29TH INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS

10 –19 JANUARY BONDI PAVILION, BONDI BEACH As Australia’s leading Academy® accredited Affairs And Trade, and Australia now ASEAN short film festival, the shorts in competition at 2019, European Union Delegation to Australia, Flickerfest are fiercely vying for a number of and Screen NSW. prestigious prizes including the Flickerfest Award I would also like to extend an enormous thanks for Best International Short Film, the Yoram to our major government partner Screen Gross Award for Best International Animation, Australia who supports both our festival, and the the Flickerfest Award for Best Australian Short national tour, and who has been a continuous Film, and for Best Documentary. Plus a host of source of encouragement as we strive to deliver other hotly contested prizes, which recognise the our vision of providing a platform that nurtures various craft areas inherent in making a great and supports Australian Filmmakers, and in turn short film. provides Australian audiences with access to 2020 will bring over 23 different short film inspirational storytelling from their own backyard programmes across the 10-day festival and beyond. season. We are proud to announce that BRONWYN KIDD To all our partners who are acknowledged in due to the outstanding home grown talent FESTIVAL DIRECTOR this programme, I am extremely grateful for the and creativity received this year, we will essential and ongoing support they provide. We Welcome to the 29th Flickerfest International be screening 7 Australian competitive thank them enormously for their belief in us, Short Film Festival. As we move forward into programmes in addition to the 5 international which assists us in maintaining Flickerfest as one another film filled and jam packed festival, I am and 2 documentary programmes, which of the best short film competitions in the world. thrilled that Flickerfest continues to be the most make up our Academy qualifying short film influential dedicated short film event on the competitions. Alongside these competitive Behind the scenes, the many talents of the Australian landscape. programmes our youngest filmmakers extremely hardworking Flickerfest team compete in SAE FlickerUp, our national bring Flickerfest to life. My enormous thanks Flickerfest continues its proud tradition of schools and youth competition, an exciting and appreciation must go to Festival Tour/ bringing world-class short films to Bondi Pavilion, peek at the future cinema stars of tomorrow! Production Manager Shane Rennie, Festival celebrating and uncovering the most talented Production and Programme Coordinator Amy filmmakers the world and Australia has to offer. A special spotlight on short films from The Hoogenboom, Filmmaker and Guest Relations ASEAN Region in partnership with DFAT and The Flickerfest team and special selection Coordinator Fabienne Neff, Industry Liaison Australia now ASEAN 2019 sees us celebrating committee watches and reviews near 3,600 Leigh Russell, Marketing Assistant Kyle filmmakers from this region of the world in one entries from across the globe, of which just over Goldfinch, Programme Consultant Lies Bruines, dedicated competition for the first time. 100 will be officially screened in competition Industry Consultant Annie Parnell, Festival and a further 100 in showcase programmes Once again Flickerfest celebrates the long Intern Angelina Temporali and last but not least confirming that Flickerfest continues to attract tradition of European cinema shining a our Director of Projection Alan Butterfield, and the latest in cutting edge shorts from the spotlight on impressive films from the EU projectionist Anthony Yeo. world’s most exciting and innovative emerging through our partnership with The European Short film continues to excite and thrill me year filmmakers for our Academy® Accredited and Union Delegation To Australia. after year, and I still strongly believe shorts are BAFTA recognised shorts competition. FlickerKids promises a delightful programme the perfect vehicle for our latest generation of The uniting force among the shorts to be for the young and young at heart; Love Bites, storytellers to cut their teeth and express the screening at the 2020 Flickerfest Festival is a romp through the quirky world of modern stories at the heart of who we are. Every year I their ability to push the conventions of film relationships is perfect for date night and Short am moved, surprised and inspired by the films and narrative to deliver surprising, exciting Laughs takes you on a hilarious journey from raising the bar for what is considered “the best” and groundbreaking results across animation, the weird to the wonderful. in short film. The imagination and creativity documentary and every genre in between. showcased throughout Flickerfest highlights the We are also thrilled to celebrate amazing role of short film as one at the centrepiece of Once Flickerfest wraps up its 10-day LGBTQI films from around the world for the innovation and creativity in global cinema today. celebration of short film in Bondi, we pack up third year, in our Rainbow Shorts celebration all the highlights from the festival and hit the curated by award winning queer filmmaker I welcome you to experience the best in short road on our 50+ venue national tour. It has Craig Boreham. cinema at Bondi and across Australia this been a joy to see Flickerfest extend its reach as summer, as Flickerfest celebrates 29 years of Presenting an international festival considered the home of great short film across the country, ‘Electrifying Short Films’ ! among the best in the world is made possible and watching audiences warmly embrace the by the generous support of our major sponsors BRONWYN KIDD inspiring art of short filmmaking. SAE Creative Institute, Department of Foreign FESTIVAL DIRECTOR

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CRICOS: 00312F | RTO: 0273 SPECIAL EVENT OPENING NIGHT FRDIAY 10TH JANUARY 2020 7.45PM FOR 8.15PM All the glitter of the stars of the screen, under a starry sky… Join us for a selection of Flickerfest’s juiciest highlights – an introduction to all the incredible cinema to come in our 2020 season. After the films we party on the upstairs terrace at the Flickerfest Bar, overlooking Bondi beach, and raise our glasses to Electrifying short films!

TICKET PRICE INCLUDES SCREENING & WELCOME A CATERED PARTY AND 7.45PM FOR 8.15PM START ENTERTAINMENT AT THE FLICKERFEST BAR AFTER PARTY 10.30PM – LATE

FRIDAY 10TH JAN 7:45 PM OPENING NIGHT HIGHLIGHTS DURATION: 85 MINS

DIVISION SERIES THE MARVELOUS MISADVENTURES PROGRAM AND SESSION TIMES Korea / 6min / 2019 OF THE STONE LADY WRI/DIR: Ho Kwon Kim Portugal / 20min / 2019 DAY 10.00AM 2.00PM 4.00PM 6.30PM 8.45PM PROD: Jin Soo Lee WRI/DIR: Gabriel Abrantes A Prime Minister goes into KFC to buy a PROD: Justin Taurand, Gabriel Abrantes FESTIVAL OPENING chicken, but the chicken is all sold out. At Tired of being a banal architectural ornament, FRI 10 HIGHLIGHTS & PARTY 7.45PM another table, presidents from other countries a sculpture runs away from the Louvre to FOR 8.15PM START start playing cards to win the last chicken confront real life on the streets of Paris. basket. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE SAT 11 Best of International 1 Best of Australian 1 Best of Australian 2 Best of Australian 3 THIS PERFECT DAY WHITE ECHO Australia / 7min / 2018 United States / 15min / 2019 WRI/DIR: Lydia Rui SUN 12 Best of Documentary 1 Best of Documentary 2 Best of International 2 Best of Australian 4 WRI/DIR: Chloe Sevigny PROD: Olivia Cheung PROD: Lizzie Nastro Jules, a wayward youth, walks into a music As Carla gets her friends to join in a game of store. This could be the day that changes MON 13 Best of International 3 Best of Australian 5 Ouija Board, we explore group dynamics: Power their life. of persuasion, belief and frenzy. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE FlickerKids A FAMILY AFFAIR TUE 14 Best of International 4 Best of Australian 6 (ages 6-12) CLOSED DOORS United Kingdom / 13min / 2019 Australia / 15min / 2019 WRI/DIR: Florence Keith-Roach WRI/DIR: Hunter Page-Lochard, Carter Fred PROD: Emily Barttelot WED 15 Best of International 5 Best of Australian 7 Simpkin When Annabelle wakes up in a strangers PROD: Mitchell Stanley, Toni Stowers bedroom on her 30th birthday, she thinks her Regaining consciousness in a car wreck, a day can’t get any worse. But then Bernard THU 16 Rainbow Shorts Love Bites 1 young father finds that his daughter is missing. walks in. WORLD PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

FRI 17 FlickerLab (10am - 5pm) Love Bites 2 Short Laughs Comedy 1 RE-ENTRY The Netherlands / 9min / 2019 WRI: Andy Weir DIR: Ben Brand FlickerUp School Shorts ASEAN Region FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Re-Entry, This PROD: Studio Ruba SAT 18 EU Short Film Showcase Short Laughs Comedy 2 Perfect Day, Division Series Competition Final Competition When a man (you) dies in a traffic accident and gets into a conversation with God, he gets an answer to the biggest question of life. Short Laughs Comedy 1 CLOSING NIGHT AWARDS, WORLD PREMIERE SUN 19 WINNING HIGHLIGHTS & AFTER (repeat) PARTY 7.15PM FOR 7.45PM

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Catch some of the most innovative, provocative and wildly entertaining short films the world has to offer at Australia’s leading Academy® Qualifying Festivals and BAFTA MAJOR GOVERNMENT PARTNER MAJOR PARTNERS recognised short film festival in January. Now in its 29th year, Flickerfest is the home of great short film. – Over 200 spectacular short films under the stars – Glam Opening Night and Closing Night Parties – Panoramic Pop Up Beach Bar

SCREENING IN 2020 SPECIAL EVENTS OPENING NIGHT FRIDAY 10 JANUARY IN COMPETITION: HIGHLIGHTS SCREENING PARTNERS BEVERAGE PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS* 7:45pm for 8:15pm AFTER PARTY 10:30pm – late AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILMS* DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS* CLOSING NIGHT SUNDAY 19 JANUARY ALL ACADEMY® QUALIFYING FESTIVAL COMPETITIONS AWARDS AND SCREENING 7:15pm for 7:45pm start PLUS AWARDS AND SCREENING 10.30pm – late Celebrate the end of the festival at the Closing Night RAINBOW SHORTS COMPETITION – Best LGBTQI+ from at home & the World AWARD PARTNERS OFFICIAL TECHNICAL and Awards Ceremony. A selection of the festival’s – National School Students and Youth Competition PARTNER (SOUND) FLiCKERUP award-winning films will be screened, followed by AUSTRALIA NOW ASEAN COMPETITION – The Best Shorts from across the ASEAN music and drinks at the Flickerfest Bar. region FLiCKERLAB FRIDAY 17 JANUARY ENJOY THE EVER POPULAR SHORT FILM SHOWCASES INCLUDING: 10.00am to 5.00pm EU SHOWCASE – the best short films on offer from the European Union A one-day journey from shorts to features – includes workshops and interviews with directors, producers, SHORT LAUGHS – our comedy program that will have you in stitches writers, development agencies and distributors and LOVE BITES – films about love and relationships marketing experts. MEDIA PARTNERS FESTIVAL SUPPORTERS AND TRAILER SPONSORS And FLiCKERKIDS – short films suitable for children aged 6-12 years and for the young at heart! Grum Pictures *Highlights of these programmes hit the road on our 50+ venue national tour from January - May 2020 The Editors Michael Gissing Sound Post Church Street Studios Sound Planet TICKETS BOOKINGS FOOD AND BAR Panavision The Flickerfest bar, upstairs in the Bondi Pavilion SEASON PASS $180 / $165 ^ Tickets available via Danny Long Casting is open daily before each session and into 10 SESSION PASS $150 / $130 ^ FLiCKERFEST.COM.AU Waverley Council the night, serving delicious organic food and 3 SESSION PASS $55 / $50 ^ Dendy Cinemas Limited number of tickets may be beverages from our sponsors Parker’s Organic Palace Cinemas SESSION TICKET $20 / $18 available from the box office daily but FLiCKERLAB $40 / $35 Juices, Rosnay Organic Wine, Gage Roads bookings advised. Brewing, Four Pillars Gin and Perrier. FLiCKERKIDS and FLiCKERUP $8 Kids / $12 Adults / $30 Family of 4 Flickerfest is an all weather event. PARKING & TRANSPORT OFFICIAL TOUR PARTNERS OFFICIAL ACCOMMODATION OPENING NIGHT SCREENING & All day metered parking is available in the beach PARTNERS AFTER PARTY $70/$65 * parking area; limited meter parking is available CLOSING NIGHT SCREENING & in nearby streets; some unmetered parking also AFTER PARTY $50 / $45 * available a short walk from the Pavilion.

