This programme is a specially curated selection of highlights from Flickerfest’s International Academy Award® Qualifying competition programmes in Bondi 2025.
Flickerfest, celebrating 34 years bringing you the Best of International Shorts.
‘Strictly Great Short Films!’
*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.
Download: Best of International Shorts tour programme National pdf
View: Best of International Shorts Tour sizzle reel National
Screening: On Tour | Running Time: 116 min | Classification: Under 15yrs to be w/adult
Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
A youth handball team is about to participate in their first major tournament. As they aim for the top, facing professional players, talent scouts and sponsors, the game is suddenly interrupted by adults questioning who’s really allowed to play.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
A boy struggles in his attempts to bond with his oblivious father at a bar. All efforts are ignored. The barman is the boy’s only soft ear. He empties everything in one final push to break dad.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
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Shortly before the end of the summer holidays, a country boy spends his savings on his dream of a city hairstyle – with surprising results. A story about bidding farewell to childhood and the poetic end of a summer.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
The film tells the story of mother and son. The 58-year-old hairdresser Melanie drives her son Stefan (32), a young author, to the first reading of his autobiographical debut novel DER SALON.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
In the legendary Yorkshire Rhubarb Triangle, Jo and her elderly father produce the pink delicacy that made the region world-famous a century ago. Harvesting by candlelight like their ancestors before them, they could not prepare for the danger looming in the dark.
WORLD PREMIERE
After a body altering accident, a woman must find a way forward in her new reality.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
A young delivery man realizes he’s the reincarnation of an elderly man’s beloved cat, rekindling a bond from a past life.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE