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When a troubled man on a cliff top is on the verge of committing suicide, he is interrupted by a young vivacious woman. Through a series of heart wrenching flashbacks he reveals to her how he killed his wife. As he tries to come to terms with his grief, the woman offers him hope in a manner he never expected.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Director: Edward Lyons
- Writer: Edward Lyons
- Producer: Nicole Adams
- Running Time: 11 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
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A surrealist allegorical exploration of the Australian-Timor dynamic played as a tense relationship between a young woman, Bebe and her intimidating foreign lover, Jack.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Director: Dominic Allen
- Writer: Dominic Allen
- Producer: Dominic Allen (Timor Producer) Bebe Goncalves (Executive Producer) Jessica Mitchell, David Budge
- Running Time: 9 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
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A Tropical Sunday is a comedy-drama about Gito, Babu, Nuno and Lisa, four street
children that at Sunday spend the time at the Maputo’s Funfair, looking for a chance
to jump on a ride.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Director: Fabián Ribezzo
- Writer: Fabián Ribezzo
- Producer: Fabián Ribezzo
- Running Time: 14 min
- Year: 2013
- Country: Mozambique
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James and Malachy are over the moon when their soft-hearted dad presents them with two baby chicks to care for. Raising their tiny charges, declaring themselves vegetarian and dreaming of running a chicken farm, the two boys are in for a shock when their parents announce that big changes are coming to the family.
- Director: Michael Lennox
- Writer: Ronan Blaney
- Producer: Brian Falconer
- Running Time: 14 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Ireland
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Setsuko, a 55-year-old single ‘office lady’ in Tokyo, is given a blonde wig and a new identity, “Lucy,” by her young unconventional English instructor. “Lucy” awakens desires Setsuko never knew she had. When the instructor suddenly disappears, Setsuko must come to terms with what remains – herself.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Director: Atsuko Hirayanagi
- Writer: Atsuko Hirayanagi
- Producer: Atsuko Hirayanagi
- Running Time: 21 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Japan
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DISCIPLINE
Switzerland / 12min / 2014
WRI/DIR/PROD: Christophe M. Saber
PROD: Elena Tatti
In a moment of anger in a grocery store, a father loses patience and disciplines his
disobedient child. A shocked customer intervenes to express her concern. When
other customers join the conversation, the discussion gradually gets out of hand.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Director: Christophe M. Saber
- Writer: Christophe M. Saber
- Producer: Christophe M. Saber, Elena Tatti
- Running Time: 12 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Switzerland
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The story of a humble farming couple, a sudden upheaval and an unlikely saviour.
NSW Premiere
- Director: Hamish Bennett
- Writer: Hamish Bennett
- Producer: Orlando Stewart
- Running Time: 15 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: New Zealand
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In this witty animated short set in 1960’s Norway, a seven-year-old girl asks her hopelessly out-of-touch parents for a bicycle, but the unconventional ways of these modernist architects soon prove to be a source of quiet embarrassment and anxiety.
- Director: Torill Kove
- Writer: Torill Kove
- Producer: Marcy Page, Lise Fearnley
- Running Time: 14 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Norway-Canada
18th December 2014
After many, many months of deliberation and some very tough decision-making the 24th Flickerfest International Short Film Festival is thrilled to announce the full list of 95 films officially selected into our Academy® Accredited and BAFTA recognised Australian and International Competitions for 2015, selected from over 2300 entries received for this year’s competitions. This year in our Australian competition we will screen 56 films in total inc…
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A teenage girl gets a keyhole look into a dangerous and mysterious world when a tattooed stranger checks into her roadside motel.
NSW PREMIERE
- Director: Ben Briand
- Writer: Kevin Koehler
- Producer: Matt Dooley, Serena Paull, David Gross
- Running Time: 16 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
