A programmes showcasing moving and entertaining shorts selected from the European Union countries in competition for the EU Delegation to Australia Award for Best EU Short Film, celebrating all things Euro and Flickerfest!
Screening: Sat 28 Jan, 6.30pm | Runtime: 119 mins | Classification: under 15 to be w/adult
What happens in the heads of football players when they are about to take penalty kicks?
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
After a relapse, Jildou has to live at home again with her dominant mother. Confined to a wheelchair, she is determined to focus on her freedom.
WORLD PREMIERE
Summer 2031, 104°. Saadia, 16, is in mechanical school but the car industry is in crisis and there are only a few electrical cars in circulation. What will happen when her friends cheer her up with a joke about the future of cars being horses?
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Ivalu is gone. Her little sister is desperate to find her and her father does not care. The vast Greenlandic nature holds secrets. Where is Ivalu…?
WORLD PREMIERE
A story about a small man and his tiny friend.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
On a hot August afternoon, a family gathers at a table remembering Uncle Botão: the Colonial War and emigration to France, where he lived and worked for thirty years as a garbage man.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
On a Boeing-737 a flight attendant tries hard to hide her obvious discomfort with her braces. She blames her mother. However, this plane carries her mother’s dead body to her hometown. When the turbulence becomes threatening, Vanina faces an urgent need to see her mother in what proves to be a last chance for reconciliation.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Sitting on a hill, Inaxio mourns the death of his wife through a bertso. His grandson Ekaitz seems to have been invoked by his song and returns to the farmhouse to take care of his grandfather and the animals that provide them with food and company. The two, with different visions of the environment, will unite again and face the complications of the future together.
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
A tale of a girl who studied animation and spent four years without a day of vacation. An animated short about a film school student who is working on her graduation film.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE