Best Of Documentary Shorts 1 – 2025
The 1st of two programmes featuring the best of International & Australian Documentary short films in competition. International & Australian filmmakers vying for the prestigious Flickerfest Award for Best Documentary (Academy® Qualifying).
Screening: Sun 19 Jan, 4pm | Runtime: 124 min | Classification: under 15 yrs to be w/adult
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Sosuke The Duck
A girl learns about caring for a duck with special needs during her first year on the farm. An animated documentary rendered in plant based inks about a little runner duck who couldn’t.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 5min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Canada
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Ornmol
Kupungarri, a remote community in the North-West of Australia is one of the most natural places left in the world. This small community fosters confidence in their young people through their relationship with Country. Watch the excitement grow as they prepare for one of the biggest events of the year, the annual Mowanjum Festival.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 10min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Lanawaru
When a local community member disappears, a boy faces an early memory, seeking comfort in the indigenous traditions, healing rituals, and guidance from his grandfather.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Colombia
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Am I The Skinniest Person You’ve Ever Seen?
They were sisters and soul mates—and dieting together seemed like fun…
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 24min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Canada
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Audio & The Alligator
Audio Caña enjoys telling fantastic stories to his loved ones. But when he claims there’s a giant alligator living in his pond, no one believes him. With his 6 year-old granddaughter, Audio will try to prove the alligator’s existence to everyone.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 16min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Venezuela
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The “Conversation”
For her whole life, Judith suspected she was secretly adopted, but was always too afraid to ask her mother.
At the crossroads of documentary and fiction, with the help of a few actresses, we gave Judith the chance to re-create this important conversation.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 9min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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The Way Home
After Stalin ordered the forced collectivisation of all the farms in 1930s Ukraine, Maxim, a humble cucumber farmer, rebels. He is arrested by local authorities and shipped off to forced labour camps of SIberia. In a bid to survive and return to his family, he steals away in the dead of night and begins the 1,000km journey home.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 17min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Recomposing Earth
Under two feet of peaty soil in Orkney, lies the only recording of Scottish composer Erland Cooper’s unheard album. In an entirely unique attempt to collaborate with the natural world, it would be an experiment on patience, art and value. Will the tape emerge silent, and does it matter if it does? ‘Recomposing Earth’ takes you into the mind of an artist and the magic of the Orkney Islands that inspire him, with a story that reminds us of music’s importance as an expression of the human condition. With interviews including Paul Weller and Sir Ian Rankin.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 28min
- Year: 2024
- Country: United Kingdom