FlickerLab | LGBTQAI+ Rainbow Shorts | LoveBites On Screen & more…Final Weekend!

24th January 2025

FRIDAY FAVOURITES IN RAINBOW SHORTS AND LOVEBITES PROGRAMMES 

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. 

At 6:30PM we fly the rainbow flag and celebrate Rainbow LGBTQAI+ shorts, with a spectacularly curated programme by the one and only queer filmmaker, Craig Boreham. Check out the singing, dancing Dragfox or follow the story of a Chinese woman who goes to extreme lengths to hide her daughter’s secrets in Three or perhaps Pleasure about two boys running a muck on a summer’s night, only to find themselves in an unexpected moment of intimacy. 

Then at 9PM, spend the night under the stars and experience the joyful and romantic at our stunning LoveBites Shorts. Catch Australian film Love Ya Baby to see how a piano as a birthday present isn’t received quite as well as expected, from NZ Cold Feet which features a six-minute continuous take before a bride walks down the aisle or maybe the delightful French film Loverdance about Simon and Lola who meet at a 24-hour dance marathon.And don’t forget nothing rains on Flickerfest’s short film parade! If the clouds are bursting our indoor theatre is cosy and beckoning.View today’s full programme and grab your tickets below!


At 1.30PM, embark on an adventurous and fun journey with our uplifting and delightful kids focused session! Head to space and catch Alone about a solitary robot who diligently tends to human incubators and creates a new companion to keep his company, Wishes: Windows & Nests about Lulu who realised that other people’s wishes are the most precious of all as she goes on her way to solve a problem for some local birds with her guardian-creature, Kino. Then enjoy the French animated short Baking With Boris as a baker suddenly becomes allergic to flour and has to find a way to still bake for the community! This family session is not-to-be-missed.


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FLiCKERUP YOUTH SHORTS

At 4PM, dive into our National Youth competition FlickerUp and be amazed by emerging talent 18 and under. Don’t miss out on the charming and delightful Hoppy about 13-year-old Arlo who visits his Nanna in England, only to find she’s made a friend with a one-legged seagul, Gravaré about a lonely android in a post-apocalyptic world and Anahera in an exploration of identity and childhood growing up as a mixed race person away from one’s home country.


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INDIGENOUS SPOTLIGHT SHORTS

At 6.30PM, delve into the stories of our most creative Indigenous talent with our Indigenous Spotlight programme with powerful stories screening such as Hydraulic about a father who takes his son on a wild goose chase to kill a cow for supper, the eye opening Senior Woman, Young Woman about intergenerational relationships between Aboriginal women, their kinship system and their living connection to country or Farm Block A67 about a young aboriginal woman with 48 hours and a busted up car who has to keep a sacred promise made to her mother. 


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SHORT LAUGHS COMEDY 2

At 9PM, brighten up your weekend with some laugh out loud comedy in our Short Laughs Comedy 2 Showcase. Watch Oasis about a Dad who becomes stuck under an ice-cream vendor’s umbrella and is asked to pay rent, the crazy and inspired, Nip It In The Bud about a woman who gets more than she bargained for when she finds a long hair on her chin and the utterly hilarious Grave Error about Emma who has to get her life back on track after an administrative error leaves her legally dead. 

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