South Of The Boarder: Flickerfest 2016 Melbourne Shorts Tour

How Deep Can I Go?

Using hand drawn cardboard set and props, Hairy Soul Man explores how deep some humans go for love.

Halfbeard

Gavin is a comedy actor who wants to be taken seriously. That’s why he’s grown a beard. Now Gavin is about to make the crossover into drama. But first he needs to find a razor…

Cherokee

An uncooperative ex, an argumentative landlord, and a broken front door, Linda’s life is just peachy. Her daughter Shelley escapes their dreary reality through a fascination with Native Americans, but subconsciously assumes Linda’s anger.

Woof!

A humiliating sexual experience causes a 16 year old girl to start an unusual revolution.

WORLD PREMIERE

The Orchestra

In a world filled with beautiful harmonious music, Vernon always seems to strike the wrong note.

Hope City

Majak, a teenage boy from South Sudan is haunted by his dark past and torn between his new life and a burning desire to return to home to find his mother.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Lazy Boy

When Ray brings home a new purchase, his pregnant girlfriend is not impressed. Banished to the garage he soon realizes the old La-Z-Boy recliner he bought is in fact a one-minute time machine. Will Ray learn from his mistakes or is he destined to repeat them forever?

WORLD PREMIERE

Ernie Biscuit

The clayography of a lonely Deaf Parisian Taxidermist whose life is turned upside down and back to front when a dead pigeon arrives on his doorstep.

Goodnight Sweetheart

When Barb embarks on a drastic course of action she must confront her feelings for an old friend. Anything is possible when there is nothing left to lose.

She Sells

An epic sales negotiation between a cutthroat business executive and a surly little girl.

Home

Home, is missing planes and sinking boats; a eulogy for all those whose bones only made it as far as the arms of mother ocean.
NSW PREMIERE

Slingshot

Frankie is a 10 year-old kid on summer vacation at a run-down trailer park. When Tayla, a 10 year-old girl, shows a romantic interest, Frankie’s holiday becomes a whole lot more complicated. Slingshot is an amusing analogy on modern love told through the eyes of one of its latest victims.