Festival Opening Night Screening & After Party 2025 – SOLD OUT!
Join us for Flickerfest’s Grand Opening Night, Screening & After Party!
A fantastic night of films and fun under the stars. Join us for a selection of festival highlights, showcasing the festival’s line-up to give you a wonderful introduction to the 2025 season. Then join us at our after-party in our palm fringed Festival Bar, and celebrate Flickerfest’s 34 years!
‘Strictly Great Short Films’.
Ticket Packages:
– Opening Night Festival Intro & Highlights Screening: $40 / $35
(includes: a welcome drink and the Festival Highlights screening)
– Opening Night Festival Intro & Highlights Screening +After-Party: $80 / $75
(includes: a welcome drink and the Festival Highlights screening; followed by a catered after-party with 1hr complimentary drinks, plus food & entertainment with DJ in the Festival Bar)
Times:
Red Carpet: Fri 17 Jan, 8pm | Festival Intro & Highlights Screening: 8.30pm | After-Party: 10.30pm-12.30am
(Drinks are also available to purchase in the Festival Bar)
Red Carpet: Fri 17 Jan, 8pm | Welcome & Highlights Screening: 8.30pm | After-Party: 10.30pm-12.30am | Classification: under 15y to be w/adult
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The Fix-It-Man And The Fix-It-Wooman
In the “bright lights, big city of Alice Springs”, two soft sculptures try to impress each other with their dance moves. But it’s an unfortunate accident that finally brings them together as they discover they both have a talent for fixing things. Artwork by the Yarrenyty Arltere Artists, renowned for their beautiful soft sculptures, comes alive in this gentle funny tale of love and connection.
NSW PREMIERE
- Runtime: 9min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Thanks For The Milk
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
- Runtime: 8min
- Year: 2024
- Country: France
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Me And Dad
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
View Trailer- Runtime: 9min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Ireland
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Candy Bar
A young girl thinks a man in the candy bar line looks like her dad.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 6min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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The Cockroach
After a body altering accident, a woman must find a way forward in her new reality.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 20min
- Year: 2024
- Country: United States
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The Dog
A sick dog mysteriously appears in the clinic of a struggling vet (Kate Walsh, GREY’S ANATOMY) and tries to negotiate their own death, leading both on a surreal journey through life and mortality.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 12min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Dragfox
Sam’s search for identity gets interrupted by a mysterious neighbourhood fox. Together they embark on a magical journey to the attic to discover the surprising things they might have in common, and how to celebrate the ways in which they differ.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 8min
- Year: 2024
- Country: United Kingdom
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The Audition
Milan, 21, is a talented Kurdish singer, currently auditioning for a major singing competition. When Milan hears her father has left their family for another woman, she’s expected to plead with him to return home. All Milan wants is to make her own choices in life, and with this audition, for her mother, Emine, not to sabotage her. Distracted, Milan almost messes up the audition, but Emine – for once – comes to her rescue, giving Milan the courage she needs to sing powerfully.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Runtime: 10min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Loverdance
Lola meets Simon at a 24-hour dance marathon. Motivated by the competition, she tries to avoid the growing complicity between them. But as the eliminations mount and exhaustion becomes insurmountable, her attachment to him could well lead her to victory…
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 9min
- Year: 2024
- Country: France