Best of Australian Shorts – 2023 Tour Brisbane

This programme is a specially curated selection of highlights from Flickerfest’s Australian Academy® Qualifying competition programmes in Bondi 2023.

Flickerfest, celebrating 32 years bringing you the Best of Australian Shorts.
‘It’s Great Short Films, It’s On Tour, It’s The Vibe’!

*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.

Queensland films, ‘An Ostrich Told Me The World Is Fake & I Think I Believe It’, ‘Generations Of Men’, ‘A Stretching Moment’, ‘Katele (Mudskipper)’, ‘Solitude’ & ‘Crushing Season’, all officially selected for Flickerfest in Bondi are included in this programme.

Screening: On Tour | Running Time: 105 min | Classification: under 15yrs to be w/adult

Married At First Fleet

Married at First Fleet follows a modern day 18th Century couple. Individuals matched together according to their common interests, attractiveness and lack of diseases.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Director: Blythe Ashton
- Writer: Blythe Ashton, Dan Pavatich, Benny Eggmolesse
- Producer: Darren Ashton, Blythe Ashton
- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2022
- Country: Australia
An Ostrich Told Me The World Is Fake And I Think I Believe It

When a young telemarketer is confronted by a mysterious talking ostrich, he learns that the universe is stop motion animation. He must put aside his dwindling toaster sales and focus on convincing his colleagues of his terrifying discovery.

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- Director: Lachlan Pendragon
- Writer: Lachlan Pendragon
- Producer: Lachlan Pendragon
- Runtime: 11min
- Year: 2021
- Country: Australia
Generations Of Men

In pre-federation Australia, a young girl travelling to the Queensland bush is forced to witness the terrifying yet powerful potential of the female body. starring Brenna Harding
- Director: Joanna Joy
- Writer: Aunty Nicky Hatfield, Margaret Hornagold
- Producer: Elizabeth Simard, Lelarnie Hatfield-Yasso
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2022
- Country: Australia
A Stretching Moment

A coffee shop employee’s life is upturned when a strange premonition warns him about the end of his world as he knows it.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Director: Ashley Dighton
- Writer: Ashley Dighton
- Producer: Jordi Wareham
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2022
- Country: Australia
Katele (Mudskipper)

Martha, a Torres Strait Islander woman works tirelessly in a laundromat loading machines and folding washing, ready for the collection of her boss. When a mysterious visitor arrives, Martha is reminded of the life she has left behind.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Director: John Harvey
- Writer: John Harvey, Walter Waia
- Producer: Gillian Moody
- Runtime: 14min
- Year: 2022
- Country: Australia
Solitude

When an intoxicating friendship between two childhood friends becomes suffocating for one, a resurfacing old secret reveals the dark nature of their codependency
WORLD PREMIERE
- Director: Maia Jorgensen
- Writer: Maia Jorgensen
- Producer: Daniel Da-Rin De-Barbera, Maia Jorgensen
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2023
- Country: Australia
Crushing Season

When a disgraced ex-football star witness a murder in his hometown committed by an old friend, he finds his life at a dangerous crossroads.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

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- Director: James Ivor
- Writer: James Ivor
- Producer: James Ivor
- Runtime: 13min
- Year: 2022
- Country: Australia
Wonder Down Under

Barb Barrett is a superhero. Or, at least she used to be. Now she must overcome her toughest challenge yet and rejoin the workforce in her fifties.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Director: Declan Arrighi
- Writer: Declan Arrighi
- Producer: Pippa Whishaw, Declan Arrighi, Michael Gosden, Isabella Torv
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2022
- Country: Australia