Festival Opening Night Screening & After Party 2026
Join us for Flickerfest’s Gala Red Carpet 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 2026 season. Then join us at our after-party in our palm fringed Festival Bar, and celebrate Flickerfest’s 35 years!
‘The Cream Of 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:
Doors Open: Fri 23 Jan, 8pm | Intro & Screening: 8.30pm | After-Party: 10.30pm-12.30am
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Run Koala Run
Run Koala Run explores a day in the life of Rusty, a beloved hand-drawn koala, who suddenly finds his cartoon world rewritten by an unseen ‘animator’. As the lines around him bend, blur, and break, Rusty runs through shifting frames in the performance of a lifetime. A fast, funny, and unsettling chase through the blurred lines between algorithm, and art.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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The Suit
A couple engaged in a bizarre legal proceeding confront the source of their problem.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 12min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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A Friend Of Dorothy
A lonely widow’s quiet life is upended when a teenage boy accidentally kicks his football into her garden.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 21min
- Year: 2025
- Country: UK
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Tuesday Tuesday
A young support worker spends one final shift with her longtime client living with younger-onset dementia and must face the complicated feelings that come with letting go.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Mimi
Warwick Thornton’s satirical short film Mimi pokes fun at white art collectors who purchase Indigenous art purely for its investment value. Featuring Aaron Pedersen, Sophie Lee and David Gulpilil.
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2002
- Country: Australia
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The Singers
A genre-bending film adaptation of a 19th-century short story written by Ivan Turgenev, in which a lowly pub full of downtrodden men connect unexpectedly through an impromptu sing-off. With a cast comprised of first-time actors from the unlikeliest corners of TikTok and YouTube, the film is a celebration of diamonds in the rough and a testament to the power of vulnerability through art.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 18min
- Year: 2025
- Country: US
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Hugs
Join us on the luggage rack of my bike for a sensory roller-coaster through a land full of cuddles..
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2025
- Country: France