^ (Excludes opening and closing nights & workshops) Enjoy your visit car-free with a train to Bondi * Ticket price includes food, organic beverages and entertainment. (Includes GST. Booking fees not included.) Junction and catch the 333, 380 or 381 bus to All sessions approx. 100 minutes long & rated 15+ except the door; or ride a bike! FlickerKids and FlickerUp, which are P.G.

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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 Festivals and BAFTA recognised.

BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 1 TATTOO BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 2 THE HEDGEHOG’S DILEMMA SATURDAY 11TH JAN 2:00 PM Iran / 15min / 2018 SUNDAY 12TH JAN 6:30PM Switzerland / 12min / 2019 DURATION: 115 MINS WRI: Farhad Delaram, Dena Rassam DURATION: 113 MINS WRI: Francesca Scalisi, Egle Vertelyte DIR: Farhad Delaram DIR: Francesca Scalisi PROD: Dena Rassam PROD: Mark Olexa MEMORABLE A young Iranian woman is trying to renew her COASTER Jean has been training his daughter to become France / 12min / 2019 drivers license, but when officials notice scars Switzerland, USA / 8min / 2019 a champion diver until, on the day of an WRI/DIR: Bruno Collet and a tattoo on her wrist they become suspi- WRI: Amos Sussigan, Dan Lund important competition, and unexpected event PROD: Jean-François Le Corre, Mathieu cious DIR: Amos Sussigan changes their relationship forever. Courtois NSW PREMIERE PROD: Amos Sussigan, Dan Lund, Jean de AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Recently, Louis, a painter is experiencing Meuron strange events, his world seems to be mutating. HOME SWEET HOME A coming-of-age story following a recent UNCLE THOMAS, ACCOUNTING FOR AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Poland / 21min / 2019 graduates literal ups and downs of adulthood THE DAYS WRI: Michalina Fabijanska after moving into his first home, which happens Portugal / 13min / 2019 RE-ENTRY DIR: Agata Puszcz to be built atop an actual roller coaster. WRI/DIR: Regina Pessoa The Netherlands / 9min / 2019 PROD: Studio Munka PROD: Ciclope Films – Abi Feijo, Julie Roy, WRI: Andy Weir Ten-year-old Olaf auditions for Rent A Life, a HOT CHOCOLATE Reginald De Guillebon DIR: Ben Brand company that offers the wealthy a chance to New Zealand / 17min / 2019 A tribute to Regina’s uncle Thomas. A humble PROD: Studio Ruba hire family members and friends. He has a plan WRI/DIR: David Hay man with a simple and anonymous life, When a man (you) dies in a traffic accident and and, no matter what the cost, he absolutely has PROD: Tess Whelan acknowledging that one does not have to be gets into a conversation with God, he gets an to be cast in a role in someone’s life. A young woman ducks into her home to pick up ‘somébody’ to become exceptional in our lives. answer to the biggest question of life. WORLD PREMIERE some things, only to discover her housemate AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE dead. She must find a way to deal with the THE MARVELOUS MISADVENTURES situation while her 8 year-old sister waits in DRUBENLAND – THE LAND OVER WHITE ECHO OF THE STONE LADY the car. Germany / 15min / 2018 United States / 15min / 2019 Portugal / 20min / 2019 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Arne Kohlweyer WRI/DIR: Chloe Sevigny WRI/DIR: Gabriel Abrantes PROD: Christoph Kulkula, Eike Goreczka PROD: Lizzie Nastro PROD: Justin Taurand, Gabriel Abrantes POSTCARDS FROM THE END OF As soon as Marko’s parents are on vacation As Carla gets her friends to join in a game of Tired of being a banal architectural ornament, THE WORLD some odd wall falls down – and suddenly Ouija Board, we explore group dynamics: Power a sculpture runs away from the Louvre to con- Greece / 23min / 2019 everything is in chaos. Grown-up talk doesn’t of persuasion, belief and frenzy. front real life on the streets of Paris. WRI/DIR: Konstantinos Antonopoulos help, so it’s up to Marko to make sense of it on AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Fani Skartouli his own. Trapped in their marriage, Dimitra and AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE THE JACKPOT Dimitris try to endure their summer vacation Germany / 23min / 2019 with their two daughters on a remote island. WILMA WRI/DIR: Alice von Gwinner Unexpectedly, human civilization collapses. Iceland / 11min / 2019 PROD: Alice von Gwinner, Hana Geisendorfer AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Hawk Bjorgvinsson Thanks to his best friend, the chicken, Albert PROD: Hawk Bjorgvinsson, Chanel Bjork finds himself involved in a fateful game of SAFETY Sturludottir, Saemunder Thor Helgason, Kjartan chance that leads him to his true love. But was USA/FRANCE / 14min / 2019 Thor Thordarson it really all just a coincidence? WRI/DIR: Fabrice Joubert A young transgender boy meets ‘her’ trailer AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Samuel Francois-Steininger, Fabrice park father for the first time. What her father Joubert doesn’t know is that he identifies as a girl. Michael and 11 other children lay side by AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE side on the floor of the gym, breathing quietly. Suddenly, a detonation breaks the silence. FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Re-Entry, AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Safety, Coaster, Memorable, White Echo, The Jackpot Drubenland - The Land Over, Wilma

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BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 3 THE TENT BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 4 TALK MONDAY 13TH JAN 6.30PM Norway/ 17min / 2019 TUESDAY 14TH JAN 6:30PM France / 25mins / 2019 DURATION: 122 MINS WRI/DIR: Rebecca Figenschau DURATION: 115 MINS WRI/DIR/PROD: Boulanger Romuald PROD: Frode Sobstad In a Los Angeles radio station. The host of an Putting up a tent becomes a fateful event for a emblematic night talk show gives advice to THE PROCESSION dysfunctional family of four. THE COIN live callers. One day Will destroy his career, his Canada / 9min / 2019 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE China / 7min / 2019 family, his life. WRI: Pascal Blanchet, Sylvain Charbonneau WRI/DIR: Siqi Song AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE DIR: Pascal Blanchet, Rodolphe Saint-Gelais THE NEWS PROD: Diana Ward, Ashim Ahuja PROD: Julie Roy Albania, Spain / 23min / 2019 On a journey to a new country, a young woman MIND MY MIND After Catherine’s fatal car accident, she speaks WRI: Anila Balla, Lorin Terezi loses her jar of lucky coins that she collected Netherlands, Belgium / 30min / 2019 from the beyond to her grieving husband, DIR: Lorin Terezi as she was growing up. Her new life begins in WRI/DIR: Floor Adams Philippe, who must endure the inevitable family PROD: Anila Balla search of her coins. PROD: Willem Thijssen, Tom Van Gestel, Floor ritual of the funeral. A young bride tasked with the trivial errands AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Adams AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE for her in-laws whilst her husband is in Greece, It’s not easy to rely on social scripts to survive stumbles across a dead woman’s body whilst AZIZA the social world. Especially if you’re obsessed RAIN, RAIN, RUN AWAY fetching the water from the fountain. Syria / 13min / 2019 with German dive-bombers and just want to France / 15min / 2018 WORLD PREMIERE WRI: Soudade Kaadan, May Hayek date a girl. WRI/DIR: Clementine Carrie DIR/PROD: Soudade Kaaden AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Duno Films JEALOUS ALAN A dynamic take on the life of Syrian refugees End of August. In the afternoon. Boubou, age United Kingdom / 16min / 2019 through black comedy. TRADITION seven, is getting bored in the campsite. WRI/DIR: Martin Clark AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Germany / 23min / 2019 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: James Heath WRI: Elmar Imanov, Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze Betwixt 1980’s Edinburgh and Glasgow, Alan MTHUNZI DIR: Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze SECURITY discovers his best friend Stuart and Angela are South Africa / 9min / 2019 PROD: Eva Blondiau United Kingdom / 16min / 2019 secretly dating, jealousy drives him to foil it and WRI/DIR: Tebogo Malebogo Two German tourists adventure in a Georgian WRI/DIR/PROD: Daniel Outram wrestle where his passions really lay.across the PROD: Petrus Van Staden village. When a middle-aged man lets a young woman street. Mthunzi get distracted on his way back from AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE have a go at driving his car, a moment of inti- AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE the shops. macy turns sour. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE THE PHANTOM 52 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE DIVISION SERIES United States / 8min / 2019 Korea / 6min / 2019 WRI/DIR/PROD: Geoff Marslett THE RAFT WRI/DIR: Ho Kwon Kim A lonely trucker waits for a reply on the CB Germany / 20min / 2019 PROD: Jin Soo Lee radio. A ghost haunts the lonely highways. And WRI: Daniel Thomé, Sylvain Cruiziat A Prime Minister goes into KFC to buy a chick- a whale sings in a voice no other whale can DIR: Sylvian Cruiziat en, but the chicken is all sold out. At another even hear. PROD: Phillip Maron, Sebastian Fehring, table, presidents from other countries start AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Tristan Bahre Maverick Film playing cards to win the last chicken basket. As the art world gathers to watch the latest AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE work of performance artist Victoria Hopkins, an unexpected event takes hold of the evening. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Rain, Rain, Run FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: The Coin, Jealous Alan, Away, Division Series, The Procession, The Phantom 52, Mind My Mind The Raft

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BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 5 I’LL END UP IN JAIL WEDNESDAY 15TH JAN 6:30PM Canada / 23min / 2019 DURATION: 123 MINS WRI/DIR: Alexandre Dostie PROD: Hany Ouichou A stay-at-home mother gets into a murderous DAUGHTER car crash where nobody wants to take the Czech Republic / 15min / 2019 blame. WRI/DIR: Daria Kashcheeva AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Zuzana Rohacova, Martin Vandas A moment of misunderstanding and a lost DETOURS embrace has stretched into many years all the Belgium / 18min / 2019 way to this hospital room, until the moment WRI/DIR: Christopher Yates when a window pane breaks under the impact PROD: Isabel De La Serna, Matthieu Frances, of a little bird. Kevin Hoed NSW PREMIERE PROD: Isabel de la Serna (Playtime Films) As his baby drifts off to sleep in the morning THE NEIGHBORS’ WINDOW traffic Simon realises he’s being followed. United States / 20min / 2019 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Marshall Curry PROD: Elizabeth Martin, Jonathan Olson, ARE YOU HUNGRY? CHICKEN by Alana Hicks Screening at Flickerfest 2020 Julia Kennelly Finland / 12min / 2019 This is a story of woman whose life is shaken WRI: Antti Toivonen Still from the film.Image: Campbell Brown up when two free-spirited twenty-something’s DIR: Teemu Niukkanen move in. PROD: Daniel Kuitunen AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A mother struggles to connect with her adopted teenage son, who she believes to be gay. In an THE TEARS THING attempt to guide him safely through this period France / 25min / 2019 of exploration, she sets him up on a date. WRI: Clemence Poesy, Eric Forestier AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE DIR: Clemence Poesy PROD: Nelson Ghrenassia HOT FLASH Florence is an actress and the preparations for Canada / 10min / 2019 her new role will challenge her in a way she WRI/DIR: Thea Hollatz could never have seen coming. PROD: Kristy Neville, Matt Code, Morghan AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Fortier, Brett Jubinville A newscaster is due to go live on television in the middle of a hot flash, in Thea Hollatz’s animated comedy about a woman trying to keep her cool when one type of flash leads to another. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Daughter, Detours, I'll End Up In Jail, The Tears Thing

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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 best Australian Short Film.

BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 1 HOW THINGS ARE BORN BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 2 BROKEN LINE NORTH SATURDAY 11TH JAN 4:00 PM Australia / 14min / 2019 SATURDAY 11TH JAN 6:30PM Australia / 16min / 2019 DURATION: 112 MINS WRI/DIR/PROD: Davis Willis DURATION: 111 MINS WRI/DIR: Sunday Emerson Gullifer A young woman approaching motherhood must PROD: Bethany Bruce decide when to give and when to take a life. Two broken people – a Lao-Australian woman THE VOID IN JOY WORLD PREMIERE THE QUIET and a teenage hitchhiker – must navigate grief, Australia / 4min / 2019 Australia / 10min / 2019 isolation and unlikely connection forged over one WRI/DIR/PROD: Si Berg LIVING ROOM WRI/DIR/PRO: Radheya Jegatheva, Jay Jay night in a roadside motel. There is a void in Joy and nothing has been Australia / 17min / 2019 Jegathesan able to fill it. But, a devastating medical WRI/DIR/PROD: Rhys Mitchell, Jessica Barclay When an astronaut ponders on the quietude THE MEN THAT COME diagnosis triggers a rapid realignment of Lawton of space, he comes upon a startling self- Australia / 4mins/ 2018 priorities. Masayuki lives with his elderly mother, pretending realization. WRI/DIR/PROD: Clare Sladden AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE to work night, but really wandering the streets NSW PREMIERE The Men That Come is a gothic allegory about gambling and drinking. A mysterious stranger the way we treat victims and survivors of violence SOHRAB AND RUSTUM comes into his life just as he is planning his exit. PASSAGE and abuse. Australia / 14min / 2018 NSW PREMIERE Australia / 15min / 2018 NSW PREMIERE WRI/DIR/PROD: Lee Whitmore WRI/DIR/PROD: Kimia Hendi A teacher reads a poem based on a Persian MY NAME IS MUDJU After losing her father, Shrin gains a different HENRY NEEDS A NEW HOME legend to her class of teenage girls. Australia / 14min / 2019 perspective on loss. Australia / 15min / 2019 WRI/DIR: Chantelle Murray NSW PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Seamus Murphy CLAP PROD: Helen Morrison, Belinda Miller PROD: Elizabeth Malcher Australia / 6min / 2018 1950’s Australia, Mudju’s daughter Munna THE DIVER Henry and his canine companion must defend WRI/DIR: Sophie O’Connor has been stolen, helpless against the Mission Australia / 12min / 2019 their tiny home from a seemingly unstoppable PROD: Sophie O’Connor, Richard Di Gregorio, governance, she must find the strength within to WRI/DIR: Michael Leonard, Jamie Helmer force. Carla McConnell reunite with her daughter. PROD: Michael Leonard, Jamie Helmer NSW PREMIERE After a long day of being bullied at school, NSW PREMIERE Callans mind is full of rage, chaos and Stephanie begins to think that her stutter wont confusion that can only be tamed by the WISHES FULFILLED get any better, until she meets and befriends BLOOM soothing solitude of the world underwater. Australia / 9min / 2019 Delores. WORLD PREMIERE Australia / 13min / 2019 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR/PROD: Paul Gallasch, Madeline Gordon WRI/DIR: Isobelle Amie When her family comes to visit a new BLACKWOOD PROD: Sarah Clayton THE SAND THAT ATE THE SEA grandmother tries to enact the teachings of her Australia / 12min / 2018 On Junie’s eighteenth birthday, the secret of Australia / 30min / 2019 guided meditation tapes. WRI/DIR: Kalu Oji her late period and potential pregnancy puts WRI/DIR: Matthew Thorne WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Mimo Mukii her sisterhood and close family ties at risk of PROD: Matthew Thorne, Steven Garrett A novelist and her teenage son face their own breaking apart. In the opal mining red dirt of Andamooka; unique challenges over the course of a day, NSW PREMIERE South Australia; a son faces the memories of finding recognition and respect difficult to the mysterious disappearance of his father in come by in small-town Australia. WINE LAKE a great flooding storm, while the same storm NSW PREMIERE Australia / 10min / 2019 appears on his own horizon. WRI: Ailis Logan WORLD PREMIERE WAY OUT ASSISTANCE DIR/PROD: Platon Theodoris Australia / 8min / 2019 A homeless Irish alcoholic and an artistic WRI/DIR: Stef Smith backpacker clash on a Sydney street over a PROD: Stef Smith, Brianna Miller misunderstanding. A woman in need of help, uses a VR AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE counselling program to form a new human connection and process old wounds to make it FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Blackwood, Living FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Broken Line North, through one more day. Room, How Things Are Born, The Void In Joy Henry Need A New Home, The Sand That Ate The Sea, The Men That Come

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BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 3 ARMOUR BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 4 I’M NOT HURTING YOU SATURDAY 11TH JAN 8:45PM Australia / 12min / 2019 SUNDAY 12TH JAN 8:45PM Australia / 15min / 2019 DURATION: 111 MINS WRI/DIR: Ben Briand DURATION: 105 MINS WRI/DIR: David Vincent Smith PROD: Matt Dooley, Rachel Ford-Davies PROD: Jessica Parker, Lauren Brunswick In a forgotten Shanghai motel a tough gun-for- A desperate woman kidnaps and enforces REBOOTED hire recalls the mysterious encounter with her MEANWHILE, AT THE ABANDONED rehab on her younger, dangerous, meth- Australia / 13min / 2019 target. FACTORY addicted brother in a last ditch effort to save WRI/DIR: Michael Shanks WORLD PREMIERE Australia / 16min / 2019 his life. PROD: Nicholas Colla, Chris Hocking/LateNite WRI/DIR: Michael Cusack Films CLOSED DOORS PROD: Richard Chataway THREE STORIES INSIDE A RENTAL It’s not easy for a movie-star to age, especially Australia / 15min / 2019 Meanwhile, at the Abandoned Factory VAN when you’re a stop motion animated skeleton WRI/DIR: Hunter Page-Lochard, Carter Fred celebrates the heyday of cliff-hanger TV serials. Australia / 15min / 2019 monster. Simpkin Can our intrepid reporter find her way out of WRI/DIR: Lewis Attey AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Mitchell Stanley, Toni Stowers this classic dilemma? PROD: Kate Laurie, Jordan Giusti Regaining consciousness in a car wreck, a young WORLD PREMIERE Three Stories Inside A Rental Van presents THE HITCHHIKER father finds that his daughter is missing. three vignettes, each set inside the same rental Australia / 13min / 2018 WORLD PREMIERE CHLORINE van, and each exploring the morality of the WRI/DIR: Adele Vuko Australia / 17min / 2019 different characters who hire it. PROD: Johanna Somerville, Chloe Rickard THE GRAVE OF SAINT ORAN WRI/DIR: Melissa Anastasia NSW PREMIERE Jade hits the road to Byron Bay with two Australia / 9min / 2019 PROD: Jessica Carrera besties, resolving to keep her terminal DIR: Jim Batt A young thief frequents the local swimming DELUGE diagnosis on the down-low. When an enigmatic PROD: Neil Gaiman, Jim Batt, Josie Hess pool in search of something more than the Australia / 11min / 2019 hitchhiker makes her an offer, she finds it hard Narrated by the masterful Neil Gaiman and objects she steals. WRI: Llewellyn Michael Bates to refuse. based on his poem In Relig Odhrain, this is a DIR: Cloudy Rhodes tempestuous tale of sacrifice and faith. SKINSHIP PROD: Jessica Carrera FEATHERWEIGHT Australia / 9min / 2019 Three spirited women usurp a religious cult. Australia / 13min / 2019 COWBOY WRI/DIR/PROD: Grace Tan, Mohini Herse WRI: David Vincent Smith Australia / 11min / 2019 A woman finds comfort and companionship in a THIS PERFECT DAY DIR: Sam Lara WRI/PROD: Thomas Baricevic trial version of a digital chat room called ‘Sento Australia / 7min / 2018 PROD: Jess Parker PROD: Jackson Black Films Chat’. She begins to question the legitimacy of WRI/DIR: Lydia Rui Tas takes up boxing in an effort to get away Kay wants to be a singer. Dee wants to be a rodeo the relationship upon a request for payment. PROD: Olivia Cheung from her unstable mother and get closer to her rider. Their two worlds collide. WORLD PREMIERE Jules, a wayward youth, walks into a music estranged father. WORLD PREMIERE store. This could be the day that changes their BETWEEN TWO LINES life. TOMMY MEMOIR OF A HAUNTING Australia / 15min / 2019 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Australia / 19min / 2019 Australia / 6min / 2019 WRI/DIR: Jack Steele WRI: Scott Dale, Phillip Cristian Claassen WRI/DIR/PROD: Matthew Johnstone PROD: Mitchell Stanley, Toni Stowers DIR: Scott Dale Post-movie drinks takes a dark turn for a group of A story of two men’s journey for their identity PROD: Deb Morgan friends after one of them reveals a troubling story set in WW1. Tommy is the emotionally charged story of a of about her past. young boy and his imaginary friend caught WORLD PREMIERE in the middle of a nasty custody battle. He escapes his trauma by entering his dream-like world set inside a submarine, but as the feud between his parents reaches boiling point, both worlds collide. FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Closed Doors, WORLD PREMIER FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Between Two Lines, Featherweight, The Grave Of Saint Oran, The Chlorine, Deluge, Three Stories Inside a Rental Van Hitchhiker

14 ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS 15 BEST OF AUSTRALIAN CONTINUED

BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 5 TIES THAT BIND BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 6 A DAY IN YOUR LIFE MONDAY 13TH JAN 8:45PM Australia / 12min / 2019 TUESDAY 14TH JAN 8:45PM Australia / 17min / 2018 DURATION: 116 MINS WRI/DIR: Michael Hudson DURATION: 109 MINS WRI/DIR: Milena Bennett PROD: Gillian Moody PROD: Emma Diaz 17 year old Thomas must front his single A meditation on homelessness, A Day In Your MOON ABOVE THE RAGING SEA mother who pushes him away with her bullying THE GRANNY FLAT Life is quiet, thoughtful and deeply human, it Australia / 8min / 2018 Australia / 6min / 2019 ways. is a gentle look at the world around us and the WRI/DIR: Steven Jerram WRI/DIR: Rachel Mackey people pushed to its margins. PROD: Louise Sergent THE COMPLEX PROD: Nicola Macindoe AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Late one night in 1991: a 17-year-old girl flies Australia / 15min / 2019 While their parents are off trainspotting, two across the Adriatic Sea in a tiny, home-made WRI/DIR: Dane McCusker siblings wake to find an elderly woman baking A MORNING RITUAL airplane. PROD: Jessica Murphy, Chris Squadrito, Jamie scones in their kitchen. Australia / 3min / 2019 NSW PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Jack Peddey NSW PREMIERE Lewis While moving into a new apartment, a young PROD: Jack Peddey, Alisha Hnatjuk woman must content with the advances of a STRANGERS A desperate man renews himself with a strange PEACH neighbour. A taut social drama, The Complex is Australia / 13min / 2019 ritual. Australia / 8min / 2019 an exploration of the patriarchal bear-trap that WRI/DIR: Jamieson Pearce NSW PREMIERE DIR: Sophie Saville is modern gender relations. PROD: Cyna Strachan, Liam Heyen WRI/PROD: Rowan Devereux WORLD PREMIERE Lillian lives at an aged care facility. When her SWEET TOOTH A socially anxious young woman lands a hot family finds her in the bed of another woman, Australia / 23min / 2019 date. There’s only one problem, she’s not sure SMOKO PORNO they must wrap their heads around their WRI/DIR: Shannon Ashlyn if its actually a date. Australia / 17min / 2019 mothers sexuality, and work out the right thing PROD: Katherine Shearer WORLD PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Beth Cresnik to do. Sweet Tooth is the untold story of the Wicked MR BUBBLES PROD: Enna-Jay Curcuruto NSW PREMIERE Witch and her infamous gingerbread house. NSW PREMIERE Australia / 6min / 2019 An overwhelming curiosity towards sex and MY FIRST PANIC WRI/DIR: Eden Falk intimacy becomes stronger than her desire to be left alone. The usually disinterested and Australia / 20min / 2019 37 THINGS PROD: Tim Russell friendless Leah decides its time to lose her WRI/DIR: Michaela Holmes Australia / 15min / 2019 Where is Mr Bubbles? virginity. PROD: Alexis Talbot-Smith WRI/DIR: Zane Roach WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE On her way home from a night of hedonistic PROD: Adam Lemmey, Debra Liang ALL GOOD THINGS partying, Ruby, an anxious young woman, A man with a brain condition that prevents him KIDS ON FIRE from ever knowing more than 37 things must Australia / 13min / 2019 experiences her first ever panic attack. Australia / 7min / 2018 fight to retain his most precious memory in our WRI/DIR: Simon Croker WORLD PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Tommy Hart information-dense world. PROD: Linus Gibson PROD: Frances Mariani, Olivia Fay THE EGG WORLD PREMIERE Road trips usually signify a beginning but for A 9-year-old closeted evangelical Christian Australia / 10min / 2019 Isaac and his partner Levi, this is their last tomboy must prove her faith by vandalizing an WRI/DIR: Jane Cho chance to spend time together before they part LGBTQI sex shop. PROD: Jane Cho, Ilana Lazar ways. As they drive closer to their destination, NSW PREMIERE Under the punishing and watchful eye of an Isaac finds that maybe he isn’t as prepared for elderly woman, a young girl, bored and lonely his first breakup as he had thought. CHICKEN in a world of foreign suburbia, becomes NSW PREMIERE Australia / 10min / 2019 determined to claim a larger Easter egg as her WRI/DIR: Alana Hicks ATLAS own. PROD: Sleena Wilson Australia / 22min / 2019 All Barbara wants to do is watch the WRI/DIR: Gene Alberts Simpsons, but her recent migrated mum has PROD: Gene Alberts, Samuel Vines just been overcharged at the local shops, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Kids On Fire, All Good A man and his dog are looking to escape FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: A Day In Your Life, A and its up to Barbara to sort it out. As usual. Things, Peach, The Complex captivity on a rural farm under the watchful eye Morning Ritual, My First Panic, The Granny Flat AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE of surveillance drones. WORLD PREMIERE

16 ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS 17 BEST OF AUSTRALIAN CONTINUED award winning family grown handmade wine

BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 7 TRAPPED WEDNESDAY 15TH JAN 8:45PM Australia / 13min / 2019 DURATION: 103 MINS WRI/DIR: Tony Bosch PROD: Annmaree J Bell In war torn New Guinea, the destinies of two FOR THE GIRL IN THE COFFEE SHOP enemy soldiers become intertwined as they Australia / 9min / 2019 battle one common enemy; Death. WRI/DIR: Rebekah Jackson WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Rebekah Jackson, Elaine Beckett To get his book published, a hopeless romantic THE WIDOW must divulge his true feelings to his muse; the Australia / 29min / 2018 only problem is that he’s never actually spoken WRI/DIR: Brendan Young to her before. PROD: Brendan Young, Catherine McQuade NSW PREMIERE Set in Melbourne in 1965, a Sicilian widow fights for her life when members of the local BACKPEDAL Calabrian Mafia murder her husband and try to flickerfest Australia / 5min / 2019 seize control of his produce business. wine sponsor WRI/DIR: Dani Pearce NSW PREMIERE PROD: Sarah Nichols since 2009 A young woman laments her teen years, her DARKER, DARKEST hometown and the death of a friend. Australia / 15min / 2019 NSW PREMIERE WRI/DIR/PROD: Jerome Velinsky www.rosnay.com.au A man wakes from a nightmare to find he’s WE NEED TO TALK being stalked by a mysterious intruder lurking Australia / 11min / 2019 outside his house. WRI: Brendan Galinie, Katarina Scholler WORLD PREMIERE DIR: Brendan Galinie PRO: Brendan Galinie, Katarina Scholler, Ryan UTOPIA O’Gorman Australia / 15min / 2019 When two best friends cross the line of WRI/DIR: Kosta Nikas personal boundaries into toxic territory, PROD: Kosta Nikas, Aaron Bush, Rishi Shukla they must confront each other to save their A man returns to his country after decades friendship. abroad only to discover a society where therea WORLD PREMIERE re more freedoms inside prison than outside it. Desperate, but unable to escape, the brave act INVISIBLE of one woman gives him his freedom. Australia / 6min / 2018 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR/ PROD: Jacob Melamed In a series of therapy sessions with a persistent psychologist, Daniel comes face to face with his progress, through a series of self-portraits. 18 JAN WORLD PREMIERE 28 FEB

FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Backpedal, Darker, Darkest, The Widow, Utopia

18 ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS 19 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 HOME FRONT BEST OF DOCUMENTARY 2 OUR TERRITORY SUNDAY 12TH JAN 2:00PM Israel / 9min / 2019 SUNDAY 12TH JAN 4:00 PM Belgium / 20min / 2019 DURATION: 98 MINS DIR/PROD: Tal Inbar DURATION: 107 MINS WRI/DIR: Mathieu Volpe A policeman invites a stranger into his home PROD: Serge Kestemont and leaves him alone with his wife, while When I got to Rignano, the Ghetto residents told ALL CATS ARE GREY IN THE DARK he departs to deal with a terrorist event, not BRIGHT LIGHTS – THE PERILS OF THE me; “You mustn’t keep any trace of our lives Switzerland / 18min / 2019 knowing the stranger is actually a terrorist. POKIES here in these precarious houses This despair is WRI/DIR: Lasse Linder AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Australia / 13min / 2019 not yours to display.” The misery in the Ghetto PROD: HSLU: Edith Flückiger WRI/DIR: Charby Ibrahim is the first thing that struck me, the first thing I Christian lives with his two cats, Marmelade KACHALKA PROD: Charby Ibrahim, Rob Innes, Jennifer wanted to show. and Katjuscha. As he yearns to become a Ireland / 9min / 2019 Peedom, Helen Gaynor, Charlie Phillips, Jacqui AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE father, he decides to fertilize his beloved DIR: Gar O’Rourke Edenbrow Marmelade by an exquisite tomcat from abroad. PROD: Ken Wardrop A 25 year addiction to poker machines has ALL ON A MARDI GRAS DAY AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A cinematic portrait of Kiev’s Soviet scrap metal cost ‘Sharon’ almost everything … and very United States / 23min / 2019 ‘Kachalka’ gym – the world’s most hardcore nearly her life in this short, fully animated WRI/DIR: Michal Pietrzyk BITING THE BULLET gym. documentary, voiced by Claudia Karvan. PROD: Michal Pietrzyk, Celeste Caliri, David Australia / 11min / 2019 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Favret, Gabriel Bienczycki WRI/DIR/PROD: Lizbeth Calingasan African-American men from New Orleans An observational/expository documentary about MATEO’S STORY INFERNO neighborhoods spend all year sewing feathered a young, introverted International student forced United States / 24min / 2019 Mexico / 16min / 2018 suits they’ll wear only once, in a battle to decide to try and find a better life in Australia. She WRI/DIR/PROD: Malona P. Badelt WRI/DIR/PROD: Patrick Fileti who’s ‘the prettiest’. stumbles upon the sport of boxing and hopes to A journey to safety turns into a struggle of An explosive portrait of the lives of artisans and AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE become an athlete and an Australian citizen. trauma, fear and irreparable damage. their families in the lead up to the festival of AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE San Juan de Dios, when blazing revelry engulfs the town. ANAS V. THE GIANT DJUWALPADA AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE United States / 17min / 2019 Australia / 14min / 2019 WRI: Karen K. H. Sim WRI: Daniel Wilfred FLESH DIR: Adrienne Collatos DIR: Daniel Wilfred, Nicola Bell Brazil / 12min / 2019 PROD: Adrienne Collatos, Karen K. H. Sim PROD: Courtney Collins WRI: Camila Kater, Ana Julia Carbalheiro The story of Anas Modamani offers an insider A young songman from southeast Arnhem Land DIR: Camila Kater glimpse into the online fake news and hate tells his story about sharing culture to keep it PROD: Chelo Loureiro, Livia Perez speech scandals that have rocked the world alive. Rare, medium rare, medium, medium well over the last few years. WORLD PREMIERE and well done. Through intimate and personal AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE stories, five women share their experiences in relation to the body, from childhood to old age. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

LOST RAMBOS Australia / 22min / 2019 WRI/DIR: Chris Phillips PROD: Michaela Perske, Kiki Dillon The influx of modern automatic weaponry intro- duced to Papua New Guinea in the 1990’s has turned local disputes into swift lethal exchanges which threatened to permanently reshape high- FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: All Cats Are Grey lands culture. FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: All On A Mardi Gras In The Dark, Djuwalpada The Home Front, NSW PREMIERE Day, Flesh, Inferno, Our Territory Mateo's Story

20 ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS 21 BEST OF EU SHOWCASE ASEAN REGION COMPETITION

A selection of moving and entertaining shorts from the European Our inaugural competition in partnership with The Department of Foreign Affairs Union that captures the diversity and cinematic excellence of Europe. And Trade and Australia now ASEAN, celebrating the stories of the ASEAN region

