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28 TH ACADEMY ®
ACCREDITED
INTERNATIONAL & BAFTA-
SHORT FILM RECOGNISED
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FLICKERFEST2019
FLICKERFEST
BONDI PAVILION, BONDI BEACH
As Australia’s leading Academy® accredited as we strive to deliver our vision of providing a
short film festival, the shorts in competition platform that nurtures and supports Australian
at Flickerfest are fiercely vying for a number Filmmakers, and in turn provides Australian
of prestigious prizes including the Flickerfest audiences with access to inspirational storytelling
Award for Best International Short Film, the from their own backyard and beyond.
Yoram Gross Award for Best International
To all our partners who are acknowledged in
Animation, the Virgin Australia Award for Best
this programme, I am extremely grateful for the
Australian Short Film, and the Flickerfest Award
essential and ongoing support they provide. We
for Best Documentary. Plus a host of other
thank them enormously for their belief in us,
hotly contested prizes which recognise the
which assists us in maintaining Flickerfest as one
various craft areas inherent in making a great
of the best short film competitions in the world.
short film.
Behind the scenes, the many talents of the
2019 brings over 22 different short film
extremely hardworking Flickerfest team
BRONWYN KIDD programmes across the 10-day festival
bring Flickerfest to life. My enormous thanks
FESTIVAL DIRECTOR season. We are proud to announce that
and appreciation must go to Festival Tour/
due to the outstanding home grown talent
Production Manager Shane Rennie, Festival
Welcome to the 28th Flickerfest International and creativity received this year, we will
Program Manager Lies Bruines, Programming
Short Film Festival. As we move forward into be screening 7 Australian competitive
Team Liz Harkman, Rich Warren, Linda
another film filled and jam packed festival, I am programmes in addition to the 5 international
Olszewski, Industry Liaison Leigh Russell,
thrilled that Flickerfest continues to be the most and 2 documentary programmes, which
Festival Coordinator Jess Green, Partnerships
influential dedicated short film event on the make up our Academy qualifying short film
Manager Lucy Rhoades, Flickerlab Coordinator
Australian landscape. competitions. Alongside these competitive
Pam Otto and Festival Assistant Fabienne Neff.
programmes our youngest filmmakers
Flickerfest continues its proud tradition of And last but not least our Director of Projection
compete in SAE FlickerUp, our national
bringing world-class short films to Bondi Alan Butterfield, and projectionist Anthony Yeo.
schools and youth competition, an exciting
Pavilion, celebrating and uncovering the most
peek at the future cinema stars of tomorrow! Short film continues to excite and thrill me year
talented filmmakers the world and Australia has
after year, and I still strongly believe shorts are
to offer. The Best Of European Union shorts is back
the perfect vehicle for our latest generation of
to showcase the best shorts from the EU in
The Flickerfest team and special selection storytellers to cut their teeth and express the
partnership with The European Union Delegation
committee watched and reviewed near 2700 stories at the heart of who we are. Every year I
To Australia; FlickerKids promises a delightful
entries from across the globe, of which just over am moved, surprised and inspired by the films
programme for young and young at heart;
100 will be officially screened in competition; raising the bar for what is considered “the best”
Love Bites, a romp through the quirky world of
confirming that Flickerfest continues to attract in short film. The imagination and creativity
modern relationships is perfect for date night
the latest in cutting edge shorts from the showcased throughout Flickerfest highlights the
and Short Laughs takes you on a hilarious
world’s most exciting and innovative emerging role of short film as one at the centrepiece of
journey from the weird to the wonderful.
filmmakers for our Academy Accredited® and innovation and creativity in global cinema today.
BAFTA recognised shorts competition. We are also thrilled to celebrate amazing
I welcome you to experience the best in short
LGBTQI films from around the world for the
The uniting force among the shorts screening cinema at Bondi and across Australia this
second year, in our Rainbow Shorts celebration
at the 2019 Flickerfest Festival is their ability summer, as Flickerfest celebrate 28 years of
curated by award winning queer filmmaker
to push the conventions of film and narrative to ‘Kapowerful Short Films’
Craig Boreham.
deliver surprising, exciting and groundbreaking
BRONWYN KIDD
results across animation, documentary and Presenting an international festival considered
FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
every genre in between. among the best in the world is made possible
by the generous support of our major sponsors
Once Flickerfest wraps up its 10-day
SAE Creative Institute, European Union
celebration of short film in Bondi, we pack up
Delegation to Australia and Create NSW.
all the highlights from the festival and hit the
KAPO
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road on our 50+ venue national tour. It has I would also like to extend an enormous
SHOR FUL
been a joy to see Flickerfest extend its reach as thanks to our major government partner
the home of great short film across the country, Screen Australia who supports both our T
FILM
and watching audiences warmly embrace the festival, and the national tour, and who has S!
inspiring art of short filmmaking. been a continuous source of encouragement
11
28th
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Short Film
Festival
PROGRAM AND SESSION
ON TIMES
DAY 10.00AM 2.00PM 4.30PM 6.30PM 8.45PM
FESTIVAL OPENING
FRI 11 HIGHLIGHTS & PARTY
7.45PM FOR 8.15PM START
SAT 12 Best of International 1 Best of Australian 1 Best of Australian 2
SUN 13 Best of Australian 3 Best of International 2 Best of Australian 4
MON 14 Best of International 3 Best of Australian 5
FlickerKids (ages
TUE 15 Best of Documentary 1 Best of Documentary 2 Best of Australian 6
6-12)
WED 16 Best of International 4 Best of Australian 7
THU 17 Best of international 5 (86KRUW)LOP6KRZFDVH1 Love Bites 1
FRI 18 FlickerLab (10am - 5pm) Love Bites 2 Short Laughs Comedy 1
FlickerUp
SAT 19 School Shorts (86KRUW)LOP6KRZFDVH2 Rainbow Shorts Short Laughs Comedy 2
Competition Final
CLOSING NIGHT AWARDS,
Short Laughs Comedy 1
SUN 20 WINNING HIGHLIGHTS &
(repeat)
AFTER PARTY 7.15PM FOR 7.45PM
2SPECIAL EVENT OPENING NIGHT
FRDIAY 11TH JANUARY 2019
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 2019 season. After
the films we party on the upstairs terrace at the Flickerfest Bar, overlooking Bondi beach, and
raise our glasses to Kapowerful short films!
