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academy®
CELEBRATING 30 YEARS Qualifying
and BAFTA-
recognised
GREAT SHORT FILM NEVER DIES
30th international film festival 2021
22 – 31 JANuary • BONDI BEACH
flickerfest.com.au
academy®
Qualifying
and BAFTA-
recognised
PROGRAM AND SESSION TIMES
DAY 10.00AM 1.30PM 4.00PM 6.30PM 9.00PM
FRI 22 Festival Opening Highlights & Party 8.00PM for 8.30PM start
SAT 23 Best of International 1 Best of Australian 1 Best of Australian 2 Best of Australian 3
SUN 24 Best of International 2 Best of Documentary 1 Best of Documentary 2 Best of Australian 4
MON 25 Best of International 3 Best of Australian 5
TUE 26 Best of Indigenous Best of Australian 6
WED 27 Best of International 4 Best of Australian 7
THU 28 Best of International 5 Love Bites 1
FRI 29 FlickerLab (10am - 5pm) Love Bites 2 Short Laughs Comedy 1
FlickerUp School Shorts
SAT 30 FlickerKids (ages 6-12) Rainbow Shorts Short Laughs Comedy 2
Competition Final
SUN 31 Closing Night Awards, Winning Highlights & After Party 7.00PM for 7.30PM
FESTIVAL INFORMATION SPECIAL EVENTS
WELCOME TO THE 30TH FLiCKERFEST! OPENING NIGHT FRIDAY 22 JANUARY
HIGHLIGHTS SCREENING 8.00pm for 8.30pm start
We are thrilled to have reached a AFTER PARTY 10.30pm- late including music, food and entertainment
landmark of 3 decades sharing the best
of the world’s and Australia’ short films CLOSING NIGHT SUNDAY 31 JANUARY
with you. This year I hope our Covid safe AWARDS AND SCREENING 7:00pm for 7:30pm start
Flickerfest event can bring us closer AFTER PARTY 10.30pm – late
together, celebrating cinema on the big Celebrate the end of the festival at the Closing Night and Awards Ceremony. A selection of the
screen at a time when we have never festival’s award-winning films will be screened, followed by music and drinks at the Flickerfest
been so physically far apart. See you for Garden Bar.
200 +of the most innovative, provocative
and wildly entertaining short films the
FLiCKERLAB FRIDAY 29 JANUARY 10.00AM TO 5.00PM
A one-day journey from shorts to features.
world has to offer at Australia’s leading
Academy® Qualifying and BAFTA
recognised short film festival in January.
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Flickerfest is an all weather event.
BRONWYN KIDD Flickerfest Director For more information on our Covid Safe Plan please visit Flickerfest.com au
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THANK YOU SPECIAL EVENT OPENING NIGHT
MAJOR GOVERNMENT PARTNER MAJOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT MAJOR PARTNERS
FRIDAY 22nd JANUARY 2021
PARTNER
8.00PM FOR 8.30PM
All the glitter of the stars of the screen, under a starry sky… Join us for a selection of Flickerfest’s
juiciest highlights – an introduction to the incredible cinema to come in our 2021 season. After
the films we party in our bespoke Festival Garden and Bar on fabulous Bondi Beach, and raise our
glasses to 30 years of the best short films from across the globe!
OPENING NIGHT SCREENING TICKET SCREENING & WELCOME
INCLUDES A DRINK ON ARRIVAL AND SCREENING 8.00PM FOR 8.30PM START
OPENING NIGHT SCREENING AND PARTY INCLUDES A CATERED PARTY AFTER PARTY
SUPPORTING PARTNERS BEVERAGE PARTNERS AND ENTERTAINMENT AT THE FLICKERFEST GARDEN BAR 10.30PM – LATE
OPENING NIGHT HIGHLIGHTS FRIDAY 22ND JAN 8:00 PM DURATION: 89 MINS
ROBOROVSKI THE MOOGAI
Australia | 15mins | 2020 Australia | 15mins | 2020
DIR: Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Dev Patel WRI/DIR: Jon Bell
WRI: Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Dev Patel, John Collee PROD: Samantha Jennings, Kristina Ceyton,
PROD: Jomon Tomas, Tilda Cobham-Harvey, Taylor Goddard, Mitchell Stanley
Dev Patel An Aboriginal psychological horror, THE
Roborovski follows an eponymous thimble sized MOOGAI is the story of a family terrorised
hamster who spends his days in Marvin’s Pet by a child-stealing spirit.
AWARD PARTNERS OFFICIAL TECHNICAL PARTNERS Shop, hoping to find a family. However, when NSW PREMIERE
he is constantly overlooked by the people and
animals around him, his seething resentment FRANKIE JEAN & THE MORNING STAR
and intense jealousy soon takes hold and the New Zealand | 17mins | 2020
murderous side of little Roborovski is released. DIR/WRI: Hannah Marshall
NSW PREMIERE PROD: Tara Riddell, Gareth Williams
In the early hours of the morning, a plucky,
DAVID rugby obsessed 8 year old girl stumbles
United States | 12mins | 2020 across a teenager about to end his life.
DIR: Zachary Woods AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
WRI: Brandon Gardner, Zachary Woods
PROD: Zachary Woods, Kevin Chinoy, Francesca THE AFFECTED
MEDIA PARTNERS FESTIVAL SUPPORTERS AND Silvestri, Andrew Porter Norway | 13mins | 2020
TRAILER SPONSORS A severely depressed man reaches out for an DIR: Rikke Gregersen
emergency therapy session. He’s not the only WRI: Trond Arntzen, Rikke Gregersen
Trackdown one who needs help. Starring Will Ferrell. PROD: Stine Blichfeldt
Spectrum Films AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Passengers and crew on a commercial flight
The Solid State question their ethics when an attempt to stop
Brewcasa Creative FURLOUGH a deportation occurs on their flight minutes
Panavision
Australia | 17mins | 2020 before take-off.
Nicolle Churi Creative
WRI/DIR: Phoebe Tonkin AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Chicken & Chips Casting
Dendy Cinemas PROD: Jessica Carrera
Palace Cinemas FURLOUGH follows a day-in-the-life of two
sisters, 16 and 17, who embark on an
adventure tiptoeing the line between freedom FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Furlough, The Moogai,
and responsibility. What appears to be a Roborovski
OFFICIAL TOUR PARTNERS PREFERRED ACCOMMODATION PARTNERS dangerous game of living on the edge is really
about making the most of the fleeting, precious
moments we have here on this earth.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
2 GREAT SHORT FILM NEVER DIES CELEBRATING 30 YEARS 3
BEST OF INTERNATIONAL
Five sessions of the best International short films in competition. Be uplifted, inspired
and moved by the next generation of the world’s most talented filmmakers - Academy ®
Qualifying and BAFTA recognised.
BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 1 O BLACK HOLE! BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 2 LOVENA
SATURDAY 23RD JAN 1.30 PM United Kingdom | 16mins | 2020 SUNDAY 24TH JAN 1.30 PM French Guiana | 28mins | 2020
DURATION: 105 MINS DIR: Renee Zhan DURATION: 101 MINS DIR/WRI: Oliver Sagne
WRI: Vanessa Rose, Renee Zhan PROD: Marc Barrat
PROD: Jesse Romain Lovena becomes French Guiana’s chess
FOREST FLOOR A woman who can’t stand the passing of time CRISS CROSS champion. An opportunity and a burden for an
United Kingdom | 5mins | 2019 turns herself into a black hole. A thousand Germany | 7mins | 2020 illegal Haitian immigrant teenager.
WRI/DIR/PROD: Robbie Synge unchanging years pass until one day, the DIR/WRI: Caroline Hamann, Fritz Penzlin AUSTRALIAN PREMIRE
Shot in Abernethy Forest in The Cairngorms, Singularity wakes inside her. PROD: Caroline Hamann
“Forest Floor” considers different bodies and AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A film about love and borders, which is stronger? FRANKIE JEAN & THE MORNING STAR
physical access challenges in a rural location. An unfortunate chain of events motivates a New Zealand | 17mins | 2020
Close friends Julie and Robbie sit quietly FLECK couple in love to try and defy the obstacles DIR/WRI: Hannah Marshall
together on the ground, a simple idea requiring USA | 15mins | 2019 between them. Can they be overcome? Or might PROD: Tara Riddell, Gareth Williams
a novel approach. DIR/WRI: Jing Ai Ng digging underneath be a better solution? And just In the early hours of the morning, a plucky,
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Miguel Lozano, John J Lozada when you think it’s getting easier, bureaucracy rugby obsessed 8 year old girl stumbles across
An Asian-American teenager at a traditional and the past get in the way! a teenager about to end his life.
DAVID prep school is desperate to fit in with the AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
United States | 12mins | 2020 school’s elite. She is forced to choose between
DIR: Zachary Woods her morality or fitting in. HEAVEN REACHES DOWN TO EARTH
WRI: Brandon Gardner, Zachary Woods AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE South Africa | 10mins | 2020
PROD: Zachary Woods, Kevin Chinoy, Francesca DIR/WRI: Tebogo Malebogo
Silvestri, Andrew Porter GIRL WITH A THERMAL GUN PROD: Petrus Van Staden
A severely depressed man reaches out for an China | 12mins | 2020 After Tau comes to a realisation about their
emergency therapy session. He’s not the only WRI/DIR: Rongfei Guo sexuality, it sets in motion a cascade of
one who needs help. PROD: Du Yating thoughts and emotions in Tumelo - nothing will
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE During the pandemic, a grocery delivery man ever be the same between them.
is busier than ever. He receives orders, fills AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
NO MORE WINGS shopping carts, and delivers packages. As he
United Kingdom | 10mins | 2019 grows tired, a feeling of loneliness washes over I WAS STILL THERE WHEN YOU LEFT ME
DIR/WRI: Abraham Adeyemi him and he begins to feel defeated—until he Belgium | 23mins | 2019
PROD: Abiola Rufai suddenly finds a thermal gun pressed to his DIR: Marie McCourt
Two lifelong friends meet up at their favourite forehead. WRI: Marie McCourt, Abdoulkarim Hamadi
fried chicken shop in South London. The meeting WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Mediadiffusion
comes at a crucial point in their lives as they While her tower block is burning, a 7-year-old
move onto a new path, maybe without wings. VIRAGO girl is consumed by guilt, thinking she started
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Estonia | 15mins | 2019 the fire.
DIR/WRI: Kerli Kirch Schneider AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
I AM AFRAID TO FORGET YOUR FACE PROD: Diana Mikita
Egypt, France, Belgium, Qatar | 15mins | 2020 In Virago village where no man has lived long IN THE DUSK
WRI/DIR: Sameh Alaa enough to see his fortieth birthday, Tõnu is China | 18mins | 2020
PROD: Muhammad Taymour, Mark Lotfy about to turn forty. DIR: Zhuolan
After being separated for 82 days, Adam travels AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI: Shuang Liang
down a rough road to be reunited with the one PROD: Joyce Yueyi Xing, Xue Yan Hu
he loves, whatever it takes. EXPERIMENT In The Dusk follows the journey of an elder
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE France | 5mins | 2020 Shaman (Tangar Borkhuu) who loses her only
DIR: Zoé Berton-Bojko, Susana Covo Pérez, grandson after curing a dying boy. She is
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Virago, David, Fleck, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Heaven Reaches Down To
Guillaume Heussler, Yann Kacprazak, searching for a foal that the Gods tell her is
Experiment Earth, Lovena, In the Dusk, Criss Cross
Margot Wiriath the rebirth of her grandson. No one, including
PROD: Julien Deparis her son, believes in her, but she insists that the
When science gets out of hand, the Gods will reply to her call.
consequences are disastrous.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
4 GREAT SHORT FILM NEVER DIES CELEBRATING 30 YEARS 5
BEST OF INTERNATIONAL CONTINUED
BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 3 RUN BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 4 HEADING SOUTH
MONDAY 25TH JAN 6.30 PM United Kingdom | 13mins | 2020 WEDNESDAY 27TH JAN 6.30 PM China / USA | 12mins | 2020
DURATION: 111 MINS WRI/DIR: Emma Miranda Moore DURATION: 103 MINS DIR/WRI: Yuan Yuan
PROD: Sarah Beardsall PROD: Fei Meng, Yuan Yuan
Charlie is 12 and trapped inside with a bully. 8 year old girl Chasuna travels from her home
NORMAL An unexpected connection with a neighbour BENCH on grassland to visit her father who lives in the
France| 11mins | 2020 broadens his world view and disrupts both their United Kingdom | 2mins | 2020 big city. However, during her father’s birthday
DIR/WRI: Julie Caty future paths. WRI/DIR: Rich Webber party, Chasuna finds out he has remarried to a
PROD: Ron Dyens AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A short film about sharing.... Chinese woman. Chasuna has to learn how to
When Dany, a rich heir, who cheats his AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE accept her as part of the family.
existential emptiness through hectic THE VISIT AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
consumption of Magic’Powder - a drug with Iran | 14mins | 2019 MY HERO
psychedelic and annihilated effects, randomly DIR/WRI/PROD: Azadeh Moussavi United States | 13mins | 2020 THE FABRIC OF YOU
meets Karl Marx while he was feeling After six months, Elaheh is finally allowed to visit WRI/DIR: Logan Jackson United Kingdom | 11mins | 2019
withdrawal symptoms, the socialist asks him her husband, who is a political prisoner. PROD: Dante Sims DIR/WRI: Josephine Lohoar Self
to destroy capitalism in order to save the AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE As last-minute plans for a babysitter fall apart, PROD: Calum Hart, Reetta Tihinen
humankind. Reluctantly, Dany accepts his eight-year-old Brandon is left alone to oversee Unable to show his true identity, Michael, a
request and turns into a superhero. But quickly, THE AFFECTED his younger brother Mason. grieving tailor mouse, recounts and reckons
he is overwhelmed by his task. Norway | 13mins | 2020 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE with the memories of a past lover.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE DIR: Rikke Gregersen AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
WRI: Trond Arntzen, Rikke Gregersen DANNI THE CHAMPION
SWIMMER PROD: Stine Blichfeldt Scotland | 9mins | 2020 MASEL TOV COCKTAIL
Sweden | 13mins | 2020 Passengers and crew on a commercial flight DIR: Laura Cameron-Lewis Germany | 30mins | 2020
DIR/WRI: : Jonatan question their ethics when an attempt to stop a WRI: Iain Finlay Macleod DIR: Arkadij Khaet, Mickey Paatzsch
PROD: Isabella Rodriguez deportation occurs on their flight minutes before PROD: Brenna Hobson WRI: Arkadij Khaet, Marle Kirchhoff
There’s a man floating around in an indoor take-off. Young Danni isn’t like the other girls in town. PROD: Ludwig Meck, Lotta Schmelzer,
swimming pool. The police order him to get out, AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE She’d rather be watching drag races down at Christine Duttlinger
to be arrested, but the man refuses. Swimmer the airport or tearing about behind the wheel of Ingredients: 1 Jew, 12 Germans, 50 ml
is a humorous short film about a dramatic her brother’s car, Lynyrd Skynyrd tunes blasting Culture of Remembrance, 30 ml stereotypes,
arrest that turns into an anticlimax. on the stereo. Bored of her life on the island 2 teaspoons of patriotism, 1 teaspoon of
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE and stifled by her passive-aggressive parents, Israel, 1 falafel, 5 Stumbling Stones, a dash of
she dreams of hitting the road and showing antisemitism. Directions: put all ingredients into
BITTU everyone what she can do. a film, bring to boil and shake vigorously. Then
United States | 17mins | 2020 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE garnish with Klezmer music.
