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29TH INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
ELECTRIFYING
SHORT FILMS
10 –19 JANUARY
BONDI PAVILION, BONDI BEACH
As Australia’s leading Academy® accredited Affairs And Trade, and Australia now ASEAN
short film festival, the shorts in competition at 2019, European Union Delegation to Australia,
Flickerfest are fiercely vying for a number of and Screen NSW.
prestigious prizes including the Flickerfest Award
I would also like to extend an enormous thanks
for Best International Short Film, the Yoram
to our major government partner Screen
Gross Award for Best International Animation,
Australia who supports both our festival, and the
the Flickerfest Award for Best Australian Short
national tour, and who has been a continuous
Film, and for Best Documentary. Plus a host of
source of encouragement as we strive to deliver
other hotly contested prizes, which recognise the
our vision of providing a platform that nurtures
various craft areas inherent in making a great
and supports Australian Filmmakers, and in turn
short film.
provides Australian audiences with access to
2020 will bring over 23 different short film inspirational storytelling from their own backyard
programmes across the 10-day festival and beyond.
BRONWYN KIDD season. We are proud to announce that
To all our partners who are acknowledged in
FESTIVAL DIRECTOR due to the outstanding home grown talent
this programme, I am extremely grateful for the
and creativity received this year, we will
essential and ongoing support they provide. We
Welcome to the 29th Flickerfest International be screening 7 Australian competitive
thank them enormously for their belief in us,
Short Film Festival. As we move forward into programmes in addition to the 5 international
which assists us in maintaining Flickerfest as one
another film filled and jam packed festival, I am and 2 documentary programmes, which
of the best short film competitions in the world.
thrilled that Flickerfest continues to be the most make up our Academy qualifying short film
influential dedicated short film event on the competitions. Alongside these competitive Behind the scenes, the many talents of the
Australian landscape. programmes our youngest filmmakers extremely hardworking Flickerfest team
compete in SAE FlickerUp, our national bring Flickerfest to life. My enormous thanks
Flickerfest continues its proud tradition of
schools and youth competition, an exciting and appreciation must go to Festival Tour/
bringing world-class short films to Bondi Pavilion,
peek at the future cinema stars of tomorrow! Production Manager Shane Rennie, Festival
celebrating and uncovering the most talented
Production and Programme Coordinator Amy
filmmakers the world and Australia has to offer. A special spotlight on short films from The
Hoogenboom, Filmmaker and Guest Relations
ASEAN Region in partnership with DFAT and
The Flickerfest team and special selection Coordinator Fabienne Neff, Industry Liaison
Australia now ASEAN 2019 sees us celebrating
committee watches and reviews near 3,600 Leigh Russell, Marketing Assistant Kyle
filmmakers from this region of the world in one
entries from across the globe, of which just over Goldfinch, Programme Consultant Lies Bruines,
dedicated competition for the first time.
100 will be officially screened in competition Industry Consultant Annie Parnell, Festival
and a further 100 in showcase programmes Once again Flickerfest celebrates the long Intern Angelina Temporali and last but not least
confirming that Flickerfest continues to attract tradition of European cinema shining a our Director of Projection Alan Butterfield, and
the latest in cutting edge shorts from the spotlight on impressive films from the EU projectionist Anthony Yeo.
world’s most exciting and innovative emerging through our partnership with The European
Short film continues to excite and thrill me year
filmmakers for our Academy® Accredited and Union Delegation To Australia.
after year, and I still strongly believe shorts are
BAFTA recognised shorts competition.
FlickerKids promises a delightful programme the perfect vehicle for our latest generation of
The uniting force among the shorts to be for the young and young at heart; Love Bites, storytellers to cut their teeth and express the
screening at the 2020 Flickerfest Festival is a romp through the quirky world of modern stories at the heart of who we are. Every year I
their ability to push the conventions of film relationships is perfect for date night and Short am moved, surprised and inspired by the films
and narrative to deliver surprising, exciting Laughs takes you on a hilarious journey from raising the bar for what is considered “the best”
and groundbreaking results across animation, the weird to the wonderful. in short film. The imagination and creativity
documentary and every genre in between. showcased throughout Flickerfest highlights the
We are also thrilled to celebrate amazing
role of short film as one at the centrepiece of
Once Flickerfest wraps up its 10-day LGBTQI films from around the world for the
innovation and creativity in global cinema today.
celebration of short film in Bondi, we pack up third year, in our Rainbow Shorts celebration
all the highlights from the festival and hit the curated by award winning queer filmmaker I welcome you to experience the best in short
road on our 50+ venue national tour. It has Craig Boreham. cinema at Bondi and across Australia this
been a joy to see Flickerfest extend its reach as summer, as Flickerfest celebrates 29 years of
Presenting an international festival considered
the home of great short film across the country, ‘Electrifying Short Films’ !
among the best in the world is made possible
and watching audiences warmly embrace the
by the generous support of our major sponsors BRONWYN KIDD
inspiring art of short filmmaking.
SAE Creative Institute, Department of Foreign FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
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SPECIAL EVENT OPENING NIGHT
FRDIAY 10TH JANUARY 2020
7.45PM FOR 8.15PM
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 all the incredible cinema to come in our 2020 season. After
the films we party on the upstairs terrace at the Flickerfest Bar, overlooking Bondi beach, and
raise our glasses to Electrifying short films!
TICKET PRICE INCLUDES SCREENING & WELCOME
A CATERED PARTY AND 7.45PM FOR 8.15PM START
ENTERTAINMENT AT THE
FLICKERFEST BAR AFTER PARTY
10.30PM – LATE
OPENING NIGHT HIGHLIGHTS FRIDAY 10TH JAN 7:45 PM
DURATION: 85 MINS
DIVISION SERIES THE MARVELOUS MISADVENTURES
PROGRAM AND SESSION TIMES Korea / 6min / 2019
WRI/DIR: Ho Kwon Kim
OF THE STONE LADY
Portugal / 20min / 2019
DAY 10.00AM 2.00PM 4.00PM 6.30PM 8.45PM PROD: Jin Soo Lee WRI/DIR: Gabriel Abrantes
A Prime Minister goes into KFC to buy a PROD: Justin Taurand, Gabriel Abrantes
FESTIVAL OPENING chicken, but the chicken is all sold out. At Tired of being a banal architectural ornament,
FRI 10 HIGHLIGHTS & PARTY 7.45PM another table, presidents from other countries a sculpture runs away from the Louvre to
FOR 8.15PM START start playing cards to win the last chicken confront real life on the streets of Paris.
basket. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
SAT 11 Best of International 1 Best of Australian 1 Best of Australian 2 Best of Australian 3 THIS PERFECT DAY
WHITE ECHO Australia / 7min / 2018
United States / 15min / 2019 WRI/DIR: Lydia Rui
SUN 12 Best of Documentary 1 Best of Documentary 2 Best of International 2 Best of Australian 4 WRI/DIR: Chloe Sevigny PROD: Olivia Cheung
PROD: Lizzie Nastro Jules, a wayward youth, walks into a music
As Carla gets her friends to join in a game of store. This could be the day that changes
MON 13 Best of International 3 Best of Australian 5 Ouija Board, we explore group dynamics: Power their life.
of persuasion, belief and frenzy. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
FlickerKids A FAMILY AFFAIR
TUE 14 Best of International 4 Best of Australian 6
(ages 6-12) CLOSED DOORS United Kingdom / 13min / 2019
Australia / 15min / 2019 WRI/DIR: Florence Keith-Roach
WRI/DIR: Hunter Page-Lochard, Carter Fred PROD: Emily Barttelot
WED 15 Best of International 5 Best of Australian 7 Simpkin When Annabelle wakes up in a strangers
PROD: Mitchell Stanley, Toni Stowers bedroom on her 30th birthday, she thinks her
Regaining consciousness in a car wreck, a day can’t get any worse. But then Bernard
THU 16 Rainbow Shorts Love Bites 1 young father finds that his daughter is missing. walks in.
WORLD PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
FRI 17 FlickerLab (10am - 5pm) Love Bites 2 Short Laughs Comedy 1 RE-ENTRY
The Netherlands / 9min / 2019
WRI: Andy Weir
DIR: Ben Brand
FlickerUp School Shorts ASEAN Region FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Re-Entry, This
SAT 18 EU Short Film Showcase Short Laughs Comedy 2 PROD: Studio Ruba
Perfect Day, Division Series
Competition Final Competition 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.
CLOSING NIGHT AWARDS, WORLD PREMIERE
Short Laughs Comedy 1
SUN 19 WINNING HIGHLIGHTS & AFTER
(repeat) PARTY 7.15PM FOR 7.45PM
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THANK YOU FESTIVAL INFORMATION
Catch some of the most innovative, provocative and wildly entertaining short films the
world has to offer at Australia’s leading Academy® Qualifying Festivals and BAFTA
MAJOR GOVERNMENT PARTNER MAJOR PARTNERS recognised short film festival in January. Now in its 29th year, Flickerfest is the home
of great short film.
– Over 200 spectacular short films under the stars
– Glam Opening Night and Closing Night Parties
– Panoramic Pop Up Beach Bar
SCREENING IN 2020 SPECIAL EVENTS
OPENING NIGHT FRIDAY 10 JANUARY
IN COMPETITION: HIGHLIGHTS SCREENING
PARTNERS BEVERAGE PARTNERS
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS* 7:45pm for 8:15pm
AFTER PARTY 10:30pm – late
AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILMS*
DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS* CLOSING NIGHT SUNDAY 19 JANUARY
ALL ACADEMY QUALIFYING FESTIVAL COMPETITIONS
® AWARDS AND SCREENING
7:15pm for 7:45pm start
PLUS AWARDS AND SCREENING 10.30pm – late
Celebrate the end of the festival at the Closing Night
AWARD PARTNERS OFFICIAL TECHNICAL RAINBOW SHORTS COMPETITION – Best LGBTQI+ from at home & the World
and Awards Ceremony. A selection of the festival’s
PARTNER (SOUND)
FLiCKERUP – National School Students and Youth Competition award-winning films will be screened, followed by
AUSTRALIA NOW ASEAN COMPETITION – The Best Shorts from across the ASEAN music and drinks at the Flickerfest Bar.
region
FLiCKERLAB FRIDAY 17 JANUARY
ENJOY THE EVER POPULAR SHORT FILM SHOWCASES INCLUDING: 10.00am to 5.00pm
EU SHOWCASE – the best short films on offer from the European Union A one-day journey from shorts to features – includes
workshops and interviews with directors, producers,
SHORT LAUGHS – our comedy program that will have you in stitches writers, development agencies and distributors and
LOVE BITES – films about love and relationships marketing experts.
MEDIA PARTNERS FESTIVAL SUPPORTERS AND
TRAILER SPONSORS And FLiCKERKIDS – short films suitable for children aged
6-12 years and for the young at heart!
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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 Festivals and BAFTA recognised.
BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 1 TATTOO BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 2 THE HEDGEHOG’S DILEMMA
SATURDAY 11TH JAN 2:00 PM Iran / 15min / 2018 SUNDAY 12TH JAN 6:30PM Switzerland / 12min / 2019
DURATION: 115 MINS WRI: Farhad Delaram, Dena Rassam DURATION: 113 MINS WRI: Francesca Scalisi, Egle Vertelyte
DIR: Farhad Delaram DIR: Francesca Scalisi
PROD: Dena Rassam PROD: Mark Olexa
MEMORABLE A young Iranian woman is trying to renew her COASTER Jean has been training his daughter to become
France / 12min / 2019 drivers license, but when officials notice scars Switzerland, USA / 8min / 2019 a champion diver until, on the day of an
WRI/DIR: Bruno Collet and a tattoo on her wrist they become suspi- WRI: Amos Sussigan, Dan Lund important competition, and unexpected event
PROD: Jean-François Le Corre, Mathieu cious DIR: Amos Sussigan changes their relationship forever.
Courtois NSW PREMIERE PROD: Amos Sussigan, Dan Lund, Jean de AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Recently, Louis, a painter is experiencing Meuron
strange events, his world seems to be mutating. HOME SWEET HOME A coming-of-age story following a recent UNCLE THOMAS, ACCOUNTING FOR
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Poland / 21min / 2019 graduates literal ups and downs of adulthood THE DAYS
WRI: Michalina Fabijanska after moving into his first home, which happens Portugal / 13min / 2019
RE-ENTRY DIR: Agata Puszcz to be built atop an actual roller coaster. WRI/DIR: Regina Pessoa
The Netherlands / 9min / 2019 PROD: Studio Munka PROD: Ciclope Films – Abi Feijo, Julie Roy,
WRI: Andy Weir Ten-year-old Olaf auditions for Rent A Life, a HOT CHOCOLATE Reginald De Guillebon
DIR: Ben Brand company that offers the wealthy a chance to New Zealand / 17min / 2019 A tribute to Regina’s uncle Thomas. A humble
PROD: Studio Ruba hire family members and friends. He has a plan WRI/DIR: David Hay man with a simple and anonymous life,
When a man (you) dies in a traffic accident and and, no matter what the cost, he absolutely has PROD: Tess Whelan acknowledging that one does not have to be
gets into a conversation with God, he gets an to be cast in a role in someone’s life. A young woman ducks into her home to pick up ‘somébody’ to become exceptional in our lives.
answer to the biggest question of life. WORLD PREMIERE some things, only to discover her housemate AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE dead. She must find a way to deal with the
THE MARVELOUS MISADVENTURES situation while her 8 year-old sister waits in DRUBENLAND – THE LAND OVER
WHITE ECHO OF THE STONE LADY the car. Germany / 15min / 2018
United States / 15min / 2019 Portugal / 20min / 2019 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Arne Kohlweyer
WRI/DIR: Chloe Sevigny WRI/DIR: Gabriel Abrantes PROD: Christoph Kulkula, Eike Goreczka
PROD: Lizzie Nastro PROD: Justin Taurand, Gabriel Abrantes POSTCARDS FROM THE END OF As soon as Marko’s parents are on vacation
As Carla gets her friends to join in a game of Tired of being a banal architectural ornament, THE WORLD some odd wall falls down – and suddenly
Ouija Board, we explore group dynamics: Power a sculpture runs away from the Louvre to con- Greece / 23min / 2019 everything is in chaos. Grown-up talk doesn’t
of persuasion, belief and frenzy. front real life on the streets of Paris. WRI/DIR: Konstantinos Antonopoulos help, so it’s up to Marko to make sense of it on
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Fani Skartouli his own.
Trapped in their marriage, Dimitra and AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
THE JACKPOT Dimitris try to endure their summer vacation
Germany / 23min / 2019 with their two daughters on a remote island. WILMA
WRI/DIR: Alice von Gwinner Unexpectedly, human civilization collapses. Iceland / 11min / 2019
PROD: Alice von Gwinner, Hana Geisendorfer AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Hawk Bjorgvinsson
Thanks to his best friend, the chicken, Albert PROD: Hawk Bjorgvinsson, Chanel Bjork
finds himself involved in a fateful game of SAFETY Sturludottir, Saemunder Thor Helgason, Kjartan
chance that leads him to his true love. But was USA/FRANCE / 14min / 2019 Thor Thordarson
it really all just a coincidence? WRI/DIR: Fabrice Joubert A young transgender boy meets ‘her’ trailer
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Samuel Francois-Steininger, Fabrice park father for the first time. What her father
Joubert doesn’t know is that he identifies as a girl.
Michael and 11 other children lay side by AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
side on the floor of the gym, breathing quietly.
Suddenly, a detonation breaks the silence.
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Re-Entry, AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Safety, Coaster,
Memorable, White Echo, The Jackpot Drubenland - The Land Over, Wilma
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BEST OF INTERNATIONAL CONTINUED
BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 3 THE TENT BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 4 TALK
MONDAY 13TH JAN 6.30PM Norway/ 17min / 2019 TUESDAY 14TH JAN 6:30PM France / 25mins / 2019
DURATION: 122 MINS WRI/DIR: Rebecca Figenschau DURATION: 115 MINS WRI/DIR/PROD: Boulanger Romuald
PROD: Frode Sobstad In a Los Angeles radio station. The host of an
Putting up a tent becomes a fateful event for a emblematic night talk show gives advice to
THE PROCESSION dysfunctional family of four. THE COIN live callers. One day Will destroy his career, his
Canada / 9min / 2019 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE China / 7min / 2019 family, his life.
WRI: Pascal Blanchet, Sylvain Charbonneau WRI/DIR: Siqi Song AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
DIR: Pascal Blanchet, Rodolphe Saint-Gelais THE NEWS PROD: Diana Ward, Ashim Ahuja
PROD: Julie Roy Albania, Spain / 23min / 2019 On a journey to a new country, a young woman MIND MY MIND
After Catherine’s fatal car accident, she speaks WRI: Anila Balla, Lorin Terezi loses her jar of lucky coins that she collected Netherlands, Belgium / 30min / 2019
from the beyond to her grieving husband, DIR: Lorin Terezi as she was growing up. Her new life begins in WRI/DIR: Floor Adams
Philippe, who must endure the inevitable family PROD: Anila Balla search of her coins. PROD: Willem Thijssen, Tom Van Gestel, Floor
ritual of the funeral. A young bride tasked with the trivial errands AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Adams
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE for her in-laws whilst her husband is in Greece, It’s not easy to rely on social scripts to survive
stumbles across a dead woman’s body whilst AZIZA the social world. Especially if you’re obsessed
RAIN, RAIN, RUN AWAY fetching the water from the fountain. Syria / 13min / 2019 with German dive-bombers and just want to
France / 15min / 2018 WORLD PREMIERE WRI: Soudade Kaadan, May Hayek date a girl.
WRI/DIR: Clementine Carrie DIR/PROD: Soudade Kaaden AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
PROD: Duno Films JEALOUS ALAN A dynamic take on the life of Syrian refugees
End of August. In the afternoon. Boubou, age United Kingdom / 16min / 2019 through black comedy. TRADITION
seven, is getting bored in the campsite. WRI/DIR: Martin Clark AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Germany / 23min / 2019
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: James Heath WRI: Elmar Imanov, Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze
Betwixt 1980’s Edinburgh and Glasgow, Alan MTHUNZI DIR: Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze
SECURITY discovers his best friend Stuart and Angela are South Africa / 9min / 2019 PROD: Eva Blondiau
United Kingdom / 16min / 2019 secretly dating, jealousy drives him to foil it and WRI/DIR: Tebogo Malebogo Two German tourists adventure in a Georgian
WRI/DIR/PROD: Daniel Outram wrestle where his passions really lay.across the PROD: Petrus Van Staden village.
When a middle-aged man lets a young woman street. Mthunzi get distracted on his way back from AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
have a go at driving his car, a moment of inti- AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE the shops.
macy turns sour. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE THE PHANTOM 52
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE DIVISION SERIES United States / 8min / 2019
Korea / 6min / 2019 WRI/DIR/PROD: Geoff Marslett
THE RAFT WRI/DIR: Ho Kwon Kim A lonely trucker waits for a reply on the CB
Germany / 20min / 2019 PROD: Jin Soo Lee radio. A ghost haunts the lonely highways. And
WRI: Daniel Thomé, Sylvain Cruiziat A Prime Minister goes into KFC to buy a chick- a whale sings in a voice no other whale can
DIR: Sylvian Cruiziat en, but the chicken is all sold out. At another even hear.
PROD: Phillip Maron, Sebastian Fehring, table, presidents from other countries start AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Tristan Bahre Maverick Film playing cards to win the last chicken basket.
As the art world gathers to watch the latest AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
work of performance artist Victoria Hopkins, an
unexpected event takes hold of the evening.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Rain, Rain, Run FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: The Coin, Jealous Alan,
Away, Division Series, The Procession, The Phantom 52, Mind My Mind
The Raft
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screen nsw proudly supporting your stories
BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 5 I’LL END UP IN JAIL
WEDNESDAY 15TH JAN 6:30PM Canada / 23min / 2019
DURATION: 123 MINS WRI/DIR: Alexandre Dostie
PROD: Hany Ouichou
A stay-at-home mother gets into a murderous
DAUGHTER car crash where nobody wants to take the
Czech Republic / 15min / 2019 blame.
WRI/DIR: Daria Kashcheeva AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
PROD: Zuzana Rohacova, Martin Vandas
A moment of misunderstanding and a lost DETOURS
embrace has stretched into many years all the Belgium / 18min / 2019
way to this hospital room, until the moment WRI/DIR: Christopher Yates
when a window pane breaks under the impact PROD: Isabel De La Serna, Matthieu Frances,
of a little bird. Kevin Hoed
NSW PREMIERE PROD: Isabel de la Serna (Playtime Films)
As his baby drifts off to sleep in the morning
THE NEIGHBORS’ WINDOW traffic Simon realises he’s being followed.
United States / 20min / 2019 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
WRI/DIR: Marshall Curry
PROD: Elizabeth Martin, Jonathan Olson, ARE YOU HUNGRY? CHICKEN by Alana Hicks
Screening at Flickerfest 2020
Julia Kennelly Finland / 12min / 2019
This is a story of woman whose life is shaken WRI: Antti Toivonen Still from the film. Image: Campbell Brown
up when two free-spirited twenty-something’s DIR: Teemu Niukkanen
move in. PROD: Daniel Kuitunen
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A mother struggles to connect with her adopted
teenage son, who she believes to be gay. In an
THE TEARS THING attempt to guide him safely through this period
France / 25min / 2019 of exploration, she sets him up on a date.
WRI: Clemence Poesy, Eric Forestier AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
DIR: Clemence Poesy
PROD: Nelson Ghrenassia HOT FLASH
Florence is an actress and the preparations for Canada / 10min / 2019
her new role will challenge her in a way she WRI/DIR: Thea Hollatz
could never have seen coming. PROD: Kristy Neville, Matt Code, Morghan
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Fortier, Brett Jubinville
A newscaster is due to go live on television in the
middle of a hot flash, in Thea Hollatz’s animated
comedy about a woman trying to keep her cool
when one type of flash leads to another.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Daughter, Detours,
I'll End Up In Jail, The Tears Thing
10 ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS 11BEST OF AUSTRALIAN
Seven sessions of the best Australian short films in competition. Our homegrown talent battle
it out for the prestigious Academy® Accredited Award for best Australian Short Film.
BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 1 HOW THINGS ARE BORN BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 2 BROKEN LINE NORTH
SATURDAY 11TH JAN 4:00 PM Australia / 14min / 2019 SATURDAY 11TH JAN 6:30PM Australia / 16min / 2019
DURATION: 112 MINS WRI/DIR/PROD: Davis Willis DURATION: 111 MINS WRI/DIR: Sunday Emerson Gullifer
A young woman approaching motherhood must PROD: Bethany Bruce
decide when to give and when to take a life. Two broken people – a Lao-Australian woman
THE VOID IN JOY WORLD PREMIERE THE QUIET and a teenage hitchhiker – must navigate grief,
Australia / 4min / 2019 Australia / 10min / 2019 isolation and unlikely connection forged over one
WRI/DIR/PROD: Si Berg LIVING ROOM WRI/DIR/PRO: Radheya Jegatheva, Jay Jay night in a roadside motel.
There is a void in Joy and nothing has been Australia / 17min / 2019 Jegathesan
able to fill it. But, a devastating medical WRI/DIR/PROD: Rhys Mitchell, Jessica Barclay When an astronaut ponders on the quietude THE MEN THAT COME
diagnosis triggers a rapid realignment of Lawton of space, he comes upon a startling self- Australia / 4mins/ 2018
priorities. Masayuki lives with his elderly mother, pretending realization. WRI/DIR/PROD: Clare Sladden
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE to work night, but really wandering the streets NSW PREMIERE The Men That Come is a gothic allegory about
gambling and drinking. A mysterious stranger the way we treat victims and survivors of violence
SOHRAB AND RUSTUM comes into his life just as he is planning his exit. PASSAGE and abuse.
Australia / 14min / 2018 NSW PREMIERE Australia / 15min / 2018 NSW PREMIERE
WRI/DIR/PROD: Lee Whitmore WRI/DIR/PROD: Kimia Hendi
A teacher reads a poem based on a Persian MY NAME IS MUDJU After losing her father, Shrin gains a different HENRY NEEDS A NEW HOME
legend to her class of teenage girls. Australia / 14min / 2019 perspective on loss. Australia / 15min / 2019
WRI/DIR: Chantelle Murray NSW PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Seamus Murphy
CLAP PROD: Helen Morrison, Belinda Miller PROD: Elizabeth Malcher
Australia / 6min / 2018 1950’s Australia, Mudju’s daughter Munna THE DIVER Henry and his canine companion must defend
WRI/DIR: Sophie O’Connor has been stolen, helpless against the Mission Australia / 12min / 2019 their tiny home from a seemingly unstoppable
PROD: Sophie O’Connor, Richard Di Gregorio, governance, she must find the strength within to WRI/DIR: Michael Leonard, Jamie Helmer force.
Carla McConnell reunite with her daughter. PROD: Michael Leonard, Jamie Helmer NSW PREMIERE
After a long day of being bullied at school, NSW PREMIERE Callans mind is full of rage, chaos and
Stephanie begins to think that her stutter wont confusion that can only be tamed by the WISHES FULFILLED
get any better, until she meets and befriends BLOOM soothing solitude of the world underwater. Australia / 9min / 2019
Delores. WORLD PREMIERE Australia / 13min / 2019 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR/PROD: Paul Gallasch, Madeline Gordon
WRI/DIR: Isobelle Amie When her family comes to visit a new
BLACKWOOD PROD: Sarah Clayton THE SAND THAT ATE THE SEA grandmother tries to enact the teachings of her
Australia / 12min / 2018 On Junie’s eighteenth birthday, the secret of Australia / 30min / 2019 guided meditation tapes.
WRI/DIR: Kalu Oji her late period and potential pregnancy puts WRI/DIR: Matthew Thorne WORLD PREMIERE
PROD: Mimo Mukii her sisterhood and close family ties at risk of PROD: Matthew Thorne, Steven Garrett
A novelist and her teenage son face their own breaking apart. In the opal mining red dirt of Andamooka;
unique challenges over the course of a day, NSW PREMIERE South Australia; a son faces the memories of
finding recognition and respect difficult to the mysterious disappearance of his father in
come by in small-town Australia. WINE LAKE a great flooding storm, while the same storm
NSW PREMIERE Australia / 10min / 2019 appears on his own horizon.
WRI: Ailis Logan WORLD PREMIERE
WAY OUT ASSISTANCE DIR/PROD: Platon Theodoris
Australia / 8min / 2019 A homeless Irish alcoholic and an artistic
WRI/DIR: Stef Smith backpacker clash on a Sydney street over a
PROD: Stef Smith, Brianna Miller misunderstanding.
A woman in need of help, uses a VR AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
counselling program to form a new human
connection and process old wounds to make it
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Blackwood, Living FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Broken Line North,
through one more day. Henry Need A New Home, The Sand That Ate The
Room, How Things Are Born, The Void In Joy
Sea, The Men That Come
12 ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS 13BEST OF AUSTRALIAN CONTINUED
BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 3 ARMOUR BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 4 I’M NOT HURTING YOU
SATURDAY 11TH JAN 8:45PM Australia / 12min / 2019 SUNDAY 12TH JAN 8:45PM Australia / 15min / 2019
DURATION: 111 MINS WRI/DIR: Ben Briand DURATION: 105 MINS WRI/DIR: David Vincent Smith
PROD: Matt Dooley, Rachel Ford-Davies PROD: Jessica Parker, Lauren Brunswick
In a forgotten Shanghai motel a tough gun-for- A desperate woman kidnaps and enforces
REBOOTED hire recalls the mysterious encounter with her MEANWHILE, AT THE ABANDONED rehab on her younger, dangerous, meth-
Australia / 13min / 2019 target. FACTORY addicted brother in a last ditch effort to save
WRI/DIR: Michael Shanks WORLD PREMIERE Australia / 16min / 2019 his life.
PROD: Nicholas Colla, Chris Hocking/LateNite WRI/DIR: Michael Cusack
Films CLOSED DOORS PROD: Richard Chataway THREE STORIES INSIDE A RENTAL
It’s not easy for a movie-star to age, especially Australia / 15min / 2019 Meanwhile, at the Abandoned Factory VAN
when you’re a stop motion animated skeleton WRI/DIR: Hunter Page-Lochard, Carter Fred celebrates the heyday of cliff-hanger TV serials. Australia / 15min / 2019
monster. Simpkin Can our intrepid reporter find her way out of WRI/DIR: Lewis Attey
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Mitchell Stanley, Toni Stowers this classic dilemma? PROD: Kate Laurie, Jordan Giusti
Regaining consciousness in a car wreck, a young WORLD PREMIERE Three Stories Inside A Rental Van presents
THE HITCHHIKER father finds that his daughter is missing. three vignettes, each set inside the same rental
Australia / 13min / 2018 WORLD PREMIERE CHLORINE van, and each exploring the morality of the
WRI/DIR: Adele Vuko Australia / 17min / 2019 different characters who hire it.
PROD: Johanna Somerville, Chloe Rickard THE GRAVE OF SAINT ORAN WRI/DIR: Melissa Anastasia NSW PREMIERE
Jade hits the road to Byron Bay with two Australia / 9min / 2019 PROD: Jessica Carrera
besties, resolving to keep her terminal DIR: Jim Batt A young thief frequents the local swimming DELUGE
diagnosis on the down-low. When an enigmatic PROD: Neil Gaiman, Jim Batt, Josie Hess pool in search of something more than the Australia / 11min / 2019
hitchhiker makes her an offer, she finds it hard Narrated by the masterful Neil Gaiman and objects she steals. WRI: Llewellyn Michael Bates
to refuse. based on his poem In Relig Odhrain, this is a DIR: Cloudy Rhodes
tempestuous tale of sacrifice and faith. SKINSHIP PROD: Jessica Carrera
FEATHERWEIGHT Australia / 9min / 2019 Three spirited women usurp a religious cult.
Australia / 13min / 2019 COWBOY WRI/DIR/PROD: Grace Tan, Mohini Herse
WRI: David Vincent Smith Australia / 11min / 2019 A woman finds comfort and companionship in a THIS PERFECT DAY
DIR: Sam Lara WRI/PROD: Thomas Baricevic trial version of a digital chat room called ‘Sento Australia / 7min / 2018
PROD: Jess Parker PROD: Jackson Black Films Chat’. She begins to question the legitimacy of WRI/DIR: Lydia Rui
Tas takes up boxing in an effort to get away Kay wants to be a singer. Dee wants to be a rodeo the relationship upon a request for payment. PROD: Olivia Cheung
from her unstable mother and get closer to her rider. Their two worlds collide. WORLD PREMIERE Jules, a wayward youth, walks into a music
estranged father. WORLD PREMIERE store. This could be the day that changes their
BETWEEN TWO LINES life.
TOMMY MEMOIR OF A HAUNTING Australia / 15min / 2019 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Australia / 19min / 2019 Australia / 6min / 2019 WRI/DIR: Jack Steele
WRI: Scott Dale, Phillip Cristian Claassen WRI/DIR/PROD: Matthew Johnstone PROD: Mitchell Stanley, Toni Stowers
DIR: Scott Dale Post-movie drinks takes a dark turn for a group of A story of two men’s journey for their identity
PROD: Deb Morgan friends after one of them reveals a troubling story set in WW1.
Tommy is the emotionally charged story of a of about her past.
young boy and his imaginary friend caught WORLD PREMIERE
in the middle of a nasty custody battle. He
escapes his trauma by entering his dream-like
world set inside a submarine, but as the feud
between his parents reaches boiling point, both
worlds collide.
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Closed Doors, WORLD PREMIER FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Between Two Lines,
Featherweight, The Grave Of Saint Oran, The Chlorine, Deluge, Three Stories Inside a Rental Van
Hitchhiker
14 ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS 15BEST OF AUSTRALIAN CONTINUED
BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 5 TIES THAT BIND BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 6 A DAY IN YOUR LIFE
MONDAY 13TH JAN 8:45PM Australia / 12min / 2019 TUESDAY 14TH JAN 8:45PM Australia / 17min / 2018
DURATION: 116 MINS WRI/DIR: Michael Hudson DURATION: 109 MINS WRI/DIR: Milena Bennett
PROD: Gillian Moody PROD: Emma Diaz
17 year old Thomas must front his single A meditation on homelessness, A Day In Your
MOON ABOVE THE RAGING SEA mother who pushes him away with her bullying THE GRANNY FLAT Life is quiet, thoughtful and deeply human, it
Australia / 6min / 2019 ways. Australia / 8min / 2018 is a gentle look at the world around us and the
WRI/DIR: Steven Jerram WRI/DIR: Rachel Mackey people pushed to its margins.
PROD: Louise Sergent THE COMPLEX PROD: Nicola Macindoe AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Late one night in 1991: a 17-year-old girl flies Australia / 15min / 2019 While their parents are off trainspotting, two
across the Adriatic Sea in a tiny, home-made WRI/DIR: Dane McCusker siblings wake to find an elderly woman baking A MORNING RITUAL
airplane. PROD: Jessica Murphy, Chris Squadrito, Jamie scones in their kitchen. Australia / 3min / 2019
Lewis NSW PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Jack Peddey
NSW PREMIERE
While moving into a new apartment, a young PROD: Jack Peddey, Alisha Hnatjuk
woman must content with the advances of a STRANGERS A desperate man renews himself with a strange
PEACH Australia / 13min / 2019
neighbour. A taut social drama, The Complex is ritual.
Australia / 8min / 2019 WRI/DIR: Jamieson Pearce
an exploration of the patriarchal bear-trap that NSW PREMIERE
DIR: Sophie Saville PROD: Cyna Strachan, Liam Heyen
is modern gender relations.
WRI/PROD: Rowan Devereux Lillian lives at an aged care facility. When her SWEET TOOTH
WORLD PREMIERE
A socially anxious young woman lands a hot family finds her in the bed of another woman, Australia / 23min / 2019
date. There’s only one problem, she’s not sure
SMOKO PORNO they must wrap their heads around their WRI/DIR: Shannon Ashlyn
if its actually a date. PROD: Katherine Shearer
Australia / 17min / 2019 mothers sexuality, and work out the right thing
WORLD PREMIERE Sweet Tooth is the untold story of the Wicked
WRI/DIR: Beth Cresnik to do.
MR BUBBLES PROD: Enna-Jay Curcuruto NSW PREMIERE Witch and her infamous gingerbread house.
Australia / 6min / 2019 An overwhelming curiosity towards sex and NSW PREMIERE
intimacy becomes stronger than her desire MY FIRST PANIC
WRI/DIR: Eden Falk 37 THINGS
to be left alone. The usually disinterested and Australia / 20min / 2019
PROD: Tim Russell Australia / 15min / 2019
friendless Leah decides its time to lose her WRI/DIR: Michaela Holmes
Where is Mr Bubbles? WRI/DIR: Zane Roach
virginity. PROD: Alexis Talbot-Smith
WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Adam Lemmey, Debra Liang
WORLD PREMIERE On her way home from a night of hedonistic
ALL GOOD THINGS partying, Ruby, an anxious young woman, A man with a brain condition that prevents him
KIDS ON FIRE experiences her first ever panic attack. from ever knowing more than 37 things must
Australia / 13min / 2019
Australia / 7min / 2018 WORLD PREMIERE fight to retain his most precious memory in our
WRI/DIR: Simon Croker
WRI/DIR: Tommy Hart information-dense world.
PROD: Linus Gibson
PROD: Frances Mariani, Olivia Fay THE EGG WORLD PREMIERE
Road trips usually signify a beginning but for
A 9-year-old closeted evangelical Christian Australia / 10min / 2019
Isaac and his partner Levi, this is their last
tomboy must prove her faith by vandalizing an WRI/DIR: Jane Cho
chance to spend time together before they part
LGBTQI sex shop. PROD: Jane Cho, Ilana Lazar
ways. As they drive closer to their destination,
NSW PREMIERE Under the punishing and watchful eye of an
Isaac finds that maybe he isn’t as prepared for
elderly woman, a young girl, bored and lonely
his first breakup as he had thought. CHICKEN in a world of foreign suburbia, becomes
NSW PREMIERE Australia / 10min / 2019 determined to claim a larger Easter egg as her
WRI/DIR: Alana Hicks own.
ATLAS
PROD: Sleena Wilson
Australia / 22min / 2019
All Barbara wants to do is watch the
WRI/DIR: Gene Alberts
Simpsons, but her recent migrated mum has
PROD: Gene Alberts, Samuel Vines
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Kids On Fire, All Good A man and his dog are looking to escape just been overcharged at the local shops, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: A Day In Your Life, A
Things, Peach, The Complex and its up to Barbara to sort it out. As usual. Morning Ritual, My First Panic, The Granny Flat
captivity on a rural farm under the watchful eye
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
of surveillance drones.
WORLD PREMIERE
16 ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS 17BEST OF AUSTRALIAN CONTINUED award winning
family grown
handmade wine
BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 7 TRAPPED
WEDNESDAY 15TH JAN 8:45PM Australia / 13min / 2019
DURATION: 103 MINS WRI/DIR: Tony Bosch
PROD: Annmaree J Bell
In war torn New Guinea, the destinies of two
FOR THE GIRL IN THE COFFEE SHOP enemy soldiers become intertwined as they
Australia / 9min / 2019 battle one common enemy; Death.
WRI/DIR: Rebekah Jackson WORLD PREMIERE
PROD: Rebekah Jackson, Elaine Beckett
To get his book published, a hopeless romantic THE WIDOW
must divulge his true feelings to his muse; the Australia / 29min / 2018
only problem is that he’s never actually spoken WRI/DIR: Brendan Young
to her before. PROD: Brendan Young, Catherine McQuade
NSW PREMIERE Set in Melbourne in 1965, a Sicilian widow
fights for her life when members of the local
BACKPEDAL Calabrian Mafia murder her husband and try to flickerfest
Australia / 5min / 2019 seize control of his produce business.
WRI/DIR: Dani Pearce
wine sponsor
NSW PREMIERE
PROD: Sarah Nichols since 2009
A young woman laments her teen years, her DARKER, DARKEST
hometown and the death of a friend. Australia / 15min / 2019
NSW PREMIERE WRI/DIR/PROD: Jerome Velinsky www.rosnay.com.au
A man wakes from a nightmare to find he’s
WE NEED TO TALK being stalked by a mysterious intruder lurking
Australia / 11min / 2019 outside his house.
WRI: Brendan Galinie, Katarina Scholler WORLD PREMIERE
DIR: Brendan Galinie
PRO: Brendan Galinie, Katarina Scholler, Ryan UTOPIA
O’Gorman Australia / 15min / 2019
When two best friends cross the line of WRI/DIR: Kosta Nikas
personal boundaries into toxic territory, PROD: Kosta Nikas, Aaron Bush, Rishi Shukla
they must confront each other to save their A man returns to his country after decades
friendship. abroad only to discover a society where therea
WORLD PREMIERE re more freedoms inside prison than outside it.
Desperate, but unable to escape, the brave act
INVISIBLE of one woman gives him his freedom.
Australia / 6min / 2018 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
WRI/DIR/ PROD: Jacob Melamed
In a series of therapy sessions with a persistent
psychologist, Daniel comes face to face with his
progress, through a series of self-portraits. 18 JAN
WORLD PREMIERE
28 FEB
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Backpedal, Darker,
Darkest, The Widow, Utopia
18 ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS 19BEST 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 HOME FRONT BEST OF DOCUMENTARY 2 OUR TERRITORY
SUNDAY 12TH JAN 2:00PM Israel / 9min / 2019 SUNDAY 12TH JAN 4:00 PM Belgium / 20min / 2019
DURATION: 98 MINS DIR/PROD: Tal Inbar DURATION: 107 MINS WRI/DIR: Mathieu Volpe
A policeman invites a stranger into his home PROD: Serge Kestemont
and leaves him alone with his wife, while When I got to Rignano, the Ghetto residents told
ALL CATS ARE GREY IN THE DARK he departs to deal with a terrorist event, not BRIGHT LIGHTS – THE PERILS OF THE me; “You mustn’t keep any trace of our lives
Switzerland / 18min / 2019 knowing the stranger is actually a terrorist. POKIES here in these precarious houses This despair is
WRI/DIR: Lasse Linder AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Australia / 13min / 2019 not yours to display.” The misery in the Ghetto
PROD: HSLU: Edith Flückiger WRI/DIR: Charby Ibrahim is the first thing that struck me, the first thing I
Christian lives with his two cats, Marmelade KACHALKA PROD: Charby Ibrahim, Rob Innes, Jennifer wanted to show.
and Katjuscha. As he yearns to become a Ireland / 9min / 2019 Peedom, Helen Gaynor, Charlie Phillips, Jacqui AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
father, he decides to fertilize his beloved DIR: Gar O’Rourke Edenbrow
Marmelade by an exquisite tomcat from abroad. PROD: Ken Wardrop A 25 year addiction to poker machines has ALL ON A MARDI GRAS DAY
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A cinematic portrait of Kiev’s Soviet scrap metal cost ‘Sharon’ almost everything … and very United States / 23min / 2019
‘Kachalka’ gym – the world’s most hardcore nearly her life in this short, fully animated WRI/DIR: Michal Pietrzyk
BITING THE BULLET gym. documentary, voiced by Claudia Karvan. PROD: Michal Pietrzyk, Celeste Caliri, David
Australia / 11min / 2019 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Favret, Gabriel Bienczycki
WRI/DIR/PROD: Lizbeth Calingasan African-American men from New Orleans
An observational/expository documentary about MATEO’S STORY INFERNO neighborhoods spend all year sewing feathered
a young, introverted International student forced United States / 24min / 2019 Mexico / 16min / 2018 suits they’ll wear only once, in a battle to decide
to try and find a better life in Australia. She WRI/DIR/PROD: Malona P. Badelt WRI/DIR/PROD: Patrick Fileti who’s ‘the prettiest’.
stumbles upon the sport of boxing and hopes to A journey to safety turns into a struggle of An explosive portrait of the lives of artisans and AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
become an athlete and an Australian citizen. trauma, fear and irreparable damage. their families in the lead up to the festival of
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE San Juan de Dios, when blazing revelry engulfs
the town.
ANAS V. THE GIANT DJUWALPADA AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
United States / 17min / 2019 Australia / 14min / 2019
WRI: Karen K. H. Sim WRI: Daniel Wilfred FLESH
DIR: Adrienne Collatos DIR: Daniel Wilfred, Nicola Bell Brazil / 12min / 2019
PROD: Adrienne Collatos, Karen K. H. Sim PROD: Courtney Collins WRI: Camila Kater, Ana Julia Carbalheiro
The story of Anas Modamani offers an insider A young songman from southeast Arnhem Land DIR: Camila Kater
glimpse into the online fake news and hate tells his story about sharing culture to keep it PROD: Chelo Loureiro, Livia Perez
speech scandals that have rocked the world alive. Rare, medium rare, medium, medium well
over the last few years. WORLD PREMIERE and well done. Through intimate and personal
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE stories, five women share their experiences in
relation to the body, from childhood to old age.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
LOST RAMBOS
Australia / 22min / 2019
WRI/DIR: Chris Phillips
PROD: Michaela Perske, Kiki Dillon
The influx of modern automatic weaponry intro-
duced to Papua New Guinea in the 1990’s has
turned local disputes into swift lethal exchanges
which threatened to permanently reshape high-
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: All Cats Are Grey lands culture. FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: All On A Mardi Gras
In The Dark, Djuwalpada The Home Front, NSW PREMIERE Day, Flesh, Inferno, Our Territory
Mateo's Story
20 ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS 21BEST OF EU SHOWCASE ASEAN REGION COMPETITION
A selection of moving and entertaining shorts from the European Our inaugural competition in partnership with The Department of Foreign Affairs
Union that captures the diversity and cinematic excellence of Europe. And Trade and Australia now ASEAN, celebrating the stories of the ASEAN region
EU SHORT FILM SHOWCASE THE TEARS THING ASEAN COMPETITION FAREWELL
SATURDAY 18TH JAN 6:30 PM France / 25min / 2019 SATURDAY 18 JAN 4PM Malaysia / 5min / 2019
DURATION: 115 MINS WRI: Clemence Poesy, Eric Forestier DURATION: 120 MINS DIR: Erica Eng
DIR: Clemence Poesy PROD: Julia Wee, Alison Loke Mern Nyee
PROD: Nelson Ghrenassia A little girl proves to her grandmother that she
MEMORABLE Florence is an actress and the preperations for THE GIRL AND THE CAT is independent enough to take care of herself.
France / 12min / 2019 her new role will challenge her in a way she Singapore / 13min / 2018 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
WRI/DIR: Bruno Collet could never have seen coming. WRI: Ervin Han
PROD: Jean-François Le Corre, Mathieu AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE DIR: Ervin Han, Bernard Toh LIMBO
Courtois PROD: Ervin Han, Rachel Phang Philippines / 11min / 2019
Recently, Louis, a painter is experiencing HOME SWEET HOME A young girl is separated from her Mother at WRI: Madelaine Miraflor
strange events, his world seems to be Poland / 21min / 2019 a Singaporean night market and meets a cat DIR: John Luke Miraflor
mutating. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI: Michalina Fabijanska who brings her deep into the underbelly of the PROD: Brilliant Jerk Productions
DIR: Agata Puszcz bazaar where fantasy meets reality. A day in the life of a poor teenage boy in con-
NIMIC Ten-year-old Olaf auditions for Rent A Life, a AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE stant search of food and luck.
Germany, UK, USA / 12min / 2019 company that offers the wealthy a chance to hire AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
WRI/DIR: Yorgos Lanthimos family members and friends. He has a plan and, BUNGA
PROD: Rekorder, Superprime, Merman, Droga5 no matter what the cost, he absolutely has to be Brunei Darussalam / 10min / 2019 STAY AWAKE, BE READY
A professional cellist has an encounter with a cast in a role in someone’s life. WRI: Hanis Hashim Vietnam / 14min / 2019
stranger on the subway which has unexpected WORLD PREMIERE DIR: Hanis Hashim, Izzuddin Jali, Rahim Sofri, WRI/DIR: Pham Thien An
and far-reaching ramifications on his life. Azman Fontanilla PROD: Pham Thien An, Tran Van Thi
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE UNCLE THOMAS, ACCOUNTING FOR PROD: Izzuddin Jali, Rahim Sofri A motorbike crash happening before the street
THE DAYS A schoolgirl feels emotionally neglected by stalls on a street corner was embedded in the
THE JACKPOT Portugal / 13min / 2019 her father but finds something attached to her mysterious story of three young men.
Germany / 23min / 2019 WRI/DIR: Regina Pessoa memory that gradually bonds her old and new
WRI/DIR: Alice von Gwinner PROD: Ciclope Films – Abi Feijo, Julie Roy, families together. THE TUK TUK OF THE FIFTH KIND
PROD: Alice von Gwinner, Hana Geisendorfer Reginald De Guillebon WORLD PREMIERE Lao People’s Democratic Republic / 15min /
Thanks to his best friend, the chicken, Albert A tribute to Reginas uncle Thomas. A humble 2018
finds himself involved in a fateful game of man with a simple and anonymous life, EVENING STROLL WRI/DIR: Anysay Keola
chance that leads him to his true love. But was acknowledging that one does not have to be Indonesia / 16min / 2019 PROD: Mattie Do
it really all just a coincidence? ‘sombody’ to become exceptional in our lives. WRI/DIR: Candra Aditya A Tuk Tuk driver strongly believes that he is able
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Angga Buana to communicate with an alien from another
When they lose their wallet during a picnic, a planet. And this alien has a mission for him.
RE-ENTRY husband and wife rediscover the beauty in their AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
The Netherlands / 9min / 2019 romance through conversation of life, Jakarta,
WRI: Andy Weir rich people and cheap shoes. MY VALENTINE'S DAY
DIR: Ben Brand AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Cambodia / 13min / 2018
PROD: Studio Ruba WRI/DIR: Vong Panhavon
When a man (you) dies in a traffic accident and DOSSIER OF THE DOSSIER A man is planning to do something for his crush
gets into a conversation with God, he gets an Thailand / 18min / 2019 on Valentine's Day.
answer to the biggest question of life. DIR: Sorayos Prapapan AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE The director and the producer are working on
the dossier of their film.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
HOME
Myanmar / 6min / 2018
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Home Sweet Home, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Bunga, Dossier Of
WRI: Mon Mon Htet
Memorable, Re-Entry, The Jackpot The Dossier, Limbo, Stay Awake, Be Ready
DIR: Sai Naw Kham
PROD: Lindsey Merrison
An independent humanitarian activist from
Shan State describes the trauma she experi-
ences in working in an environment pervaded
by despair and her commitment to helping
those forced to fee armed conflict.
22 ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS 23LOVE BITES
A quirky short journey through the joys and pitfalls of modern relationships
LOVEBITES 1 JEALOUS ALAN LOVEBITES 2 THE OCEANS ARE THE
THURSDAY 16TH JAN 8:45PM United Kingdom / 16min / 2019 FRIDAY 17TH JAN 6.30PM REAL CONTINENTS
DURATION: 114 MINS DIR: Martin Clark DURATION: 113 MINS Italy / 20min / 2019
PROD: James Heath WRI/DIR: Tommaso Santambrogio
Betwixt 1980’s Edinburgh and Glasgow, Alan PROD: Tommaso Santambrogio, Lav Diaz,
BROKEN: A SOCKUMENTARY discovers his best friend Stuart and Angela are TOOMAS BENEATH THE VALLEY OF Gianluca Arcopinto
Australia / 7min / 2019 secretly dating, jealousy drives him to foil it and THE WILD WOLVES Alex and Edith, a couple in their 30s live their
DIR: Hannah Dougherty wrestle where his passions really lay. Estonia / 18min / 2019 love story made of small gestures, stories from
Broken explores the universal nature of AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE DIR/PROD: Chintis Lundgren the past, nostalgia and deep intimacy.
heartbreak through interviews with real people After losing a well paid engineering job,
and their stories, as told through socks. PEACH Toomas, a young hot wolf, gets cornered into SHIFTING
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Australia / 8min / 2019 working as a gigolo to support his family. Australia / 7min / 2019
DIR: Sophie Saville WRI/DIR/PROD: Rob La Terra
L+ WRI/PROD: Rowan Devereux A GLIMPSE Portrait of a live-in-relationship told in rapid-fire
Korea / 13min / 2019 A socially anxious young woman lands a hot United Kingdom / 10min / 2019 series of telling vignettes centered around the
WRI/DIR: Jeonghoi Koo date. There’s only one problem, she’s not sure if WRI: Tom Turner, Sam Berrill lounge-room sofa.
PROD: Yu Kim, Hyunkyung Park its actually a date. DIR: Tom Turner NSW PREMIERE
A girl who has been exhausted of her repeated WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Rebecca Harris
everyday life finally begins to understand why A blossoming relationship unfolds when two THE TOLL ROAD
the boy waits for the doom of earth. THE PLANT strangers have a chance encounter in a London United States / 20min / 2018
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Norway / 19min / 2019 Café. WRI: Richard Galazka
WRI/DIR: Julian Nazario Vargas DIR: Tom Riley
MY PLANET PROD: Ida Bruusgaard, Tor Kristian Liseth MOON DROPS PROD: Jason Berger, Amy Laslett, Tom Riley,
Belgium / 24min / 2018 When a man is abandoned by his girlfriend he Israel / 16min / 2018 Lizzy Caplan
WRI/DIR: Valery Carnoy desperately seeks comfort in a plant she leaves WRI/DIR: Yoram Ever-Hadani On the eve of their ninth anniversary, a sweet
PROD: Vincent Canart behind. PROD: Yoram Ever-Hadani, Kobi Hoffmann, but naïve young couple face a boorish adver-
A baker in his fifties suffers from failed love Milos Djukelic sary who threatens to ruin their big day.
with his wife. One morning he meets Anita, a DICK PICS! (A DOCUMENTARY) A factory worker assembles an enigmatic
young contemporary photographer who likes United States/ 12min / 2019 machine that produces liquid drops from the WHAT IN THE WORLD
the shape of his big body. WRI/DIR: Hannah McSwiggen, Russell Sheaffer moonlight. United Kingdom / 13min / 2019
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Hannah McSwiggen, Russell Sheaffer, WRI/DIR: Jamie Fraser
Dan Schoenbrun, Vanessa McDonnell FOR THE GIRL IN THE COFFEE SHOP PROD: Alastair Hope-Morley
ORPHEATE This stop-motion animated documentary Australia / 9min / 2019 A troubled young woman bothers a stranger.
United States / 10min / 2019 gathers men of all walks of life and asks them WRI/DIR: Rebekah Jackson
WRI/DIR: Ruby Bell an important question: “What in gods name PROD: Rebekah Jackson, Elaine Beckett
PROD: Gabriella Landay, Ruby Bell, Mandy compels you to send pictures of your penis to To get his book published, a hopless romantic
Walker, Stuart Bell non-consenting others?” must divulge his true feelings to his muse. The
This modern day take on the beloved Greek AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE only problem is that hes never actually spoken
myth follows a young musicians journey to the to her.
underworld in search of his lover lost to a fatal GRANDAD WAS A ROMANTIC
snakebite. United Kingdom / 5min / 2019
WORLD PREMIERE WRI/DIR/PROD: Maryam Mohajer
My romantic Grandad saw a picture of my
Granny and realized that she was the love of
his life.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Broken_ A FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: A Glimpse, The
Sockumentary, Peach, Dick Pics!, Granddad Oceans Are the Real Continents, Moon Drops,
was a Romantic What In The World
24 ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS 25SHORT LAUGHS COMEDY
Chortle your way through a hilarious off-kilter selection of shorts
from across the world.
SHORT LAUGHS COMEDY 1 SCHOOL’S OUT SHORT LAUGHS COMEDY 2 FRIENDS ONLINE
FRIDAY 17TH JAN 8:45PM The Netherlands / 11 min / 2018 SATURDAY 18TH JAN 8:45PM United Kingdom / 4min / 2019
DURATION: 110 MINS WRI: Renske De Greef DURATION: 111 MINS WRI/DIR: Samantha White
DIR: Jamille van Wijngaarden PROD: Natalia Bastrykina, Andrew White, Marta
PROD: The Rogues HOW TO FIRE SOMEONE Biancheri, Samantha White ‘Stacey’ is an
DIVISION SERIES When mother Marit wants to discuss the behaviour United States / 5min / 2018 anxious keyboard warrior, hopelessly trying to
Korea / 6min / 2019 of her son during a parent-teach conference, WRI/DIR/PROD: Mike Lars White convince his friend Elle that he too is a teenage
WRI/DIR: Ho Kwon Kim teacher Yvonne can’t repress her pent-up feelings Jonas turns to his sister Jules for advice on girl, with the hope that she’ll send him a picture
PROD: Jin Soo Lee anymore. A murderous comedy with finger paint. how to fire someone. he so craves.
A Prime Minister goes into KFC to buy a chicken, AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
but the chicken is all sold out. At another table, #COLLAPSINGEMPIRE GOD: THE PERFORMANCE REVIEW
presidents from other countries start playing IT’S CHRISTMAS New Zealand / 6min / 2018 Australia / 8min / 2019
cards to win the last chicken basket. Australia / 20min / 2019 WRI/DIR: Cathy MacDonald WRI: Allan West
WRI: Tyson Yates PROD: Joseph McAlpine DIR/PROD: Victoria Carwin
DRUBENLAND – THE LAND OVER DIR: Owen Smith Tinder dating meets modern cuisine. It’s been one millennium since God’s last
Germany / 15min / 2018 PROD: Gabriel Stoltz, Sam Monaghan, Tamara AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Performance Review with Senior Management
WRI/DIR: Arne Kohlweyer McLauchlin, Kyle McCallion and they’re not impressed with what has been
PROD: Christoph Kulkula, Eike Goreczka ARE YOU HUNGRY?
Its Darren’s first Christmas with the in-laws. His happening on that tiny blue planet called Earth.
As soon as Marko’s parents are on vacation Finland / 12min / 2019
only job was to bring the prawns, but when the AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
some odd wall falls down – and suddenly WRI: Teemu Niukkanen
family become mysteriously ill, his fight for their
everything is in chaos. Grown-up talk doesn’t DIR: Antti Toivonen NORTEÑOS
approval becomes a fight for his life.
help, so its up to Marko to make sense of it on PROD: Daniel Kuitunen United Kingdom / 8min / 2018
his own. WHY SLUGS HAVE NO LEGS A single mother struggles to connect with her WRI/DIR: Grandmas
Switzerland / 11min / 2019 adopted teenage son, who she believes is gay. Barry attempts to elicit the help of his former
THERE’S A MOBSTER UNDER MY BED WRI/DIR: Aline Hochli AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE lover Linda after brutally murdering his
Australia / 10min / 2018 PROD: Marcel Ramsay, Miochele Wannaz grandmother with a hammer.
WRI/DIR: Matthew Smolen AWAITING DEATH
Slugs have a hard time keeping up with the pace of
PROD: Hayley Adams Sweden / 12min / 2019 THE CIRCLE OF LIFE
life in a city of insects. When a financial crisis hits,
With a literal Mobster laying low under the bed WRI: Lars Vega Australia / 7min / 2019
the industrious bees only see one solution.
– its up to an 8 year old girl to figure out what DIR: Lars Vega, Isabelle Bjorklund WRI/DIR: Dave Wade
exactly he’s doing under there, and how to get A FAMILY AFFAIR PROD: Isabelle Bjorklund PROD: Anna Bardsley-Jones, Maxx Corkindale
rid of him. United Kingdom / 13min / 2019 A son arrives at the hospital to watch his After believing they’d missed their chance at
WRI/DIR: Florence Keith-Roach father’s death bed. When the son wants a parenthood, a loving couple make a discovery
THE TENT PROD: Emily Barttelot last nice moment, his father would rather find reignites their hope.
Norway / 17min / 2019 When Annabelle wakes up in a strangers bedroom out what to do with the two opened cans of
WRI/DIR: Rebecca Figenschau on her 30th birthday, she thinks her day can’t get mustard. THE CIRCLE OF LIFE
PROD: Frode Sobstad any worse. But then Bernard walks in. Australia / 7min / 2018
Putting up a tent becomes a fateful event for a CURSED GRANNY WRI/DIR: Dave Wade
dysfunctional family of four. Spain / 19min / 2019 DIR: Jonathan Mordechay
WRI/PROD: Suso Imbernon, Juanj Moscardo PROD: Maxx Corkindale, Anna Bardsley-Jones
DAD’S DIVORCE Rius Javi is traumatized by the horror movies After believing they’d missed their chance at
Denmark / 7min / 2019 that his grandmother plays every night. When parenthood, a loving couple make a discovery
WRI/DIR: Jesper Sichlau his grandmother suffers an intestinal stoppage, reignites their hope.
PROD: Jesper Sichlau, Camilla Schonberg he confuses it with an alien possession.
When Oscar and his sister receive the news of WINGS OF THE SPIRIT
their parents divorce, they have to do everything Austria / 29min / 2019
in their power to stop it from happening. WRI/DIR: Albert Meisl
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: A Family Affair, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Nortenos, Are You
Division Series, Drubenland - The Land Over, PROD: Lena Weiss Hungry, Cursed Granny, Friends Online
It's Christmas A failed Viennese musicologist works as an
animal carer and house sitter for wealthy people.
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