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Warwick Thornton’s satirical short film Mimi pokes fun at white art collectors who purchase Indigenous art purely for its investment value. Featuring Aaron Pedersen, Sophie Lee and David Gulpilil.
- Director: Warwick Thornton
- Writer: Warwick Thornton
- Producer: Darren Dale, Rachel Perkins
- Runtime: 14min
- Year: 2002
- Country: Australia
3rd December 2018
…DCP This year our Flickerfest 2019 Festival & Tour trailers in yet another film classic parody, with the Dynamic Trio & The Joker descending upon Bondi Beach. Written & directed by the talented Flickerfest alumni Vanessa Gazy, & produced by the amazing Scoundrel Films, the trailer features the wonderful Tai Hara, Chantelle Jamieson, James Fraser & Marcus Graham. Thank you all!. Enjoy View Flickerfest Trailer archives here FESTIVAL VERSION TOUR VER…
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A young woman bares her heart in a painfully awkward, and unreciprocated declaration of love. Just Tell Him How You Feel is the first film in a three part anthology series. Centred around our main heroine ‘Her’ these vignettes explore the awkward consequences that emerge in moments of truth.
- Director: Joshua Calder
- Writer: Melissa Brownlow
- Producer: Joshua Calder
- Runtime: 5min
- Year: 2018
- Country: Australia
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We find ourselves in an extravagant garden in Ouagadougou. The French Ambassador’s wife dreamt about becoming a famous opera singer. Instead, she is now using the singing as a ventilator to survive her seemingly privileged life surrounded by workers. This film raises questions about power structures, class, intersectionality, post colonialism and feminism in a poetic, subtle and seductive way.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Director: Theresa Traore Dahlberg
- Writer: Theresa Traore Dahlberg
- Producer: Theresa Traore Dahlberg
- Runtime: 20min
- Year: 2018
- Country: Sweden
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Jack is an elderly widower grieving the recent loss of his wife. While cleaning out their house he discovers an old Super 8mm film projector that transports him into the world of the films it plays.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Director: Marcus McKenzie
- Writer: Marcus McKenzie
- Producer: Marcus McKenzie, Kirsty Stark, Daniel Principe
- Runtime: 18min
- Year: 2018
- Country: Australia
13th December 2018
…The 2nd of seven programmes featuring the best of Australian short films in competition. Our home-grown talent battle it out for the prestigious Academy® accredited award for Best Australian Short Film….
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When two CCTV technicians find out about an AI machine threatening their jobs, they must get out of their chairs to beat the system – leading them to an unexpected solution. The new short film of Academy Award-winner Kristóf Deák.
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
- Director: Kristóf Deák
- Writer: Kristóf Deák
- Producer: László Dreissiger, Anna Udvardy, Gábor Osváth
- Runtime: 20min
- Year: 2018
- Country: Hungary
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Take Rabbit is a humorous take on an age-old conundrum – a man attempts to transport some unlikely passengers across a river in his tiny boat but soon realizes he’s taken on more than he bargained for. The film features the vocal talents of top British actors Stephen Graham, Amelia Bullmore, Steve Pemberton and Matt Berry.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Director: Peter Peake
- Writer: Peter Peake
- Producer: Gareth Owen
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2018
- Country: United Kingdom
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A film about (local) patriotism, tourism and emigration. The girl lives in a gray, isolated country, enclosed by a huge wall. She has never travelled anywhere, but all her life she has dreamt of leaving forever for a perfect world called “Abroad”.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Director: Ana Nedeljkovic, Nikola Majdak Jr.
- Writer: Ana Nedeljkovic
- Producer: Jelena Mitrovic
- Runtime: 9min
- Year: 2018
- Country: Serbia, Slovakia
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Depicting waning presence and invisibility: A nameless, forgotten man has turned invisible and is fading from existence. Can the effervescence of life be restored to this invisible man in a single animated short film? There is freedom and anxiety in invisibility. Those around him take no notice of him… even machines do not register his existence. No longer able to bear the fragility of presence, his body rises to flutter into the sky, with even gravity letting go… soon he will vanish entirely. Directed by Studio Ghibli animator Akihiko Yamashita (Howl’s Moving Castle).
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Director: Akihiko Yamashita
- Writer: Akihiko Yamashita
- Producer: Yoshiaki Nishimura
- Runtime: 13min
- Year: 2018
- Country: Japan
