FlickerKids Shorts – 2025
A delightfully entertaining programme of shorts that will appeal to the kid in everyone.
(suitable for 4-12 years & families)
Screening: Sat 25 Jan, 1.30pm | Runtime: 86 mins | Classification: PG
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Keo And The Stardust
Keo, a cosmic pirate, risks his life every day to collect as much stardust as possible. His routine is turned upside down when he meets a strange alien who needs this precious resource to live.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 13min
- Year: 2024
- Country: France
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Master Painter Ernst
Forgetful Squirrel “Ernst” almost goes nuts looking for his meticulously hidden acorns. Only a shift in perspective can help him now.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 2min
- Year: 2023
- Country: Germany
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Alone
During a lengthy space voyage to a distant galaxy, a solitary robot diligently tends to the human incubators, ensuring the survival of the settlers on the new planet. Watching the dreams of the hibernating humans makes the robot feel lonely. So, it assembles a new companion from spare parts. However, when complications arise, the robot faces a crucial decision: prioritise the preservation of human life or save its new friend.
- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2023
- Country: Australia
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Sparrow’s Brains (Spatzenhirn)
The picnicking park visitors occasionally leave behind a few morsels – much to the delight of the SPARROWS. However, the SPARROWS are not content with mere meager crumbs. They aim to swipe the entire meal from the unsuspecting ones. Their sparcial mission comes with top secret sparrowcifications and requires cutting-edge sparweilance technologies.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 2min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Germany
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M-8
M-8 is a short film that follows Ruby and her new creation, a support robot named ‘M-8’. Ruby is an introverted teenager with a strong passion for robotics and inventions. She is ambitious and dreams of winning a scholarship to the most prestigious robotics academy in the country to pursue her dream of creating robots that can make a change in the world. The story starts with the creation of M-8. Ruby makes a huge step in achieving her goal by bringing this robot to life just in time for the annual robotics competition. Initially overjoyed with her creation, she is quickly brought down to Earth by the brash judging panel, who interrogate the usefulness of M-8. She casts M-8 aside but M-8’s optimistic persistence in connecting with Ruby helps her see value in persevering and being vulnerable.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 12min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Australia
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Baking With Boris
Every morning, Boris the village baker makes a fresh batch of crusty bread and pastries for all his neighbours until… Achoo! He can’t stop sneezing. He has become allergic to flour. How will he manage to keep baking for everyone in the village?
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Runtime: 8min
- Year: 2023
- Country: France
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Wishes: Windows & Nests
Inside every one of us there’s a box of wishes, but the most powerful ones are those that belong to others. When Lulú notices that birds can’t nest due to spikes that line the buildings, she invokes Kino, her Guardian-creature. Together, they explore solutions in Lulú’s surreal inner universe.
NSW PREMIERE- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Snow Bear
Set in a rapidly changing world, “Snow Bear” tells the story of a polar bear in an unforgivable environment on his quest to find a friend.
This 2D hand drawn film was painstakingly created entirely by Aaaron Blaise over 3 years. With Aaron’s lifelong dedication to studying, drawing and animating animals, the adventure is infused with humor, relatability and emotional depth in the tradition of classic animated films
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 11min
- Year: 2024
- Country: United States
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Mog’s Christmas
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Judith Kerr’s birth, Kerr’s much-loved children’s book, ‘Mog’s Christmas’ is brought to life as a beautifully crafted hand-drawn animated special by the same team that made the Emmy award-winning adaption of Kerr’s ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’, produced by Lupus Films for Harper Collins Children’s Books, Channel 4 Television and Universal Pictures Content Group.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 23min
- Year: 2023
- Country: United Kingdom