academy® Qualifying CELEBRATING 30 YEARS and BAFTA- recognised

GREAT SHORT FILM NEVER DIES

30th international film festival 2021

22 – 31 JANuary • flickerfest.com.au academy® Qualifying and BAFTA- recognised PROGRAM AND SESSION TIMES DAY 10.00AM 1.30PM 4.00PM 6.30PM 9.00PM

FRI 22 Festival Opening Highlights & Party 8.00PM for 8.30PM start

SAT 23 Best of International 1 Best of Australian 1 Best of Australian 2 Best of Australian 3

SUN 24 Best of International 2 Best of Documentary 1 Best of Documentary 2 Best of Australian 4

MON 25 Best of International 3 Best of Australian 5

TUE 26 Best of Indigenous Best of Australian 6

WED 27 Best of International 4 Best of Australian 7

THU 28 Best of International 5 Love Bites 1

FRI 29 FlickerLab (10am - 5pm) Love Bites 2 Short Laughs Comedy 1

FlickerUp School Shorts FlickerKids (ages 6-12) Rainbow Shorts Short Laughs Comedy 2 SAT 30 Competition Final

SUN 31 Closing Night Awards, Winning Highlights & After Party 7.00PM for 7.30PM

FESTIVAL INFORMATION SPECIAL EVENTS

WELCOME TO THE 30TH FLiCKERFEST! OPENING NIGHT FRIDAY 22 JANUARY HIGHLIGHTS SCREENING 8.00pm for 8.30pm start We are thrilled to have reached a AFTER PARTY 10.30pm- late including music, food and entertainment landmark of 3 decades sharing the best of the world’s and ’ short films CLOSING NIGHT SUNDAY 31 JANUARY with you. This year I hope our Covid safe AWARDS AND SCREENING 7:00pm for 7:30pm start Flickerfest event can bring us closer AFTER PARTY 10.30pm – late together, celebrating cinema on the big Celebrate the end of the festival at the Closing Night and Awards Ceremony. A selection of the screen at a time when we have never festival’s award-winning films will be screened, followed by music and drinks at the Flickerfest been so physically far apart. See you for Garden Bar. 200 +of the most innovative, provocative and wildly entertaining short films the FLiCKERLAB FRIDAY 29 JANUARY 10.00AM TO 5.00PM A one-day journey from shorts to features. world has to offer at Australia’s leading Academy® Qualifying and BAFTA TICKETS ON SALE AT FLiCKERFEST.COM.AU recognised short film festival in January. Flickerfest is an all weather event. BRONWYN KIDD Flickerfest Director For more information on our Covid Safe Plan please visit Flickerfest.com au 1 THANK YOU SPECIAL EVENT OPENING NIGHT

MAJOR GOVERNMENT PARTNER MAJOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT MAJOR PARTNERS FRIDAY 22nd JANUARY 2021 PARTNER 8.00PM FOR 8.30PM All the glitter of the stars of the screen, under a starry sky… Join us for a selection of Flickerfest’s juiciest highlights – an introduction to the incredible cinema to come in our 2021 season. After the films we party in our bespoke Festival Garden and Bar on fabulous Bondi Beach, and raise our glasses to 30 years of the best short films from across the globe!

OPENING NIGHT SCREENING TICKET SCREENING & WELCOME INCLUDES A DRINK ON ARRIVAL AND SCREENING 8.00PM FOR 8.30PM START OPENING NIGHT SCREENING AND PARTY INCLUDES A CATERED PARTY AFTER PARTY SUPPORTING PARTNERS BEVERAGE PARTNERS AND ENTERTAINMENT AT THE FLICKERFEST GARDEN BAR 10.30PM – LATE

OPENING NIGHT HIGHLIGHTS FRIDAY 22ND JAN 8:00 PM DURATION: 89 MINS

ROBOROVSKI THE MOOGAI Australia | 15mins | 2020 Australia | 15mins | 2020 DIR: Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Dev Patel WRI/DIR: Jon Bell WRI: Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Dev Patel, John Collee PROD: Samantha Jennings, Kristina Ceyton, PROD: Jomon Tomas, Tilda Cobham-Harvey, Taylor Goddard, Mitchell Stanley Dev Patel An Aboriginal psychological horror, THE Roborovski follows an eponymous thimble sized MOOGAI is the story of a family terrorised hamster who spends his days in Marvin’s Pet by a child-stealing spirit. AWARD PARTNERS OFFICIAL TECHNICAL PARTNERS Shop, hoping to find a family. However, when NSW PREMIERE he is constantly overlooked by the people and animals around him, his seething resentment FRANKIE JEAN & THE MORNING STAR and intense jealousy soon takes hold and the | 17mins | 2020 murderous side of little Roborovski is released. DIR/WRI: Hannah Marshall NSW PREMIERE PROD: Tara Riddell, Gareth Williams In the early hours of the morning, a plucky, DAVID rugby obsessed 8 year old girl stumbles | 12mins | 2020 across a teenager about to end his life. DIR: Zachary Woods AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI: Brandon Gardner, Zachary Woods PROD: Zachary Woods, Kevin Chinoy, Francesca THE AFFECTED MEDIA PARTNERS FESTIVAL SUPPORTERS AND Silvestri, Andrew Porter Norway | 13mins | 2020 TRAILER SPONSORS A severely depressed man reaches out for an DIR: Rikke Gregersen emergency therapy session. He’s not the only WRI: Trond Arntzen, Rikke Gregersen Trackdown one who needs help. Starring Will Ferrell. PROD: Stine Blichfeldt Spectrum Films AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Passengers and crew on a commercial flight The Solid State question their ethics when an attempt to stop Brewcasa Creative FURLOUGH a deportation occurs on their flight minutes Panavision Australia | 17mins | 2020 before take-off. Nicolle Churi Creative WRI/DIR: Phoebe Tonkin AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Chicken & Chips Casting Dendy Cinemas PROD: Jessica Carrera Palace Cinemas FURLOUGH follows a day-in-the-life of two sisters, 16 and 17, who embark on an adventure tiptoeing the line between freedom FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Furlough, The Moogai, and responsibility. What appears to be a Roborovski OFFICIAL TOUR PARTNERS PREFERRED ACCOMMODATION PARTNERS dangerous game of living on the edge is really about making the most of the fleeting, precious moments we have here on this earth. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

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Five sessions of the best International short films in competition. Be uplifted, inspired and moved by the next generation of the world’s most talented filmmakers - Academy ® Qualifying and BAFTA recognised.

BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 1 O BLACK HOLE! BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 2 LOVENA SATURDAY 23RD JAN 1.30 PM | 16mins | 2020 SUNDAY 24TH JAN 1.30 PM French Guiana | 28mins | 2020 DURATION: 105 MINS DIR: Renee Zhan DURATION: 101 MINS DIR/WRI: Oliver Sagne WRI: Vanessa Rose, Renee Zhan PROD: Marc Barrat PROD: Jesse Romain Lovena becomes French Guiana’s chess FOREST FLOOR A woman who can’t stand the passing of time CRISS CROSS champion. An opportunity and a burden for an United Kingdom | 5mins | 2019 turns herself into a black hole. A thousand | 7mins | 2020 illegal Haitian immigrant teenager. WRI/DIR/PROD: Robbie Synge unchanging years pass until one day, the DIR/WRI: Caroline Hamann, Fritz Penzlin AUSTRALIAN PREMIRE Shot in Abernethy Forest in The Cairngorms, Singularity wakes inside her. PROD: Caroline Hamann “Forest Floor” considers different bodies and AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A film about love and borders, which is stronger? FRANKIE JEAN & THE MORNING STAR physical access challenges in a rural location. An unfortunate chain of events motivates a New Zealand | 17mins | 2020 Close friends Julie and Robbie sit quietly FLECK couple in love to try and defy the obstacles DIR/WRI: Hannah Marshall together on the ground, a simple idea requiring USA | 15mins | 2019 between them. Can they be overcome? Or might PROD: Tara Riddell, Gareth Williams a novel approach. DIR/WRI: Jing Ai Ng digging underneath be a better solution? And just In the early hours of the morning, a plucky, AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Miguel Lozano, John J Lozada when you think it’s getting easier, bureaucracy rugby obsessed 8 year old girl stumbles across An Asian-American teenager at a traditional and the past get in the way! a teenager about to end his life. DAVID prep school is desperate to fit in with the AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE United States | 12mins | 2020 school’s elite. She is forced to choose between DIR: Zachary Woods her morality or fitting in. HEAVEN REACHES DOWN TO EARTH WRI: Brandon Gardner, Zachary Woods AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE South Africa | 10mins | 2020 PROD: Zachary Woods, Kevin Chinoy, Francesca DIR/WRI: Tebogo Malebogo Silvestri, Andrew Porter GIRL WITH A THERMAL GUN PROD: Petrus Van Staden A severely depressed man reaches out for an China | 12mins | 2020 After Tau comes to a realisation about their emergency therapy session. He’s not the only WRI/DIR: Rongfei Guo sexuality, it sets in motion a cascade of one who needs help. PROD: Du Yating thoughts and emotions in Tumelo - nothing will AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE During the pandemic, a grocery delivery man ever be the same between them. is busier than ever. He receives orders, fills AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE NO MORE WINGS shopping carts, and delivers packages. As he United Kingdom | 10mins | 2019 grows tired, a feeling of loneliness washes over I WAS STILL THERE WHEN YOU LEFT ME DIR/WRI: Abraham Adeyemi him and he begins to feel defeated—until he Belgium | 23mins | 2019 PROD: Abiola Rufai suddenly finds a thermal gun pressed to his DIR: Marie McCourt Two lifelong friends meet up at their favourite forehead. WRI: Marie McCourt, Abdoulkarim Hamadi fried chicken shop in South London. The meeting WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Mediadiffusion comes at a crucial point in their lives as they While her tower block is burning, a 7-year-old move onto a new path, maybe without wings. VIRAGO girl is consumed by guilt, thinking she started AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Estonia | 15mins | 2019 the fire. DIR/WRI: Kerli Kirch Schneider AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE I AM AFRAID TO FORGET YOUR FACE PROD: Diana Mikita Egypt, , Belgium, Qatar | 15mins | 2020 In Virago village where no man has lived long IN THE DUSK WRI/DIR: Sameh Alaa enough to see his fortieth birthday, Tõnu is China | 18mins | 2020 PROD: Muhammad Taymour, Mark Lotfy about to turn forty. DIR: Zhuolan After being separated for 82 days, Adam travels AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI: Shuang Liang down a rough road to be reunited with the one PROD: Joyce Yueyi Xing, Xue Yan Hu he loves, whatever it takes. EXPERIMENT In The Dusk follows the journey of an elder AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE France | 5mins | 2020 Shaman (Tangar Borkhuu) who loses her only DIR: Zoé Berton-Bojko, Susana Covo Pérez, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Virago, David, Fleck, grandson after curing a dying boy. She is FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Heaven Reaches Down To Guillaume Heussler, Yann Kacprazak, Experiment searching for a foal that the Gods tell her is Earth, Lovena, In the Dusk, Criss Cross Margot Wiriath the rebirth of her grandson. No one, including PROD: Julien Deparis her son, believes in her, but she insists that the When science gets out of hand, the Gods will reply to her call. consequences are disastrous. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

