Best Of Documentary Shorts 2 – 2025
The 2nd 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, 6.30pm | Runtime: 121 min | Classification: under 15 yrs to be w/adult
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Nelson The Piglet
The Verbeek family, consisting of two mothers with their two sons, adopted a mini pig as a pet seven years ago. However, when the pig miraculously grows into a 500-kilo beast, the neat neighbourhood, the police and housing revolt. The classmates of their son Brandon don’t like it either, because such a big and dirty pig in the house is unacceptable, isn’t it? Brandon begins to have doubts…but eventually takes action with his family.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Netherlands
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Touching Knees
A memoir of the film-maker’s romance long ago with a radio personality in NY city, their puppies and their travels in Central America, and now, after thirty years, their meeting for a candid coda in rural upstate New York.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 16min
- Year: 2025
- Country: United States
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Mama Micra
My mother led a very unorthodox life, living in palaces and under bridges. Her independence was most important for her, which in the end became her undoing. She decided to live in her tiny car for 10 years. Only when the car broke down and she was unable to walk even, we got the chance to re-connect.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 24min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Germany
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Moi Aussi
At the dawn of a new day, a young woman finds an entire crowd staring her straight in the eye. Each face evokes a story from the past. That young woman becomes the voice of those countless stories. Each one is different, yet together, they forge a path forward — from unspeakable pain to the beginnings of liberation through the spoken word.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 17min
- Year: 2024
- Country: France
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Percebes
With the sea and the urban Algarve as a background, we follow a complete cycle of the life of a special shellfish called PERCEBES, goose barnacle. From their formation, to the dish, in this journey, we cross different contexts that allow us to better understand this region & those who live there.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 12min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Portugal
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Echoes Of Dissent
Echoes of Dissent attempts to piece together the tragic life story of Anthony Martin Fernando, an Aboriginal man who protested Indigenous rights over a century ago in Europe. By enlisting his father to re-enact Fernando’s famous protests, the film’s director uncovers just how prophetic Fernando’s protests would become.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 8min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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With Grace
Grace, a witty 13-year-old girl, with big dreams and the rare gift of making everyone around her laugh, takes us back to her early childhood years with her close-knit, loving farmer family in Kenya: a time with lots of fun, but also a time when disaster almost split her family apart.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 30min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Norway