EU SHORT FILM SHOWCASE THE TEARS THING ASEAN COMPETITION FAREWELL SATURDAY 18TH JAN 6:30 PM France / 25min / 2019 SATURDAY 18 JAN 4PM Malaysia / 5min / 2019 DURATION: 115 MINS WRI: Clemence Poesy, Eric Forestier DURATION: 120 MINS DIR: Erica Eng DIR: Clemence Poesy PROD: Julia Wee, Alison Loke Mern Nyee PROD: Nelson Ghrenassia A little girl proves to her grandmother that she MEMORABLE Florence is an actress and the preperations for THE GIRL AND THE CAT is independent enough to take care of herself. France / 12min / 2019 her new role will challenge her in a way she Singapore / 13min / 2018 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Bruno Collet could never have seen coming. WRI: Ervin Han PROD: Jean-François Le Corre, Mathieu AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE DIR: Ervin Han, Bernard Toh LIMBO Courtois PROD: Ervin Han, Rachel Phang Philippines / 11min / 2019 Recently, Louis, a painter is experiencing HOME SWEET HOME A young girl is separated from her Mother at WRI: Madelaine Miraflor strange events, his world seems to be Poland / 21min / 2019 a Singaporean night market and meets a cat DIR: John Luke Miraflor mutating. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI: Michalina Fabijanska who brings her deep into the underbelly of the PROD: Brilliant Jerk Productions DIR: Agata Puszcz bazaar where fantasy meets reality. A day in the life of a poor teenage boy in con- NIMIC Ten-year-old Olaf auditions for Rent A Life, a AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE stant search of food and luck. Germany, UK, USA / 12min / 2019 company that offers the wealthy a chance to hire AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Yorgos Lanthimos family members and friends. He has a plan and, BUNGA PROD: Rekorder, Superprime, Merman, Droga5 no matter what the cost, he absolutely has to be Brunei Darussalam / 10min / 2019 STAY AWAKE, BE READY A professional cellist has an encounter with a cast in a role in someone’s life. WRI: Hanis Hashim Vietnam / 14min / 2019 stranger on the subway which has unexpected WORLD PREMIERE DIR: Hanis Hashim, Izzuddin Jali, Rahim Sofri, WRI/DIR: Pham Thien An and far-reaching ramifications on his life. Azman Fontanilla PROD: Pham Thien An, Tran Van Thi AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE UNCLE THOMAS, ACCOUNTING FOR PROD: Izzuddin Jali, Rahim Sofri A motorbike crash happening before the street THE DAYS A schoolgirl feels emotionally neglected by stalls on a street corner was embedded in the THE JACKPOT Portugal / 13min / 2019 her father but finds something attached to her mysterious story of three young men. Germany / 23min / 2019 WRI/DIR: Regina Pessoa memory that gradually bonds her old and new WRI/DIR: Alice von Gwinner PROD: Ciclope Films – Abi Feijo, Julie Roy, families together. THE TUK TUK OF THE FIFTH KIND PROD: Alice von Gwinner, Hana Geisendorfer Reginald De Guillebon WORLD PREMIERE Lao People’s Democratic Republic / 15min / Thanks to his best friend, the chicken, Albert A tribute to Reginas uncle Thomas. A humble 2018 finds himself involved in a fateful game of man with a simple and anonymous life, EVENING STROLL WRI/DIR: Anysay Keola chance that leads him to his true love. But was acknowledging that one does not have to be Indonesia / 16min / 2019 PROD: Mattie Do it really all just a coincidence? ‘sombody’ to become exceptional in our lives. WRI/DIR: Candra Aditya A Tuk Tuk driver strongly believes that he is able AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Angga Buana to communicate with an alien from another When they lose their wallet during a picnic, a planet. And this alien has a mission for him. RE-ENTRY husband and wife rediscover the beauty in their AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE The Netherlands / 9min / 2019 romance through conversation of life, Jakarta, WRI: Andy Weir rich people and cheap shoes. MY VALENTINE'S DAY DIR: Ben Brand AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Cambodia / 13min / 2018 PROD: Studio Ruba WRI/DIR: Vong Panhavon When a man (you) dies in a traffic accident and DOSSIER OF THE DOSSIER A man is planning to do something for his crush gets into a conversation with God, he gets an Thailand / 18min / 2019 on Valentine's Day. answer to the biggest question of life. DIR: Sorayos Prapapan AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE The director and the producer are working on the dossier of their film. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

HOME Myanmar / 6min / 2018 FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Home Sweet Home, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Bunga, Dossier Of WRI: Mon Mon Htet Memorable, Re-Entry, The Jackpot The Dossier, Limbo, Stay Awake, Be Ready DIR: Sai Naw Kham PROD: Lindsey Merrison An independent humanitarian activist from Shan State describes the trauma she experi- ences in working in an environment pervaded by despair and her commitment to helping those forced to fee armed conflict.

22 ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS 23 LOVE BITES

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

LOVEBITES 1 JEALOUS ALAN LOVEBITES 2 THE OCEANS ARE THE THURSDAY 16TH JAN 8:45PM United Kingdom / 16min / 2019 FRIDAY 17TH JAN 6.30PM REAL CONTINENTS DURATION: 114 MINS DIR: Martin Clark DURATION: 113 MINS Italy / 20min / 2019 PROD: James Heath WRI/DIR: Tommaso Santambrogio Betwixt 1980’s Edinburgh and Glasgow, Alan PROD: Tommaso Santambrogio, Lav Diaz, BROKEN: A SOCKUMENTARY discovers his best friend Stuart and Angela are TOOMAS BENEATH THE VALLEY OF Gianluca Arcopinto Australia / 7min / 2019 secretly dating, jealousy drives him to foil it and THE WILD WOLVES Alex and Edith, a couple in their 30s live their DIR: Hannah Dougherty wrestle where his passions really lay. Estonia / 18min / 2019 love story made of small gestures, stories from Broken explores the universal nature of AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE DIR/PROD: Chintis Lundgren the past, nostalgia and deep intimacy. heartbreak through interviews with real people After losing a well paid engineering job, and their stories, as told through socks. PEACH Toomas, a young hot wolf, gets cornered into SHIFTING AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Australia / 8min / 2019 working as a gigolo to support his family. Australia / 7min / 2019 DIR: Sophie Saville WRI/DIR/PROD: Rob La Terra L+ WRI/PROD: Rowan Devereux A GLIMPSE Portrait of a live-in-relationship told in rapid-fire Korea / 13min / 2019 A socially anxious young woman lands a hot United Kingdom / 10min / 2019 series of telling vignettes centered around the WRI/DIR: Jeonghoi Koo date. There’s only one problem, she’s not sure if WRI: Tom Turner, Sam Berrill lounge-room sofa. PROD: Yu Kim, Hyunkyung Park its actually a date. DIR: Tom Turner NSW PREMIERE A girl who has been exhausted of her repeated WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Rebecca Harris everyday life finally begins to understand why A blossoming relationship unfolds when two THE TOLL ROAD the boy waits for the doom of earth. THE PLANT strangers have a chance encounter in a London United States / 20min / 2018 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Norway / 19min / 2019 Café. WRI: Richard Galazka WRI/DIR: Julian Nazario Vargas DIR: Tom Riley MY PLANET PROD: Ida Bruusgaard, Tor Kristian Liseth MOON DROPS PROD: Jason Berger, Amy Laslett, Tom Riley, Belgium / 24min / 2018 When a man is abandoned by his girlfriend he Israel / 16min / 2018 Lizzy Caplan WRI/DIR: Valery Carnoy desperately seeks comfort in a plant she leaves WRI/DIR: Yoram Ever-Hadani On the eve of their ninth anniversary, a sweet PROD: Vincent Canart behind. PROD: Yoram Ever-Hadani, Kobi Hoffmann, but naïve young couple face a boorish adver- A baker in his fifties suffers from failed love Milos Djukelic sary who threatens to ruin their big day. with his wife. One morning he meets Anita, a DICK PICS! (A DOCUMENTARY) A factory worker assembles an enigmatic young contemporary photographer who likes United States/ 12min / 2019 machine that produces liquid drops from the WHAT IN THE WORLD the shape of his big body. WRI/DIR: Hannah McSwiggen, Russell Sheaffer moonlight. United Kingdom / 13min / 2019 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Hannah McSwiggen, Russell Sheaffer, WRI/DIR: Jamie Fraser Dan Schoenbrun, Vanessa McDonnell FOR THE GIRL IN THE COFFEE SHOP PROD: Alastair Hope-Morley ORPHEATE This stop-motion animated documentary Australia / 9min / 2019 A troubled young woman bothers a stranger. United States / 10min / 2019 gathers men of all walks of life and asks them WRI/DIR: Rebekah Jackson WRI/DIR: Ruby Bell an important question: “What in gods name PROD: Rebekah Jackson, Elaine Beckett PROD: Gabriella Landay, Ruby Bell, Mandy compels you to send pictures of your penis to To get his book published, a hopless romantic Walker, Stuart Bell non-consenting others?” must divulge his true feelings to his muse. The This modern day take on the beloved Greek AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE only problem is that hes never actually spoken myth follows a young musicians journey to the to her. underworld in search of his lover lost to a fatal GRANDAD WAS A ROMANTIC snakebite. United Kingdom / 5min / 2019 WORLD PREMIERE WRI/DIR/PROD: Maryam Mohajer My romantic Grandad saw a picture of my Granny and realized that she was the love of his life. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Broken_ A FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: A Glimpse, The Sockumentary, Peach, Dick Pics!, Granddad Oceans Are the Real Continents, Moon Drops, was a Romantic What In The World

