Flickerfest
Strictly Great Short Films!
#Celebrating its 34th year
Flickerfest, Australia’s only Academy Award® and BAFTA qualifying short film festival, and the country’s largest Australian & International short film competition, screens the best of shorts from Australia and the world, selected from 3,500 entries; ensuring the presentation of A-list short film programmes recognised amongst the best in the world.
Flickerfest screens for 10 days under the summer stars at Bondi Beach in January, with selected highlights of the most entertaining and innovative short films from Australia & around the world touring the country on a 45 venue national tour from Feb - Oct 2025. Flickerfest returns with this annual one-off chance to see the Best of Australian Shorts & the Best of International Shorts programmes officially selected for Flickerfest National Tour, before these films continue their journey around the world.
International Shorts from 5.30pm
Australian Shorts from 8.00pm
Saturday 17 May - 5:30pm & 8:00pm
Film
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#Australian Shorts Program
The Fix-It-Man And The Fix-It-Wooman
In the “bright lights, big city of Alice Springs”, two soft sculptures try to impress each other with their dance moves. But it’s an unfortunate accident that finally brings them together as they discover they both have a talent for fixing things. Artwork by the Yarrenyty Arltere Artists, renowned for their beautiful soft sculptures, comes alive in this gentle funny tale of love and connection.
Director: Cornelius Ebatarinja, Nelson Armstrong
Writer: Rhonda Sharpe, Courtney Collins
Producer: Sophie Wallace
Runtime: 9min
Year: 2024
Famous Last Words
A down-trodden man is given some information from his dying mother which might change the course of his life.
Director: Rob Draper
Writer: Rob Draper
Producer: Phil Spencer, Lisa Fineberg
Runtime: 13min
Year: 2025
Made By Us
An Australian artist living in France clashes with her model while working on her latest portrait.
Director: Hannah Dougherty
Writer: Hannah Dougherty
Producer: Hannah Dougherty
Runtime: 10min
Year: 2025
Rash
Set over one afternoon, Rash follows two young brothers navigating the recent death of their mother. Unsettled by their father’s inability to cope with their grief, Quinn and Max embark on a tumultuous encounter with their new babysitter. Exploring the cataclysmic disruption and instability of early experiences of grief, Rash is an unnerving yet tender portrait of two children struggling with an unthinkable loss and the unwitting outsider inadvertently caught in the crossfire.
Director: Claudia Osborne
Writer: Claudia Osborne
Producer: Imogen Gardam, Amy Powter
Runtime: 14min
Year: 2024
Baggage
Three girlfriends check in their baggage at the airport, but one is carrying a little more than the others. As they travel along the conveyor belt to security, can she hide what’s inside?
Director: Lucy Davidson
Writer: Lucy Davidson
Producer: Vanessa Batten
Runtime: 5min
Year: 2024
And The Ocean Agreed
Vina is fading away, lost to dementia, but on a rare outing to the ocean, she finds herself and a chance for freedom.
Director: Tanya Modini
Writer: Tanya Modini
Producer: Tanya Modini, Stephanie Dower, Luisa Martiri
Runtime: 14min
Year: 2024
The Dog
A sick dog mysteriously appears in the clinic of a struggling vet (Kate Walsh, GREY’S ANATOMY) and tries to negotiate their own death, leading both on a surreal journey through life and mortality.
Director: Danielle Baynes
Writer: Danielle Baynes
Producer: Danielle Baynes, Morgan Hind, Lottie Aspinall
Runtime: 12min
Year: 2025
Locked In
Gemma’s first shift at a trendy Bondi bar starts off simple until she finds herself in an initiation game she didn’t realise she was a part of.
Director: Stephanie Pringle
Writer: Stephanie Pringle
Producer: Charlotte Chimes
Runtime: 11min
Year: 2025
Vlog
Our heroine juggles her chaotic #momlife and blossoming Mommy social media Vlog. Walking the line between her real self and her social media self. Her and her husband get a surprise – she is pregnant. Again. With baby #3. They’re both overjoyed but the juggle becomes more of a struggle when morning sickness, constant nausea and fatigue set in. On one particularly difficult morning her son grabs her phone as she is attempting to record her Vlog. The very real, raw and not so perfect mom moment is accidentally uploaded to her channel in all the chaos. The next morning when she realizes what happened, she is mortified. How her followers react, may just be her biggest surprise yet.
Director: Yvonne Strahovski
Writer: Yvonne Strahovski
Producer: Yvonne Strahovski, Mekenna Melvin, Tim Loden
Runtime: 17min
Year: 2024
The Hoist
Based on an outrageously true story, we follow local inventor, Bill, in his efforts to protect the most important thing at the annual bush dance… the supper. But will the chaotic entrance of an uninvited guest ruin everything?
Director: Janneke Williamson
Writer: Emma Morgan
Producer: Janneke Williamson, Eve Donohue
Runtime: 12min
Year: 2024
#INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM
Beautiful Men
Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
Director: Nicolas Keppens
Writer: Nicolas Keppens
Producer: Emmanuel-Alain Raynal
Runtime: 19min
Year: 2023
Country: Belgium
Game Rules
A youth handball team is about to participate in their first major tournament. As they aim for the top, facing professional players, talent scouts and sponsors, the game is suddenly interrupted by adults questioning who’s really allowed to play.
Director: Christian Zetterberg
Writer: Christian Zetterberg, Albin Abrahamsson
Producer: Liselotte Persson
Runtime: 12min
Year: 2024
Country: Sweden
Me And Dad
A boy struggles in his attempts to bond with his oblivious father at a bar. All efforts are ignored. The barman is the boy’s only soft ear. He empties everything in one final push to break dad.
Director: Shane Connellan
Writer: Shane Connellan
Producer: Jamie Eileen Strickler
Runtime: 9min
Year: 2024
Country: Ireland
A Summer’s End Poem
Shortly before the end of the summer holidays, a country boy spends his savings on his dream of a city hairstyle – with surprising results. A story about bidding farewell to childhood and the poetic end of a summer.
Director: Lam Can-zhao
Writer: Lam Can-zhao, Yupeng He, Shutong Xu
Producer: Lam Can-zhao
Runtime: 15min
Year: 2024
Country: China
This Is Not A Character, This Is Betrayal
The film tells the story of mother and son. The 58-year-old hairdresser Melanie drives her son Stefan (32), a young author, to the first reading of his autobiographical debut novel DER SALON.
Director: Romina Küper Writer: Romina Küper, Max Lindemann
Producer: Katharina Messias Mumper, Maxine Paatzsch, Isabella Müller de Paula
Runtime: 13min
Year: 2024
Country: Germany
Rhubarb Rhubarb
In the legendary Yorkshire Rhubarb Triangle, Jo and her elderly father produce the pink delicacy that made the region world-famous a century ago. Harvesting by candlelight like their ancestors before them, they could not prepare for the danger looming in the dark.
Director: Kate McMullen Writer: Kate McMullen, Paul Wauters
Producer: Rob Godbold
Runtime: 16min
Year: 2025
Country: United Kingdom
The Cockroach
After a body altering accident, a woman must find a way forward in her new reality.
Director: Mary Pat Bentel
Writer: Mary Pat Bentel
Producer: Mary Pat Bentel
Runtime: 20min
Year: 2024
Country: United States
Thanks For The Milk
A young delivery man realizes he’s the reincarnation of an elderly man’s beloved cat, rekindling a bond from a past life.
Director: Côme Ferré
Writer: Côme Ferré
Runtime: 8min
Year: 2024
Country: France
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