TICKET PRICE INCLUDES A CATERED SCREENING & WELCOME 7.45PM FOR
PARTY AND ENTERTAINMENT AT THE 8.15PM START
FLiCKERFEST BAR
AFTER PARTY
10.30PM – LATE
FRIDAY 11 JAN 7:45PM
OPENING NIGHT HIGHLIGHTS DURATION: 76 MINS
EDEK LIL BOIS
United Kingdom / 6min / 2018 Australia / 17min / 2018
WRI/DIR: Malcolm Green WRI/DIR: Grant Thompson
PROD: Marc Cave, Sara Huxley PROD: Courtney Collins
An 85 year old Holocaust survivor named After swimming with his friends in a billabong,
Janine and a young American rapper named a nervous little boy returns to his camp and
Kapoo collaborate to deliver a Hip Hop message discovers everything has changed.
to the youth of the world. A poignant and NSW PREMIERE
uniquely challenging fusion of prose, music
and rap. For the first time, one of the world’s MAGIC ALPS
darkest stories is told in an entirely new way. Italy / 15min / 2018
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Andrea Brusa, Marco Scotuzzi
WRI: Giuseppe Isoni
DELLA MORTIKA: CAROUSEL OF SHAME PROD: Andrea Italia
Australia / 17min / 2018 An Afgani refugee arrives in Italy with his goat
WRI352': Geraldine Martin and seeks political asylum for both of them.
DIR352': Marisa Martin AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
This is the fantastical world of Della Mortika,
where steam is king, where life is hard, but BETWEEN THE SHADOWS
where adventure is always adventure. Portugal / 13min / 2018
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Mónica Santos, Alice Guimarães
PROD: Nuno Amorim, Vanessa Ventura,
BIRDIE Jean-François Le Corre, Mathieu Courtois,
Australia / 8min / 2018 Pedro Medeiros
WRI/DIR: Shelly Lauman Natália, trapped in a tedious job, engages
PROD: Lizzie Cater in a search for a stolen heart. In a world
On a bright, ordinary day a woman walks alone where hearts can be deposited in a bank, the
to the train station. As she descends the stairs protagonist faces a dilemma: give her heart or
to the underground platform she smiles at a keep it to herself.
young man. He smiles back. With the smallest AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
of gestures, the woman is caught in a subtle
and sinister game.
NSW PREMIERE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Lil Bois, Birdie,
Magic Alps
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4FESTIVAL INFORMATION
Catch some of the most innovative, provocative and wildly entertaining short films the
world has to offer at Australia’s leading Academy® Accredited and BAFTA recognised
short film festival in January.
Now in its 28th year, Flickerfest is the home of great short film
– Over 150 spectacular short films under the stars
– Glam Opening Night and Closing Night Parties
– Panoramic Pop Up Beach Bar
SCREENING IN 2019 SPECIAL EVENTS
OPENING NIGHT FRIDAY 11 JANUARY
IN COMPETITION:
HIGHLIGHTS SCREENING
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS* 7:45pm for 8:15pm
AFTER PARTY 10:30pm – late
AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILMS*
DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM* CLOSING NIGHT SUNDAY 20 JANUARY
ALL ACADEMY® ACCREDITED COMPETITIONS AWARDS AND SCREENING
7:15pm for 7:45pm start
AWARDS AND SCREENING 10.30pm – late
PLUS Celebrate the end of the festival at the Closing Night
RAINBOW SHORTS – Best LGBTQI+ from at home & the world and Awards Ceremony. A selection of the festival’s
award-winning films will be screened, followed by
FLiCKERUP – National School Students and Youth Competition
music and drinks at the Flickerfest Bar.
ENJOY THE EVER POPULAR SHORT FILM SHOWCASES INCLUDING: FLiCKERLAB FRIDAY 18 JANUARY
EBEST 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® Accredited.
BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 1 RISE OF A STAR
SATURDAY 12 JAN 4:30PM France / 18min / 2018
DURATION: 109 MINS WRI: Stephane Landowski
DIR: James Bort
PROD: Boris Mendza
RED DRESS. NO STRAPS Emma is about to be the new Ballerina at Paris
United Kingdom / 8min / 2018 Opera. But something upsets her. A secret. A
WRI/DIR/PROD: Maryam Mohajer secret liable to undermine what she has spent
1985. Tehran. Iran-Iraq war. An ordinary a whole life on. Starring Catherine Deneuve.
evening at the grandparents’. ‘Marmar’ still AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
remembers the ‘death to America’ chants
from the other day at school; the head teacher BETWEEN THE SHADOWS
was telling them to say it. She is listening to Portugal / 13min / 2018
grandad’s favourite radio program; The voice of WRI/DIR: Mónica Santos, Alice Guimarães
America. She’s also eagerly waiting for granny PROD: Nuno Amorim, Vanessa Ventura, Jean-
to make her a dress exactly the same as one François Le Corre, Mathieu Courtois, Pedro
worn by the American Popstar; bright red, no Medeiros
straps. Natália, trapped in a tedious job, engages
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE in a search for a stolen heart. In a world
where hearts can be deposited in a bank, the
BEST GAME EVER protagonist faces a dilemma: give her heart or
Hungary / 20min / 2018 keep it to herself.
WRI/DIR/PROD: Marcus McKenzie AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
PROD: Kirsty Stark
When two CCTV technicians find out about an MAGIC ALPS
AI machine threatening their jobs, they must get Italy / 15min / 2018
out of their chairs to beat the system - leading WRI/DIR: Andrea Brusa, Marco Scotuzzi
them to an unexpected solution. The new short WRI: Giuseppe Isoni
film of Academy Award-winner Kristóf Deák. PROD: Andrea Italia
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE An Afgani refugee arrives in Italy with his goat
and seeks political asylum for both of them.
A TARGET AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Finland / 8min / 2018
WRI/DIR: Antti Heikki Pesonen WILDEBEEST
PROD: Miia Haavisto Belgium / 19min / 2017
Arto is waiting for his wife and child in his car. WRI/DIR: Nicolas Keppens, Matthias Phlips
As they return from the store they tell him that PROD: Brecht Van Elslande, Bert Lesaffer
an unknown man harassed them. Arto decides Going on a safari is a dream for many. For
to take the law into his own hands and plans middle-aged couple Linda and Troyer, it turns
to make a video to shame the man on social into a horribly real adventure when they get left
media. behind in the wilderness.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
PHONE DUTY
Russian Federation / 8min / 2018
WRI/DIR: Lenar Kamalov
PROD: Lenar Kamalov, Natalia Frolova
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM:Magic Alps, Phone Duty,
A Donbass rebel fighter with a nom de guerre
Red Dress. No Straps, Rise of a Star
Cat is ordered to sit on phone duty, but it’s not
as easy as it may seem.