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BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 3 RUN BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 4 HEADING SOUTH MONDAY 25TH JAN 6.30 PM United Kingdom | 13mins | 2020 WEDNESDAY 27TH JAN 6.30 PM China / USA | 12mins | 2020 DURATION: 111 MINS WRI/DIR: Emma Miranda Moore DURATION: 103 MINS DIR/WRI: Yuan Yuan PROD: Sarah Beardsall PROD: Fei Meng, Yuan Yuan Charlie is 12 and trapped inside with a bully. 8 year old girl Chasuna travels from her home NORMAL An unexpected connection with a neighbour BENCH on grassland to visit her father who lives in the France| 11mins | 2020 broadens his world view and disrupts both their United Kingdom | 2mins | 2020 big city. However, during her father’s birthday DIR/WRI: Julie Caty future paths. WRI/DIR: Rich Webber party, Chasuna finds out he has remarried to a PROD: Ron Dyens AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A short film about sharing.... Chinese woman. Chasuna has to learn how to When Dany, a rich heir, who cheats his AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE accept her as part of the family. existential emptiness through hectic THE VISIT AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE consumption of Magic’Powder - a drug with Iran | 14mins | 2019 MY HERO psychedelic and annihilated effects, randomly DIR/WRI/PROD: Azadeh Moussavi United States | 13mins | 2020 THE FABRIC OF YOU meets Karl Marx while he was feeling After six months, Elaheh is finally allowed to visit WRI/DIR: Logan Jackson United Kingdom | 11mins | 2019 withdrawal symptoms, the socialist asks him her husband, who is a political prisoner. PROD: Dante Sims DIR/WRI: Josephine Lohoar Self to destroy capitalism in order to save the AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE As last-minute plans for a babysitter fall apart, PROD: Calum Hart, Reetta Tihinen humankind. Reluctantly, Dany accepts his eight-year-old Brandon is left alone to oversee Unable to show his true identity, Michael, a request and turns into a superhero. But quickly, THE AFFECTED his younger brother Mason. grieving tailor mouse, recounts and reckons he is overwhelmed by his task. Norway | 13mins | 2020 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE with the memories of a past lover. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE DIR: Rikke Gregersen AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI: Trond Arntzen, Rikke Gregersen DANNI THE CHAMPION SWIMMER PROD: Stine Blichfeldt Scotland | 9mins | 2020 MASEL TOV COCKTAIL | 13mins | 2020 Passengers and crew on a commercial flight DIR: Laura Cameron-Lewis Germany | 30mins | 2020 DIR/WRI: : Jonatan question their ethics when an attempt to stop a WRI: Iain Finlay Macleod DIR: Arkadij Khaet, Mickey Paatzsch PROD: Isabella Rodriguez deportation occurs on their flight minutes before PROD: Brenna Hobson WRI: Arkadij Khaet, Marle Kirchhoff There’s a man floating around in an indoor take-off. Young Danni isn’t like the other girls in town. PROD: Ludwig Meck, Lotta Schmelzer, swimming pool. The police order him to get out, AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE She’d rather be watching drag races down at Christine Duttlinger to be arrested, but the man refuses. Swimmer the airport or tearing about behind the wheel of Ingredients: 1 Jew, 12 Germans, 50 ml is a humorous short film about a dramatic her brother’s car, Lynyrd Skynyrd tunes blasting Culture of Remembrance, 30 ml stereotypes, arrest that turns into an anticlimax. on the stereo. Bored of her life on the island 2 teaspoons of patriotism, 1 teaspoon of AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE and stifled by her passive-aggressive parents, , 1 falafel, 5 Stumbling Stones, a dash of she dreams of hitting the road and showing antisemitism. Directions: put all ingredients into BITTU everyone what she can do. a film, bring to boil and shake vigorously. Then United States | 17mins | 2020 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE garnish with Klezmer music. DIR/WRI: Karishma Devi AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Mary Evangelista SEIVA BRUTA A close friendship between two girls is eclipsed | 16mins | 2019 HIS NAME WAS GERRY by an accidental poisoning at school. DIR/WRI/PROD: Gustavo Milan United Kingdom | 12mins | 2020 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Marta, a young Venezuelan mother, is DIR/WRI: Peter Lee Scott immigrating to Brazil when she meets a PROD: Peter Lee Scott, Ben Clark GEORGIA struggling young couple with a baby girl. After a young boy’s best friend dies he gets South Korea | 29mins | 2020 Her ability to breastfeed causes their convinced into creating a Viking funeral for WRI/DIR: Jayil Pak fates to become forever entwined. him by a neighbour. PROD: Boram Kang AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE When the police refuse to investigate their daughters alleged suicide, two computer- FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Bittu, The Visit, Normal, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Danni the Champion, Heading illeterate parents decide to design a protest Run South, My Hero, The Fabric of You banner. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

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BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 5 I’M NOT TELLING YOU ANYTHING, THURSDAY 28TH JAN 6.30 PM JUST SAYIN DURATION: 109 MINS CROATIA, FRANCE | 18mins | 2020 DIR/WRI: Sanja Milardovic/ PROD: Olivier Berlemont, Emilie Dubois, JUST FOR THE RECORD Matej Merlic// Serbia | 7mins | 2019 Zrinka arrives in her hometown for a few days DIR/WRI: Vojin Vasovic to do some location scouting. She stays at her PROD: Senka Radivojevic, Vojin Vasovic mother Tanja’s place. Since Tanja’s behaviour In an abandoned attic, dictaphone robot REC seems strange, Zrinka takes her location desperately tries to befriend a bird before it’s scouting in order to find out what is troubling battery leaks. her. Finally, Tanja’s emotional breakdown brings AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE the two closer together. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE LEARN TO SWIM Germany | 16mins | 2019 ANITA DIR: Gaya von Schwarze India | 18mins | 2020 WRI: Mirko Rachor, Josephine Oleak, WRI/DIR: Sushma Khadepaun Gaya von Schwarze PROD:Ankur Singh GROUNDHOG NIGHT by Emily Dash PROD: Ibrahim-Utku Erdogan, Leonie Schäfer While attending her sister’s wedding in India, Screening at Flickerfest 2021 A Mother sets off through the German province Anita is pushed to question whether her life to look for her son while making unexpected in America is any better than those in her Genevieve Clay-Smith, John Batchelor and Emily Dash in a still from Groundhog Night. discoveries along the way. hometown. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE THE PRESENT THE ART OF LYING Palestine | 24mins | 2020 Belgium | 14mins | 2020 DIR: Farah Nabulsi WRI/DIR: Mathijs F Scheepers WRI: Hind Shoufani, Farah Nabulsi PROD: Hans Everaert PROD: Ossama Bawardi A couple in financial trouble decide to steal On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his their own car to pocket the insurance money, daughter, Yasmine, set out in the West Bank but they have to confront a very dedicated to buy his wife a gift. Between the soldiers, insurance inspector. segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE would it be to go shopping? AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE HEART OF GOLD France | 13mins | 2020 DIR/WRI: Simon Filliot PROD: Jean-François Bigot, Camille Raulo Who wouldn’t give their all for a child? A mother sees an opportunity to escape the hardships of CELEBRATING SHORT FILMS. a life of poverty by selling her organs to a sick, very rich, elderly neighbor. And she hands over MINI GARAGE IS CHARGED UP THIS SUMMER. her own flesh in exchange for gold. Little by little, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: The Present, Learn to Whether you are seeking sun, freedom, adventure, urban vibes or want necessity gives way to a craving for more gold. Swim, Just for the Record, Anita to play your part in sustainable living, there is a MINI for you. Visit MINI AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Garage Sydney today.

