Sarah and Paul’s best friends tell them the great news – they’re getting divorced. Unable to understand why their happily married friends are untying the knot, Sarah and Paul start to analyse their own marriage with disastrous consequences.
Emeteria, 85, is visited by the ghost of her patron, Teodoro. She believes he has come to take her to the afterlife, but he has more devastating news.
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Tim, putting the final touches on his ‘Vol 7 – Songs for and about Em’ CD mix (his annual anniversary gift to the love of his life), joyfully discovers a letter from Emma’s gynaecologist. It can only mean the good news that she is pregnant – something they have been trying to do for a long time. Playful banter quickly descends into harsh accusations as they dance around each other, searching for the truth, seemingly too ugly to bear. Alone, Tim comes upon a mother and son and in their interaction, realises what Emma had really done. What appeared to be betrayal was, in truth, the highest love and greatest sacrifice.
A man wakes up at a clinic specialized in malignant hangovers. The doctor prescribes 600 ml of ice cream and two action comedies, but also shares some news, which doesn’t make him feel any better… AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Marcos and his wife Alma are infected, though that much isn’t obvious at first glance. They have become afflicted by a bizarre dancing pandemic, which has compelled them (and the other people in town) to dance nonstop for days on end. The good news? Marcos has found a cure…
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When Oscar and his sister receive the news of their parents divorce, they have to do everything in their power to stop it from happening.
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19th January 2020
…fest Day Winner: Lydia Rui for This Perfect Day Prize: $1000 AUD SAE FLiCKERUP AWARDS SAE Creative Media Institute FlickerUp Award Best High School Short Film Winner – Miles Apart Producer: Deborah Cave Director: Sam Sperling Prize: $500 Yoram Gross FlickerUp Award Best High School Animated Short Film Winner – Let Me In, Let Me In Producer/Director: Elliot Gibson Prize: $250 AUD Avid FlickerUp Award Best Editing in a High School Short Film Winner…
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Eight filmmakers with intellectual disability interview their parents about what it was like when doctors delivered the news of their diagnosis.
1st July 2022
…reamings. They are magurrmagurr (dragonfly), langgurna (magpie goose), ngurru (catfish) and ngakngak (white-breasted sea eagle). When I paint these things I like to tell their stories to my children and grandchildren’. National Tour Dates FLiCKERFEST ON THE ROAD TO NARRABRI! We cap off our July screenings with a return to The Crossing Theatre in Narrabri on Thursday 28th July with two jam-packed programmes, the Best of Australian Shorts at 5pm and…
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…31st year of screening the best short films from Australia and around the world across our competition and special showcase programmes once again on Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach. Join us on the red carpet in Bondi this January! ON TOUR WESTERN DOWNS QLD THIS OCTOBER In other news Flickerfest is winding up our tour around the country but we still have some very special venues to go including 4 towns across Western Downs Queensland this October for…
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