DIR/WRI: Karishma Devi AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
PROD: Mary Evangelista SEIVA BRUTA
A close friendship between two girls is eclipsed Brazil | 16mins | 2019 HIS NAME WAS GERRY
by an accidental poisoning at school. DIR/WRI/PROD: Gustavo Milan United Kingdom | 12mins | 2020
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Marta, a young Venezuelan mother, is DIR/WRI: Peter Lee Scott
immigrating to Brazil when she meets a PROD: Peter Lee Scott, Ben Clark
GEORGIA struggling young couple with a baby girl. After a young boy’s best friend dies he gets
South Korea | 29mins | 2020 Her ability to breastfeed causes their convinced into creating a Viking funeral for
WRI/DIR: Jayil Pak fates to become forever entwined. him by a neighbour.
PROD: Boram Kang AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
When the police refuse to investigate their
daughters alleged suicide, two computer-
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Bittu, The Visit, Normal, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Danni the Champion, Heading
illeterate parents decide to design a protest
Run South, My Hero, The Fabric of You
banner.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
6 GREAT SHORT FILM NEVER DIES CELEBRATING 30 YEARS 7BEST OF INTERNATIONAL CONTINUED
screen nsw proudly supporting your stories
BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 5 I’M NOT TELLING YOU ANYTHING,
THURSDAY 28TH JAN 6.30 PM JUST SAYIN
DURATION: 109 MINS CROATIA, FRANCE | 18mins | 2020
DIR/WRI: Sanja Milardovic
/
PROD: Olivier Berlemont, Emilie Dubois,
JUST FOR THE RECORD Matej Merlic
/
Serbia | 7mins | 2019 Zrinka arrives in her hometown for a few days
DIR/WRI: Vojin Vasovic to do some location scouting. She stays at her
PROD: Senka Radivojevic, Vojin Vasovic mother Tanja’s place. Since Tanja’s behaviour
In an abandoned attic, dictaphone robot REC seems strange, Zrinka takes her location
desperately tries to befriend a bird before it’s scouting in order to find out what is troubling
battery leaks. her. Finally, Tanja’s emotional breakdown brings
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE the two closer together.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
LEARN TO SWIM
Germany | 16mins | 2019 ANITA
DIR: Gaya von Schwarze India | 18mins | 2020
WRI: Mirko Rachor, Josephine Oleak, WRI/DIR: Sushma Khadepaun
Gaya von Schwarze PROD:Ankur Singh
PROD: Ibrahim-Utku Erdogan, Leonie Schäfer While attending her sister’s wedding in India,
GROUNDHOG NIGHT by Emily Dash
Screening at Flickerfest 2021
A Mother sets off through the German province Anita is pushed to question whether her life
Genevieve Clay-Smith, John Batchelor and Emily Dash in a still from Groundhog Night.
to look for her son while making unexpected in America is any better than those in her
discoveries along the way. hometown.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
THE PRESENT THE ART OF LYING
Palestine | 24mins | 2020 Belgium | 14mins | 2020
DIR: Farah Nabulsi WRI/DIR: Mathijs F Scheepers
WRI: Hind Shoufani, Farah Nabulsi PROD: Hans Everaert
PROD: Ossama Bawardi A couple in financial trouble decide to steal
On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his their own car to pocket the insurance money,
daughter, Yasmine, set out in the West Bank but they have to confront a very dedicated
to buy his wife a gift. Between the soldiers, insurance inspector.
segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
would it be to go shopping?
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
HEART OF GOLD
France | 13mins | 2020
DIR/WRI: Simon Filliot
PROD: Jean-François Bigot, Camille Raulo
Who wouldn’t give their all for a child? A mother
sees an opportunity to escape the hardships of CELEBRATING SHORT FILMS.
a life of poverty by selling her organs to a sick,
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8 GREAT SHORT FILM NEVER DIESBEST OF AUSTRALIAN
Seven sessions of the best Australian short films in competition. Our homegrown talent battle
it out for the prestigious Academy® Qualifying Award for Best Australian Short Film.
JOY BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 2 PAINTING BY NUMBERS
BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 1 SATURDAY 23RD JAN 6.30 PM Australia | 4mins | 2020
Australia | 15mins | 2020
SATURDAY 23RD JAN 4.00 PM WRI/DIR: Gabriel Morrison WRI/DIR: Radheya Jegatheva
DURATION: 107 MINS
DURATION: 98 MINS PROD: Matthew Bunin PROD: Matt Hearn, Jay Jay Jegathesan
When a homeless couple’s savings are A child’s encounter with classic masterpieces
stolen, they’re forced to choose between their A MAN AND A CAT (UN HOMME ET UN CHAT) triggers a confronting epiphany.
SAVING DAYLIGHT relationship or survival as they struggle to reach Australia | 12mins | 2020 WORLD PREMIERE
Australia | 11mins | 2020 WRI/DIR: Kevin Spink
Queensland for a job too good to be true.
DIR: Benjamin Balte PROD: Kevin Spink, Colin Kratzing TORCH SONG
WORLD PREMIERE
WRI: Nate Godard, Ally Burnham A lonely salesman stumbles upon a stray cat Australia | 12mins | 2020
PROD: Nate Gothard and opens the door to his house… and heart. WRI/DIR: Stephen Lance
A hotel concierge must change all the clocks in
TÂM
Australia | 12mins | 2020 NSW PREMIERE PROD: Stephen Lance, Madeleine Allen
the hotel before daylight savings begins. An XXY teenager is rejected by his father
WRI/DIR: Noora Niasari
WORLD PREMIERE OBJECTS OF MY DISAFFECTION at a suburban burning man ceremony.
PROD: Marta Jelec, Noora Niasari
Tâm wakes up in a strange hotel room. As she Australia | 16mins | 2020 NSW PREMIERE
SPARK pieces together the night before, she realizes WRI/DIR/PROD: Sarah-Jane Woulahan
Australia | 9mins | 2020 After splitting up with her partner, a young PROM NIGHT
she is not alone.
DIR: Sophie Hawkshaw mother externalizes her feelings of loss and Australia, UK | 3mins | 2020
NSW PREMIERE
WRI: Madeleine Jurd, Tanna Nankivell resentment through the family’s possessions. WRI/DIR/PROD: Lydia Rui
PROD:Madeleine Jurd An experimental exploration of imposter
After catching a glimpse of life away from her
ELLA NSW PREMIERE
Australia | 17mins | 2020 syndrome, through a colonised Asian
family farm, Jean, an adventurous teen, decides DON’T FORGET TO GO HOME female gaze.
DIR: Madison Novak
whether to continue coming back or to forge a Australia | 12mins | 2020 WORLD PREMIERE
WRI: Madison Novak, Reggie Grace-Knipe
new path for herself. WRI/DIR: Victoria Singh-Thompson
PROD: Reggie Grace-Knipe
WORLD PREMIERE Ella, a teenager who experiences intense PROD: Lottie Aspinhall, Linus Carey Gibson ECDYSIS
anxiety, attempts to deliver a speech in class. Two sisters miss their cousin’s wedding to go Australia | 14mins | 2020
HYDE Along the way she reflects on her life and on a drug-fuelled bender. DIR: Roscoe Portelli, William Stanforth
Australia | 7mins | 2020 discovers her own way of dealing with the NSW PREMIERE WRI: William Stanforth
DIR: Ruby Challenger stress of public speaking. PROD: Roscoe Portelli, William Stanforth,
WRI: Erik Magnusson WORLD PREMIERE SYSTEM ERROR William Ewing
PROD: Andrew McMartin Australia | 13mins | 2020 In a small rural town, a beaten middle-aged
Joan Utterson searches for her AA Sponsee OCCUPIED WRI/DIR: Matt Vesely woman reaches breaking point as her cruel,
Haley Jekyll but instead finds herself stalked Australia | 8mins | 2019 PROD: Kirsty Stark con-artist husband attempts to corrupt a rookie
by a violent and chaotic monster. WRI/DIR: Ruby Lennon Every day, George works his job at a dingy police officer.
WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Ruby Lennon, David Bedelis convenience store, desperately hoping for a AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Occupied unlocks the secrets of the women’s friend - but George is also an immobile robotic
JULIA bathroom and explores the hilarity of service unit, and immobile service units do not A PROBLEMATIC GESTURE TOWARD
Australia | 8mins | 2020 unexpected friendship. So, cross your legs and have friends. Not yet anyway. AUTEUR THEORY
WRI/DIR: James Weir hope to God this line gets moving. Australia | 7mins | 2020
NSW PREMIERE
PROD: Erin Friedman WRI/DIR: James Robert Woods
WORLD PREMIERE
A family arm-wrestling battle and a strange
radio program lead a father and son to
THE STORY OF LEE PING PROD: James Robert Woods, Stephanie Jane Day
Australia | 13mins | 2020 An egomaniacal Auteur has a moment of
profound realisations about their place in Anagnorisis when he learns about the concept
DIR: Jasmin Tarasin
the world. of Anagnorisis.
WRI John Collee
WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Lucy Maclaren, Jo McNulty-Clark NSW PREMIERE
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Spark, Tâm, Joy, Ella Set in the rural backlots of 1920s Australia, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Painting by Numbers, The
JEAN “The Story of Lee Ping” is a tale of a young Story of Lee Ping, A Man and a Cat, Ecdysis
Australia | 11mins | 2020 Chinese woman, an imprisoned erotic dancer
WRI/DIR/PROD: Alisha Hnatjuk who plots her freedom. Lee meets Jack, an
A woman’s crumbling relationship bleeds aboriginal farm hand, who changes the way she
into her work day. sees herself forever.
WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE
10 GREAT SHORT FILM NEVER DIES CELEBRATING 30 YEARS 11BEST OF AUSTRALIAN CONTINUED
BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 3 WAIYIRRI BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 4 THE FAMILIARS
SATURDAY 23RD JAN 9.00 PM Australia | 17mins | 2020 SUNDAY 24TH JAN 9.00 PM Australia | 16mins | 2020
DURATION: 109 MINS DIR: Kiara Milera, Charlotte Rose DURATION: 109 MINS DIR: Millicent Malcom
WRI: Kate Bonney WRI: Octavia B. Martin
PROD: Jodie Kirkbride PROD: Alexis Talbot-Smith
THIS TOWN AIN’T BIG ENOUGH FOR THE Two women - a Missionary’s wife, Mary, ROBOROVSKI When a skeptical teenage girl inherits a
BOTH OF US and Ngarrindjeri woman, Lacardi, meet in a Australia | 15mins | 2020 mysterious heirloom, she must decide
Australia | 7mins | 2020 changing world, 1860s South Australia; tragedy DIR: Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Dev Patel whether to use it to protect herself from
WRI/DIR: D.C. Fairhurst strikes leaving Mary questioning her need WRI: Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Dev Patel, John her destructive Mother.
PROD: Lucy Green, D.C. Fairhurst to ‘save souls’ and instead finding solace in Collee NSW PREMIERE
Two rival pickpockets clash in an increasingly Lacardi‘s culture and connection to Country. PROD: Jomon Tomas, Tilda Cobham-Hervey,
risky game of cat-&-mouse. NSW PREMIERE Dev Patel INFERNO
WORLD PREMIERE Roborovski follows an eponymous thimble sized Australia | 15mins | 2020
SPARKLES hamster who spends his days in Marvin’s Pet DIR: Katherine Chediak Putnam
THE EXIT PLAN Australia | 13mins | 2020 Shop hoping to find a family. However, when WRI: Katherine Chediak Putnam, Dean Law
Australia | 14mins | 2020 DIR: Jacqueline Pelczar he is constantly overlooked by the people and PROD: Brenton Pinsent
DIR: Angus Wilkinson WRI: Tina Fielding animals around him, his seething resentment When a family man tears down the remains of
WRI: Ella Cook PROD: Cody Greenwood and intense jealousy soon takes hold and the his burned-out childhood home in an attempt
PROD: James Buckingham A 30-something-year-old-woman from Down murderous side of little Roborovski is released. to bury his family’s tragic past, he finds himself
In an overpopulated future, an elderly Syndrome leaves her past behind, and runs NSW PREMIERE tormented by something sinister uncovered in
woman is visited by a young government away from a small country town, heading the demolition.
official to ensure she is complying with the towards the city. Along her journey, she makes LIQUID MOONLIGHT WORLD PREMIERE
government’s new “Exit Plan” policy, but, when an unlikely friendship with a Drag Queen from Australia | 11mins | 2020
he interrogates her further he soon realizes the Outback, teaching us all not to be afraid to DIR: Hannah Ariotti, Anna McGahan BOUCHE
she has her own ‘plan’ for him. celebrate who we are. WRI: Anna McGahan Australia | 11mins | 2020
WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Sam Gain-Emery, Danielle Redford WRI/DIR: Ruixuan Bai
An Australian astronaut completing the final PROD: Davy Guangda Zhu, Ruixuan Bai
IF I QUIT NOW LOST BOY stages of her training before launching on An aspiring trumpet player dreams to seek
Australia | 9mins | 2020 Australia | 12mins | 2020 a mission to the moon, struggles to end her his way.
WRI/DIR: Luke Wissell WRI/DIR: Peter Skinner breastfeeding relationship with her baby. WORLD PREMIERE
PROD: Sam McSweeny PROD: Susannah Wolff, David Shyegun WORLD PREMIERE
Andrew’s decision to quit the residential rehab When a volatile young bartender shows up to THE END, THE BEGINNING
program devastates the loyal teenager he’s work with a fresh black eye, he’s challenged by SOULMATE Australia | 15mins | 2020
supposed to be mentoring. his boss to drop his macho persona. Australia | 17mins | 2020 DIR: Archie Chew
WORLD PREMIERE NSW PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Nik Kacevski WRI: Samuel Herriman
PROD: Christopher Seeto PROD: Alicia Easaw-Mamutil
THE MOOGAI WIRUN Set in the near future, a thirteen-year-old girl In the picture-book town of Collector, a young
Australia | 15mins | 2020 Australia | 9mins | 2020 plays a deadly game of cat and mouse in a girl and her gang of rogue environmentalists
WRI/DIR: Jon Bell DIR: Chad O’Brien world where overpopulation has caused for a are trying to save the planet as the world goes
PROD: Samantha Jennings, Kristina Ceyton, WRI: Ebony McGuire, Chad O’Brien desperate law that forces citizens to kill their into lockdown. The main target of the rebellion?
Taylor Goddard, Mitchell Stanley PROD: Jemma Douglas designated “Soulmate”. The girl’s very own father.
An Aboriginal psychological horror, ‘The Moogai’ A young Indigenous girl must dig deep to own AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
is the story of a family terrorised by a child- her performance of a Shakespearean sonnet for
stealing spirit. her high school drama class. HANNAH & THE FRIEND ZONE
NSW PREMIERE NSW PREMIERE Australia | 4mins | 2020
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: The Exit Plan, Sparkles, If I WRI/DIR/PROD: Holly Hargreaves FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Roborovski, The Familiars,
Quit Now, Waiyirri THE WAKE Recently broken up, Hannah and Bree navigate The End, The Beginning, Inferno
Australia | 13mins | 2020 the tricky move to the friend zone.
WRI/DIR: Eddie Diamandi WORLD PREMIERE
PROD: Katerina Mitropoulos, George Rubanov
Svetlana, a recent widow struggles to
navigate her husband’s funeral and wake
as itspirals out of control.
WORLD PREMIERE
12 GREAT SHORT FILM NEVER DIES CELEBRATING 30 YEARS 13BEST OF AUSTRALIAN CONTINUED
BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 6
TUESDAY 26TH JAN 9.00 PM
PYROCENE
Australia | 7mins | 2020
DURATION: 117 MINS DIR/PROD: Johnny Milner,
WRI: Johnny Milner, Dave Dexter
Pyrocene responds to the catastrophic
THE GODS OF TINY THINGS Australian bushfires of the summer of
Australia | 5mins | 2019 2019/2020, imagining the event in retrospect,
WRI/DIR/PROD: Deborah Kelly as a catalyst, and force that would bring the
The Gods of Tiny Things thinks about threats ending of the world as we know it.
BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 5 AN ATHLETE WRESTLING A PYTHON to life; the shift to the right across the world, the WORLD PREMIERE
MONDAY 25TH JAN 9.00 PM Australia | 17mins | 2019
tolls of colonialism, climate catastrophe and
DURATION: 111 MINS WRI/DIR: Stephanie Jane Day
conversely the kaleidoscopic pleasures of life CARMENTIS
PROD: James Robert Woods,
itself, at all scales, in all its teeming, hectic, Australia | 15mins | 2019
Stephanie Jane Day
clamouring fertility. WRI/DIR: Antony Webb
GLEN Life imitates art when Julien Goethe directs
NSW PREMIERE PROD: Jaclyn Hewer
Australia | 9mins | 2020 anunhinged version of An Athlete Wrestling
A grief stricken miner finds himself injured
DIR: Jeremy Brull A Python.
THE REALITY on the desolate planet Carmentis and must
WRI: Duncan Ragg, Jessica Marshall, NSW PREMIERE
Australia | 12mins | 2020 overcome his personal demons in order to
Peter Dabro WRI/DIR: Trevor Clarence survive, but can he get there before the
PROD: Duncan Ragg, Katherine Shearer FURLOUGH PROD: Alicia Rashleigh planet freezes?
Deep into his first lockdown, 50-year-old Glen Australia | 17mins | 2020
A mild-mannered florist volunteers for a reality NSW PREMIERE
is given a second chance at love... but only if WRI/DIR: Phoebe Tonkin
show where she must swap jobs with
he can summon the courage to come face to PROD: Jessica Carrera
a paramedic. THE FLAME
Facebook with the perils of online seduction. FURLOUGH follows a day-in-the-life of two
WORLD PREMIERE Australia | 12mins | 2020
WORLD PREMIERE sisters, 16 and 17, who embark on an
WRI: Nick Waterman, Megan
adventure tiptoeing the line between freedom
THE HANDYMAN Washington,Dayannah Baker Barlow,
THE LISTENING and responsibility. What appears to be a
Australia | 15mins | 2020 Tyrese Fernando, Paul Spearim, Connie Taylor,
Australia | 25mins | 2020 dangerous game of living on the edge, is really
WRI/DIR: Nicholas Clifford Lance Whitton Jr.
DIR: Milena Bennett about making the most of the fleeting, precious
PROD: Elise Trenorden DIR: Nick Waterman in collaboration with
WRI/PROD: Milena Bennett, Geoffrey Bennett moments we have here on this earth.
Evelyn attempts to end her life, but is interrupted by Dayannah Baker Barlow, Tyrese Fernando &
Freya and Dan move to the country to have AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE the arrival of Jack, a handyman desperate for work. Lance Whitton Jr.
their first child; as the pregnancy develops they AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Beyond Empathy
lose their grip on reality. Distance and time, IDOL In the Australian Outback, the stories of the past
dreams and waking life, the living and the Australia | 19mins | 2019 WIDOWERS are reframed through a series of interwoven
dead converge. WRI/DIR: Alex Wu Australia | 12mins | 2019 portraits. The Flame beautifully explores the
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Jiapei Wu WRI/DOR: Julian Tuna powerful and shifting properties of fire and
A young Chinese celebrity is caled into an PROD: Sarah Christie wind, bringing the stories of ancestors—and
ALBA emergency meeting, after a fan of his WIDOWERS is a meditation on suburban the upheaval that the white fella brought to the
Australia | 9mins | 2020 commits suicide. masculinity as two aging men negotiate grief, community—into the present.
WRI/DIR: Senie Priti rage and forgiveness without exchanging a word. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
PROD: Senie Priti, Adrian Ortega, STRAIGHT OUTTA COVID AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Patrick Jennings Australia | 3mins | 2020
SUNBURN
The fragile relationship between a father and WRI/DIR/PROD: Cesar Salmeron
THE IMMORTAL Australia | 12mins | 2020
daughter is tested when an unexpected call Two kids post Covid lockdown discuss what
Australia | 15mins | 2019 DIR: Jaslyn Mairs
jeopardises their time together. matters most...to them!
WRI/DIR: Carl Firth WRI: Claudia Bailey
WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE
PROD: Carl Firth, Guy Edmonds, Augusta Miller PROD: Ben Bauchet, Lev Jutsen
A man who fears death discovers the secret In the wake of a tragedy, Charlie takes her
IN THE WAKE of immortality, but learns that eventually, best friend Em on a road trip in the hope it will
Australia | 12mins | 2020 everything dies - everything except him. help them heal. Along the way they find their
WRI/DIR: Stephanie Jaclyn NSW PREMIERE friendship is tested like never before.
PROD: Jodie Kirkbride NSW PREMIERE
After a devastating car crash involving her thrill- THIS RIVER
seeking sister, Alice is left with only her grieving Australia | 13mins | 2020 SMASHED
mother and buried memories of the event. WRI/DIR: Naomi Fryer Australia | 14mins | 2020
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Alba, An Athlete Wrestling NSW PREMIERE PROD: Naomi Fryer, Katherine Shearer FROM TOP TO BOTTOM:The Handyman, Pyrocene,
WRI/DIR: Tyson Yates
a Python, The Listening, Glen During an Australian 1990’s summer, Jacquie The God of Tiny Things, Sunburn
PROD: Kristie Yates
celebrates graduating high school with her Faced with the potential of losing their long-
friends and family. But when a boy she likes term Queensland share house at an open
breaks her trust at a party, it shatters her sense home, two twenty-somethings scheme a
of self. haunted plan to keep their home and their
WORLD PREMIERE smashed avo breakfasts.
WORLD PREMIERE
14 GREAT SHORT FILM NEVER DIES CELEBRATING 30 YEARS 15BEST OF AUSTRALIAN CONTINUED award winning
family grown
handmade wine
BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 7 NOWHERE ARKANSAS
WEDNESDAY 27TH JAN 9.00 PM Australia | 11mins | 2019
DURATION: 111 MINS WRI/DIR: Robert Linsley
PROD: Alexander Jeffery
Nowhere, Arkansas, 1863. A confederate
THE SWIMMING CHAIR veteran haunted by his past, hunts redemption
Australia | 6mins | 2020 in the form of a famous eagle belonging to the
DIR: Matthew Taylor Union Army.
WRI: Celeste Franklin AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
PROD: Claudia Shepherd, Sophia O’Rourke
Based on a story by Tim Winton, A man ANTECEDENTS
describes three generations learning to swim, Australia | 12mins | 2020
what begins with his mother’s lessons in the WRI/DIR: Emma Vickery
water, becomes lessons in living life. PROD: Stephanie Davis
WORLD PREMIERE A woman battling to move her dementia
suffering mother into care, finds herself
flickerfest
LE MIROIR reluctant to leave. wine sponsor
Australia | 17mins | 2020 NSW PREMIERE
WRI/DIR: Leila Murton Poole
since 2009
PROD: Jara Gonzalez, Leila Murton Poole MOTHER BUNKER
Narrated by Michael Caton, Le Miroir is a Australia | 5mins | 2020
dark fairytale about superstition and fateful WRI/DIR/PROD: George Metaxas www.rosnay.com.au
circumstances which empower the mute A robot dons a human suit and pants on a drag
heroine to find her voice and not be afraid show for an army of robots.
to use it. NSW PREMIERE
NSW PREMIERE
POOLS
BALA Australia | 16mins | 2020
Australia | 10mins | 2020 DIR/PROD: Luisa Martiri
DIR: Deborah Brown WRI: Alex Philp
WRI: Melissa Lee Speyer A young woman takes a road trip to Brisbane
PROD: Georgia Noe O’Brien to terminate her pregnancy, alongside her
In this poetic short, a former navy officer reluctant Mother.
reunites with his cousins to grieve after learning WORLD PREMIERE
of his much-loved grandfathers’ death, soon
after the break-up of a relationship. A STRANGE SEASON
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Australia | 9mins | 2020
WRI/DIR/PROD: Burak Oguz Saguner
CALL HISTORY A marriage that spans over half a century
Australia | 10mins | 2020 cracks when the husband gets plagued
WRI/DIR: Lillian Paterson by paranoia.
PROD: Rachel Argall, Lillian Paterson AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Tormented by the guilt of her new relationship,
a young woman reaches out to an old flame LOVESTUCK
but when she calls, no one answers. Australia | 15mins | 2020
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Call History, The Swimming NSW PREMIERE DIR; Benjamin Ryan
Chair, Mother Bunker, Antecedents WRI: Matt Lausch
PROD: Nicolas Nalbandian
As the world goes into lockdown, a budding
filmmaker documents a young couple
struggling with the decision to become parents.
WORLD PREMIERE
16 GREAT SHORT FILM NEVER DIESBEST OF DOCUMENTARY
Two sessions of the best international and Australian documentaries in competition,
vying for the Flickerfest Award for Best Documentary (Academy® Accredited).
BEST OF DOCUMENTARY 1 THE MOUNTAIN & THE MAIDEN BEST OF DOCUMENTARY 2 MAALBEEK
SUNDAY 24TH JAN 4.OO PM United States | 19mins | 2020 SUNDAY 24TH JAN 6.30 PM France | 15mins | 2020
DURATION: 104 MINS DIR: Anton von Heiseler, Shmuel Hoffman DURATION: 102 MINS DIR: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
PROD: Margelit Hoffman, Narayan Kaudinya, WRI: Perrine Prost, Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
Sheikh Ayub PROD: Pauline Seigland, Lionel Massol,
POSTPARTUM This is the story of a day in the life of Aspiya. A GRAB MY HAND: A LETTER TO MY DAD Maxence Voiseux, Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
Germany | 5mins | 2020 10-year-old girl living with her younger brother, United States | 5mins | 2019 Survivor but amnesiac of the attack at
WRI/DIR/PROD: Henriette Rietz older sister and parents in a one-room-shack in DIR: Camrus Johnson, Pedro Piccinini Maalbeek metro station on 22 March 2016
Postpartum describes the chaotic phase New Delhi near Asia’s biggest landfill. WRI/PROD: Camrus Johnson in Brussels, Sabine is looking for the missing
in life of a new mother, who seriously thought AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A personal story of grief, those we look up image of an over-mediatised event of which she
that parental leave would become a sort of to, and how the interactions we may deem has no memory.
sabbatical. WE HAVE ONE HEART insignificant may play a huge part in how we AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Poland | 11mins | 2020 live our lives.
DIR/WRI: Katarzyna Warzecha AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE HUNTSVILLE STATION
PANT HOOT PROD: Ewa Jastrzębska United States | 14mins | 2020
United States | 21mins | 2020 After his mother dies, Adam comes across 57 DAYS DIR: Jamie Meltzer, Chris Filippone
DIR/PROD: Richard Reens some letters his parents exchanged years Spain | 14mins | 2020 Every weekday, inmates are released from
A genocide survivor transcends overwhelming ago. This is an opportunity for him to find out DIR/WRI: Mario Lumbreras, Laura Brasero Huntsville State Penitentiary, taking in
odds to become a master chimpanzee linguist. more about his father, who he never knew. The PROD: Hernán Zin, Nerea Barros their first moments of freedom with phone
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE juxtaposition of animated drawings and archival Julio Lumbreras was one of the first patients to calls, cigarettes, and quiet reflection at the
material takes us back forty years and enables enter an ICU in Spain with Covid-19. Through Greyhound station up the block.
GREETINGS FROM MYANMAR us to uncover an extraordinary family secret. the phone messages of his family, we follow his AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Norway | 5mins | 2020 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE 57 days of fighting the coronavirus.
DIR: Andreas J. Riiser, Sunniva Sundby AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE KATA
PROD: BACON OSL COLD WATER THERAPY Japan | 7mins | 2020
Unsuspecting tourists enjoy a peaceful holiday Australia | 24mins | 2020 MAKING WAVES DIR/PROD: James Latimer
in Myanmar’s hotel complexes, lazily walking DIR/PROD: Remy Brand United States | 32mins | 2020 A fantastical and dramatic journey through
between swimming pools and sun umbrellas, 3 childhood friends take on the adventure of WRI/DIR/PROD: Laura Zéphirin the mind of 13 year old Mahiro Takano, an
while ten kilometers away, members of the a lifetime in the Alaskan Winter searching for Lamya Essemlali is an ocean activist, dedicated unprecedented 6 year in-a-row national ‘Kata’,
Rohingya ethnic group are being tortured and uncrowded waves and a sense of relief from to protecting marine turtles from being poached Karate form champion, who comes face to face
killed as a result of the largest genocide in Asia their busy lives. in the Indian Ocean and Pilot Whales from with her greatest enemy yet.
since the Vietnam War. WORLD PREMIERE being hunted in the North Atlantic. But who AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE is really in danger, the sea life or the humans
GIOJA22 facing an empty ocean by 2048?
WHITE GOODS Italy / 11mins / 2020 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Australia | 8mins | 2020 WRI/DIR: Stefano De Felici
DIR/PROD:Cath Murphy PROD: Caterina Teoldi, Stefano De Felici WHAT WAS IT LIKE
WRI: Cath Murphy, Merrilee Moss A new skyscraper stands out against the Australia | 15mins | 2020
White Goods is a short animated documentary sky amidst massive mirrored buildings and DIR: Genevieve Clay-Smith
of Merrilee Moss describing her experience of vertical forests, symbols of Milan’s new WRI: Lianne Mackessy, Genevieve Clay-Smith
the coerced adoption of her daughter. White skyline. Alone, one man bravely scales the PROD: Genevieve Clay-Smith, Dianna La Grassa
Goods is the first of six short animations from building, defying the concrete and glass Eight filmmakers with intellectual disability
the series Socially Sanctioned, documenting bastions of new world finance. interview their parents about what it was
stories about socially sanctioned abuse at the AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE like when doctors delivered the news of
hands of protectors. their diagnosis.
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Cold Water Therapy, WORLD PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Kata, Huntsville Station,
Postpartum, Pant Hoot, We Have One Heart Making Waves, Grab my Hand: A Letter to My
Dad
18 GREAT SHORT FILM NEVER DIES CELEBRATING 30 YEARS 19LOVE BITES
A quirky short journey through the joys and pitfalls of modern relationships.
LOVEBITES 1 AQUAPHOBE LOVEBITES 2 STARING CONTEST
THURSDAY 28TH JAN 9.00 PM Australia | 15mins | 2020 FRIDAY 29TH JAN 6.30 PM Australia | 11mins | 2020
DURATION 101 MINS WRI/DIR: Melanie Easton DURATION 104 MINS WRI/DIR/PROD: Peter Skinner
PROD: Gilbert Kemp Attrill Ex-lovers reunite for tea that spans their
A young woman who used to be a cat must entire relationship.
MILLENNIAL PRINCE overcome her fear of water in order to save DOG DATE AFTERNOON WORLD PREMIERE
United States | 6mins | 2020 her relationship. Australia | 9mins | 2020
WRI/DIR: Julie Fliegenspan NSW PREMIERE WRI/DIR/PROD: Lachlan Ryan HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A PANDEMIC
PROD: Olivia Lloyd, Rashaud Michel To date the girl of his dreams, a germaphobe Ireland / 11mins / 2020
After discovering her boyfriend’s Tinder hookup, JUST DELIVERED must win over the most important loved one DIR/PROD: Michael-David McKernan
a manatee named Jade and her animal friends United Kingdom | 15mins | 2020 in her life… her dog. But he’ll soon learn that A capsule romance accelerates dramatically
attempt to protect her heart. WRI/DIR: Rosie Gaunt-Mathieson man’s best friend can become man’s worst against the backdrop of the pandemic as two
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Amber Howorth, Christina Riggs enemy! filmmakers are forced to move in together after
To help fund his education and pay his two weeks of knowing each other.