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Seven sessions of the best Australian short films in competition. Our homegrown talent battle it out for the prestigious Academy® Qualifying Award for Best Australian Short Film.

BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 2 PAINTING BY NUMBERS BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 1 JOY SATURDAY 23RD JAN 6.30 PM Australia | 4mins | 2020 SATURDAY 23RD JAN 4.00 PM Australia | 15mins | 2020 WRI/DIR: Gabriel Morrison DURATION: 107 MINS WRI/DIR: Radheya Jegatheva DURATION: 98 MINS PROD: Matthew Bunin PROD: Matt Hearn, Jay Jay Jegathesan When a homeless couple’s savings are A child’s encounter with classic masterpieces A MAN AND A CAT (UN HOMME ET UN CHAT) triggers a confronting epiphany. SAVING DAYLIGHT stolen, they’re forced to choose between their relationship or survival as they struggle to reach Australia | 12mins | 2020 WORLD PREMIERE Australia | 11mins | 2020 for a job too good to be true. WRI/DIR: Kevin Spink DIR: Benjamin Balte WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Kevin Spink, Colin Kratzing TORCH SONG WRI: Nate Godard, Ally Burnham A lonely salesman stumbles upon a stray cat Australia | 12mins | 2020 PROD: Nate Gothard and opens the door to his house… and heart. WRI/DIR: Stephen Lance A hotel concierge must change all the clocks in TÂM Australia | 12mins | 2020 NSW PREMIERE PROD: Stephen Lance, Madeleine Allen the hotel before daylight savings begins. WRI/DIR: Noora Niasari An XXY teenager is rejected by his father WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Marta Jelec, Noora Niasari OBJECTS OF MY DISAFFECTION at a suburban burning man ceremony. Australia | 16mins | 2020 NSW PREMIERE SPARK Tâm wakes up in a strange hotel room. As she pieces together the night before, she realizes WRI/DIR/PROD: Sarah-Jane Woulahan Australia | 9mins | 2020 she is not alone. After splitting up with her partner, a young PROM NIGHT DIR: Sophie Hawkshaw NSW PREMIERE mother externalizes her feelings of loss and Australia, UK | 3mins | 2020 WRI: Madeleine Jurd, Tanna Nankivell resentment through the family’s possessions. WRI/DIR/PROD: Lydia Rui PROD:Madeleine Jurd ELLA NSW PREMIERE An experimental exploration of imposter After catching a glimpse of life away from her Australia | 17mins | 2020 syndrome, through a colonised Asian family farm, Jean, an adventurous teen, decides DIR: Madison Novak DON’T FORGET TO GO HOME female gaze. whether to continue coming back or to forge a WRI: Madison Novak, Reggie Grace-Knipe Australia | 12mins | 2020 WORLD PREMIERE new path for herself. PROD: Reggie Grace-Knipe WRI/DIR: Victoria Singh-Thompson WORLD PREMIERE Ella, a teenager who experiences intense PROD: Lottie Aspinhall, Linus Carey Gibson ECDYSIS anxiety, attempts to deliver a speech in class. Two sisters miss their cousin’s wedding to go Australia | 14mins | 2020 HYDE Along the way she reflects on her life and on a drug-fuelled bender. DIR: Roscoe Portelli, William Stanforth Australia | 7mins | 2020 discovers her own way of dealing with the NSW PREMIERE WRI: William Stanforth DIR: Ruby Challenger stress of public speaking. PROD: Roscoe Portelli, William Stanforth, WRI: Erik Magnusson WORLD PREMIERE SYSTEM ERROR William Ewing PROD: Andrew McMartin Australia | 13mins | 2020 In a small rural town, a beaten middle-aged Joan Utterson searches for her AA Sponsee OCCUPIED WRI/DIR: Matt Vesely woman reaches breaking point as her cruel, Haley Jekyll but instead finds herself stalked Australia | 8mins | 2019 PROD: Kirsty Stark con-artist husband attempts to corrupt a rookie by a violent and chaotic monster. WRI/DIR: Ruby Lennon Every day, George works his job at a dingy police officer. WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Ruby Lennon, David Bedelis convenience store, desperately hoping for a AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Occupied unlocks the secrets of the women’s friend - but George is also an immobile robotic JULIA bathroom and explores the hilarity of service unit, and immobile service units do not A PROBLEMATIC GESTURE TOWARD Australia | 8mins | 2020 unexpected friendship. So, cross your legs and have friends. Not yet anyway. AUTEUR THEORY WRI/DIR: James Weir hope to God this line gets moving. NSW PREMIERE Australia | 7mins | 2020 PROD: Erin Friedman WORLD PREMIERE WRI/DIR: James Robert Woods A family arm-wrestling battle and a strange THE STORY OF LEE PING PROD: James Robert Woods, Stephanie Jane Day radio program lead a father and son to Australia | 13mins | 2020 An egomaniacal Auteur has a moment of profound realisations about their place in DIR: Jasmin Tarasin Anagnorisis when he learns about the concept the world. WRI John Collee of Anagnorisis. WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Lucy Maclaren, Jo McNulty-Clark NSW PREMIERE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Spark, Tâm, Joy, Ella Set in the rural backlots of 1920s Australia, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Painting by Numbers, The JEAN “The Story of Lee Ping” is a tale of a young Story of Lee Ping, A Man and a Cat, Ecdysis Australia | 11mins | 2020 Chinese woman, an imprisoned erotic dancer WRI/DIR/PROD: Alisha Hnatjuk who plots her freedom. Lee meets Jack, an A woman’s crumbling relationship bleeds aboriginal farm hand, who changes the way she into her work day. sees herself forever. WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE

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BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 3 WAIYIRRI BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 4 THE FAMILIARS SATURDAY 23RD JAN 9.00 PM Australia | 17mins | 2020 SUNDAY 24TH JAN 9.00 PM Australia | 16mins | 2020 DURATION: 109 MINS DIR: Kiara Milera, Charlotte Rose DURATION: 109 MINS DIR: Millicent Malcom WRI: Kate Bonney WRI: Octavia B. Martin PROD: Jodie Kirkbride PROD: Alexis Talbot-Smith THIS TOWN AIN’T BIG ENOUGH FOR THE Two women - a Missionary’s wife, Mary, ROBOROVSKI When a skeptical teenage girl inherits a BOTH OF US and Ngarrindjeri woman, Lacardi, meet in a Australia | 15mins | 2020 mysterious heirloom, she must decide Australia | 7mins | 2020 changing world, 1860s South Australia; tragedy DIR: Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Dev Patel whether to use it to protect herself from WRI/DIR: D.C. Fairhurst strikes leaving Mary questioning her need WRI: Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Dev Patel, John her destructive Mother. PROD: Lucy Green, D.C. Fairhurst to ‘save souls’ and instead finding solace in Collee NSW PREMIERE Two rival pickpockets clash in an increasingly Lacardi‘s culture and connection to Country. PROD: Jomon Tomas, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, risky game of cat-&-mouse. NSW PREMIERE Dev Patel INFERNO WORLD PREMIERE Roborovski follows an eponymous thimble sized Australia | 15mins | 2020 SPARKLES hamster who spends his days in Marvin’s Pet DIR: Katherine Chediak Putnam THE EXIT PLAN Australia | 13mins | 2020 Shop hoping to find a family. However, when WRI: Katherine Chediak Putnam, Dean Law Australia | 14mins | 2020 DIR: Jacqueline Pelczar he is constantly overlooked by the people and PROD: Brenton Pinsent DIR: Angus Wilkinson WRI: Tina Fielding animals around him, his seething resentment When a family man tears down the remains of WRI: Ella Cook PROD: Cody Greenwood and intense jealousy soon takes hold and the his burned-out childhood home in an attempt PROD: James Buckingham A 30-something-year-old-woman from Down murderous side of little Roborovski is released. to bury his family’s tragic past, he finds himself In an overpopulated future, an elderly Syndrome leaves her past behind, and runs NSW PREMIERE tormented by something sinister uncovered in woman is visited by a young government away from a small country town, heading the demolition. official to ensure she is complying with the towards the city. Along her journey, she makes LIQUID MOONLIGHT WORLD PREMIERE government’s new “Exit Plan” policy, but, when an unlikely friendship with a Drag Queen from Australia | 11mins | 2020 he interrogates her further he soon realizes the Outback, teaching us all not to be afraid to DIR: Hannah Ariotti, Anna McGahan BOUCHE she has her own ‘plan’ for him. celebrate who we are. WRI: Anna McGahan Australia | 11mins | 2020 WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Sam Gain-Emery, Danielle Redford WRI/DIR: Ruixuan Bai An Australian astronaut completing the final PROD: Davy Guangda Zhu, Ruixuan Bai IF I QUIT NOW LOST BOY stages of her training before launching on An aspiring trumpet player dreams to seek Australia | 9mins | 2020 Australia | 12mins | 2020 a mission to the moon, struggles to end her his way. WRI/DIR: Luke Wissell WRI/DIR: Peter Skinner breastfeeding relationship with her baby. WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Sam McSweeny PROD: Susannah Wolff, David Shyegun WORLD PREMIERE Andrew’s decision to quit the residential rehab When a volatile young bartender shows up to THE END, THE BEGINNING program devastates the loyal teenager he’s work with a fresh black eye, he’s challenged by SOULMATE Australia | 15mins | 2020 supposed to be mentoring. his boss to drop his macho persona. Australia | 17mins | 2020 DIR: Archie Chew WORLD PREMIERE NSW PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Nik Kacevski WRI: Samuel Herriman PROD: Christopher Seeto PROD: Alicia Easaw-Mamutil THE MOOGAI WIRUN Set in the near future, a thirteen-year-old girl In the picture-book town of Collector, a young Australia | 15mins | 2020 Australia | 9mins | 2020 plays a deadly game of cat and mouse in a girl and her gang of rogue environmentalists WRI/DIR: Jon Bell DIR: Chad O’Brien world where overpopulation has caused for a are trying to save the planet as the world goes PROD: Samantha Jennings, Kristina Ceyton, WRI: Ebony McGuire, Chad O’Brien desperate law that forces citizens to kill their into lockdown. The main target of the rebellion? Taylor Goddard, Mitchell Stanley PROD: Jemma Douglas designated “Soulmate”. The girl’s very own father. An Aboriginal psychological horror, ‘The Moogai’ A young Indigenous girl must dig deep to own AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE is the story of a family terrorised by a child- her performance of a Shakespearean sonnet for stealing spirit. her high school drama class. HANNAH & THE FRIEND ZONE NSW PREMIERE NSW PREMIERE Australia | 4mins | 2020 FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: The Exit Plan, Sparkles, If I WRI/DIR/PROD: Holly Hargreaves FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Roborovski, The Familiars, Quit Now, Waiyirri THE Recently broken up, Hannah and Bree navigate The End, The Beginning, Inferno Australia | 13mins | 2020 the tricky move to the friend zone. WRI/DIR: Eddie Diamandi WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Katerina Mitropoulos, George Rubanov Svetlana, a recent widow struggles to navigate her husband’s funeral and wake as itspirals out of control. WORLD PREMIERE

12 GREAT SHORT FILM NEVER DIES CELEBRATING 30 YEARS 13 BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 6 PYROCENE BEST OF AUSTRALIAN CONTINUED TUESDAY 26TH JAN 9.00 PM Australia | 7mins | 2020 DURATION: 117 MINS DIR/PROD: Johnny Milner, WRI: Johnny Milner, Dave Dexter Pyrocene responds to the catastrophic THE GODS OF TINY THINGS Australian bushfires of the summer of Australia | 5mins | 2019 2019/2020, imagining the event in retrospect, WRI/DIR/PROD: Deborah Kelly as a catalyst, and force that would bring the The Gods of Tiny Things thinks about threats ending of the world as we know it. BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 5 AN ATHLETE WRESTLING A PYTHON to life; the shift to the right across the world, the WORLD PREMIERE Australia | 17mins | 2019 MONDAY 25TH JAN 9.00 PM tolls of colonialism, climate catastrophe and WRI/DIR: Stephanie Jane Day DURATION: 111 MINS conversely the kaleidoscopic pleasures of life CARMENTIS PROD: James Robert Woods, itself, at all scales, in all its teeming, hectic, Australia | 15mins | 2019 Stephanie Jane Day clamouring fertility. WRI/DIR: Antony Webb Life imitates art when Julien Goethe directs GLEN NSW PREMIERE PROD: Jaclyn Hewer anunhinged version of An Athlete Wrestling Australia | 9mins | 2020 A grief stricken miner finds himself injured A Python. DIR: Jeremy Brull THE REALITY on the desolate planet Carmentis and must NSW PREMIERE WRI: Duncan Ragg, Jessica Marshall, Australia | 12mins | 2020 overcome his personal demons in order to Peter Dabro WRI/DIR: Trevor Clarence survive, but can he get there before the PROD: Duncan Ragg, Katherine Shearer FURLOUGH PROD: Alicia Rashleigh planet freezes? Australia | 17mins | 2020 Deep into his first lockdown, 50-year-old Glen A mild-mannered florist volunteers for a reality NSW PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Phoebe Tonkin is given a second chance at love... but only if show where she must swap jobs with PROD: Jessica Carrera he can summon the courage to come face to a paramedic. THE FLAME FURLOUGH follows a day-in-the-life of two Facebook with the perils of online seduction. WORLD PREMIERE Australia | 12mins | 2020 sisters, 16 and 17, who embark on an WORLD PREMIERE WRI: Nick Waterman, Megan adventure tiptoeing the line between freedom THE HANDYMAN Washington,Dayannah Baker Barlow, and responsibility. What appears to be a THE LISTENING Australia | 15mins | 2020 Tyrese Fernando, Paul Spearim, Connie Taylor, dangerous game of living on the edge, is really Australia | 25mins | 2020 WRI/DIR: Nicholas Clifford Lance Whitton Jr. about making the most of the fleeting, precious DIR: Milena Bennett PROD: Elise Trenorden DIR: Nick Waterman in collaboration with moments we have here on this earth. WRI/PROD: Milena Bennett, Geoffrey Bennett Evelyn attempts to end her life, but is interrupted by Dayannah Baker Barlow, Tyrese Fernando & Freya and Dan move to the country to have AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE the arrival of Jack, a handyman desperate for work. Lance Whitton Jr. their first child; as the pregnancy develops they AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Beyond Empathy lose their grip on reality. Distance and time, IDOL In the Australian Outback, the stories of the past dreams and waking life, the living and the Australia | 19mins | 2019 WIDOWERS are reframed through a series of interwoven dead converge. WRI/DIR: Alex Wu Australia | 12mins | 2019 portraits. The Flame beautifully explores the AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Jiapei Wu WRI/DOR: Julian Tuna powerful and shifting properties of fire and A young Chinese celebrity is caled into an PROD: Sarah Christie wind, bringing the stories of ancestors—and ALBA emergency meeting, after a fan of his WIDOWERS is a meditation on suburban the upheaval that the white fella brought to the Australia | 9mins | 2020 commits suicide. masculinity as two aging men negotiate grief, community—into the present. WRI/DIR: Senie Priti rage and forgiveness without exchanging a word. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Senie Priti, Adrian Ortega, STRAIGHT OUTTA COVID AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Patrick Jennings Australia | 3mins | 2020 SUNBURN WRI/DIR/PROD: Cesar Salmeron The fragile relationship between a father and THE IMMORTAL Australia | 12mins | 2020 daughter is tested when an unexpected call Two kids post Covid lockdown discuss what Australia | 15mins | 2019 DIR: Jaslyn Mairs jeopardises their time together. matters most...to them! WRI/DIR: Carl Firth WRI: Claudia Bailey WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Carl Firth, Guy Edmonds, Augusta Miller PROD: Ben Bauchet, Lev Jutsen A man who fears death discovers the secret In the wake of a tragedy, Charlie takes her IN THE WAKE of immortality, but learns that eventually, best friend Em on a road trip in the hope it will Australia | 12mins | 2020 everything dies - everything except him. help them heal. Along the way they find their WRI/DIR: Stephanie Jaclyn NSW PREMIERE friendship is tested like never before. PROD: Jodie Kirkbride NSW PREMIERE After a devastating car crash involving her thrill- THIS RIVER seeking sister, Alice is left with only her grieving Australia | 13mins | 2020 SMASHED mother and buried memories of the event. WRI/DIR: Naomi Fryer Australia | 14mins | 2020 FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Alba, An Athlete Wrestling FROM TOP TO BOTTOM:The Handyman, Pyrocene, NSW PREMIERE PROD: Naomi Fryer, Katherine Shearer WRI/DIR: Tyson Yates a Python, The Listening, Glen The God of Tiny Things, Sunburn During an Australian 1990’s summer, Jacquie PROD: Kristie Yates celebrates graduating high school with her Faced with the potential of losing their long- friends and family. But when a boy she likes term Queensland share house at an open breaks her trust at a party, it shatters her sense home, two twenty-somethings scheme a of self. haunted plan to keep their home and their WORLD PREMIERE smashed avo breakfasts. WORLD PREMIERE

14 GREAT SHORT FILM NEVER DIES CELEBRATING 30 YEARS 15 BEST OF AUSTRALIAN CONTINUED award winning family grown handmade wine

BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 7 NOWHERE ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY 27TH JAN 9.00 PM Australia | 11mins | 2019 DURATION: 111 MINS WRI/DIR: Robert Linsley PROD: Alexander Jeffery Nowhere, Arkansas, 1863. A confederate THE SWIMMING CHAIR veteran haunted by his past, hunts redemption Australia | 6mins | 2020 in the form of a famous eagle belonging to the DIR: Matthew Taylor Union Army. WRI: Celeste Franklin AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Claudia Shepherd, Sophia O’Rourke Based on a story by Tim Winton, A man ANTECEDENTS describes three generations learning to swim, Australia | 12mins | 2020 what begins with his mother’s lessons in the WRI/DIR: Emma Vickery water, becomes lessons in living life. PROD: Stephanie Davis WORLD PREMIERE A woman battling to move her dementia suffering mother into care, finds herself flickerfest LE MIROIR reluctant to leave. wine sponsor Australia | 17mins | 2020 NSW PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Leila Murton Poole since 2009 PROD: Jara Gonzalez, Leila Murton Poole MOTHER BUNKER Narrated by Michael Caton, Le Miroir is a Australia | 5mins | 2020 dark fairytale about superstition and fateful WRI/DIR/PROD: George Metaxas www.rosnay.com.au circumstances which empower the mute A robot dons a human suit and pants on a drag heroine to find her voice and not be afraid show for an army of robots. to use it. NSW PREMIERE NSW PREMIERE POOLS BALA Australia | 16mins | 2020 Australia | 10mins | 2020 DIR/PROD: Luisa Martiri DIR: Deborah Brown WRI: Alex Philp WRI: Melissa Lee Speyer A young woman takes a road trip to Brisbane PROD: Georgia Noe O’Brien to terminate her pregnancy, alongside her In this poetic short, a former navy officer reluctant Mother. reunites with his cousins to grieve after learning WORLD PREMIERE of his much-loved grandfathers’ death, soon after the break-up of a relationship. A STRANGE SEASON AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Australia | 9mins | 2020 WRI/DIR/PROD: Burak Oguz Saguner CALL HISTORY A marriage that spans over half a century Australia | 10mins | 2020 cracks when the husband gets plagued WRI/DIR: Lillian Paterson by paranoia. PROD: Rachel Argall, Lillian Paterson AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Tormented by the guilt of her new relationship, a young woman reaches out to an old flame LOVESTUCK but when she calls, no one answers. Australia | 15mins | 2020 FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Call History, The Swimming NSW PREMIERE DIR; Benjamin Ryan Chair, Mother Bunker, Antecedents WRI: Matt Lausch PROD: Nicolas Nalbandian As the world goes into lockdown, a budding filmmaker documents a young couple struggling with the decision to become parents. WORLD PREMIERE

16 GREAT SHORT FILM NEVER DIES 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 THE MOUNTAIN & THE MAIDEN BEST OF DOCUMENTARY 2 MAALBEEK SUNDAY 24TH JAN 4.OO PM United States | 19mins | 2020 SUNDAY 24TH JAN 6.30 PM France | 15mins | 2020 DURATION: 104 MINS DIR: Anton von Heiseler, Shmuel Hoffman DURATION: 102 MINS DIR: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis PROD: Margelit Hoffman, Narayan Kaudinya, WRI: Perrine Prost, Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis Sheikh Ayub PROD: Pauline Seigland, Lionel Massol, POSTPARTUM This is the story of a day in the life of Aspiya. A GRAB MY HAND: A LETTER TO MY DAD Maxence Voiseux, Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis Germany | 5mins | 2020 10-year-old girl living with her younger brother, United States | 5mins | 2019 Survivor but amnesiac of the attack at WRI/DIR/PROD: Henriette Rietz older sister and parents in a one-room-shack in DIR: Camrus Johnson, Pedro Piccinini Maalbeek metro station on 22 March 2016 Postpartum describes the chaotic phase New Delhi near Asia’s biggest landfill. WRI/PROD: Camrus Johnson in Brussels, Sabine is looking for the missing in life of a new mother, who seriously thought AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A personal story of grief, those we look up image of an over-mediatised event of which she that parental leave would become a sort of to, and how the interactions we may deem has no memory. sabbatical. WE HAVE ONE HEART insignificant may play a huge part in how we AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | 11mins | 2020 live our lives. DIR/WRI: Katarzyna Warzecha AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE HUNTSVILLE STATION PANT HOOT PROD: Ewa Jastrzębska United States | 14mins | 2020 United States | 21mins | 2020 After his mother dies, Adam comes across 57 DAYS DIR: Jamie Meltzer, Chris Filippone DIR/PROD: Richard Reens some letters his parents exchanged years Spain | 14mins | 2020 Every weekday, inmates are released from A genocide survivor transcends overwhelming ago. This is an opportunity for him to find out DIR/WRI: Mario Lumbreras, Laura Brasero Huntsville State Penitentiary, taking in odds to become a master chimpanzee linguist. ​ more about his father, who he never knew. The PROD: Hernán Zin, Nerea Barros their first moments of freedom with phone AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE juxtaposition of animated drawings and archival Julio Lumbreras was one of the first patients to calls, cigarettes, and quiet reflection at the material takes us back forty years and enables enter an ICU in Spain with Covid-19. Through Greyhound station up the block. GREETINGS FROM MYANMAR us to uncover an extraordinary family secret. the phone messages of his family, we follow his AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Norway | 5mins | 2020 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE 57 days of fighting the coronavirus. DIR: Andreas J. Riiser, Sunniva Sundby AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE KATA PROD: BACON OSL COLD WATER THERAPY | 7mins | 2020 Unsuspecting tourists enjoy a peaceful holiday Australia | 24mins | 2020 MAKING WAVES DIR/PROD: James Latimer in Myanmar’s hotel complexes, lazily walking DIR/PROD: Remy Brand United States | 32mins | 2020 A fantastical and dramatic journey through between swimming pools and sun umbrellas, 3 childhood friends take on the adventure of WRI/DIR/PROD: Laura Zéphirin the mind of 13 year old Mahiro Takano, an while ten kilometers away, members of the a lifetime in the Alaskan Winter searching for Lamya Essemlali is an ocean activist, dedicated unprecedented 6 year in-a-row national ‘Kata’, Rohingya ethnic group are being tortured and uncrowded waves and a sense of relief from to protecting marine turtles from being poached Karate form champion, who comes face to face killed as a result of the largest genocide in Asia their busy lives. in the Indian Ocean and Pilot Whales from with her greatest enemy yet. since the Vietnam War. WORLD PREMIERE being hunted in the North Atlantic. But who AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE is really in danger, the sea life or the humans GIOJA22 facing an empty ocean by 2048? WHITE GOODS / 11mins / 2020 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Australia | 8mins | 2020 WRI/DIR: Stefano De Felici DIR/PROD:Cath Murphy PROD: Caterina Teoldi, Stefano De Felici WHAT WAS IT LIKE WRI: Cath Murphy, Merrilee Moss A new skyscraper stands out against the Australia | 15mins | 2020 White Goods is a short animated documentary sky amidst massive mirrored buildings and DIR: Genevieve Clay-Smith of Merrilee Moss describing her experience of vertical forests, symbols of Milan’s new WRI: Lianne Mackessy, Genevieve Clay-Smith the coerced adoption of her daughter. White skyline. Alone, one man bravely scales the PROD: Genevieve Clay-Smith, Dianna La Grassa Goods is the first of six short animations from building, defying the concrete and glass Eight filmmakers with intellectual disability the series Socially Sanctioned, documenting bastions of new world finance. interview their parents about what it was stories about socially sanctioned abuse at the AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE like when doctors delivered the news of hands of protectors. their diagnosis. FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Cold Water Therapy, WORLD PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Kata, Huntsville Station, Postpartum, Pant Hoot, We Have One Heart Making Waves, Grab my Hand: A Letter to My Dad

18 GREAT SHORT FILM NEVER DIES CELEBRATING 30 YEARS 19 LOVE BITES

A quirky short journey through the joys and pitfalls of modern relationships.

