Short Laughs Comedy – 2021 Tour Canowindra
Chortle your way through a hilarious off-kilter selection of funny shorts from across the world.
This programme is a specially curated selection of highlights from Flickerfest’s Comedy programmes in Bondi 2021.
Flickerfest, celebrating 30 years bringing you the best of Comedy Shorts ‘Great Short Film Never Dies’!
*This programme contains mature themes & is not recommended for children under 15.
Classification: Children under 15yrs must be accompanied by an adult.
*Times & Prices may change, please check with the venue.
Best of Australian Shorts, FlickerKids Shorts & Short Laughs Comedy – Added highlight for Canowindra:
The heart-warming film ‘Dust Cloud’ wri/dir Trudi Housten & prod Richard P.Doyle; officially selected for Flickerfest in Bondi is included in both these programmes.
Download: Short Laughs Comedy Canowindra tour programme
Screening : On Tour | Runtime: 112 min | Classification: under 15 yrs to be w/adult
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Dust Cloud
A badly behaved working dog changes his tune when he is given the love and respect he deserves from a prudent country woman.
WORLD PREMIERE
View Trailer- Runtime: 9min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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Pawsea (Or: The Melancholy Ruminations Of A Solitary French Bulldog
Rocky certainly has a lot on his mind – questioning his purpose and attempting to fortify himself against existential angst as he searches for meaning – quite a lot for a French Bulldog to master.
- Runtime: 4min
- Year: 2020
- Country: United Kingdom
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A La Mode
In a kingdom tormented by fashion crazes, a queen and her court must always keep up with the new trend. If not, an abominable monster will consume them: the Ridicule. But with the arrival of a disarmingly natural cowboy, this nation of fashion victims laughs, and a simple question arises: what if the Ridicule isn’t what we think?
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 9min
- Year: 2020
- Country: France
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Smashed
Faced with the potential of losing their long-term Queensland share house at an open home, two twenty-somethings scheme a haunted plan to keep their home and their smashed avo breakfasts.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 14min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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The Birth Of Valerie Venus
A selfless vicar’s wife is possessed by a strange force, unlocking a mischievous (and pleasurable) side she never knew she had.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2020
- Country: United Kingdom
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Grab Them
60-year-old Sally is longing for happiness, and love. Lately her searching has been complicated by the fact that she resembles the newly-elected American president. Join Sally in the film Grab Them, as one man’s crazy tour around the world becomes a lonely woman’s heavy burden to bear.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 13min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Sweden
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Bench
A short film about sharing….
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 2min
- Year: 2020
- Country: United Kingdom
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Toto
Rosa is the real-life Nonna of filmmaker Marco Baldonado and TOTO is an ode to her traditions. It is a film about change, language, family and technology.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 13min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Canada
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Straight Outta Covid
Two kids post Covid lockdown discuss what matters most…to them!
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 3min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia
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A Hole
A man digs a hole. People watch him do it.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 12min
- Year: 2019
- Country: New Zealand
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Talk Radio
Pauline and Barry are a seemingly happily married middle aged couple. That is until Pauline tunes into relationship hour on Talk Radio and thinks she recognises the nameless voice that’s relaying a lifetime of regrets live on the radio.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Runtime: 9min
- Year: 2020
- Country: United Kingdom
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Glen
Deep into his first lockdown, 50-year-old Glen is given a second chance at love… but only if he can summon the courage to come face to Facebook with the perils of online seduction.
WORLD PREMIERE- Runtime: 9min
- Year: 2020
- Country: Australia