NSW PREMIERE
6BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 2 CURED
SUNDAY 13 JAN 6:30PM United States / 15min / 2018
WRI/DIR: Gabriel Villanueva
DURATION: 117 MINS
PROD: Mara Tasker, Doug Schultheis
Marcos and his wife Alma are infected, though
TAKE RABBIT that much isn’t obvious at first glance. They
United Kingdom / 15min / 2018 have become afflicted by a bizarre dancing
WRI/DIR: Peter Peake pandemic, which has compelled them (and the
PROD: Gareth Owen other people in town) to dance nonstop for days
Take Rabbit is a humorous take on an age-old on end. The good news? Marcos has found a
conundrum - a man attempts to transport some cure...
unlikely passengers across a river in his tiny AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
boat but soon realizes he’s taken on more than
he bargained for. The film features the vocal A SIEGE
talents of top British actors Stephen Graham, Hungary / 23min / 2018
Amelia Bullmore, Steve Pemberton and Matt WRI: Kálmán Gasztonyi
Berry. DIR: István Kovács
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Mónika Mécs, Nóra Alföldi, Tamás
Hutlassa, Barnabás Hutlassa, Gábor Osváth
MARGUERITE 1994, Sarajevo. No water, no electricity nor
Canada / 19min / 2018 food in the town under siege. Tea Mikic, despite
WRI/DIR: Marianne Farley the horrible war conditions, manages to keep
PROD: Marie-Hélène Panisset her positivity. She lost her husband during the
For several years now Marguerite, a diabetic war and is completely self-sufficient. She is
woman in her seventies, has been getting daily getting ready for something in the morning, so
visits from Rachel, her home health nurse. In she decides to wash her hair even though all
spite of her declining condition, Marguerite has her backup supplies are gone. She starts her
been gradually emerging from her loneliness as desperate journey to look for water, and neither
she experiences moments of tenderness and her neighbors nor sniper fire can stop her.
sensuality, under Rachel’s care. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
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FREAKS OF NURTURE
HOW TO SWIM Canada / 6min / 2018
Israel / 15min / 2018 DIR: Alexandra Lemay
WRI/DIR: Noa Gusakov PROD:Maral Mohammadian
PROD: Leah Tonic A stop-motion film about a mother-daughter
Abigail is heavily pregnant, but something is relationship bursting at the seams with babies,
missing. Terrified about the imminent birth, she poodles and flying spaghetti.
kidnaps an unsuspecting stranger to comfort AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
her for one afternoon.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
JETER L’ANCRE UN SEUL JOUR (FIND HARBOUR
FOR A DAY)
France / 24min / 2018
WRI: Blandine Jet, Paul Marques Duarte
DIR: Paul Marques Duarte FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Cured, How to Swim,
PROD: Thomas Guentch Take Rabbit, The Box
Adèle, an english teacher is about to board
in Saint-Malo with her class on a ferry to
England. But this time she needs to put up
with the arrival of a new pupil who is about to
disrupt the crossing and push the professor to
reevaluate herself…
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
KAPOWERFUL SHORT FILMS! 7BEST OF INTERNATIONAL CONTINUED
BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 3 THE MANDARIN TREE
MONDAY 14 JAN 6:30PM Germany / 18min / 2017
DURATION: 11 MINS WRI: Cengiz Akaygün, Duc-Thi Bui
DIR: Cengiz Akaygün
PROD: Philipp Lutz
THE FLOOD IS COMING
After her father is arrested for political reasons
United Kingdom / 9min / 2018
by the Turkish government, little Sirin is finally
WRI/DIR: Gabriel Böhmer
allowed to visit him in prison for the first time.
PROD: Samantha Monk
When a prison official interprets her painting of a
A forest hermit tries to prepare for a flood, but
bird as an anarchistic symbol and confiscates it,
he becomes distracted by his noisy neighbour
the girl is devastated, but her father encourages
- who happens to be the hermit’s left eye.The
her to believe in the freedom of thought.
Flood is Coming explores the growing anxiety
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
about the state of nature, and our place in it.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE THE BOX
Slovenia / 12min / 2017
MY FRIEND MICHAEL JONES
WRI/DIR/PROD: Dušan Kastelic
New Zealand / 15min / 2018
You have probably heard of the phrase “To
WRI: Eldon Booth, Ian Leaupepe, Samson Rambo
think outside of the box”? Well, this is a story
DIR: Ian Leaupepe, Samson Rambo about such a box. The box is full of miserable
PROD:Alex Lovell, Eldon Booth creatures. One of those creatures doesn’t
MJ is the ridicule of his high school peers. His belong there. He’s thinking outside of the box…
obsessive compulsive need to avoid cracks AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
in the pavement and finger-tap doorframes
before entering make him a target for relentless THE ROLE
bullying. When MJ discovers a secret that Iran / 12min / 2018
threatens Selena’s standing within her family WRI: Ali Asgari, Farnoosh Samadi
& school clique, the two form an unlikely bond DIR: Ali Asgari
through a shared passion for music & dance. PROD: Pouria Heidary Oureh
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A woman accompanies her husband for an
audition. The thing that happens there leads her
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WORLD PREMIERE
THE BACKWARD ASTRONOMER
TO PLANT A FLAG United Kingdom / 10min / 2018
Norway / 14min / 2018 WRI: Jade Shames
WRI/DIR: Bobbie Peers DIR: Jake Nelson
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: My Friend Michael Jones,
PROD: Ruben Thorkildsen, Henrik Hofstad PROD: -DNH1HOVRQ
The Backward Astronomer, To Plant a Flag,
In preparation for the moon landing in 1969, A privileged, young man falls in love with a
The Flood is Coming
NASA sent a team of astronaut to the lunar wealthy woman and together they lead reckless
landscapes of Iceland.Their hi-tech training lives of opulence in New York City. That is, until
mission soon discovers what obstacles one can he finds something better—a doorway leading
meet when facing an Icelandic sheep farmer. directly to the surface of the moon.
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8),:;6-INTERNATIONAL 4 EL DESTETADO (THE FOREIGN BODY)
WEDNESDAY 16 JAN 6:30PM Venezuela, France / 18min / 2018
DURATION: 1 MINS WRI/DIR/PROD: Héctor Silva Núñez
PROD: Eva Chillón, Marco Olmos
Jairo is a native young man from Venezuela
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who was born with no nipples. Distanced from
Serbia, Slovakia / 9min / 2018 the customs of his people, he explores in the
WRI: Ana Nedeljkovic city a male ideal to belong to.
DIR: Ana Nedeljkovic, Nikola Majdak Jr. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
PROD: Jelena Mitrovic
A film about (local) patriotism, tourism and PIGGY
emigration. The girl lives in a gray, isolated Spain / 14min / 2018
country, enclosed by a huge wall. She has WRI/DIR: Carlota Martínez Pereda
never travelled anywhere, but all her life she PROD: Luis Angel Ramírez,Mario Madueño
has dreamt of leaving forever for a perfect Sara is an overweight teen that lives in the
world called “Abroad”. shadow of a clique of cool girls holidaying in her
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE village. Not even her childhood friend, Claudia,
defends her when she’s bullied at the local
LE CHAMP DE MAÏS (THE FIELD)
pool in front of a unknown man. Her clothes
France, Uk, India / 19min / 2018 are stolen and Sara must get home wearing
WRI/DIR: Sandhya Suri nothing but her bikini. The long walk home will
PROD: Thomas Bidegain mark the rest of her life.