24 ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS 25 SHORT LAUGHS COMEDY

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

SHORT LAUGHS COMEDY 1 SCHOOL’S OUT SHORT LAUGHS COMEDY 2 FRIENDS ONLINE FRIDAY 17TH JAN 8:45PM The Netherlands / 11 min / 2018 SATURDAY 18TH JAN 8:45PM United Kingdom / 4min / 2019 DURATION: 110 MINS WRI: Renske De Greef DURATION: 111 MINS WRI/DIR: Samantha White DIR: Jamille van Wijngaarden PROD: Natalia Bastrykina, Andrew White, Marta PROD: The Rogues HOW TO FIRE SOMEONE Biancheri, Samantha White ‘Stacey’ is an DIVISION SERIES When mother Marit wants to discuss the behaviour United States / 5min / 2018 anxious keyboard warrior, hopelessly trying to Korea / 6min / 2019 of her son during a parent-teach conference, WRI/DIR/PROD: Mike Lars White convince his friend Elle that he too is a teenage WRI/DIR: Ho Kwon Kim teacher Yvonne can’t repress her pent-up feelings Jonas turns to his sister Jules for advice on girl, with the hope that she’ll send him a picture PROD: Jin Soo Lee anymore. A murderous comedy with finger paint. how to fire someone. he so craves. A Prime Minister goes into KFC to buy a chicken, AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE but the chicken is all sold out. At another table, #COLLAPSINGEMPIRE GOD: THE PERFORMANCE REVIEW presidents from other countries start playing IT’S CHRISTMAS New Zealand / 6min / 2018 Australia / 8min / 2019 cards to win the last chicken basket. Australia / 20min / 2019 WRI/DIR: Cathy MacDonald WRI: Allan West WRI: Tyson Yates PROD: Joseph McAlpine DIR/PROD: Victoria Carwin DRUBENLAND – THE LAND OVER DIR: Owen Smith Tinder dating meets modern cuisine. It’s been one millennium since God’s last Germany / 15min / 2018 PROD: Gabriel Stoltz, Sam Monaghan, Tamara AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Performance Review with Senior Management WRI/DIR: Arne Kohlweyer McLauchlin, Kyle McCallion ARE YOU HUNGRY? and they’re not impressed with what has been PROD: Christoph Kulkula, Eike Goreczka Its Darren’s first Christmas with the in-laws. His happening on that tiny blue planet called Earth. Finland / 12min / 2019 As soon as Marko’s parents are on vacation only job was to bring the prawns, but when the WRI: Teemu Niukkanen AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE some odd wall falls down – and suddenly family become mysteriously ill, his fight for their DIR: Antti Toivonen everything is in chaos. Grown-up talk doesn’t approval becomes a fight for his life. NORTEÑOS help, so its up to Marko to make sense of it on PROD: Daniel Kuitunen United Kingdom / 8min / 2018 his own. WHY SLUGS HAVE NO LEGS A single mother struggles to connect with her WRI/DIR: Grandmas Switzerland / 11min / 2019 adopted teenage son, who she believes is gay. Barry attempts to elicit the help of his former THERE’S A MOBSTER UNDER MY BED WRI/DIR: Aline Hochli AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE lover Linda after brutally murdering his Australia / 10min / 2018 PROD: Marcel Ramsay, Miochele Wannaz AWAITING DEATH grandmother with a hammer. WRI/DIR: Matthew Smolen Slugs have a hard time keeping up with the pace of Sweden / 12min / 2019 PROD: Hayley Adams life in a city of insects. When a financial crisis hits, THE CIRCLE OF LIFE WRI: Lars Vega With a literal Mobster laying low under the bed the industrious bees only see one solution. Australia / 7min / 2019 – its up to an 8 year old girl to figure out what DIR: Lars Vega, Isabelle Bjorklund WRI/DIR: Dave Wade exactly he’s doing under there, and how to get A FAMILY AFFAIR PROD: Isabelle Bjorklund PROD: Anna Bardsley-Jones, Maxx Corkindale rid of him. United Kingdom / 13min / 2019 A son arrives at the hospital to watch his After believing they’d missed their chance at WRI/DIR: Florence Keith-Roach father’s death bed. When the son wants a parenthood, a loving couple make a discovery THE TENT PROD: Emily Barttelot last nice moment, his father would rather find reignites their hope. Norway / 17min / 2019 When Annabelle wakes up in a strangers bedroom out what to do with the two opened cans of WRI/DIR: Rebecca Figenschau on her 30th birthday, she thinks her day can’t get mustard. THE CIRCLE OF LIFE PROD: Frode Sobstad any worse. But then Bernard walks in. Australia / 7min / 2018 Putting up a tent becomes a fateful event for a CURSED GRANNY WRI/DIR: Dave Wade dysfunctional family of four. Spain / 19min / 2019 DIR: Jonathan Mordechay WRI/PROD: Suso Imbernon, Juanj Moscardo PROD: Maxx Corkindale, Anna Bardsley-Jones DAD’S DIVORCE Rius Javi is traumatized by the horror movies After believing they’d missed their chance at Denmark / 7min / 2019 that his grandmother plays every night. When parenthood, a loving couple make a discovery WRI/DIR: Jesper Sichlau his grandmother suffers an intestinal stoppage, reignites their hope. PROD: Jesper Sichlau, Camilla Schonberg he confuses it with an alien possession. When Oscar and his sister receive the news of WINGS OF THE SPIRIT their parents divorce, they have to do everything Austria / 29min / 2019 in their power to stop it from happening. FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: A Family Affair, WRI/DIR: Albert Meisl FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Nortenos, Are You Division Series, Drubenland - The Land Over, PROD: Lena Weiss Hungry, Cursed Granny, Friends Online It's Christmas A failed Viennese musicologist works as an animal carer and house sitter for wealthy people.

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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 PENGUIN LET ME IN, LET ME IN TRUST FALL SATURDAY 18TH JAN 2:00 PM 1 min / 2019 6 min / 2019 3 min / 2019 DURATION: 101 MINS WRI/DIRPROD: David Pomes WRI/DIR/PROD: Elliot Gibson WRI/DIR/PROD: Austin Macfarlane A little penguin has the dream that he can fly, Fences stand between Lupe and friendship. Will The loyalty of two friends will be tested as they he only needs to find a way. he ever be welcomed in this new country? each partake in a trust fall... GIBA 3 min / 2018 SEEK THE PATH SYMMETRY POLLUTION WRI/DIR: Year 7 Doveton College 4 min / 2019 4 min / 2019 3 min / 2019 PROD: Gene Geoffrey WRI/DIR/PROD: Ian Tyley WRI/DIR/PROD: Rob Plaza WRI/DIR/PROD: James Walker It is Chance’s birthday and he is sent on a Grant Molony, father to Frankie is an artist with We are a constantly evolving culture. The cities The devastating impacts us humans, are having journey into the heart of Australia to protect a an emotional connection to his craft. we live in, the jobs we have shape our direction on planet Earth. special rock. in where we go, but are we heading in the right I NEED SPACE direction? HELLO, WORLD BLOKHEIST 5 min / 2019 6 min / 2019 2 min / 2019 WRI/DIR: Catherine Shepherd HACHIKO WRI/DIR/PROD: Sean Grace, Matthew Lowe WRI/DIR: Otto Page PROD: Stephen McLeod 2 min / 2019 A curious robot ventures into strange new PROD: Georgia Page 51 Pegasi, B Moon, Titan. WRI/ DIR/PROD: Nicole Wang territories, discovering what it means to be Two hapless bank robbers attempt to hold up A couple colonising the planet Titan attempt to A short animated retelling of the story of the human. their local bank. rebuild their relationship amidst a sandstorm. loyal dog, Hachiko. PANDEMIC; MARGARET’S SACRED STONES WANDERLUST SHE LOVES ME… EXPERIENCE 4 min / 2019 5 min / 2019 6 min / 2019 6 min / 2019 WRI/DIR/PROD: CPS, Class 5-6S & Mr L Sollorz WRI/DIR/PROD: Bethany Alexs WRI/DIR/PROD: Bella Merlino WRI/DIR/PROD: Jacob Ure Cabramatta Public School A documentary which explores why people The perfect recipe - Friday night, pizza, wine In the 1950’s Australia was hit with the Polio Aboriginal people have a deep connection to travel, as well as the benefits of doing so. and that special someone. epidemic. This documentary follows Margaret the land. One way they remain connected to the Saunders’ experience battling the crippling land is to represent the elements of the land THE BUSH VAMPIRE WHEN WE WERE ONE disease. through art. 5 min / 2019 9 min / 2019 WRI/DIR: Ludo Blakemore, Olive Blakemore WRI/DIR/PROD: Tadji Ulrich IMAGE EN MOUVEMENT THE LONG DRIVE HOME PROD: Newt Potter When this world is forever torn apart, Will must 2 min / 2019 3 min / 2019 A comedy silent short film set in the bush. find a way to hold on to Aimee and for them to WRI/DIR/PROD: Jamisyn Chapman WRI/DIR/PROD: Austin Allison-Hall once more be as one. An experimental art film that explores the A strange and mysterious night time journey EVE relationship between still and moving images, home. 8 min / 2019 718 THOUSAND HOURS with inspiration from the French New Wave WRI/DIR/PROD Lola Rose Bond 3 min / 2019 Movement. LA LUNA TRISTA Set in the near future in a society where all WRI/DIR/PROD: Kate Snashall 1 min / 2019 movements and tasks are performed for A spoken word poem motivating today’s youth WRI/DIR Anna, Charlotte, Kim, Liana, Waiora, humans by paternalistic android figures. to embrace life more and spend less time on Yadullah their devices. PROD: Gene Geoffrey TREASURE MAP A sad moon wants to make new friends. 2 min / 2019 MILES APART WRI/DIR: Catherine Shepherd 8 min / 2019 PROD: Stephen McLeod WRI/DIR: Sam Sperling Victor has found the location of the X as PROD: Deborah Cave described on a treasure map. A teenager wrestles with a past event.

FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: I need Space, Seek FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Pollution, the Path, Pandemic, Long drive home Imageenmovement, She loves me, GIBA

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A delightful and entertaining program of shorts for families that will appeal to the kid in everyone.

FLiCKERKIDS THE FOX AND THE BIRD TUESDAY 14TH JAN 2:00PM Switzerland / 12min / 2019 DURATION: 86 MINS WRI: Vincent Gessler, Christophe Pagnon DIR: Samuel Guillaume, Frederic Guillaume my other address PROD: Robert Boner SMALL A solitary fox finds itself improvising fatherhood Australia / 1min / 2018 for a freshly hatched baby bird. WRI/DIR/PROD: Justin Archer This film’s not big enough for both of us. THE GIRL AND THE CAT Singapore / 13min / 2018 Full service apartment hotels MAESTRO WRI: Ervin Han France / 2min / 2019 DIR: Ervin Han, Bernard Toh in central locations across Australia DIR: Illogic PROD: Rachel Phang PROD: Bloom Pictures When a young girl is separated from her mother Proud supporter of Flickerfest 2020 Deep into a forest, a gathering of wild animals at a night market, she meets a cat who brings start a nocturnal opera, conducted by a squirrel. her deep into the underbelly of the bazaar where ATHLETICUS: fantasy meets reality. SYNCHRONISED TRAMPOLINE ELDERS TBC France / 2min / 2019 Australia / 10min / 2019 WRI/DIR: Sylvain Grain WRI: Tracey Rigney Image: Adina Apartment Hotel Brisbane, 171 George Street Hippos watch the perfect performance of two DIR: Tony Briggs seals. When it’s the hippos turn to perform, will PROD: Damienne Pradier they measure up? Two Elders feel their grandson is ready to start learning vitally important lessons that will equip BAGOLD! him with the tools to maintain the future survival Australia / 5min / 2019 of his culture. 12PM TO LATE WRI: Maija O’Keefe SNACKS + DRINKS + SOUNDS DIR: Andrew O’Keefe A TOWN CALLED PANIC – PROD: Tuuli Forward THE COUNTRY FAIR When a girl makes a magical discovery in her Belgium / 26min / 2019 egg box, she sets out to discover which of her WRI: Vincent Pater, Stephane Aubier, Vincent chickens laid the golden egg. Tavier DIR: Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar MELTING HEART CAKE PROD: Vincent Tavier, Nicolas Schmerkin France / 11min / 2019 A horse, an Indian and a Cowboy race to find WRI/DIR: Benoit Chieux ICE their missing tickets to the Annual Agricultural PROD: Ron Dyens Fair before it’s too late. To share her chocolate cake with her friend, Anna must cross a dangerous and terrifying glacial forest. SHEEP Germany / 4min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Julia Ocker PROD: Thomas Meyer-Hermann The lamb hops from one risky adventure into the FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Bagold!, Athleticus next. The flock would never take that risk! BERGS Synchronised Trampoline, Elders, The Girl WALK-INS WELCOME