IRRĖPROACHABLE rent Daniel has started a new job as an on REMEMBER WHEN AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
France | 15mins | 2019 demand takeaway rider. With his head down Australia | 10mins | 2019
DIR: Nathan Franck he doesn’t notice the keen eye of Kelly in the WRI/DIR: Molly Moloney SYNTHETIC LOVE
WRI: Nathan Franck, Marion Defer local chip shop. PROD: Molly Moloney, Claudia Bailey France | 24mins | 2020
PROD: Dimitri Krassoulia, Igor Auzepy AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Awkward small talk and lost love, Niamh meets WRI/DIR: Sarah Heitz de Chabaneix
Samuel and Agnes find themselves stuck in the up with her ex-boyfriend to give his belongings PROD: Tabo Tabo Films, Louison Blaizot,
elevator just after the first tried to steal the bag THE TEST back, only to realise some things mean more to Suzanne Colin
of the second. Behind closed doors, aggressor Australia | 8mins | 2020 her than they do to him. Diane realises that the man she fantasises
and victim confront each other. WRI/DIR: Jessica Smith AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE about shares his life with someone very
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: January Jones, Jessica Smith peculiar.
Hoping to take the next big step in their life SINGLE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
CIRCUS PERSON together, two women await the results of a test United States | 14mins | 2020
United States | 17mins | 2020 that could not only put an end to their plans, but WRI/DIR: Ashley Eakin
WRI/DIR: Britt Lower perhaps even their relationship. PROD: Connie Sechrist
PROD: Alex Knell, Sam Fox, Desiree Staples, AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A film that confronts the complexities of being
Alexandre Naufel, Jasmine Dickens disabled and dating. Kim, who was born with
Left by her fiancé for another woman, a bereft CONSENT AGREEMENT one arm, gets set-up to go on a blind date.
painter (Britt Lower) joins a traveling circus to Canada | 10mins | 2020 When she finally meets Jake, she quickly
reclaim her forgotten wildness. Live action and WRI/DIR: Ravi Steve Khajura realizes he also has a physical disability, and
animated body paint interweave in this ode to PROD: Colin Glazer she is pissed.
healing through radical love. A couple struggle with connectivity issues while AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE using a sexual consent app to hook-up.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE SINKING SHIP
GROUNDHOG NIGHT Canada | 13mins | 2020
Australia | 16mins | 2020 DIR: Sasha Leigh Henry
DIR: Genevieve Clay-Smith, Rawley Reynolds WRI: Tania Thompson
WRI: Emily Dash PROD: Tania Thompson, Megan McCartney
PROD: Dianna La Grassa, Tracey Corbin-Matchett A couple’s night out turns into a frank
For carer Gary, moving on and keeping his family conversation about the state of their
together isn’t always easy. Tensions run high relationship. It’s clear the ship is sinking and it’s
when his late wife’s parents arrive unannounced every man for himself.
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Aquaphobe, Groundhog after he brings home a date. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Dog Date Afternoon, How
Night, Circus Person, Consent Agreement to Fall in Love in a Pandemic, Sinking Ship,
THE MISSING HALF Single
Australia | 11mins | 2020
WRI/DIR: Sang Lam
PROD: Tony Plicha
A man is obsessed with finding his missing half.
WORLD PREMIERE
20 GREAT SHORT FILM NEVER DIES CELEBRATING 30 YEARS 21SHORT LAUGHS COMEDY
Chortle your way through a hilarious off-kilter selection of shorts
from across the world.
SHORT LAUGHS COMEDY 1 STICK A FORK IN ME SHORT LAUGHS COMEDY 2 JUMP
FRIDAY 29TH JAN 9.00 PM Australia | 11mins | 2020 SATURDAY 30TH JAN 9.00 PM Australia | 7 mins | 2020
DURATION: 104 MINS WRI/DIR: Helen Turton DURATION: 106 MINS DIR: Isaac Brown
PROD: Jack Rintoul WRI: Harry Borland
Anthony’s dinner party is getting very out of hand. PROD: Jake Speer
À LA MODE WORLD PREMIERE BENCH Jump is a darkly comedic story about the
France | 9mins | 2020 United Kingdom | 2mins | 2020 importance of human interaction that unfolds in
DIR: Jean Lecointre A HOLE WRI/DIR: Rich Webber the most unlikely of places.
WRI: Laurence Meoc New Zealand | 12mins | 2019 A short film about sharing.... WORLD PREMIERE
PROD: Nicolas Schmerkin WRI/DIR: James Solomon AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
In a kingdom tormented by fashion crazes, a PROD: Lissandra Leite INCIDENT 42
queen and her court must always keep up with A man digs a hole. People watch him do it. TALK RADIO Australia | 8mins | 2020
the new trend. If not, an abominable monster will AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE United Kingdom | 9mins | 2020 DIR: Aaron Tsindos
consume them: the Ridicule. WRI/DIR: Ben S. Hyland WRI: Aaron Tsindos, Scott Sheridan
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE THE BIRTH OF VALERIE VENUS PROD: Adam Gregory Smith PROD: Aaron Tsindos, Alex Giles
United Kingdom | 15mins | 2020 Pauline and Barry are a seemingly happily A group of young environmental scientists
STRAIGHT OUTTA COVID WRI/DIR: Sarah Clift married middle aged couple. That is until Pauline discover a new form of renewable energy,
Australia | 3mins | 2020 PROD: Serena Armitage, Pietro Greppi tunes into relationship hour on Talk Radio and but are being hunted down by a mysterious
WRI/DIR/PROD: Cesar Salmeron A selfless vicar’s wife is possessed by a strange thinks she recognises the nameless voice that’s stranger trying to get his hands on their
Two kids post Covid lock-down discuss what force, unlocking a mischievous (and pleasurable) relaying a lifetime of regrets live on the radio. research.
matters most...to them! side she never knew she had. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE VIKTOR ON THE MOON
REVOLT Denmark | 29mins | 2020
IT’S A BALLOON ASCENDING GRACE Australia | 10mins | 2020 DIR: Christian Arhoff
Australia | 3mins | 2019 Ireland | 11mins | 2020 WRI/DIR: David Burrowes WRI: Christian Arhoff, Emil Millang
WRI/DIR/PROD: Alex Vivian DIR: Claire Byrne PROD: Joel Hagen, Lucy Rennick, Patrick Cullen PROD: Emily Nicoline Quist
When a young boy finds a mysterious WRI: Karen Healy When a disgruntled climate activist bumps into Viktor Leth has never been on a date. When
wrapper in the woods, things begin to unravel PROD: Fiona Kinsella the CEO of a massive oil conglomerate in her going on his first date ever, he accidentally sits
for his parents. When a plane full of restless passengers wanting to local coffee shop she recognises that this is her down at the wrong table with the slightly older
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE take off from Knock airport, two female pilots with big shot to finally DO something about the end and married Rebekka. She is looking for an
very different personalities, struggle to connect. of the world. adventure away from her marriage and finds
TOTO AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE Viktor funny. This will be the start of a weird
Canada | 13mins | 2020 and wild night for the two of them, where Viktor
DIR: Marco Baldonado PAWSEA (OR: THE MELANCHOLY PUGS BEFORE DRUGS learns more about life and love than most
WRI: Marco Baldonaldo, Walter Woodman RUMINATIONS OF A SOLITARY FRENCH Australia | 15mins | 2020 people do in one night. Perhaps because he’s
PROD: Jeremiah LapointeRosa is the real-life BULLDOG) WRI/DIR: Alex Lowes Viktor Leth.