A poor agricultural labourer leads a double life AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
in the villa’s last remaining cornfield but the
harvest is approaching. SISTER
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE China / 8 min / 2018
WRI/DIR/PROD: Siqi Song
THE ATLAS A man remembers his childhood memory of
Poland / 28min / 2018 growing up with an annoying little sister in
WRI/DIR: Maciej Kawalski 1990s China. How would his life have been if
PROD: Ewa Jastrzębska things had gone differently?
A remote, and a bit crazy, psychiatric hospital AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
receives a curious patient — he doesn’t move
nor speak but spends his days standing with his
hands up. The only thing known is his nickname
— “The Atlas”. In a word, he is a riddle and a
riveting one at that.
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THURSDAY 17 JAN 4:30PM United Kingdom / 11min / 2017
DURATION: 1 MINS WRI/DRI: James Morgan
PROD: Johnny Langenheim
Yohana, a teenage girl from a remote
FLOWING THROUGH WONDER
community in the Norwegian Arctic must decide
France / 14min / 2018
the fate of the oil worker who has killed her
WRI/DIR: Joanna Lurie , Jean-Marc Bouzigues
father. In just seven seconds, she must make a
PROD: Christian Pfohl
life and death decision that will not only mark
It’s time for the villagers to start their journey.
her forever, but also determine the very future
They cross the perilous water in nutshells, with
of her people.
their loved ones to their final destination...
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where the blue sky and the blue ocean meet
up. When do we leave the world of the living? ROYALBLAU (ROYAL BLUE)
WORLD PREMIERE Austria / 20min / 2018
WRI/DIR: Dinko Draganovic
O ÓRFiO (THE ORPHAN)
Brazil / 15min / 2018 PROD: Dinko Draganovic, Sinisa Vidovic
WRI/DIR: Carolina Markowicz On his way to take his daughter to gymnastics,
PROD: Mayra Faour Auad a gambling addict stops at a betting shop,
Jonathas has been adopted but then returned leaving the 9-year-old girl in the car. When he
due to his ‘different’ way. Inspired by true returns, he realizes nothing will ever be the
events. same again.
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Mexico / 12min / 2017 France / 17min / 2018
WRI: Gabriel Nuncio, Abraham Nuncio WRI/DIR: Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh
DIR: Alejandro Saevich PROD: Nérimen Hadrami
Emile fears the outside world. He stays at home
PROD: Gabriel Nuncio, Alejandro Saevich
and paints everything in blue. One evening, his
The president of Mexico spends his final days
son Yohann meets Soraya, a young girl, fond
in office making plans for his future. Everything
of Tamil dance. She will help him find the right
looks in order until an international conflict
colour.
interrupts his pleasant rest.
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Seven sessions of the best Australian short films in competition. Our homegrown talent battle it out for the prestigious Academy®
Accredited Award for )est Australian Short Film.
BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 1 PERISHER
SATURDAY 12 JAN 6:30PM Australia / 11min / 2017
WRI/DIR: Gabriel Hutchings
DURATION: 11 MIN
PROD: Lachlan Pezet, Odin B Fernandez
A teenage girl, a middle aged man and a retired
A LOW HUM racehorse confront their uncertain futures in a
Australia / 4min / 2018 forgotten town.
WRI/DIR: Scott Otto Anderson NSW PREMIERE
PROD: Linda Micsko, Jessica Giacco, Craig
Deeker RITUAL
Girl meets boy meets autonomous drone. Australia / 15min / 2018
A love story for the digital age that asks if WRI/DIR: Robert Linsley
technology brings us together or pushes us PROD: Andrew Brinsmead
apart. For the Devlin family God is everything. When
NSW PREMIERE their eldest daughter disappears from their
remote farm, the local cop sent to investigate is
AN ACT OF LOVE disturbed by what he uncovers.
Australia / 11min / 2018 WORLD PREMIERE
WRI/DIR: Lucy Knox
PROD: W.A.M Bleakley, Daphne Do YULUBIDYI – UNTIL THE END
The intimate connection between identical Australia / 13min / 2017
twins May and June is tested when one WRI/DIR: Nathan Mewett, Curtis Taylor
attempts to step beyond their shared identity. PROD: Glen Stasiuk
A young Aboriginal man, Jarman, is tasked with
SHILOH protecting his younger disabled brother from life
Australia / 16min / 2018 in a harsh remote community. His father, Thunder,
WRI/DIR: Vanessa Gazy wants him to become the leader of the tribe and
PROD: Liam Heyen, Cyna Strachan mocks any weakness in him.
In a moment of desperation and despair, Shiloh WORLD PREMIERE
travels back in time to save her mother’s life.
What will changing the course of history for 6ATE7
her mother do to her own future? Australia/ 16min / 2018
NSW PREMIERE WRI: Amanda Maple-Brown
DIR: Maggie Kiley
ALL THESE CREATURES PROD: Amanda Maple-Brown
Australia / 13min / 2018 Tim, putting the final touches on his ‘Vol 7 -
WRI/DIR/PROD: Charles Williams Songs for and about Em’ CD mix (his annual
An adolescent boy attempts to untangle his anniversary gift to the love of his life), joyfully
memories of a mysterious infestation, the discovers a letter from Emma’s gynaecologist.
unravelling of his father, and the little creatures It can only mean the good news that she is
inside us all. pregnant - something they have been trying to do
NSW PREMIERE for a long time. Playful banter quickly descends
into harsh accusations as they dance around
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each other, searching for the truth, seemingly too
Australia / 5min / 2018
ugly to bear
WRI/DIR: Haein Kim and Paul Rhodes
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Dorian is on her own playing wall ball when
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SATURDAY 12 JAN 8:45PM Australia / 6min / 2017
WRI/DIR/PROD: Paul Mc Dermott
DURATION: 111MIN
PROD: Justine Kerrigan, Lincoln Wogan
A polar bear cub, the Ghostbear, wanders through
LOST & FOUND the antic wasteland in search of his place in the
Australia / 8min / 2018 world and his birthplace in the stars.
WRI: Bradley Slabe AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
DIR: Andrew Goldsmith, Bradley Slabe
PROD: Lucy J. Hayes THE CRAFT
A bumbling knitted dinosaur must unravel Australia / 11min / 2018
himself to save the love of his life. WRI/DIR: Armand De Saint-Salvy
6FUHHQLQJ2XW2I&RPSHWLWLRQ PROD: Benjamin O’Donnell
A Hollywood acting guru challenges a young
SHOTS FIRED actress to confront her demons in order to
Australia / 14min / 2018 maximise her potential.
WRI/PROD: Kyle McCallion, Sam Monaghan, WORLD PREMIERE
Gabriel Stolz
DIR/PROD: Manon Lewis DRUM WAVE
Whilst on a hunting trip in the great Australian Australia / 10min / 2018
bush, Katie, a precocious 13-year-old girl, WRI/DIR: Natalie Erika James
helps her Dad & his two long-time friends PROD: Emma Haarburger
navigate their quarter life crises. The catch; A young pianist is forced to confront her fear
they are as useless at hunting as they are at of motherhood when she marries into a remote
sorting out their issues. island community with bizarre fertility rituals.
WORLD PREMIERE
DJALI
INCUBATOR Australia / 17min / 2017
Australia / 15min / 2018 WRI/DRI/PROD: Hunter Page-Lochard
WRI/DIR/PROD: JP O’Brien PROD: Eryk Lenartowicz, Belinda Mravicic
PROD: Christian D’Alessi Six months after famed dancer Johnny injures
A mother takes her son’s education into her himself, he is forced to find his missing dog (Djali)
own hands. in the Australian bush which puts him in a life or
WORLD PREMIERE death situation.
PRIDE DESERT DASH
Australia / 17min / 2018 Australia / 13min / 2018
WRI: Daniel King WRI/DIR: Gracie Otto
PROD: Mario Biancacci PROD: Gracie Otto, Jessica Carrera, Francesca
Whilst celebrating Australia day, Jason Duncan, Graig Deeker
discovers an Aboriginal girl made fun of his On the outskirts of Australia, Opals are now the
daughters stutter. Provoked by his patriotic currency for survival in the game of Desert Dash.
family, Jason confronts the girls parents at the When a feisty heroine gets the opportunity to
local pub. Things don’t go as planned. Jason is ‘level up’ there is no choice but to win. Game On.
given an opportunity to change his opinion AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
towards Aboriginal people.
WORLD PREMIERE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Lost and Found, Drum Wave,
Desert Dash, Shots Fired
KAPOWERFUL SHORT FILMS! 13BEST OF AUSTRALIAN CONTINUED
BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 3 STRANGER
SUNDAY 13 JAN 4.30 PM Australia / 19 min / 2017
WRI/DIR/PROD: Peter Skinner
DURATION: 105 MIN
PROD: Joel Jackson, Holly Fraser
A wanderer drifts through an Australian outback
DELLA MORTIKA: CAROUSEL OF SHAME mining town until an unexpected connection with
Australia / 17min / 2018 a motel maid leaves him confronting his own
WRI: Geraldine Martin identity.
DIR: Marisa Martin AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
PROD: Marisa Martin, Geraldine Martin
This is the fantastical world of Della Mortika, NURSERY RHYMES
where steam is king, where life is hard, but Australia / 5min / 2017
where adventure is always adventure. WRI/PROD: Will Goodfellow
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE DIR: Tom Noakes
PROD: Lucy Gaffy, Morgan Benson-Taylor
SPECTRUM On the side of a rural highway, a bizarre
Australia / 15 min / 2018 encounter with a Metalhead takes a profound
WRI: Timothy Parish, Philip Tarl Denson turn.
DIR: Timothy Parish
PROD: Gaia Osborne CALLING
Ari is a young child diagnosed on the autism Australia / 14min / 2018
spectrum is prescribed an A.I. ‘sidekick’ which WRI/DIR: Miley Tunnecliffe
will help him in day to day life. The two of them PROD: Emilia Jolakoska, Miley Tunnecliffe
quickly bond and Ari begins to learn far more A modern comedy chronicling the dysfunctional
than anyone expected. relationship between a mother and daughter
NSW PREMIERE entirely through their phone calls.
NSW PREMIERE
SLEEPWALKING
Australia / 20min / 2018
WRI/DIR: Melissa Anastasi
PROD: Eva Di Blasio
Phoenix, 12, lives on an isolated property with
his sleepwalking mother, and overbearing
religious stepfather, who is intent on moulding
him in his image. Phoenix’s loyalties are torn
when he and his mother try to break free of
the control his stepfather has over their lives.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
PAPERCUT
Australia / 15 min / 2017
WRI/DIR: Damian Overton
PROD: Manon Lewis, Danielle Redford,
Damian Overton
Two closeted actors on their way to their
first high profile awards ceremony fight both
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Spectrum, Nursery expectation and each other, as intimacy and
Rhymes, Della Mortika: Carousel of Shame, insecurity collide in the back seat of a car.
Sleepwalking AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
14BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 4 NO SINCERER LOVE
SUNDAY 13 JAN 8:45PM Australia / 14min / 2018
WRI/DIR: Amelia Saunders
DURATION: 108 MIN
PROD: Shireen Narayanan
Harriet has prepared a tea party for her friends.
HARD RUBBISH But that afternoon, the girls’ anxieties run
Australia / 11min / 2018 rampant, and their seemingly perfect lives
WRI: Michael Beck begin to unravel.
DIR: Stephen Packer WORLD PREMIERE
PROD: Adam Camporeale
While vandalizing a private girls high school late CATTLE
at night, image conscious 15 year old Simon & Australia / 20min / 2018
his friends are caught off guard by a gang of WRI: Kerinne Jenkins
the very people they are trying to emulate. DIR: Kerrine Jenkins
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Katie Amos
On a rural cattle farm, two sisters worry about
THE HUNT their mother’s cancer, but an unexplained death
Australia / 9min / 2018 in the herd gives the girls cause to go out alone
WRI/DIR: Holly Hargreaves, Catherine Mack looking for answers.
PROD: Holly Hargreaves, Catherine Mack, NSW PREMIERE
Nigel Huckle
Set in a dystopian world in which women hunt DOTS
men in the name of equality, five female hunters Australia / 23min / 2017
must choose between loyalty or the law. WRI/DIR: Eryk Lenartowicz
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Rebecca Janek
People start dying after the arrival of a
ETERNAL mysterious stranger in a small Australian town.
Australia / 16min / 2018 Despite this, the local police officer is too
WRI/DIR/PROD: S.F. Tusa preoccupied by his dream Mercedes to pay
PROD: Ewan Cutler, Lalania Tusa,Curtis Lambert attention to the deaths surrounding him.
During one night, 3 teenagers; James, Royston
and Saskia seek to escape their troubled home
lives, only to find that they may have brought
the trouble with them.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
HERE THERE BE MONSTERS
Australia / 15min / 2018
WRI/DIR: Drew Macdonald
PROD: Steve Geddes
To escape incessant bullying on the bus ride
home, a young girl falls asleep only to wake up
trapped at an empty bus yard, with something
lurking outside - something big - and if she
wants to make it out alive, this frightened girl
will have to unleash a monster of her own.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: No Sincerer Love, The Hunt,
Here There Be Monsters, Hard Rubbish
KAPOWERFUL SHORT FILMS! 15BEST OF AUSTRALIAN CONTINUED
BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 5 WALLSPACE
MONDAY 15 JAN 8:45PM Australia / 6 min / 2018
DURATION: 116 MIN WRI/DIR: Mohini Herse
PROD: Sleena Wilson
Perenna is haunted by a scratching noise
SAMMY THE SALMON coming from her wall.
