FlickerUp Youth Shorts – 2025
The finalists short films in our National Youth competition for school students & filmmakers eighteen years & under.
Screening: Sat 25 Jan, 4pm | Runtime: 118 mins | Classification: PG
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Bubble Boy
A journey following a young boy who unexpectedly finds himself trapped inside a giant bubble gum bubble.
- Runtime: 1min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Just Keep Swimming
Rose is devastated to learn of the death of her beloved goldfish and channels her grief by organising a funeral for him at the park.
- Runtime: 3min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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A Gentle Breeze, And It’s Gone
An unnamed artist attempts to grasp onto deteriorating memories about a friend from their past.
- Runtime: 2min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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More Than Milk
Delving into the transformative power of The Cow Project, as told through the voices of the women experiencing poverty, malnutrition, and inequality in India.
- Runtime: 5min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Sandwich
Sandwich explores the relationship between a father & son through the making of two sandwiches.
- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Hoppy
When 13-year-old Arlo travels to England to visit his Nanna, he discovers she’s formed an unlikely friendship—with a one-legged seagull named Hoppy.
- Runtime: 5min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Bubblegum & Bunyips
The sound of bubblegum popping reminds an Indigenous woman of her childhood.
- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Mama Grub
Deep in the Australian bush, a feral old woman collects gumnuts for her stew. A curious gecko may sacrifice everything for a taste.
- Runtime: 3min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Anahera
An exploration of identity & childhood growing up as a mixed person away from one’s home country; a tale of Māori acceptance & heartbreak.
- Runtime: 6min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Alone Together
In a dystopian city, an orphaned girl forms an emotional bond with an AI longing to experience life as human.
- Runtime: 5min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Don’t Ignore Me
An app seemingly begins to stalk its followers. With every notification blurring the line between your screen and reality. *Supernatural theme.
- Runtime: 9min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Suvira
The story of artist, Suvira McDonald; and explores what makes his passion for pottery so special.
- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Bait
When a fisherman loses his favourite fishing spot, he must do all he can to get it back.
- Runtime: 5min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Tomber: To Fall
A gripping examination of a ballerina’s descent into madness following a career-threatening injury
- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Chasing Wild
Two young men, Jake and Luca, abandon their city lives and rediscover their lost passions—surfing and wing foiling—after encounters that awaken them to the emptiness of societal expectations.
- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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The Future Is Yours Volume 2
Two years after the events of the original, The Future Is Yours Volume 2 picks up the inspiring story of two brothers, James and Constantine, as they continue to chase their shared dream of making it big in the film industry.
- Runtime: 5min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Mind The Gaps
My whole life my dad always had a camera in my face. Now, over a decade later, I turned around the camera to ask my dad about life, father.
- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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The Apartment
We meet three intriguing characters whose lives are entwined through social media.
- Runtime: 4min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Lamb
A contemporary take on the biblical father-son relationship. A teenage boy is forced to distinguish between reality and delusions as his sense of familial security is threatened by the people around him.
- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Gravaré
In a post-apocalyptic world, a lonely android must try to live without their other half.
- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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Sole Sista
Chelsea navigates the feeling of being different as the only black girl in school and sits in limbo between feeling included but not embraced, after experiencing micro-aggression after micro-aggression.
- Runtime: 6min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia