Best of Australian Shorts – 2022 Tour Adelaide
This programme is a specially curated selection of highlights from Flickerfest’s Australian Academy® Qualifying competition programmes in Bondi 2022.
Flickerfest, celebrating 31 years bringing you the Best of Australian Shorts ‘A Kaleidoscopic Carnival Of Short Films’!
*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 Tour programme – Adelaide (pdf)
Adelaide films ‘Assets’, ‘Shiny One’, ‘Get A Life’, ‘Farmers’ & ‘The Better Angels’ officially selected for Flickerfest in Bondi are included for this programme.
View: Best Of Australian Shorts Tour sizzle reel – Adelaide
Screening: On Tour | Running Time: 116 min | Classification: under 15yrs to be w/adult
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Object Of Life
Object of Life is a playful critique of our life long love of things, giving a new take on an old Greek Myth wrapped in some serious Balkan Brass.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 3min
- Year: 2021
- Country: Australia
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Assets
When a burnt-out mum takes the plunge to return to work, she must prove to a mysterious interview panel she’s up to the job.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2021
- Country: Australia
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You And Me, Before And After
Two adult sisters who love each other learn to like each other while getting their first tattoos.
NSW PREMIERE- Runtime: 11min
- Year: 2021
- Country: Australia
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Shiny One
A young man dreams of escaping his bush community and finding riches, but soon learns that wealth comes in many forms.
- Runtime: 10min
- Year: 2021
- Country: Australia
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The Home Team
A romantic plumber and his unblinking wife are the only survivors of a suicide space cult. Two decades after the others went Next Level, they’re still wearing capes, still trying to recruit members, and still not having sex. When a cancer scare forces them to face involuntary mortality, they rediscover the transcendent things down here on The Human Level. (starring Paul McDermott & Tara Morice)
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 25min
- Year: 2021
- Country: Australia
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The Better Angels
A young soldier trying to escape the horrors of war, finds an abandoned house and within its walls the stories of what might have been.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 13min
- Year: 2021
- Country: Australia
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Get a Life
Technology has made it possible to rise from the dead, so when an uninspired man is mistakenly given a second chance at life he hopes to settle back into his old life with his loving girlfriend – only problem is, she’s already moved on.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 11min
- Year: 2021
- Country: Australia
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Farmers
Three aliens buy a farm in rural Australia.
NSW PREMIERE- Runtime: 18min
- Year: 2021
- Country: Australia
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Shark
Completing the trilogy of wickedly dark comedy shorts that began with Spider and Bear, Nash Edgerton’s Jack finds a perfect match in Rose Byrne as Sofie.
- Runtime: 14min
- Year: 2021
- Country: Australia
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Wanmari
A Ngalakgan woman from Ngukurr, NT, just wants to catch a nailfish at her favourite fishing spot, Wanmari. But her family are thwarting her plans. When she sees an eagle, her grandfather’s dreaming, she remembers to use the knowledge she has of Country and soon, good luck comes her way.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 4min
- Year: 2021
- Country: Australia