Australia / 7min / 2018 WORLD PREMIERE
WRI/DIR/PROD: Jake Shannon
PROD: Chris Luscri POST MORTEM MARY
Spencer, a closeted homosexual, is offered help Australia / 10min / 2017
from a talking salmon to get his love life back WRI/DIR: Joshua Long
on track. PROD: Daniel Schultz, Ben Nott
WORLD PREMIERE Mary and her mother run a post-mortem
photography business in 1840’s Australia. They
HOME arrive to a small farmhouse to find devastated
Australia / 16min / 2018 parents grieving over the death of their
WRI/DIR: Peter Gurbiel daughter but as they get to work Mary’s mother
PROD: Iris Tascon, Jess Black, Peter Gurbiel is required to comfort the grieving parent,
Tormented by the news that they bear, two men leaving Mary alone to confronts her phobia
from town watch over a family whose lives are she must do all she can to make the dead look
about to change forever. alive…
WORLD PREMIERE NSW PREMIERE
TANGLES AND KNOTS MUTT
Australia / 16 min / 2017 Australia / 17min / 2018
WRI/DIR: Renée Marie Petropoulos WRI/DIR: Sara West
PROD: Janet Brown, Yingna Lu PROD: Jordan Cowan, Jodie Kirkbride
A intimate bond between mother and daughter In the desolate landscape of the South
becomes threatened when the mother helps Australian river land a young girl struggles
her teenage daughter throw a house party to to find meaning in the wake of her mothers
impress new, more popular friends. chosen death by helping others to do the same.
NSW PREMIERE
SWALLOWS
Australia / 17min / 2018 SAD SACHS
DIR: Victoria Thompson Australia / 10 min / 2018
PROD: Linus Gibson WRI/DIR: Joel Perlgut
Set in Australia’s frontier past, a young PROD: Sarah Christie, Sleena Wilson
Indigenous boy begins work on an isolated 7KH6DFKVVLEOLQJVDUHUXQQLQJODWHWRWKHLUFRXVLQ¶V
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LIL BOIS
Australia / 17min / 2018
WRI/DIR: Grant Thompson
PROD: Courtney Collins
After swimming with his friends in a billabong,
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Lil Bois, Post Mortem
a nervous little boy returns to his camp and
Mary, Swallows, Mutt
discovers everything has changed.
NSW PREMIERE
16BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 6 UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY
TUESDAY 15 JAN 8:45PM Australia / 20 min / 2018
DURATION: 113 MIN WRI/DIR: Tyson Mowarin
PROD: Robyn Marais
Uncle inflicts an impromptu visit to country on
THE SNIP his wayward nephews, imposing two cultural
Australia / 16min / 2018 traditions, one highly literary and the other
WRI: Chas Fisher deeply personal, to get them thinking about a
DIR/PROD: Ben Mizzi new way to go.
The Snip gets to the meat and potatoes of family
pressure to have kids, and one man’s unique MONSTERS
solution to overcome the problem once and for Australia / 7min / 2018
all. WRI/DIR: Sophie Hawkshaw
WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Rebekah Hawkey
On the night of his wife’s funeral, Alex attempts
BIRDIE to put his son Jamie to sleep. Grief has a way
Australia / 8min / 2018 of lurking, like a monster under the bed.
WRI/DIR: Shelly Lauman WORLD PREMIERE
PROD: Lizzie Cater
On a bright, ordinary day a woman walks alone FINAL RESTING POSE
to the train station. As she descends the stairs Australia / 4min / 2018
to the underground platform she smiles at a WRI: Gemma Yates-Round
young man. He smiles back. With the smallest DIR: Alyson Standen
of gestures, the woman is caught in a subtle PROD: Lauren Jessie Jones, Gemma Yates-
and sinister game. Round
NSW PREMIERE After the loss of her partner, a young woman
uniquely navigates her way through grief, within
BLOOD ORANGE the confines of her small flat.
Australia / 15min / 2018 WORLD PREMIERE
WRI/DIR: M.P. Wills
PROD: Sharath Ravishankar THE PROJECTIONIST
A blind man tormented by the mysterious Australia / 18min / 2018
disappearance of his dog is one day visited by WRI/DIR/PROD: Marcus McKenzie
a sadistic childhood friend, igniting a disturbing PROD: Kirsty Stark, Daniel Principe
journey of self discovery. Jack is an elderly widower grieving the recent
WORLD PREMIERE loss of his wife. While cleaning out their house
he discovers an old Super 8mm film projector
BODIES that transports him into the world of the films
Australia / 15min / 2017 it plays.
WRI: Laura Nagy, Daniel Monks WORLD PREMIERE
DIR: Laura Nagy
PROD: Yingna Lu SHERBERT ROZENCRANTZ, YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL
A toxic friendship between two teenage girls is Australia / 10min / 2018
brought to breaking point as they compete for WRI/DIR: Natalie van den Dungen
the attention of their gym class teacher. PROD: Nicole Coventry
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Milly’s world revolves around her pet guinea
pig. When her mother attempts to engineer FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Bodies, Birdie,
for her a ‘real’ friend, it results in ridicule and The Projectionist, Blood Orange
forces Milly to question her sense of self.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
KAPOWERFUL SHORT FILMS! 17BEST OF AUSTRALIAN CONTINUED
BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 7 JUDAS COLLAR
WEDNESDAY 16 JAN 8:45PM Australia / 15min / 2018
DURATION: 111 MIN WRI/DIR: Alison James
PROD: Brooke Silcox
In outback Australia, a wild female camel is
THE LOST SOUND
captured and fitted with a tracking device
Australia / 2min / 2018 known as a Judas Collar based on a real-life
WRI: Hiromi It
practice, Judas Collar explores the importance
DIR/PROD: Steffie Yee
of connection and the tragedy of self-sacrifice.
Inspired by the poem ‘On Ç’ by Hiromi It ,a
woman looks at the matrilineal inheritance PINCHPOT
of linguistic tones in her family, mourning the Australia / 4min / 2018
parts of languages that become extinct through WRI/DIR/PROD: Greg Holfeld
semantic evolution. A short story about art and work, giving and
receiving, life and death, and things made from
I F*CKED A MERMAID AND
lumps of clay.