LOVEBITES 1 AQUAPHOBE LOVEBITES 2 STARING CONTEST THURSDAY 28TH JAN 9.00 PM Australia | 15mins | 2020 FRIDAY 29TH JAN 6.30 PM Australia | 11mins | 2020 DURATION 101 MINS WRI/DIR: Melanie Easton DURATION 104 MINS WRI/DIR/PROD: Peter Skinner PROD: Gilbert Kemp Attrill Ex-lovers reunite for tea that spans their A young woman who used to be a cat must entire relationship. MILLENNIAL PRINCE overcome her fear of water in order to save DOG DATE AFTERNOON WORLD PREMIERE United States | 6mins | 2020 her relationship. Australia | 9mins | 2020 WRI/DIR: Julie Fliegenspan NSW PREMIERE WRI/DIR/PROD: Lachlan Ryan HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A PANDEMIC PROD: Olivia Lloyd, Rashaud Michel To date the girl of his dreams, a germaphobe Ireland / 11mins / 2020 After discovering her boyfriend’s Tinder hookup, JUST DELIVERED must win over the most important loved one DIR/PROD: Michael-David McKernan a manatee named Jade and her animal friends United Kingdom | 15mins | 2020 in her life… her dog. But he’ll soon learn that A capsule romance accelerates dramatically attempt to protect her heart. WRI/DIR: Rosie Gaunt-Mathieson man’s best friend can become man’s worst against the backdrop of the pandemic as two AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Amber Howorth, Christina Riggs enemy! filmmakers are forced to move in together after To help fund his education and pay his two weeks of knowing each other. IRRĖPROACHABLE rent Daniel has started a new job as an on REMEMBER WHEN AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE France | 15mins | 2019 demand takeaway rider. With his head down Australia | 10mins | 2019 DIR: Nathan Franck he doesn’t notice the keen eye of Kelly in the WRI/DIR: Molly Moloney SYNTHETIC LOVE WRI: Nathan Franck, Marion Defer local chip shop. PROD: Molly Moloney, Claudia Bailey France | 24mins | 2020 PROD: Dimitri Krassoulia, Igor Auzepy AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Awkward small talk and lost love, Niamh meets WRI/DIR: Sarah Heitz de Chabaneix Samuel and Agnes find themselves stuck in the up with her ex-boyfriend to give his belongings PROD: Tabo Tabo Films, Louison Blaizot, elevator just after the first tried to steal the bag THE TEST back, only to realise some things mean more to Suzanne Colin of the second. Behind closed doors, aggressor Australia | 8mins | 2020 her than they do to him. Diane realises that the man she fantasises and victim confront each other. WRI/DIR: Jessica Smith AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE about shares his life with someone very AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: January Jones, Jessica Smith peculiar. Hoping to take the next big step in their life SINGLE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE CIRCUS PERSON together, two women await the results of a test United States | 14mins | 2020 United States | 17mins | 2020 that could not only put an end to their plans, but WRI/DIR: Ashley Eakin WRI/DIR: Britt Lower perhaps even their relationship. PROD: Connie Sechrist PROD: Alex Knell, Sam Fox, Desiree Staples, AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A film that confronts the complexities of being Alexandre Naufel, Jasmine Dickens disabled and dating. Kim, who was born with Left by her fiancé for another woman, a bereft CONSENT AGREEMENT one arm, gets set-up to go on a blind date. painter (Britt Lower) joins a traveling circus to | 10mins | 2020 When she finally meets Jake, she quickly reclaim her forgotten wildness. Live action and WRI/DIR: Ravi Steve Khajura realizes he also has a physical disability, and animated body paint interweave in this ode to PROD: Colin Glazer she is pissed. healing through radical love. A couple struggle with connectivity issues while AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE using a sexual consent app to hook-up. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE SINKING SHIP GROUNDHOG NIGHT Canada | 13mins | 2020 Australia | 16mins | 2020 DIR: Sasha Leigh Henry DIR: Genevieve Clay-Smith, Rawley Reynolds WRI: Tania Thompson WRI: Emily Dash PROD: Tania Thompson, Megan McCartney PROD: Dianna La Grassa, Tracey Corbin-Matchett A couple’s night out turns into a frank For carer Gary, moving on and keeping his family conversation about the state of their together isn’t always easy. Tensions run high relationship. It’s clear the ship is sinking and it’s when his late wife’s parents arrive unannounced every man for himself. FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Aquaphobe, Groundhog after he brings home a date. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Dog Date Afternoon, How Night, Circus Person, Consent Agreement to Fall in Love in a Pandemic, Sinking Ship, THE MISSING HALF Single Australia | 11mins | 2020 WRI/DIR: Sang Lam PROD: Tony Plicha A man is obsessed with finding his missing half. WORLD PREMIERE

20 GREAT SHORT FILM NEVER DIES CELEBRATING 30 YEARS 21 SHORT LAUGHS COMEDY

Chortle your way through a hilarious off-kilter selection of shorts from across the world.

SHORT LAUGHS COMEDY 1 STICK A FORK IN ME SHORT LAUGHS COMEDY 2 JUMP FRIDAY 29TH JAN 9.00 PM Australia | 11mins | 2020 SATURDAY 30TH JAN 9.00 PM Australia | 7 mins | 2020 DURATION: 104 MINS WRI/DIR: Helen Turton DURATION: 106 MINS DIR: Isaac Brown PROD: Jack Rintoul WRI: Harry Borland Anthony’s dinner party is getting very out of hand. PROD: Jake Speer À LA MODE WORLD PREMIERE BENCH Jump is a darkly comedic story about the France | 9mins | 2020 United Kingdom | 2mins | 2020 importance of human interaction that unfolds in DIR: Jean Lecointre A HOLE WRI/DIR: Rich Webber the most unlikely of places. WRI: Laurence Meoc New Zealand | 12mins | 2019 A short film about sharing.... WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Nicolas Schmerkin WRI/DIR: James Solomon AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE In a kingdom tormented by fashion crazes, a PROD: Lissandra Leite INCIDENT 42 queen and her court must always keep up with A man digs a hole. People watch him do it. TALK RADIO Australia | 8mins | 2020 the new trend. If not, an abominable monster will AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE United Kingdom | 9mins | 2020 DIR: Aaron Tsindos consume them: the Ridicule. WRI/DIR: Ben S. Hyland WRI: Aaron Tsindos, Scott Sheridan AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE THE BIRTH OF VALERIE VENUS PROD: Adam Gregory Smith PROD: Aaron Tsindos, Alex Giles United Kingdom | 15mins | 2020 Pauline and Barry are a seemingly happily A group of young environmental scientists STRAIGHT OUTTA COVID WRI/DIR: Sarah Clift married middle aged couple. That is until Pauline discover a new form of renewable energy, Australia | 3mins | 2020 PROD: Serena Armitage, Pietro Greppi tunes into relationship hour on Talk Radio and but are being hunted down by a mysterious WRI/DIR/PROD: Cesar Salmeron A selfless vicar’s wife is possessed by a strange thinks she recognises the nameless voice that’s stranger trying to get his hands on their Two kids post Covid lock-down discuss what force, unlocking a mischievous (and pleasurable) relaying a lifetime of regrets live on the radio. research. matters most...to them! side she never knew she had. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE VIKTOR ON THE MOON REVOLT | 29mins | 2020 IT’S A BALLOON ASCENDING GRACE Australia | 10mins | 2020 DIR: Christian Arhoff Australia | 3mins | 2019 Ireland | 11mins | 2020 WRI/DIR: David Burrowes WRI: Christian Arhoff, Emil Millang WRI/DIR/PROD: Alex Vivian DIR: Claire Byrne PROD: Joel Hagen, Lucy Rennick, Patrick Cullen PROD: Emily Nicoline Quist When a young boy finds a mysterious WRI: Karen Healy When a disgruntled climate activist bumps into Viktor Leth has never been on a date. When wrapper in the woods, things begin to unravel PROD: Fiona Kinsella the CEO of a massive oil conglomerate in her going on his first date ever, he accidentally sits for his parents. When a plane full of restless passengers wanting to local coffee shop she recognises that this is her down at the wrong table with the slightly older AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE take off from Knock airport, two female pilots with big shot to finally DO something about the end and married Rebekka. She is looking for an very different personalities, struggle to connect. of the world. adventure away from her marriage and finds TOTO AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE Viktor funny. This will be the start of a weird Canada | 13mins | 2020 and wild night for the two of them, where Viktor DIR: Marco Baldonado PAWSEA (OR: THE MELANCHOLY PUGS BEFORE DRUGS learns more about life and love than most WRI: Marco Baldonaldo, Walter Woodman RUMINATIONS OF A SOLITARY FRENCH Australia | 15mins | 2020 people do in one night. Perhaps because he’s PROD: Jeremiah LapointeRosa is the real-life BULLDOG) WRI/DIR: Alex Lowes Viktor Leth. Nonna of filmmaker Marco Baldonado and United Kingdom | 4mins | 2020 PROD: Alex Lowes, Callum Borthwick AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE TOTO is an ode to her traditions. It is a film WRI/DIR/PROD: Tom Gentle, Rupert Clague To impress a childhood rival, scruffy loser Leo about change, language, family and technology. Rocky certainly has a lot on his mind - steals the cremated remains of his Grandma’s THE AFFECTED AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE questioning his purpose and attempting to fortify beloved pet pug, and attempts to sell them off Norway | 13mins | 2020 himself against existential angst as he searches as crystal meth. DIR: Rikke Gregersen BLOODY TRADIES for meaning. WORLD PREMIERE WRI: Trond Arntzen, Rikke Gregersen Australia | 11mins | 2020 WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Stine Blichfeldt DIR: Andy Burkitt GRAB THEM Minutes before take off a situation occurs WRI: Andy Burkitt, Jack Braddy GLEN Sweden | 13mins | 2020 preventing an airplane from leaving. A FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: À La Mode, A Hole, Straight PROD: Lachlan Stevens Australia | 9mins | 2020 WRI/DIR: Morgane Dziula-Petit passenger refuses to sit down in an attempt FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Revolt, Bench, Pugs Before Outta Covid, The Birth of Valerie Venus An Aussie horror comedy about three tradies on DIR: Jeremy Brull PROD: Paul Blomgren DoVan to prevent the deportation of a man inside the Drugs, Viktor on the Moon a reno job in the middle of the Australian Bush. WRI: Duncan Ragg, Jessica Marshall, Peter Dabro 60-year-old Sally is longing for happiness, and plane. The pilot suddenly finds himself in a They are pushed to their limits when they find the PROD: Duncan Ragg, Katherine Shearer love. Lately her searching has been complicated position where he has to take a political stand place is haunted by a demon in the basement. Deep into his first lockdown, 50-year-old Glen by the fact that she resembles the newly-elected he has no interest in taking. WORLD PREMIERE American president. Join Sally in the film Grab AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE presented by is given a second chance at love... but only if he can summon the courage to face the perils of Them, as one man’s crazy tour around the world presented by online seduction.. becomes a lonely woman’s heavy burden to bear. WORLD PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

