8th May 2024
…hs Comedy presents a clever off-kilter selection of shorts from across the world. Highlights include the unexpected and delightful French animation Spoon. From Australia, laugh-out-loud at Flickerfest Alumni Jesse Vogelaar’s latest short film Room For One More. Australian comedy also shines with the fun outback tale The Bank Manager, a delightfully entertaining short based on the true events of a 1932 bank heist in Cloncurry and enjoy the highly h…
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1st September 2023
…Hobart in the early 2000’s. Director Danielle Baynes, who was awarded the BRUNY20 Artist Fellowship, shot her short film Ghost Gear on Bruny Island, utilizing local cast, crew and the stunning landscape, this dramatic story follows two fractured parents and their adventurous 8-year-old, who are haunted by a surprising discovery on a family holiday. Cygnet Tickets SAVE THE DATE: LATER IN SEPT & EARLY OCTOBER Last 3 National Tour Venues! Cairns, Can…
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20th December 2021
…rty, Flickerfest’s not to be missed ten day event will present some of the world’s best short films from Australia and the world on the big screen, showcasing some of the most innovative, provocative and widely entertaining short films the world has to offer. Bringing them to the relaxed and iconic environment of Bondi Beach this summer in partnership with Waverley Council, in a bespoke festival garden complete with outdoor lawn cinema, The Famous…
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19th December 2022
…eceives an incredible range of quality entries from at home and across the world; a testimony to the fact that Flickerfest is one of the world’s leading and most respected platforms for short films. The shorts in competition at Flickerfest are fiercely vying for a number of prestigious, Academy® Qualifying prizes including – The Flickerfest Award for Best International Short Film The Yoram Gross Award for Best International Animation The Panason…
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4th January 2024
…OM ACROSS AUSTRALIA! An incredible 62 shorts from across Oz will be in the running for the Academy® Qualifying Panasonic Australia LUMIX Award for Best Australian Short Film.Highlights include the world premiere of the outstanding drama Unspoken, set in the 80s amongst the Australian Croatian community and starring an incredible ensemble cast, written/directed by critically acclaimed actor, director and Flickerfest Alumni Damian Walshe-Howling and…
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In April of 2013, American singer Patti Smith travels to the grave of French writer Jean Genet in Larache, Morocco. She brings him three stones, which she collected for him over 30 years ago.
- Director: Frieder Schlaich, Patti Smith
- Writer:
- Producer: Irene von Alberti, Karim Debbagh
- Running Time: 7 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Germany-Morocco
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Jesse, an Iranian-American teenage girl, finally decides to tell her best friend, Roxanne, that she’s in love with her.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Director: Nate Trinrud
- Writer: Alyssa Lerner
- Producer: Benjamin Paulides
- Runtime: 14min
- Year: 2017
- Country: United States
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Arizona 2016, the portray of an american family at the Mexican border.
- Director: Fiona Godivier
- Writer: Fiona Godivier, Thymaya Payne
- Producer: Adrian Salpeter, Elizabeth Levine, Michael Tubbs, Joaquin Phoenix, Fiona Godivier
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2016
- Country: United States
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American Horror Story’s Jamie Brewer stars as Sonja, a woman with an intellectual disability who forms an unlikely friendship with a Sudanese refugee through their mutual love of KRUMP.
NSW PREMIERE
- Director: Genevieve Clay-Smith
- Writer: Genevieve Clay-Smith
- Producer: Genevieve Clay-Smith, Erin Black, Eleanor Winkler, Karen Burdett
- Runtime: 16min
- Year: 2016
- Country: Australia
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It’s 1996 and young Gloria Harrison’s life is out of control, she is 17, pregnant and in labour and decides the best way to get to the hospital is to buy a new car. She doesn’t realise it yet, but the agonising process of buying a car will not only allow her to give birth to a new person but become one herself. Based on Gloria’s Harrison’s true story, originally heard on This American Life.
Stars: Liv Hewson (Santa Clarita Diet & Top of The Lake) & Tara Morice (Strictly Ballroom & Dance Academy)
NSW PREMIERE
- Director: Julietta Boscolo
- Writer: Julietta Boscolo
- Producer: Eva Di Blasio | Exec Producer: Robyn Kershaw
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2016
- Country: Australia