NO ONE BELIEVES ME AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Australia / 15min / 2018
WRI: Joel Perlgut SHAKESPEARE IN TOKYO
DIR: Madeleine Gottlieb Australia / 20min / 2018
PROD: Cyna Strachan, Liam Heyen WRI/DIR: Genevieve Clay-Smith
Gilligan is 15. He’s into epistolary novels and PROD: Seigo Tono, Henry Smith, Tetsuya
psychoanalysis. His Mum has died, and in Bessho
an effort to connect with a son he doesn’t A man with Down syndrome embarks on a solo
understand, his Dad has taken him on a adventure to discover Tokyo.
crummy beachside holiday. NSW PREMIERE
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TROLL BRIDGE
A CIVILIZED LIFE Australia / 25min / 2018
Australia / 15min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Daniel Knight
WRI: Victoria Keon-Cohen, Daniel Jay Sheiman PROD: Ahren Morris
DIR: Victoria Keon-Cohen An old barbarian and his talking horse, embark
PROD: Victoria Keon-Cohen, Lawrence Bender, on a suicidal quest to battle a bridge troll.
Dean Winters, Andrea Harrison WORLD PREMIERE
In 1870 during a drought in the old west, two
girls who have been bought by miners as wives,
pursue their independence as survival endures
over morality.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
KHANA KHAZANA
Australia / 15min / 2017
DIR: Arka Das
PROD: Nicholas Mutton
A migrant worker discovers the dark side of
immigrant labour as his boss starts to control
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Judas Collar, Pinchpot, his destiny.
Shakespeare in Tokyo, Troll Bridge AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
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BEST 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 BARBARA
TUESDAY 15 JAN 4:30PM Australia / 5min / 2017
TOTAL DURATION: 112 MIN WRI/DIR: Larissa Behrendt
PROD: Kiki Dillon , Michaela Perske
Noongar woman Barbara was caring for her
THROUGH THE WINDOW grandchildren when her daughter Tiara was
Australia / 4min / 2018 taken by welfare workers and relocated.
WRI: Nick Baker Barbara, with the help of other Grandmothers,
DIR/PROD: Cecilia Rumore, Tristan Klein, Nick Baker fought for the next seven months to have Tiara
Through the Window is an animation inspired by returned…
Nas Campanella, a 29-year-old Triple J newsreader AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
who has been blind since six months of age.
WORLD PREMIERE HAMAMA & CALUNA
Switzerland / 23min / 2018
PRISONER OF SOCIETY WRI/DIR: Andreas Anuuk Muggli
Georgia / 15min / 2018 PROD: Edith Flückiger
DIR: Rati Tsiteladze The two young friends Hamama and Caluna
An intimate journey into the world and mind of have left everything behind to flee their home
a young transgender woman, locked away from country and ended up stranded in a camp in
the outside world for the past decade, trapped northern Italy. One day, they decide to cross the
between her personal desire for freedom and closed border into Switzerland over the Alps.
traditional expectations of her parents that AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
threaten their unity.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE HULA GIRL
United States / 10 min 20 sec / 2018
JUCK [THRUST] DIR: Riess Hill
Sweden / 17min / 2018 Hula Girl is the untold story behind one of the
DIR: Olivia Kastebring, Julia Gumpert, Ulrika biggest fads in modern American history. At
Bandeira 94 years of age, Joan Anderson has waited 60
PROD: Dea Saracevic years to prove that “a gentleman’s handshake ”
This groundbreaking group of dancers push the was hardly a deal and it’s time to set the record
boundaries for how we are used to seeing the straight.
female body. They provoke, inspire and break
norms. The film poses the question: what is
femininity?
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
THE DARKROOM
Australia / 10min / 2018
WRI: David Boon
DIR/PROD: David Boon, Simeon Pratt
A photographer wrestles with raw emotions and
a void in his life after his brother passes away
violently, while on a life affirming journey across
Iceland and Australia.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Barbara, Juck,
THE UNCONDITIONAL
The Unconditional, Hula Girl
United States / 30 min / 2017
WRI: Matt Cascella
DIR: Dave Adams
An unflinching look into the lives of two
undiagnosed special needs kids and their parents
as they grow older with no answers in sight.
WORLD PREMIERE
20BEST OF DOCUMENTARY 2 GUAXUMA
TUESDAY 15 JAN 6:30PM Brazil / 14min / 2018
TOTAL DURATION: 120 MIN WRI/DIR: Nara Normande
PROD: Damien Megherbi, Justin Pechberty,
Livia de Melo
EDEK Tayra and I grew up on a beach in the north
United Kingdom / 6min / 2018 east of Brazil. We were inseparable. The sea
WRI/DIR: Malcolm Green breeze brings me back happy memories.
PROD: Marc Cave, Sara Huxley AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
An 85 year old Holocaust survivor named
Janine and a young American rapper named DUST DEVIL
Kapoo collaborate to deliver a Hip Hop message Australia / 9min / 2018
to the youth of the world. A poignant and DIR/PROD: Poppy Walker
uniquely challenging fusion of prose, music In Death Valley’s ghost town, a dancer brings
and rap. For the first time, one of the world’s her gilded dream to life.
darkest stories is told in an entirely new way. WORLD PREMIERE
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
KYOKO
CIRCLE Spain / 20min / 2018
United Kingdom, Canada, India / 14min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Marcos Cabotá, Joan Bover
WRI/DIR/PROD: Jayisha Patel PROD: Joan Bover, Nacho Tejedor, Carmelo
Present-day India. Three men sit at the edge Sirera
of a field smoking. A woman is crouched in On April 23, 1971, Mallorca witnessed an
the field working. Another is cleaning the floor extraordinary event: the arrest of John Lennon
in the house. Two young women are shucking and Yoko Ono. The reason was the kidnapping
peas. One of them tells her sister about of a girl named Kyoko..
her rape and who she blames. It’s her own AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
grandmother’s fault. The fire blazes away out
in the field. THIS IS YARRA
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Australia / 15min / 2018
DIR: Lydia Rui
THE AMBASSADOR’S WIFE PROD: Lydia Rui, Nima Sobhani, Bonnie Moir
Sweden / 20min / 2018 For nearly 15 years, basketball has played
WRI/DIR/PROD: Theresa Traore Dahlberg a central role in bringing together the South
We find ourselves in an extravagant garden Sudanese community in Australia. ‘THIS IS
in Ouagadougou. The French Ambassador’s YARRA’ follows the story of Riyadh Aden and
wife dreamt about becoming a famous opera Deng Dut of the Yarra Wild Beasts as they
singer. Instead, she is now using the singing as prepare for the South Sudanese Australian
a ventilator to survive her seemingly privileged National Basketball Association Tournament,
life surrounded by workers. This film raises with the hope of taking home their first trophy
questions about power structures, class, for the junior team
intersectionality, post colonialism and feminism AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
in a poetic, subtle and seductive way.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE CHASING MONSTERS
Australia/ 5min /2018
THE BARBER SHOP DIR: Krystle Wright, Toby Pike
France / 17 min / 2017 PROD: Canon Australia FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: The Barbar Shop, This is
WRI/DIR: Emilien Cancet, Gustavo Almenara For the past 20 years, Australian photographer Yarra, The Ambassador's Wife, Guaxuma
PROD: Luc Camilli Nick Moir has been chasing weather systems
Surrendered to razors and scissors, Emran, throughout the world. Nick journeys through the
Gadisa and Maher are having their hair cut famous Tornado alley that stretches through the
or beard trimmed. Sitting before the mirror, American midwest that produces catastrophic
their thoughts drift between memories of the yet beautiful storms that earn the appropriate
land and the tragic events of the journey that nickname, monsters on the plains.
brought them here, to the Calais Jungle.. (Screening Out Of Competition)
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
KAPOWERFUL SHORT FILMS! 21EU :/69;-034SHOWCASE
A selection of moving and entertaining shorts from the European Union that captures the diversity and
cinematic excellence of Europe.
EU :/69;-034SHOWCASE 1 A TARGET
THURSDAY 17 JAN 6:30PM Finland / 8min / 2018
WRI/DIR: Antti Heikki Pesonen
DURATION: 102 MINS
PROD: Miia Haavisto
Arto is waiting for his wife and child in his car.
BETWEEN THE SHADOWS As they return from the store they tell him that
Portugal / 13min / 2018 an unknown man harassed them. Arto decides
WRI/DIR: Mónica Santos, Alice Guimarães to take the law into his own hands and plans to
PROD: Nuno Amorim, Vanessa Ventura, Jean- make a video to shame the man on social media.
François Le Corre, Mathieu Courtois, Pedro AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Medeiros
Natália, trapped in a tedious job, engages THE MANDARIN TREE
in a search for a stolen heart. In a world Germany / 18min / 2017
where hearts can be deposited in a bank, the WRI: Cengiz Akaygün, Duc-Thi Bui
protagonist faces a dilemma: give her heart or DIR: Cengiz Akaygün
keep it to herself. PROD: Philipp Lutz
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE After her father is arrested for political reasons
by the Turkish government, little Sirin is finally
A SIEGE allowed to visit him in prison for the first time.
Hungary / 23min / 2018 When a prison official interprets her painting of a
WRI: Kálmán Gasztonyi bird as an anarchistic symbol and confiscates it,
DIR: István Kovács the girl is devastated, but her father encourages
PROD: Mónika Mécs, Nóra Alföldi, Tamás her to believe in the freedom of thought.
Hutlassa, Barnabás Hutlassa, Gábor Osváth AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
1994, Sarajevo. No water, no electricity nor
food in the town under siege. Tea Mikic, THE BOX
despite the horrible war conditions, manages Slovenia / 12min / 2017
to keep her positivity. She lost her husband WRI/DIR/PROD: Dušan Kastelic
during the war and is completely self- You have probably heard of the phrase “To
sufficient. She is getting ready for something in think outside of the box”? Well, this is a story
the morning, so she decides to wash her hair about such a box. The box is full of miserable
even though all her backup supplies are gone. creatures. One of those creatures doesn’t belong
She starts her desperate journey to look for there. He’s thinking outside of the box…
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THE ATLAS
Poland / 28min / 2018
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PROD: Ewa Jastrzębska
A remote, and a bit crazy, psychiatric hospital
receives a curious patient — he doesn’t move
nor speak but spends his days standing with
his hands up. The only thing known is his
nickname — “The Atlas”. In a word, he is a
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: A Siege, The Box, riddle and a riveting one at that.
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WRI: Stephane Landowski
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PROD: Boris Mendza
UNTRAVEL Emma is about to be the new Ballerina at Paris
Serbia, Slovakia / 9min / 2018 Opera. But something upsets her. A secret. A
WRI: Ana Nedeljkovic secret liable to undermine what she has spent
DIR: Ana Nedeljkovic, Nikola Majdak Jr. a whole life on.
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country, enclosed by a huge wall. She has Belgium / 19min / 2017
never travelled anywhere, but all her life she :5,',5 1LFRODV.HSSHQV0DWWKLDV3KOLSV
has dreamt of leaving forever for a perfect 352' %UHFKWYDQ(OVODQGH%HUW/HVDIIHU
world called “Abroad”. Going on a safari is a dream for many. For
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into a horribly real adventure when they get left
THE AMBASSADOR’S WIFE behind in the wilderness.
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in Ouagadougou. The French Ambassador’s Italy / 15min / 2018
wife dreamt about becoming a famous opera WRI: Andrea Brusa, Giuseppe Isoni, Marco
singer. Instead, she is now using the singing as Scotuzzi
a ventilator to survive her seemingly privileged DIR: Andrea Brusa, Marco Scotuzzi
life surrounded by workers. This film raises PROD: Andrea Italia
questions about power structures, class, An Afgani refugee arrives in Italy with his goat
intersectionality, post colonialism and feminism and seeks political asylum for both of them.
in a poetic, subtle and seductive way. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
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WRI/DIR/PROD: Marcus McKenzie PROD: Christian Pfohl
PROD: Kirsty Stark It’s time for the villagers to start their journey.
When two CCTV technicians find out about an They cross the perilous water in nutshells, with
AI machine threatening their jobs, they must get their loved ones to their final destination...
out of their chairs to beat the system - leading where the blue sky and the blue ocean meet up.
them to an unexpected solution. The new short When do we leave the world of the living?
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Tim, putting the final touches on his ‘Vol 7 - Songs
for and about Em’ CD mix (his annual anniversary
SAMMY THE SALMON gift to the love of his life), joyfully discovers a letter
Australia / 7min / 2018 from Emma’s gynaecologist. It can only mean the
WRI/DIR: Jake Shannon good news that she is pregnant - something they
Spencer, a closeted homosexual, is offered have been trying to do for a long time. Playful
help from a talking salmon to get his love life banter quickly descends into harsh accusations
back on track. as they dance around each other, searching
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Tim comes upon a mother and son and in their
EDITH & HENRY interaction, realises what Emma had really done.
France / 14min / 2018 What appeared to be betrayal was, in truth, the
WRI/DIR: Clémence Lebatteux highest love and greatest sacrifice.
PROD: Arhtur Goisset, Bastien Daret, Robin Robles
After 50 years of marriage, Edith discovers that GOOD HANDS GOOD FEET
Henry consults porn websites on the computer Taiwan / 13min / 2018
they just bought. She decides to lock herself WRI/DIR: Marshall Law
in her room but her husband is watching her PROD: Ocean Wang
through the keyhole… A naughty game is Ex-lovers reunite, they must work together to
about to start between them. seize the opportunity that will allow them to
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Australia / 9min / 2017 JUST TELL HIM HOW YOU FEEL
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WRI/PROD: Kate Ingram WRI: Melissa Brownlow
Alli and Nathan are totally and completely DIR/PROD: Joshua Calder
addicted to sex. That is until they are asked to $\RXQJZRPDQEDUHVKHUKHDUWLQDSDLQIXOO\
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