21st January 2025
Tuesday is day four at Flickerfest and promises to be yet another fantastic collection of shorts that aren’t to be missed. At 6:30PM Our Best Of International Shorts 4 programme features The Cockroach a moving tale based on the film makers own life and the beautiful Hearts of Stone about two statues in love, starring Swedish actress Noomi Rapace (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo). At 9pm don’t miss our outdoor screening of the Best Of Australian Shorts 6, featuring the World Premiere of Pending Pick Up about friends Bethany and Miles who go on a rainy weekend adventure picking up Marketplace bargains and The Sax about a prodigious young saxophonist who discovers an unexpected truth about his teacher, and then about himself. View today’s full programme below and grab your tickets now!
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20th January 2025
The first 3 days of Flickerfest have been a huge success, with many sold out sessions, great enthusiasm for the films screened and so many excited filmmaker guests from Australia and the world sharing their films for the first time. We’ve had an awesome cinematic journey so far, with many more to come!
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19th January 2025
Thank you for joining Flickerfest this opening weekend – we were pleased to welcome film lovers to our Australian and International programmes in competition. We’ve travelled together from Australia to Belgium, Ireland to France and even to China and seen many unforgettable short films from the comfort of our stunning Bondi Pavilion cinema, with many more to come!
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18th January 2025
It didn’t rain on our parade and we charged ahead with three jam-packed indoor theatres of fabulous short films for the Opening Night of Flickerfest and it went off with a bang! Thank you to all who came to celebrate the launch at our Sold Out Opening Night event and for cutting shapes on the dance floor at the After Party. We were thrilled to welcome so many excited filmmakers, audience members and festival partners and share a taste of our festival to come over the next 9 days. So much fun was had and we received an enthusiastic reception to the films screened, loved by all in attendance. Stay tuned for opening night pics which are coming soon! We cant wait to kick off our Academy Qualifying Australian and International programs today. Read on for some weekend highlights. Ticket are selling fast so don’t miss out on yours!
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11th January 2025
Our Opening Night on Friday 17th January is totally sold out & tickets to all other sessions are selling fast.
For those lucky people who have tickets for Opening Night, if the weather is fine the Screening & After-Party will be held in the outdoor lawn cinema in the Bondi Pavilion courtyard.
If it is raining the Screening will take place upstairs in the Pavilion in both the Seagull Room & the Indoor Theatre; & the After-Party will take place in the High Tide Room.
Just 1 week to go til Flickerfest launches our 10 day smorgasbord of the best short films from Australia & the world.
We cant wait to share it with you!
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10th January 2025
As we launch into 2025 we want to wish you all, our film-loving friends, a healthy, happy, fun & film-filled year ahead.
With just 2 weeks until Flickerfest hits the big screen, 17th to 26th January, we can’t wait for you to join us at the stunningly, revamped Bondi Pavilion, both in our palm-fringed lawn cinema under the stars and in the comfy air conditioned indoor theatre, offering an enticing summer festival venue befitting the incredible cinema on offer.
With over 215 shorts screening across 24 competitive programmes and showcase sessions, Flickerfest 2025 features a glittering line-up in an astounding programme of the best short films from at home and the world selected from a record 3,500 entries.
Tickets are very limited and selling fast! So get in quick to secure yours now.
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3rd January 2025
As we launch into 2025 we want to wish you all, our film-loving friends, a healthy, happy, fun & film-filled year ahead.
With just 2 weeks until Flickerfest hits the big screen, 17th to 26th January, we can’t wait for you to join us at the stunningly, revamped Bondi Pavilion, both in our palm-fringed lawn cinema under the stars and in the comfy air conditioned indoor theatre, offering an enticing summer festival venue befitting the incredible cinema on offer.
With over 215 shorts screening across 24 competitive programmes and showcase sessions, Flickerfest 2025 features a glittering line-up in an astounding programme of the best short films from at home and the world selected from a record 3,500 entries.
Tickets are very limited and selling fast! So get in quick to secure yours now.
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17th December 2024
34TH INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAMME & HIGHLIGHTS!
The 2025 programme is now live, with over 200 of the most inspiring short films, enjoying their world and Australian premieres, handpicked from this year’s massive pool of over 3,500 entries, to move, inspire and entertain audiences with the very best short films Australia and the world has to offer, showcased across 24 dedicated festival programmes. 63 Australian films are officially selected for the Best of Australian Competition, 36 International films in the Best of International Competition and 16 Documentaries across the Best of Documentary Competition. A further 100 films will also feature across Flickerfest showcase sessions.
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6th December 2024
Hello Flickerfest Friends,
We’ve received a record 3,500 outstanding submissions for Flickerfest 2025, we can’t wait to share the best of short films from Australia & around the world with you.
Flickerfest will screen 28 sessions across 10 days & nights from 17th-26th Jan 2025 at the Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach this summer.
We look forward to seeing you there! – Ticket will also go on sale from Wed 18th Dec.
Thank you to all of our fabulous partners, filmmakers and audiences again for your incredible support; together we’ll make Flickerfest 2025 another unforgettable year for film!
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18th June 2024
FLiCKERFEST 2025 – Call for Entries – Show Us Your Shorts!
Dear Flickerfest friends far and wide… We cant wait to see this years fresh, inspiring and innovative short films from at home and across the world
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