Our First Weekend Highlights! Don’t Miss Incredible International, Australian & Doco Comp
TRAVEL THE WORLD AT FLiCKERFEST 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! Today we share our Best Of International Shorts 2 programme, featuring the beautiful Australian premiere of Chinese film, A Summer’s End Poem where a boy decides to spend all of his savings on a modern, city-slicking haircut. The result is surprising and this marks a change for the boy as he bids farewell to his childhood. Then we follow another bunch of kids in Game Rules from Sweden where a youth handball team comes up against professional players, talent scouts and sponsors when the real question is asked – who should be allowed to play?Sunday is Doco day at Flickerfest and today we have 2 programmes of exceptional Documentary shorts in our Oscar-qualifying competition to share at 4pm and 6.30pm. Highlights include Echoes of Dissent from the brilliant Indigenous filmmaker Dylan Nicholls which attempts to piece together the life story of Anthony Martin Fernando; an Aboriginal man who protested Indigenous rights over a century ago in Europe. Also screening is The Way Home a tale about a cucumber farmer who is firmly against Stalin’s forced collectivism of all the farms in 1930s Ukraine.Then we explore the beautifully crafted story from Germany called Mama Micra about a mother who put her independence ahead of anything, even if this meant living in her tiny car for almost 10 years. As she gets older and can’t drive any more, there’s finally a chance for her daughter and her to reconnect. Another family-centres flick is Am I The Skinniest Person You’ve Ever Seen? written about sisters and soulmates who explore the world of dieting together.View today’s full programme, last tickets are still available so book them now!
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– MONDAY HIGHLIGHTS –
BEST OF INTERNATIONAL SHORTS 3
At 6.30pm enjoy the Best Of International Shorts 3 programme starting with Oscar shortlisted animation, Maybe Elephants – a fun, upbeat, animated short from Canadian director, Torill Kove about three rebellious teenage daughters and their parents who go on an adventure in Nairobi to find themselves.
Keeping up the vibe is The Cascade, a quirky and heartfelt story of a man who has discovered he’s been crying for several months without even noticing. But strangely his tear ducts have decided to work in an inverse manner, transforming his interiors into a waterfall.
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BEST OF AUSTRALIAN SHORTS 5
At 9pm, book your tickets to the Best Of Australian Shorts 5, featuring the best of Australian short films in competition. In the deeply reflective world premiere of Why We Fight, director Danielle Cormack lands us in an aspiring teen boxer’s life who has overcome a lot, but in a moment, he realises his biggest fight. Then we move onto yet another world premiere of Mr. Wonderful where a young man races through early adulthood as he tries to find his childhood dog and finally we enter a funny, unusual and entertaining story in 7 Minutes To Rice where 7 housemates prepare separate meals as they wait for rice to cook, but they soon realise, there isn’t enough rice!
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