Best of International Short Films & Best of Australian Short Films
Celebrating 29 years, FLiCKERFEST is Australia’s leading Academy® Award accredited and BAFTArecognised Short Film Festival, and the country’s largest Australian & International short fil competition, screening the best of shorts from Australia and around the world, hand-picked from 3,500 entries. FLiCKERFEST screens for 10 days under the summer stars at Bondi Beach in January 2020, with selected highlights touring Australia on a 50+ venue national tour from January - May. FLiCKERFEST remains a platform for celebrating the most entertaining and innovative short filmmaking from Australia and around the world.
It’s not easy for a movie-star to age, especially when you’re a stop motion animated skeleton monster.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
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Jules, a wayward youth, walks into a music store. This could be the day that changes their life- AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
A meditation on homelessness, A Day In Your Life is quiet, thoughtful and deeply human, it is a gentle look at the world around us and the people pushed to its margins.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Tas takes up boxing in an effort to get away from her unstable mother and get closer to her estranged father.
Under the punishing and watchful eye of an elderly woman, a young girl, bored and lonely in a world of foreign suburbia, becomes determined to claim a larger Easter egg as her own.
A man returns to his country after decades abroad only to discover a society where there are more freedoms inside prison than outside it. Desperate, but unable to escape, the brave act of one woman gives him his freedom.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
While moving into a new apartment, a young woman must content with the advances of a neighbour. A taut social drama, The Complex is an exploration of the patriarchal bear-trap that is modern gender relations.
WORLD PREMIERE
To get his book published, a hopeless romantic must divulge his true feelings to his muse; the only problem is that he’s never actually spoken to her before.
NSW PREMIERE
All Barbara wants to do is watch the Simpsons, but her recent migrated mum has just been overcharged at the local shops, and its up to Barbara to sort it out. As usual.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
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Memorable
Recently, Louis, a painter is experiencing strange events, his world seems to be mutating.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
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When a man (you) dies in a traffic accident and gets into a conversation with God, he gets an answer to the biggest question of life.
WORLD PREMIERE
Thanks to his best friend, the chicken, Albert finds himself involved in a fateful game of chance that leads him to his true love. But was it really all just a coincidence?
WORLD PREMIERE
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A young Iranian woman is trying to renew her drivers license, but when officials notice scars and a tattoo on her wrist they become suspicious.
NSW PREMIERE
Ten-year-old Olaf auditions for Rent A Life, a company that offers the wealthy a chance to hire family members and friends. He has a plan and, no matter what the cost, he absolutely has to be cast in a role in someone’s life.
WORLD PREMIERE
Tired of being a banal architectural ornament, a sculpture runs away from the Louvre to confront real life on the streets of Paris.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
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This programme contains mature themes and is not recommended for children under 15.