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

RAINBOW SHORTS AFTER YOU LEFT THURSDAY 16 JAN 6:30 PM United States / 9min / 2019 DURATION: 111 MINS WRI/DIR: April Maxey PROD: Maron Warhaftig, Jatnna Villalona The memories come flooding back when Flickerfest is celebrating LGBTQI+ stories from Andrea’s ex-girlfriend returns the last few items around the world in our third year of Rainbow from their prior life together. Shorts, curated by award winning queer AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE filmmaker Craig Boreham. THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US AND BLACK HAT THE SKY United States / 15min / 2018 France / 9min / 2019 WRI: Phillip Guttmann WRI/DIR: Vasilis Kekatos DIR: Sarah Smith PROD: Blackbird Production, Tripodes PROD: Yaniv Rokah Production Shmuel is a pious Hasidic man whose life Two strangers meet for the first time in an old changes in a way he never expected when he gas station. One has stopped to gas his bike goes on a journey to find his misplaced black and the other is stranded. hat. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE MY BROTHER IS A MERMAID United Kingdom / 20min / 2019 DARLING WRI/DIR/PROD: Alfie Dale USA, Pakistan / 16min / 2019 A social realist fairytale about a transfeminine WRI: Saim Sadiq, Rodney Llaverias teenager, as seen through the eyes of their DIR: Saim Sadiq 7-year-old brother. PROD: Mahak Jiwani, Nadia Afgan AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A sacrificial goat goes missing, a dreamy trans girl desperately tries to become a star and a naïve young boy falls in love. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE THE TEAR’S THING France / 25min / 2019 WRI: Clémence Poesy, Eric Forestier DIR: Clémence Poesy PROD: Nelson Ghrénassia (Yukunkun) Florence is an actress and the preparations for her new role will challenge her in a way she could never have seen coming. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE HOW TO SAY I LOVE YOU AT NIGHT United States / 17min / 2019 WRI/DIR: Andree Ljutica PROD: Andree Ljutica, Maximillian Kurzweil A sixteen minute single take film exploring notions of male-on-male violence, sexuality FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: After You Left, and intimacy through one encounter gone Black Hat, My Brother Is A Mermaid, Darling awry between a drugged up, Benny and an emotionally distraught Paul. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

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INTERNATIONAL JURY Gracie has a number of projects in various TANITH GLYNN- AUSTRALIAN JURY PETER PHELPS Peter’s theatre credits include starring in the stages of development including Armistead MALONEY Edinburgh Festival hit Beyond A Reasonable Peter Phelps is one of Maupin’s audacious novel Maybe The Moon; Doubt, the sell out Australian tour of 12 Angry Tanith Glynn-Maloney MAYA STANGE Australia’s busiest and GRACIE OTTO and Girls In Hotels, a feature drama set in luxury Men, and The Sum Of Us and Nicholas Nickleby is a Kaytetye/Luritja best-known actors; he hotels featuring beautiful actresses from around Maya Stange is an for Sydney Theatre Company. In 2011, Peter Gracie Otto is an women from Central has appeared indozens the world, with funding from Screen Australia, in Award-Winning highly starred as a lead role in Wayne Harrison’s accomplished Australian Australia. She hails of celebrated film, development with Dollhouse Pictures, a company sought after and production of Stainless Steel Rat at the filmmaker, a 2006 from a creative family television and theatre Gracie formed with other Australian women respected film and Seymour Centre and in 2012; he performed graduate of Sydney and has always had a love of Indigenous film. productions. On television, Peter is perhaps including Rose Byrne. television actress, in the Australian Tour of David Williamson’s Film School. Her Tanith is currently in production on Warwick best known for the role of Peter Church on the known for her starring Let The Sunshine, directed by Denis Moris. acclaimed debut feature During her recent time living in Los Angeles, Thornton’s new documentary series The Beach long running Network Nine TV series Stingers. roles in a range of films including In 2014, he performed the lead role in David documentary, The Last Impresario, premiered at Gracie fulfilled an ambition by completing four for NITV. Tanith co-produced Robbie Hood, A Suburban Peter was a series regular Fire, The Flying Williamson’s Cruise Control at The Ensemble the 2013 London Film Festival and was released courses in Stand Up Comedy, Storytelling and winner of the AACTA Award for best online Love Story, Killing Ground, Garage Days and XX/ Doctors, ABC TV’s Old School and the US and the popular US hit TV show . Theatre. Peter has directed episodes of All in all major territories. Improv at UCB. Gracie is repped by WME in the series 2019. She also produced award winning XY, Burn Notice series Baywatch. His extensive guest TV credits Maya is well known for her work across a Saints and Home & Away for Channel Seven. She has just made her television series debut, US and Yellow Agency in Australia. feature documentary She Who Must Be Loved. include Police Rescue, Heartbreak High, A range of popular Australian Television programs directing the second series of The Other Guy, an Tanith is creative partners with Indigenous Country Practice, Rafferty’s Rules, Blue Murder, including RENÉE MARIE original comedy drama for Stan, starring Matt DON MCALPINE filmmaker, Dylan River, together they run Love Child, Wolf Creek, A Place to Water Rats, Chandon Pictures, Underbelly: A and . She is PETROPOULOS Okine, Harriet Dyer and Claudia Karvan. ‘Since1788 Productions. Their AACTA award Call Home The Secret Daughter Tale Of Two Cities and recurring guest roles on Don McAlpine began consistently recognised for her work on screen, Gracie is currently filming , winning short filmNulla Nulla screened at the All Saints, Rescue Special Ops, Home & Away Renée Marie Under The Volcano his career as a and has been nominated for a series of AFI a feature documentary on the late Sir George Berlin International Film Festival before going and Mr and Mrs Murder. From 2013-2015, Petropoulos is an share farmer, then Awards for her work in the feature films Garage Martin’s legendary recording studio on the on to screen as part of the Flickerfest Australian Peter filmed seasons 1 & 2 of Channel Ten’s award winning Greek- a schoolteacher. Days and In A Savage Land. Maya’s Projects Caribbean island of Montserrat, where everyone programme in 2016. Wonderland in the lead role Warwick Wilcox. Australian filmmaker He joined the ABC currently in post production and development from Paul McCartney, Elton John, Dire Straits Most recently Peter could be seen in Shine from Sydney, Australia. as an assistant are the feature films, Book Week and the TV and Sting hung out and created some of the Productionstelevision mini series, High Road Her most recent short film, Tangles and Knots cinematographer and in 1969 shot The Series We Were Tomorrow. Maya has a huge best music of the 1980s. She is also making and ABC’s new television drama, Les Norton, as (2018), premiered at the Berlinale 2018: Adventures of Barry McKenzie. love of short films and has appeared in the a personal documentary on her father, Otto Mick Matthews. Generation 14Plus competition, followed by He was the initial Director of Photography following Trespass,Two Bites, Mother and Stye on Otto, and was Associate Producer of Nick screenings at the SXSW 2018, Palm Springs discovered by Hollywood. His large body of work – all which have been part of Flickerfest. Peter’s other television credits include; Broomfield’s documentary International Shortfest 2018, Melbourne Whitney Can I includes The Dressmaker, Romeo & Juliet, Mrs Les Darcy in the telemovie The Les Darcy and screened at Flickerfest 2019 in International Film Festival 2018, Flickerfest Be Me Doubtfire and Moulin Rouge for which he was Story, and Mick Webb in One Way Ticket, a 2019 and many more renowned festivals competition. nominated for an Academy Award. telemovie inspired by a 1993 jailbreak. Peter also appeared opposite Judd Nelson, in the worldwide. The film was also nominated for Gracie has directed an incredible slate of TVCs, \Some 60+ feature films and 50 years on he telemovie Blackwater Trail, starred in the hugely the 2018 AACTA Award for Best Short Fiction including recent campaigns for Bonds, Seafolly is still dedicated to producing the best work he successful Network Nine series Underbelly: A Film, the 2019 ADG Award for Best Direction and Myer in Australia, and Tresemme and Gigi can. His most recent endeavour was supporting Hadid for Maybelline in New York. Her award Tale Of Two Cities. He also won the AFI Award in a Student Short Film and awarded the director Jeffrey Walker in the production of The winning fashion films have featured celebrities for best actor in a leading Role in a TV Drama Canon Award for Best Direction at Flickerfest Lambs of God. including Selena Gomez, Elle Fanning, Elizabeth for GP (ABC TV), and the 2002 Silver Logie for 2019. Since receiving her MFA in Directing at Debicki, Emilia Clarke and Miranda Kerr. Stingers. Columbia University, Renée has continued to push her cinematic practices, with a particular Peter has been the lead in many Australian Her recent short film, Desert Dash which she focus on female-driven stories. wrote, directed and starred in, won the Soho feature films including Teesh and Trude, Zone House IWC North American Script Competition 39, The Lighthorseman and Playing Beatie Bow, and has been shortlisted as Best Short Film in Footy Legends, Ned Kelly, Stoned Bros, Caught the upcoming AACTA Awards. Inside, The Square opposite Joel Edgerton, The Line and the critically acclaimed Lantana opposite Anthony LaPaglia and Geoffrey Rush. In 2015, Peter starred as Cassidy in Australian feature film Embedded, directed by Stephen Sewell. Peter most recently appeared in the feature film Locusts and short film Beverley, alongside Susie Porter.

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DOCUMENTARY JURY IAN DARLING AO SAMANTHA LANG ASEAN JURY VONNE PATIAG JILLIAN NGUYEN Vonne Patiag is a Jillian will be the female Ian Darling is an award- Samantha Lang works Filmmaker based in lead in romantic U.S/ DYLAN RIVER winning documentary through her production LESLEY ROSE Western Sydney and Australian sci-fi feature filmmaker with Shark company Handmaid LOUISE ALWAY Dylan River is an the Director of In- Loveland, directed by Island Productions in Media. She is producer, filmmaker from Alice Lesley Alway has Between Pictures, a Mystery Road's Ivan Sydney. director, writer, and Springs, Australia. had a long career in production company Sen and co-starring His Director and visual artist. Working in He grew up in a cultural management, interested in producing personal stories that Ryan Kwanten and Hugo Weaving. Producer credits include The Final Quarter, Australia, Europe and the US over the last 20 years, creative family filled policy and leadership dissect issues of racism and prejudice in Paul Kelly – Stories of Me, The Oasis, Suzy & her films have screened at major international She plays the role of Molly Kane in the feature with numerous filmmakers and from an early across a broad range Australia - localised stories with global appeal. the Simple Man, In the Company of Actors, festivals including Sundance, Toronto, Locarno, The True History of the Kelly Gang, directed by age thought filmmaking was boring and not for of art forms in the government, non-profit and Alone Across Australia, Woodstock for and have received international recognition at the In 2019 he was profiled as a Producer Justin Kurzel and starring Russell Crowe. The him! He couldn’t have been more wrong...... private sectors. She has also been involved Capitalists, Polly & Me, and The Soldier. He is highest level, her film The Well competing at the in the Ones To Watch (SPA) program and film is based on the Booker Prize-winning novel In 2013 his debut documentary titled: with a wide range of cultural capital projects. appeared twice at the Sydney Opera House - by Peter Carey. an Executive Producer of Toxic Labour, 2040, Cannes Film Festival for the prestigious Palme and her previous roles include the Director, “Buckskin”, won Foxtel Documentary Prize at The Fourth Estate,The Bleeding Edge, Unrest, D’Or. In Australia, Samantha’s films have been he made his speaking debut during All About Continuing a run of exciting breakout projects, the 60th annual Sydney Film Festival, and was Asialink Arts, Managing Director of Sotheby’s Women, joining Clementine Ford and Osher InventingTomorrow and How to Change the awarded many times including – at the Australian Australia, Director / CEO of Heide Museum and Jillian recently filmed a key role in SBS original selected in the program for the prestigious World. Film Institute Awards and the Sydney Film Festival. Gunsberg in a discussion about modern drama Hungry Ghosts, which will air in 2020. Adelaide Film festival, followed by its air date on the Director of Arts Victoria. Lesley is currently masculinity, and also premiered his short He was Founder of Good Pitch Australia and In 2015 – her film Carlotta was nominated for five Jillian was part of the ensemble cast of King the 13th of October 2013 on ABC. the Chair of Geelong Arts Centre and a member documentary connectIRL as part of Antidote Documentary Australia Foundation. AACTA awards and won three. of the Australian ASEAN Council appointed Cross Theatre's The Serpent's Teeth and has His jump into drama with film Nulla“ Nulla” has Festival. His latest project Halal Gurls (ABC, Ian Darling received the Byron Kennedy Award through DFAT. She has also served previously appeared in lead roles in many short films. taken him to the Berlin Film festival. Sydney As well as being a creative practitioner, she has Create NSW), which he produced, directed and at the 2018 AACTA Awards. He received on the Boards of Opera Australia and the She is a graduate of the full-time acting course Film festival, MIFF, and lastly an AACTA Win. mentored, supervised and lectured postgraduate wrote inclusively alongside a team of Muslim/ the AFI/AACTA Award for Best Direction in a film students in her capacity as Head of Directing Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. female writers, was released on ABC iView at 16th Street Actors Studio in Melbourne 2017 saw him work as second unit director Documentary, is a Walkley Awards Finalist, at AFTRS (2010-2016), as well as mentored Lesley’s academic qualifications include an in October 2019. He was recently awarded and holds a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in and cinematographer on “Sweet Country” winner of the Film Critics Award, and has been emerging practitioners at SNSW, HIVE at AIFF, MBA from Monash University, BA (Hons) and the Spirit Of The West award by Made In The Media Communication, from The University of which world premiered at the Venice Film nominated for numerous AFI/AACTA, Australian and SA. Presently she is a DCA candidate at the B.Ed. from the University of Melbourne. She is a West Film Festival, honouring his continued Melbourne. festival, picking up the special jury prize and Directors Guild, , SPAA and IF awards. University of Technology, Sydney. Her areas of Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company work in promoting and championing Western Jillian was born as Huyen Dieu at a Sungai Besi best film at TIFF. interest are cultural narratives in the Anthropocene, Directors (2013) Sydney filmmaking. refugee camp in Malaysia. Both her parents In 2018 Dylan completed his second eco-feminine cinema, environmental humanities, Lesley is based both in Queenscliff on the His short films have screened at multiple are Vietnamese, with Chinese heritage on her documentary “Finke: There and back” and gender studies. Bellarine peninsula and in Melbourne. festivals across the world - Tomgirl, funded mother's side. She immigrated to Australia Narated by Eric Bana and playing at all In 2015 Samantha was elected as President of the through the GEFF Initiative (Create NSW, SBS) when she was 14 months old. major Austrian film festivals, its set to be Australian Directors’ Guild with a mandate to create screened internationally at Palms Springs released in mid 2019. greater diversity across gender, race and class in Shortsfest, and in the UK and China and is His most recent project “Robbie Hood” is a 6 the sector. As part of this remit she remains on the currently available to watch on SBS onDemand. x 10min series for SBS. It is a retelling of the taskforce at Screen Australia that rolled out the His film Window also premiered at St Kilda famous folk tail set in his home town of Alice Gender Matters Initiative in 2016. Film Festival and continued to play numerous Springs. Samantha’s current projects include a VR project – national festivals. He is also a recipient of Dylan is motivated to staying behind the PrehistoricVR with Erth Physical, The Anthropocene development and production funding for his camera, telling stories close to home. VR project, screen adaptations of Nakkiah Lui’s Kill latest comedy series Boy (Space) Friends, The Messenger, Alice Pung’s Laurinda, as well continuing his focus on issues of masculinity, as a TV series Night Games with Aquarius Films. racism and queer identity in Western Sydney. Sam’s feature documentary It All Started with a Stale Sandwich premiered at the 2019 Sydney Film Festival. FLICKERFEST 2020 JURY FLICKERLAB

PRESENTED BY SAE SAE FLICKERUP JURY Other credits followed, including a lead guest RAINBOW SHORTS CURATOR A ONE-DAY JOURNEY FROM SHORTS TO FEATURES role in Steven Spielberg's Terra Nova and the short film Julian, which took out the Crystal FRIDAY 17TH JAN 2020, 10AM - 5PM JESSICA ELLICOTT Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlin Film CRAIG BOREHAM Jessica Ellicott Festival in the Generation KPlus category. Craig Boreham is an is a writer and a Morgan later appeared in Return To The Devil's award-winning writer and director. His short film distribution Playground for Foxtel (Director: Rachel Ward) FlickerLab gives you the chance to immerse SESSIONS MARKET TO MARKET – CONQUER films have screened at executive. She is the and in Alice Englert's short film The Boyfriend yourself in the latest filmmaking trends as THE WORLD ON ALL PLATFORMS: Marketing Executive at over 200 international you spend the day with some of the industry’s FROM IDEA TO PAGE Game, which premiered at TIFF. festivals and his debut DISTRIBUTION, FESTIVALS AND Transmission Films, and leading film experts, offering up their expertise 10.00AM – 11.30AM MULTI-PLATFORM DISTRIBUTION is one of the editors of online film publication feature film Teenage Kicks premiered at the and wisdom with a range of panels designed to RENEE BRACK 3.45PM – 5.15PM 4:3. Her film criticism has featured in SBS Sydney Film Festival to critical acclaim. enhance and develop your creative ideas and Everyone will tell you a good script is an A graduate of UTS, essential ingredient for any good film. Our Movies, ABC Radio National, The Big Issue, get your film noticed in the marketplace. The Now your short film is finished. What next? Australia with a panel of experienced screenwriters will discuss Runway and 4:3. She has covered numerous RAINBOW SHORTS JURY entire scope of the film making experience is How do you launch your next project? This Master of Creative turning a good idea into a good script, looking international film festivals, including the Cannes covered, from initial concept through to script, informative session puts the spotlight on Arts (documentary and in detail at development, collaboration and Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival producing, marketing, distribution and the marketing and distribution trends to get your VR) and Macquarie script editing. They will share their insights and Filmfest Munich, and was a participant in FADIA ABBOUD latest cross platform and alternative distribution short, feature, web or TV series seen by the Uni in screen and about their own transitions from independent the 2016 Melbourne International Film Festival Fadia Abboud is methods. largest audiences possible. The panel will media studies, Renée Brack is an acclaimed shorts to lauded feature films. Discussions Critics Campus program. She is a current a community arts dissect traditional distribution models and storyteller, journalist, writer and screen Listen, share, network and engage as our will also include observations about writing advisory panel member at both Sydney Film worker. She has offer up innovative cross platform alternatives. professional with 20+ years experience in film panellists guide you through the joys and for some of television’s most successful and Festival and Film in Revolt. directed films, In the age of digital distribution find out how TV, print and digital. She has written, produced challenges of filmmaking. Absorb essential tips acclaimed dramas. This valuable session television and web these new models can enhance the viewing and directed short films; scripted and directed and knowledge and be inspired on your own is a must for all budding screenwriters and MORGAN DAVIES series including Here potential of your film and build your filmmaking plays produced in the world’s largest play creative journey. filmmakers looking to develop and write scripts. Morgan plays Oberon Come the Habibs! And Les Norton and was reputation. festival, Short+Sweet; has pioneered research in Foxtel's upcoming Co-director of the Arab Film Festival Australia Our panellists on the day will include Sophie into a scripting template for immersive content THE DIRECTOR’S JOURNEY series The End, by See- for 10 years. Hyde (Writer/Director: Animals, 52 Tuesdays), NETWORKING DRINKS (VR, CVR, 360) originated by filmmaker Elia 11.45AM – 1.15PM Saw Films. Alex White (Producer: Babyteeth), Imogen PRESENTED BY SAE CREATIVE Petridis of Fever Content, LA and scripted the ADRIAN McCluskey (Writer/Director/Producer: MEDIA INSTITUTE He had a lead role in Intimately follow the career path of an award-winning short film Red Handed which CHIARELLA Suburbian Animals), Andrew Knight (Writer: 5.15PM – 6.45PM the enormously popular esteemed Australian director from independent has screened in multiple international film Hacksaw Ridge, Ali’s Wedding and The Water Series 2 of The Girlfriend Experience, a Starz Adrian Chiarella is a short filmmaker to feature film director. Areas festivals. Diviner), Samantha Jennings (producer Cargo, Please join the panellists and participating Original Series, and a lead in the re-telling of writer, director and of discussion will include script development, She has a development slate of female- Buoyancy) Danny Le Chevre (Fanforce), Marcus filmmakers for drinks, mingling and iconic feature filmStorm Boy. script editor in short working collaboratively, casting, directing Gillezeau, Jonathan Page (Transmission Films), collaborative opportunities after the final centric stories for screen as well as the film, feature films actors, where ideas come from and how to Morgan made his screen debut at only seven Courtney Bottfield (Bunya Productions), Andrea session. documentary Ticketyboo: a Secret in Plain and television. He make the leap from shorts to features. years of age, opposite Charlotte Gainsbourg Sight about innovative, artistic, compassionate currently works in development for Tony Ayres’ Ulbrick (Screen NSW), Bobby Romia (Screen Why not follow that up by attending Love Bites in the Australian/French feature film The Tree. 2 at 6:30pm and Short Laughs Comedy at design to help people engage with dementia. production company, TAP. NSW), Garry Maddox. MAKING IT HAPPEN Directed by Julie Bertuccelli, the film premiered 8:45pm. She gives back to the filmmaking community by For more information about FlickerLab and full 2.00PM – 3.30PM on closing night of the Cannes Film Festival and nurturing the next wave of screen professionals PETER POLITES earned Morgan rave reviews. His performance list of panelists please visit Flickerfest.com.au as an EP and creative consultant on a range Peter Polites is The Producer oversees the entire film from was honoured with a Film Critics Circle Award of award-winning films, documentary and web a writer of Greek the initial idea, right through to production and and AFI nominations in both the categories of series, overseeing production from concept to descent from Western distribution. They are key in making it happen. Best Lead Actor and Best Young Actor. transmission. Sydney. His debut Our panellists discuss the role of the producer, The following year, Morgan appeared in The A common response to her writing is, “I’ve novel, Down the from budgeting and financing to marketing, Hunter, an adaptation of the award-winning never looked at it that way before” – testament Hume, was shortlisted distribution and everything in between. Every novel by Julia Leigh. The film, staring Willem to her creative and fresh approach to the for a NSW Premier’s Literary Award in 2017. producer is different and this diverse panel will Dafoe and Sam Neill, premiered at the Toronto stories she crafts. His second novel, The Pillars, was released to share their differing approaches to the very International Film Festival (TIFF) and saw wide acclaim in 2019. important task of getting the film made. Morgan again nominated for an AFI (AACTA).

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Arts Centre Liz Harkman Goldie Soetianto Rozlyn Clayton-Vincent Birdsville Oval/Hall Dena Curtis Ryan Murphy Wed 12 Feb Sun 1 Mar Fri 27 Mar (TBC) Fri 8 May Rich Warren CHOREOGRAPHER Lies Bruines Di Robertson Sanam Rodrigues Nat Jobe Dimitri Ellerington TOOWOOMBA - QLD MARYBOROUGH - QLD JANDOWAE, QLD AIRLIE BEACH - QLD Linda O. 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