Nonna of filmmaker Marco Baldonado and United Kingdom | 4mins | 2020 PROD: Alex Lowes, Callum Borthwick AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
TOTO is an ode to her traditions. It is a film WRI/DIR/PROD: Tom Gentle, Rupert Clague To impress a childhood rival, scruffy loser Leo
about change, language, family and technology. Rocky certainly has a lot on his mind - steals the cremated remains of his Grandma’s THE AFFECTED
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE questioning his purpose and attempting to fortify beloved pet pug, and attempts to sell them off Norway | 13mins | 2020
himself against existential angst as he searches as crystal meth. DIR: Rikke Gregersen
BLOODY TRADIES for meaning. WORLD PREMIERE WRI: Trond Arntzen, Rikke Gregersen
Australia | 11mins | 2020 WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Stine Blichfeldt
DIR: Andy Burkitt GRAB THEM Minutes before take off a situation occurs
WRI: Andy Burkitt, Jack Braddy GLEN Sweden | 13mins | 2020 preventing an airplane from leaving. A
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: À La Mode, A Hole, Straight PROD: Lachlan Stevens Australia | 9mins | 2020 WRI/DIR: Morgane Dziula-Petit passenger refuses to sit down in an attempt FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Revolt, Bench, Pugs Before
Outta Covid, The Birth of Valerie Venus An Aussie horror comedy about three tradies on DIR: Jeremy Brull PROD: Paul Blomgren DoVan to prevent the deportation of a man inside the Drugs, Viktor on the Moon
a reno job in the middle of the Australian Bush. WRI: Duncan Ragg, Jessica Marshall, Peter Dabro 60-year-old Sally is longing for happiness, and plane. The pilot suddenly finds himself in a
They are pushed to their limits when they find the PROD: Duncan Ragg, Katherine Shearer love. Lately her searching has been complicated position where he has to take a political stand
place is haunted by a demon in the basement. Deep into his first lockdown, 50-year-old Glen by the fact that she resembles the newly-elected he has no interest in taking.
WORLD PREMIERE is given a second chance at love... but only if he American president. Join Sally in the film Grab AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
presented by can summon the courage to face the perils of Them, as one man’s crazy tour around the world presented by
online seduction.. becomes a lonely woman’s heavy burden to bear.
WORLD PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
22 GREAT SHORT FILM NEVER DIES CELEBRATING 30 YEARS 23SAE FLiCKERUP
The finalist short films in our National School competition for Primary and Secondary
school students or filmmakers under eighteen years of age.
SAE FLiCKERUP THE DRESSING ROOM THE VERY LAST MANDARIN TICKET TO THE SKIES
7 mins / 2020 5 mins / 2020 1 min / 2020
SATURDAY 30 JAN 4.00 PM
WRI/DIR: Eleanor List WRI/DIR/PROD: Zoe Patch WRI/DIR: Karena Darwen
DURATION: 110 MINS
PROD: Natalie List What happens to the very last mandarin? PROD: Kylie Agnew
A young performer must confront her own fear On a snowy day, a young girl is just trying to get
of performing. Will she succeed and walk onto THE CYCLE the train home. When her luck decides to turn
THE PACKAGE the stage or give in to her dysphoria? against her, she makes an unlikely friend.
2 mins / 2020 3mins / 2020
WRI/DIR/PROD: Frida and Pearl Walker DIR: Matthew Awad
A mysterious package arrives at the door. THE DIET WRI: Andrew Smallbone GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD
7 mins / 2020 An exploration of the repetitious monotony of 9 mins / 2020
WRI/DIR/PROD: Beau Ritchie modern life, our protagonist finding freedom
THE GREAT SINGER through the unlikely discovery of an idle bicycle.
WRI/DIR: Rose Eadie
3 mins / 2020 A man’s psychological demise as he struggles PROD: Rose Eadie and Stu Eadie
WRI/DIR/PROD: Mr Lawrence Sollorz and Class to stick to his diet. A teenage girl, who has to overcome personal
4W – Cabramatta Public School ROUND TO IT obstacles and accept oneself.
A young student realises that he is a great MIND OF MY OWN 4 mins / 2020
singer and decides to put on a concert. 4 mins / 2020 WRI/DIR: Grace Mincherton LA TORTA
PROD: Steve McLeod 3 mins / 2019
WRI/DIR/PROD: Natalie Leroy Encapsulating the psychological journey
I WILL BE ME I take the viewer on a journey through my of an Australian farmer, Jack, as his failing
WRI/DIR/PROD: Gabrielle Gregoire, Olivia Lawson
2 min / 2020 world. I use animation to distort the everyday A woman who embarks on a delightful journey
relationship with his family is mirrored by to simply give thanks to Mother Earth.
WRI/DIR: Claire Davison, Caitlin Jones, Bella and challenge the audience’s conceptualisation tedious farming implications.
Parsons of their surroundings. By juxtaposing realistic
PROD: Table Cape Primary School aspects with the imaginative, I show the REAWAKENED
My name is Phoebe and I enjoy going to the interaction of objects and ideas that are beyond A BLOB’S JOURNEY 2 mins / 2020
beach, reading and painting. I am also deaf. the ordinary. 6 mins / 2020 WRI/DIR/PROD: Alex Songeon-Senzaki
Come on a journey with Phoebe into a world WRI/DIR/PROD: Daniel Pommes When all is ruined, life will move on.
with no sound. Developed and created by Grade A hungry little blob is on a mission to catch the
HERMIONE grape, but life’s challenges keep getting in the
5 students at Table Cape Primary School. 5 mins / 2020 CHILDREN OF THE DUST
way.
WRI/DIR/PROD: Bella Merlino 3 mins / 2020
THE CANDY RAPPERS Inspired by William Shakespeare’s The DIR: Ryan Dagg, Karina Pancuka
7 mins / 2020 Winter’s Tale, this is the story of Hermione who CHANGING TIDES WRI: Hanna Hong Rizzo, Ryan Dagg, Karina
WRI/DIR: Agam lives alone and slowly turns to stone as she 7 mins / 2020 Pancuka. Isabella La Guzza, Lana Mostyn
PROD: Eliza Johnson distances herself from the memories of her WRI/DIR: Mia Schirmer
A joyful and heartbreaking film about a boy with family and society until events change her. Exploring the culture of female surfers in the PROD: Fabio Caprarelli
cancer, his bond with his music therapist, and town of Lennox Head. A girl searches for the father she never met.
the uplifting rap group they formed. MATERIAL GIRL
6 mins / 2020 CONNECTION PECULIAR THINGS TO SEE
THE CHASE WRI/DIR/PROD: Lillian Dight 2 mins / 2020 3 mins / 2020
4 mins / 2019 In the inner-west of Sydney, the fashionable and WRI/DIR/PROD: Charli Bowers WRI/DIR/PROD: Tiana Jo
WRI/DIR/PROD: Riley McIlveen Webb luxurious lifestyle of Sunny Sunshine all starts In the world of technology, youth and evolution A young girl sees colours in a black and white
The chase is set in beautiful Megalong Valley. in the Fabric City Fabric Shop. sometimes we forget to put our phone down world, but her parents can’t. It is up to her
It is a film about a monkey being chased by and disconnect. power to create a new perspective for them.
a boy; from car, to horseback, the boy will try UNRAVELING
anything to catch that monkey! 2 mins / 2020 ABILITY THE ANNOUNCEMENT
WRI/DIR/PROD: Kate Snashall 5 mins / 2020 6 mins / 2020
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Listen To Our Elders, The LISTEN TO OUR ELDERS Exploring the emotions in a young relationship WRI/DIR/PROD: James Walker WRI/DIR: Will Jordon FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Ability, Ticket to the Skies,
Package, The Chase, Mind Of My Own 3 mins / 2019 through the frame of a single interaction. Chad Graham, a C6 quadriplegic, who at PROD: Daniel Holliday La Torta, Peculiar Things To See
16 took a bad jump while racing motocross Rumours are a plenty, after an announcement
WRI/DIR/PROD: Coco & Jet Batu-Sampson and broke his neck tells the story of how he
We have so much to learn from our elders if lets a class know that the girl’s toilet block is
came to be in a wheelchair and how he found being closed. Why are they being closed? What
we listen. wheelchair rugby. could possibly have happened?
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