Best of Australian Shorts – 2024 Tour Cairns
This programme is a specially curated selection of highlights from Flickerfest’s Australian Academy® Qualifying competition programmes in Bondi 2024.
Flickerfest, celebrating 33 years bringing you the Best of Australian Shorts.
‘Everyone’s Invited!’
*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.
**Local films may replace listed films below, in some venues.
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Screening: On Tour | Running Time: 114 min | Classification: under 15yrs to be w/adult
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Just Beneath The Surface
On a fishing trip, a man struggles with a strange and menacing ocean. Will he fight against nature’s forces, or submit to its power?
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
View trailer- Runtime: 5min
- Year: 2023
- Country: Australia
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Darwin Story
Lee returns to Darwin from London when her mum is taken ill. After a chance encounter, there’s an opportunity to reflect on the past, but is she ready to think differently about the beautiful place she calls home?
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
View trailer- Runtime: 9min
- Year: 2023
- Country: Australia
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Cordelia, Daughter Of The Sea
A father delivers a wedding speech to his one and only offspring on her wedding day.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 9min
- Year: 2023
- Country: Australia
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Cold Water
Inspired by true events. Set in St Kilda, Australia, an elderly woman’s peaceful retirement is interrupted when her husband takes up a bizarre new hobby.
NSW PREMIERE
View trailer- Runtime: 20min
- Year: 2023
- Country: Australia
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Sideswipe
When relationship guy Louis gets dumped by his long-term girlfriend, the 30-something year old is left to navigate a brave new world of hookup culture. Desperate not to die alone, Louis swipes right for a frivolous fling while best friend Cam ditches the apps to manufacture her own Hollywood-style romance. The pair divide and conquer at a local bar and in one chaotic afternoon they learn that love is no longer blind, it just swipes left.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 14min
- Year: 2023
- Country: Australia
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Favourites
Two parents face an impossible choice when their family camping trip turns deadly.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
View trailer- Runtime: 5min
- Year: 2023
- Country: Australia
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Yeah The Boys
Yeah the Boys follows six young Aussie men as they sink beers over an afternoon and well into the night. Emoting only through movement; lewd gestures, chokeholds, crowd surfs, and chugging shoeys, they somehow say everything without uttering a single word. Equal parts larrikin, brutal, and tender, this choreographic short film scored by The Avalanches is an observation of Australian masculine identity and our nation’s relationship with drinking culture.
WORLD PREMIERE
View trailer- Runtime: 8min
- Year: 2023
- Country: Australia
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Fences
When his son sends an AI version of himself to mend the fences on the family property, an ageing farmer must adapt to the change, or else lose his relationship with his son entirely. Starring Indigenous actor Meyne Wyatt and Scottish-Australian actor Colin Friels.
WORLD PREMIERE
View trailer- Runtime: 11min
- Year: 2023
- Country: Australia
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Djalbuyan Nahra
Djalbuyan, meaning little sister in the first nations Dyirbal language follows the story of Nahra. Taken from her community, Nahra returns home to confront past traumas and reconnect with her people, land, and waters after 8 years away.
NSW PREMIERE
View trailer- Runtime: 5min
- Year: 2023
- Country: Australia
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Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
When 6 year old Wilfrid finds out that his 96 year old best friend Nancy has lost her memory, he sets out to see if he can get it back. A live-action adaptation of the classic children’s book by Mem Fox and illustrated by Julie Vivas, ‘Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge’ is a heartwarming story about memory loss and intergenerational connection, featuring celebrated actors Benita Collings (Play School) and Bruce Spence (Mad Max, Star Wars).
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
View trailer- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2023
- Country: Australia
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Ashes
Bereft after the loss of her beloved Dad James, Frances misses the appointment to pick up his ashes. Through a bizarre posthumous prank, can James rectify his daughter’s habitual lateness, even after he’s gone? A darkly comedic story about grief, tough love, and the unexpected ways those who have passed continue to influence us.
View trailer- Runtime: 13min
- Year: 2023
- Country: Australia