Rainbow Shorts – 2025
Flickerfest is celebrating LGBTQI+ stories from around the world in our 8th year of Rainbow Shorts, curated by award winning queer filmmaker Craig Boreham.
Screening: Fri 24 Jan, 6.30pm | Runtinme: 117 mins | Classification: under 15 yrs to be w/adult
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Holy Curse
On a visit to India, 11-year-old Radha grapples with their gender identity when subjected to manipulative orthodox rituals by their family, looking to dispel a supposed ancestral curse allegedly distorting Radha’s thinking.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 16min
- Year: 2024
- Country: United States
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Pleasure
Two teenage boys are cut apart across a sweaty summer night after they’re caught graffitiing a train in Melbourne’s inner-west, until a moment of unexpected intimacy brings them closer together than ever before.
NSW PREMIERE- Runtime: 10min
- Year: 2024
- Country: Australia
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In Heat
A recovering sex addict sits on the edge of a beach car park, looking to cruise. While on an addiction helpline, and with a husband patiently waiting at home, one last temptation pulls him deep into a surreal psychosis. Deeper into the sand dunes. Deeper into himself.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 20min
- Year: 2024
- Country: United Kingdom
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Bathsheba
Living as a precarious property guardian and facing eviction, a grieving widow is forced to live with a younger woman. Little does she know, the new tenant holds the key for her to move on.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 13min
- Year: 2024
- Country: United Kingdom
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Silvia’s House
Two friends, Martín and Raúl, are walking through the night in Madrid, heading to a party at Silvia’s house. Along the way, they talk, argue, and joke around. Although it is not a comedy, it speaks with humour and affection about friendship, love, and the fears of a generation that has grown up in an uncertain time, with little to hold on to.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 12min
- Year: 2025
- Country: Spain
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Three
At a home gathering, a Chinese woman who has has recently moved to the United States to live with her daughter, tries to keep her daughter’s secrets from her new friends.
NSW PREMIERE- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2024
- Country: United States
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Chico
Jojo, a clumsy and bumbling young gay squatter, sets out to repair a washing machine in order to satisfy Lucien, whom he desires. He roams Brussels in a frantic quest, ready to take any risk to achieve his goals.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 23min
- Year: 2024
- Country: France
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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