Best Of Australian Shorts – 2021 Tour Huskisson
This programme is a specially curated selection of highlights from Flickerfest’s Australian Academy® Qualifying competition programmes in Bondi 2021.
Flickerfest, celebrating 30 years bringing you the Best of Australian Shorts ‘Great Short Film Never Dies’!
*This programme contains mature themes & is not recommended for children under 15.
Classification: Children under 15yrs must be accompanied by an adult.
*Times & Prices may change, please check with the venue.
Best of Australian Shorts – Added local highlight for Huskisson:
“NSW filmmaker Rebekah Jackson wri/dir/prod of ‘For The Girl In The Coffee Shop’ officially selected for Flickerfest in Bondi in 2020 & was scheduled to screen in Huskisson last year, will be included in this programme.
Rebekah is also the wri/dir of this year’s Flickerfest 2021 Festival Trailer.
Download: Best Of Australian Shorts 2021 tour Huskisson programme
Screening: On Tour | Running Time: 112 min | Classification: under 15yrs to be w/adult
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Roborovski
Roborovski follows an eponymous thimble sized hamster, who spends his days in Marvin’s Pet Shop, hoping to find a family. However, when he is constantly overlooked by the people and animals around him, his seething resentment and intense jealousy soon takes hold and the murderous side of little Roborovski is released
NSW PREMIERE- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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The End, The Beginning
In the picture-book town of Collector, a young girl and her gang of rogue environmentalists are trying to save the planet as the world goes into lockdown. The main target of the rebellion? The girl’s very own father.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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Sparkles
A 30-something-year-old Down Syndrome woman leaves her past behind, and runs away from a small country town, heading towards the city. Along her journey, she makes an unlikely friendship with a Drag Queen from the Outback, teaching us all not to be afraid to celebrate who we are.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 13min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us
Two rival pickpockets clash in an increasingly risky game of cat-&-mouse.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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System Error
Every day, George works his job at a dingy convenience store, desperately hoping for a friend – but George is also an immobile robotic service unit, and immobile service units do not have friends. Not yet anyway.
NSW PREMIERE- Runtime: 13min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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The Exit Plan
In an overpopulated future, an elderly woman is visited by a young government official to ensure she is complying with the government’s new “Exit Plan” policy, but, when he interrogates her further he soon realizes she has her own ‘plan’ for him.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 14min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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Furlough
FURLOUGH follows a day-in-the-life of two sisters, 16 and 17, who embark on an adventure tiptoeing the line between freedom and responsibility. What appears to be a dangerous game of living on the edge, is really about making the most of the fleeting, precious moments we have here on this earth.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 17min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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Wirun
A young Indigenous girl must dig deep to own her performance of a Shakespearean sonnet for her high school drama class.
NSW PREMIERE- Runtime: 9min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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For The Girl In The Coffee Shop
To get his book published, a hopeless romantic must divulge his true feelings to his muse; the only problem is that he’s never actually spoken to her before.
NSW PREMIERE
view For The Girl In The Coffee Shop trailer- Runtime: 9min
- Year: 2019
- Country: Australia