22 GREAT SHORT FILM NEVER DIES CELEBRATING 30 YEARS 23 SAE FLiCKERUP

The finalist short films in our National School competition for Primary and Secondary school students or filmmakers under eighteen years of age.

SAE FLiCKERUP THE DRESSING ROOM THE VERY LAST MANDARIN TICKET TO THE SKIES SATURDAY 30 JAN 4.00 PM 7 mins / 2020 5 mins / 2020 1 min / 2020 WRI/DIR: Eleanor List WRI/DIR/PROD: Zoe Patch DURATION: 110 MINS WRI/DIR: Karena Darwen PROD: Natalie List What happens to the very last mandarin? PROD: Kylie Agnew A young performer must confront her own fear On a snowy day, a young girl is just trying to get of performing. Will she succeed and walk onto the train home. When her luck decides to turn THE PACKAGE THE CYCLE the stage or give in to her dysphoria? against her, she makes an unlikely friend. 2 mins / 2020 3mins / 2020 WRI/DIR/PROD: Frida and Pearl Walker DIR: Matthew Awad A mysterious package arrives at the door. THE DIET WRI: Andrew Smallbone GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD 7 mins / 2020 An exploration of the repetitious monotony of 9 mins / 2020 modern life, our protagonist finding freedom WRI/DIR/PROD: Beau Ritchie WRI/DIR: Rose Eadie THE GREAT SINGER through the unlikely discovery of an idle bicycle. 3 mins / 2020 A man’s psychological demise as he struggles PROD: Rose Eadie and Stu Eadie WRI/DIR/PROD: Mr Lawrence Sollorz and Class to stick to his diet. A teenage girl, who has to overcome personal 4W – Cabramatta Public School ROUND TO IT obstacles and accept oneself. A young student realises that he is a great MIND OF MY OWN 4 mins / 2020 singer and decides to put on a concert. 4 mins / 2020 WRI/DIR: Grace Mincherton LA TORTA PROD: Steve McLeod WRI/DIR/PROD: Natalie Leroy 3 mins / 2019 Encapsulating the psychological journey WRI/DIR/PROD: Gabrielle Gregoire, Olivia Lawson I WILL BE ME I take the viewer on a journey through my of an Australian farmer, Jack, as his failing 2 min / 2020 A woman who embarks on a delightful journey world. I use animation to distort the everyday relationship with his family is mirrored by WRI/DIR: Claire Davison, Caitlin Jones, Bella to simply give thanks to Mother Earth. and challenge the audience’s conceptualisation tedious farming implications. Parsons of their surroundings. By juxtaposing realistic PROD: Table Cape Primary School aspects with the imaginative, I show the REAWAKENED My name is Phoebe and I enjoy going to the interaction of objects and ideas that are beyond A BLOB’S JOURNEY 2 mins / 2020 beach, reading and painting. I am also deaf. the ordinary. 6 mins / 2020 WRI/DIR/PROD: Alex Songeon-Senzaki Come on a journey with Phoebe into a world WRI/DIR/PROD: Daniel Pommes When all is ruined, life will move on. A hungry little blob is on a mission to catch the with no sound. Developed and created by Grade HERMIONE 5 students at Table Cape Primary School. grape, but life’s challenges keep getting in the 5 mins / 2020 way. CHILDREN OF THE DUST WRI/DIR/PROD: Bella Merlino 3 mins / 2020 THE CANDY RAPPERS Inspired by William Shakespeare’s The DIR: Ryan Dagg, Karina Pancuka 7 mins / 2020 Winter’s Tale, this is the story of Hermione who CHANGING TIDES WRI: Hanna Hong Rizzo, Ryan Dagg, Karina WRI/DIR: Agam lives alone and slowly turns to stone as she 7 mins / 2020 Pancuka. Isabella La Guzza, Lana Mostyn PROD: Eliza Johnson distances herself from the memories of her WRI/DIR: Mia Schirmer A joyful and heartbreaking film about a boy with family and society until events change her. Exploring the culture of female surfers in the PROD: Fabio Caprarelli cancer, his bond with his music therapist, and town of Lennox Head. A girl searches for the father she never met. the uplifting rap group they formed. MATERIAL GIRL 6 mins / 2020 CONNECTION PECULIAR THINGS TO SEE THE CHASE WRI/DIR/PROD: Lillian Dight 2 mins / 2020 3 mins / 2020 4 mins / 2019 In the inner-west of Sydney, the fashionable and WRI/DIR/PROD: Charli Bowers WRI/DIR/PROD: Tiana Jo WRI/DIR/PROD: Riley McIlveen Webb luxurious lifestyle of Sunny Sunshine all starts In the world of technology, youth and evolution A young girl sees colours in a black and white The chase is set in beautiful Megalong Valley. in the Fabric City Fabric Shop. sometimes we forget to put our phone down world, but her parents can’t. It is up to her It is a film about a monkey being chased by and disconnect. power to create a new perspective for them. a boy; from car, to horseback, the boy will try UNRAVELING anything to catch that monkey! 2 mins / 2020 ABILITY THE ANNOUNCEMENT WRI/DIR/PROD: Kate Snashall 5 mins / 2020 6 mins / 2020 FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Listen To Our Elders, The LISTEN TO OUR ELDERS Exploring the emotions in a young relationship WRI/DIR/PROD: James Walker WRI/DIR: Will Jordon FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Ability, Ticket to the Skies, Package, The Chase, Mind Of My Own 3 mins / 2019 through the frame of a single interaction. Chad Graham, a C6 quadriplegic, who at PROD: Daniel Holliday La Torta, Peculiar Things To See 16 took a bad jump while racing motocross WRI/DIR/PROD: Coco & Jet Batu-Sampson Rumours are a plenty, after an announcement and broke his neck tells the story of how he lets a class know that the girl’s toilet block is We have so much to learn from our elders if came to be in a wheelchair and how he found we listen. being closed. Why are they being closed? What wheelchair rugby. could possibly have happened?

