1st September 2023
…eptember Flickerfest is thrilled to be returning to our longtime Kimberley home, the iconic Sun Pictures in Broome on Friday 1st September. We’rescreening as part of the Shinju Mastruri festival, showcasing our Best of Australian Shorts & Short Laughs Comedy programmes under the stars At 6.15pm the Best of Australian Shorts programme highlights include Award winning and much loved Australian films the delightful quirky comedy The Fritz, where a co…
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The house that you were born in, is your destiny: While Ayse is yearning to escape from the family home in pursuit of her freedom, she sinks deeper into her dungeon. She is living under the oppressive regime of a patriarchal society. She is though dominated by her mother who wishes to place Ayse into a woman’s ideal life that the society depicts. Ayse beautifully demonstrates a soul lost in between two worlds ; one that’s tied to family values, home and one with an immense desire to break free and find independence in newly found lands.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Director: Pia Derya
- Writer: Pia Derya
- Producer: Pia Derya, Dennis Thunderbolt, Levent Yildirim
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2023
- Country: Australia
8th May 2024
…ate festival award winners and favourites, including Newcastle’s local filmmakers, in the Best of Australian Shorts showcasing 10 unforgettable stories. Don’t miss the moving What’s In A Name winner of Best Direction at Flickerfest 2024, about an African Australian couple, who whilst taking part in a documentary discover fractures from another history, from talented director Kalu Oji, who went to school locally. Plus, the live-action short based o…
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A student receives a remote control that allows her to make everyone she meets disappear.
- Director: 5G Cabramatta Public School, Mr Sollorz
- Writer: 5G Cabramatta Public School, Mr Sollorz
- Producer: 5G Cabramatta Public School, Mr Sollorz
- Runtime: 3min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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There is a strange holy war happening in the school as a group of Christian musicians and a group of Emos battle for the music room. Caught amongst this is Emo Ethan and good Christian girl Trinity who are newly in love. Finding it hard enough to reconcile their own differences, they dread what will happen if their friends ever found out. As the turf war escalates and things turn serious, the star-crossed lovers are forced to make decisions that might cost them their friends, their place in school and each other.
- Director: Neil Triffett
- Writer: Neil Triffett
- Producer: Lee Matthews
- Running Time: 15:51 min
- Year: 2013
- Country: Australia
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Through the village and past the lands sleeps a little girl in the outskirts of Japan. Song and dance and wealthy men – was the life she dreamt of before touching a Geisha’s hand. is this what she wanted, is this what she thought? I guess she never knew that beneath all the makeup are battles not fought. Eyes that dream stay awake wide opened.. no amount of tears can wash away the sadness of a love forbidden and unspoken. Geishas give it up they give up their life but is Kiyomi willing to make that same sacrifice?
- Director: Nicole Tan
- Writer: Nicole Tan
- Producer: Nicole Tan
- Running Time: 4 min
- Year: 2013
- Country: Australia
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It’s 1978 in the far outer suburbs of Brisbane and greyhound trainer Mick is struggling to make a living for his family. He is so certain that his young maiden greyhound will win and bring him success that he puts all the family’s money on the line. With his back to the wall Mick comes up with a plan that takes the family to a small country track where he believes she cannot lose.
- Director: Stephen Kanaris
- Writer: Stephen Kanaris
- Producer: Tahnee McGuire
- Running Time: 15:10 min
- Year: 2013
- Country: Australia
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As life threatening allergies throw his family into crisis, 13 year-old Henry must make a heart-wrenching decision. Starring Claudia Karvan.
- Director: Danielle Boesenberg
- Writer: Rachael Turk
- Producer: Sam Meikle & Rachael Turk
- Running Time: 15 min
- Year: 2012
- Country: Australia
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Tinny is an action comedy with a distinctly Queensland flavour. Two friends are witnesses to what appears to be a serious crime, a man disposing of a body on an island in the backwaters of a river. The man spots them and they make a hasty escape in the tinny straight to the police, leading them back to the island. However the confrontation with the man does not go according to plan for the bumbling small town cops or the boys.
- Director: Shaun Cairns
- Writer: Shaun Cairns
- Producer: Sam Moor
- Running Time: 14 min
- Year: 2013
- Country: Australia
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A guy on the make hits on the wrong woman when he tries a novel approach to picking up a girl in a Laundromat one afternoon, but the result may be a hot new bro-mance.
- Director: Isa Totah
- Writer:
- Producer:
- Running Time: 5 min
- Year: 2013
- Country: USA
