a very limited ticket to both the screening and fully catered opening night after party and relax after the screening, as you mingle with the stars of the film industry at our Flickerfest palm-fringed bar in the Bondi Pavilion, Lawn Courtyard.
DJ extraordinaire and Vivid Music director Stephen Ferris will be pumping out his legendary tunes and you can savour the delicious catering from Doughboy pizza, whilst enjoying an amazing selection of beverages from our generous sponsors Rosnay Organic Wine, Gage Roads Brewing, Karma Drinks and delicious cocktails from Bondi Liquor Co.
Get your tickets now and come and join us for what promises to be a superstar opening night of shorts to launch Flickerfest’s inspiring festival of shorts for 2025!
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FLiCKERKIDS SHOWCASE PROGRAMME!
Our delightful programme of 8 shorts for shorties and families that will appeal to the kid in everyone includes the charming Australian film M-8, about young Ruby and her new creation, a support robot named ‘M-8’.and the sweet and heartwarming Snow Bear, where a polar bear goes on a fantastic journey to find a friend.
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TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION IN OUR DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION PROGRAMMES
Catch two inspiring programmes featuring 16 amazing real stories from at home and across the globe, all vying for the prestigious Academy Qualifying award for Best Documentary Short. Highlights include the world premiere of the stunning Ornmol set in Kupungarri, WA.
Watch the excitement grow as they prepare for the annual Mowanjum Festival and journey to the magic of Orkney and the mind of Scottish composer Erland Cooper in the enchanting Recomposing Earth.
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JOURNEY ACROSS EUROPE WITH THE EU SHORT FILM SHOWCASE!
Don’t miss this incredible cinematic celebration of all things Euro and Flickerfest in this programme showcasing the best of moving and entertaining shorts from the European Union countries, all competing for the EU Delegation to Australia Award for Best EU Short Film. Highlights include the surprising and funny Beautiful Men from Belgium, currently shortlisted for an Oscar and the intimate family drama This Is Not A Character This is Betrayal, revealing a novelist sons desire to leave behind his mother and his working class background, but at who’s cost?
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CATCH THE BEST SHORT FILMS FROM ACROSS AUSTRALIA!
An incredible 64 shorts from across Oz are in the running for the Oscar Qualifying Panasonic Lumix Award for Best Australian Short Film across 7 sessions.
Be the first to discover this year’s most incredible homegrown stories, many enjoying their world premieres, including the outstanding drama The Audition set in Sydney and following a young Kurdish Australian singer Milan, the offbeat comedy Glove, the directorial debut of actress Belinda Bromilow and multi talented Nash Edgerton’s new short Candy Bar, starring acclaimed Australian actor Damon Herriman.
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TRAVEL ACROSS THE GLOBE THIS FLiCKERFEST!
Watch 36 shorts from countries far and wide that will make you shed a tear, laugh-out-loud or inspire you in our prestigious Academy Qualifying International Competition, all enjoying their Australian premieres, including the stunning Hearts Of Stone from Belgium starring Swedish actress, Lisbeth Salander (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), the unforgettable Irish film Me And Dad and the exquisite and moving UK film Rhubarb Rhubarb, starring BAFTA best Actress Joanna Scanlan, (Wicked Little Letters).
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