24 GREAT SHORT FILM NEVER DIES CELEBRATING 30 YEARS 25 BEST OF INDIGENOUS SHORTS FLiCKERKIDS

In celebration of screening an incredible collection of some of our country’s most talented and creative Indigenous A delightful and entertaining program of shorts for shorties filmmakers over the past 30 years, Flickerfest is thrilled to invite Flickerfest past Juror and alumni Dylan River (Black & families that will appeal to the kid in everyone. Chook, Nulla Nulla, Coat Of Arms, Finding Maawirrangga) to curate this incredible programme of award winning Indigenous shorts that have influenced his own filmmaking practise. BEST OF INDIGENOUS SHORTS JACOB Flickerkids UMBRELLAS TUESDAY 26TH JANUARY 6:30PM Australia | 12mins | 2009 SATURDAY 30TH JANUARY 1:30PM France, Spain | 12mins | 2020 DURATION: 94 MINS WRI/DIR: Dena Curtis DURATION: 85 MINS DIR: José Prats, Álvaro Robles PROD: Darren Dale, Rhea Stephenson WRI: José Prats, Álvaro Robles, Alicia Cánovas, Gina, a young Aboriginal mother finds herself in Jesús López NANA a predicament when her husband Max returns MASTER PAINTER RANKSY PROD: Diana Hentulescu, Keota Dengmanara Australia | 6min | 2007 home and learns the truth about baby Jacob. Germany | 2mins | 2020 In a faraway land where the rain never stops, WRI/DIR: Warwick Thornton WRI: Alice von Gwinner six-year-old Kyna spends her days playing under PROD: Kath Shelper NULLA NULLA DIR/PROD: Uli Seis the protective "umbrella beard" of her father, until Nana’s granddaughter thinks Nana’s pretty Australia | 6min | 2014 On her evening stroll street art rat Ranksy spots she embarks on an adventure of self-discovery to special. She loves her Nana because she WRI/DIR: Dylan River some pigeons who are having the wildest party. face her greatest fear, the Rain. helps the old people, she’s a good painter PROD: Tanith Glynn-Maloney AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE and other people love her too. Nana’s got Fresh out of the academy, White Cop experiences everyone under control. Part of the A Bit of his first taste of Aboriginal community life, as THE WITCH & THE BABY TINA TIMES TWO Black Business series. Black Cop puts him to the test. | 5mins | 2020 Ireland | 15mins | 2020 DIR: Evgenia Golubeva DIR: Bonnie Dempsey MY BED YOUR BED WRI: Evgenia Golubeva, Myles McLeod WRI: Rodney Lee Australia | 17min | 1998 An ageing witch needs a baby for a spell to PROD: David O’Sullivan, Una Shinners WRI/DIR: Erica Glynn make her young again. Tina Times Two is a surreal coming-of-age fable PROD: Penelope McDonald AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE about a lonely girl whose wish comes true when In an isolated desert community, Della and she gains a magical friend. Alvin are promised under the traditional laws CRAIG AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE of marriage. Their time has come. They move Australia | 7mins | 2020 in together. One house, two swags, a guitar... DIR: Chelsea Matheson BEYOND THE LINE no idea. WRI: Timothy Ian McMullin, Phillip Herd, Braden United States, Korea | 3mins | 2020 Bowles, Chelsea Matheson WRI/DIR/PROD: Jinuk Choi GREEN BUSH PROD: Chelsea Matheson, Timothy Ian McMullin A wheelchair dreams of one day being fast like a Australia | 27min | 2004 2020. The world’s living in isolation. For Craig, racing car. WRI/DIR: Warwick Thornton adjusting to the new normal has been sour as AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Kath Shelper lemons. ABBEY AND MOOSE’S DETECTIVE AGENCY Every night, DJ Kenny hosts the ‘Green AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Bush’ show for Aboriginal inmates and their Australia | 8mins | 2020 families. Isolated at the station, he gets many DESERT RACERS WRI/DIR: Angus Woodiwiss PROD: Erika Felton, Serena Siow mysterious visitors. Are they escaping the cold, Australia | 7mins | 2020 Perky young detective Abbey and her puppy hiding, or trying to control the information? WRI: Travis Seppala partner Moose use their combined skills to solve DIR/PROD: Aleksandar Vuksanovic everyday mysteries for their community. PLAINS EMPTY A hodgepodge group of characters compete in WORLD PREMIERE Australia | 26min | 2005 an annual race across the desert. WRI/DIR: Beck Cole NSW PREMIERE DUST CLOUD PROD: Kath Shelper Australia | 9mins | 2020 Sam has recently moved to an isolated mining TWIN TREES WRI/DIR: Trudi Houston town with her man. While he works in a far-off France | 4mins | 2020 PROD: Richard P.Doyle mining site, Sam is forced to spend more time DIR: Emmanuel Ollivier A badly behaved working dog changes his tune alone while the history of the shack she calls A brother and sister walk along, each carrying when he is given the love and respect he home begins to come alive. a tree in a small pot. When they come across deserves from a prudent country woman. FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Nana, Jacob, Nulla Nulla, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Abbey And Moose’s a parrot and a fallen statue, they each have to WORLD PREMIERE My Bed Your Bed choose their own journey. Detective Agency, Tina Times Two, The Witch & AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE TO GERARD The Baby, To Gerard United States | 7mins | 2020 TOBI AND THE TURBOBUS WRI/DIR: Taylor Meacham Germany | 7mins | 2019 PROD: Jeff Hermann WRI/DIR/PROD: Verena Fels A sprightly elderly man brightens the day of a You fly with no seat! That's the rule in the Turbobus. little girl through magic. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

26 GREAT SHORT FILM NEVER DIES CELEBRATING 30 YEARS 27 RAINBOW SHORTS

Flickerfest is celebrating LGBTQI+ stories from around the world in our fourth year of Rainbow Shorts, curated by award winning queer filmmaker Craig Boreham.

RAINBOW SHORTS POMPEII SATURDAY 30TH JANUARY 6:30PM United Kingdom | 8mins | 2019 DURATION: 111 mins DIR: Harry Lighton, Marco Alessi, Matthew Jacobs Morgan WRI: Harry Lighton CWCH DEILEN PROD: Sorcha Bacon United Kingdom | 8mins | 2020 Tam gets on the first tube home alone. In just WRI/DIR: Efa Blosse-mason a crop-top and high-waisted jeans, he feels PROD: Amy Morris conspicuous. So he plugs in his earphones and A Welsh animated short about queer love, fear, begins reliving his Halloween night out via his and a boat made of leaves. phone. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

HOOK UP IT’LL BE OVER SOON Australia | 15mins | 2020 Australia | 11mins | 2020 30 Years of Flickerfest Collection WRI/DIR: Laura Nagy WRI/DIR/PROD: Benjamin Rigby PROD: Sarah Christie, Maren Smith When the pandemic hits, two men are forced Shy Lucy is keen to please her enigmatic best- to evaluate their unexpected long distance friend Alice, but when a double Tinder date relationship. with two older men turns ugly, she must fight WORLD PREMIERE to protect Alice and in the process recognises deeper feelings she has for her. BEAUTY BOYS NSW PREMIERE France | 18mins | 2020 WRI/DIR: Florent Gouelou BOYS PROD: Yukunku Productions Israel | 14mins | 2020 In a small village, Leo, 17 years-old, has a WRI/DIR/PROD: Lior Soroka strong taste for make-up. His big brother, Jules, PS: TASTE HAPPINESS GUILT FREE! 17-year-old Nadav wants to serve in a combat who fears to be laughed at, stands against this unit, even though his mother does not approve. passion. On the night of the open stage, Leo ver wonder the difference locally whenever possible. All PS no added sugar, no GMO, no plastic A surprising encounter with his coach changes shows up in full drag. between natural and certified is delivered in glass for purity and and no preservatives, which are his perspective. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE organic? Research has infinite recyclability. Why would you common in many beverages. And AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE E THE NIGHT TRAIN shown 100% ‘natural’ claims may drink from plastic anyway? That’s not just claiming to be organic – actually be unhealthy, due to high the organic difference for optimum but 100% certified organic. They’re DUSTIN Sweden | 14mins | 2020 sugar content and exposure to wellbeing. Drinking from glass is calling PS the bling beverage with France | 20mins | 2020 WRI/DIR: Jerry Carlsson unsafe poisons in the farming the real refreshing experience, for benefits!! WRI/DIR: Naïla Guiguet PROD: Frida Mårtensson process. Destructive herbicides people and planet! PROD: Jean-Etienne Brat, Lou Chicoteau Oskar is on the night train, heading home and pesticides are widely used in Thank you for choosing PS, based In an abandoned warehouse, a crowd is after an interview in Stockholm. With a long modern agriculture, and even trace Organic is our life passion, on proven science – driven by a love dancing as one on 145 BPM techno music. night ahead of him, he makes eye contact Among them is Dustin, a young transgender, with Ahmad. For the first time he meets the amounts can build up in your body “our team are driven by love of of team and community, to protect and crew. As the night draws on, collective gaze of someone who feels the same desire over time and increase your risk of people, principles and planet - planet and society. disease. Other lists of nasties to hysteria morphs into sweet melancholy, and as he does. far more then profit. euphoria into yearning for tenderness. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE avoid are artificial ingredients and MICHAEL SABA Available at happy and healthy harmful preservatives. ” cafes, deli’s and independent AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PS contains pure and simple PS is the new platinum standard grocers. Remember, if it’s not THE SACRIFICE certified organic ingredients, grown in healthy drinks – no exposure to certified organic, there’s no FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Hook Up, Cwch Deilen, United Kingdom | 5mins | 2020 with love in Australia and sourced farming poisons, nothing artificial, guarantee it’s safe and pure! Beauty Boys, Pompeii WRI/DIR/PROD: Shona Dutta Charlton Shot in one single take, the film follows a 13-year-old Bangla girl from East London escaping a forced marriage with the help of her girlfriend. presented by AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE ACO CERT. NO. 2024

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