29TH INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

ELECTRIFYING SHORT FILMS Catch some of the most innovative, provocative and wildly entertaining short films the world has to offer at ’s leading Academy® qualifying and BAFTA-recognised short film festival this summer! FLICKERFEST CKERFEST2020 FL i

FLiCKERFEST.COM.AU TOUR DATES BONDI - NSW TOOWOOMBA - QLD COFFS HARBOUR - NSW BROOME - WA ALICE SPRINGS - NT CYGNET - TAS HUNTER VALLEY - NSW Bondi Pavilion Empire Theatre, Armitage Jetty Theatre Sun Pictures Araluen Arts Centre Lawns Cygnet Town Hall Peter Drayton Winery Fri 10 – Sun 19 Jan Sat 15 Feb Fri 28 Feb Fri 6 - Sat 7 Mar Fri 20 - Sat 21 Mar Sat 4 Apr Sat 2 May

MULLUM/BYRON - NSW NEWCASTLE - NSW BARRABA - NSW SAWTELL - NSW HUSKISSON, NSW NOOSA - QLD LIGHTNING RIDGE - NSW Mullumbimby Civic Hall Event Cinemas Kotara The Playhouse Hotel Majestic Cinemas Huskisson Pictures The J, Noosa Junction Black Opal Heritage Shed Thu 30 Jan - Sat 1 Feb Sat 15 Feb Sat 29 Feb Sat 7 Mar Sat 21 Mar Wed 8 Apr Wed 6 May

ADELAIDE - SA BRISBANE - QLD KEMPSEY - NSW CYGNET - TAS PORT MACQUARIE - NSW MERIMBULA - NSW BIRDSVILLE - QLD Cygnet Town Hall Club Sapphire Merimbula Birdsville Oval/Hall Mercury Cinema Palace James St Cinemas Majestic Cinemas Majestic Cinemas Sat 7 Mar Fri 17 Apr Fri 8 May (TBC) Sat 8 Feb Thu 20 Feb Sat 29 Feb Sat 21 Mar CANOWINDRA - NSW AIRLIE BEACH - QLD NARRABRI - NSW NARROGIN - WA NAMBOUR - QLD GRIFFITH - NSW GOLD COAST - QLD Airlie Beach PCYC Crossing Theatre Griffith Regional Theatre HOTA Canowindra Showground Thornton Theatre Majestic Cinemas Fri 17 Apr Fri 8 - Sat 9 May Sat 8 Feb Thur 20 - Sat 22 Feb Sat 29 Feb Sat 14 Mar Wed 25 Mar HOBART - TAS TOWNSVILLE - QLD MELBOURNE - VIC MARYBOROUGH - QLD MURWILLUMBAH - NSW CAIRNS - QLD GUNNEDAH - NSW Peacock Theatre, SAC Otto’s Market CPAC Cairns Perf. Arts Centre Palace Kino Cinemas Civic Theatre Brolga Theatre Regent Cinema Thur 30 Apr - Fri 1 May Sat 9 - Sun 10 May Wed 12 Feb Sun 23 Feb Sun 1 Mar Sun 15 Mar Fri 27 Mar KATHERINE - NT DALBY - QLD JANDOWAE, QLD KALGOORLIE - WA DINNER PLAIN - VIC PERTH - WA S/W ROCKS - NSW Stage Left Theatre Katherine Cinemas Ski Run, Snow Park S/W Roxy Cinema Dalby Cinema Jandowae Rec Reserve Date TBC Camelot Outdoor Cinema Fri 27 Mar Fri 24 Apr Dates TBC Thu 27 - Sat 29 Feb Sat 6, Sat 13, Sat 20 Mar Fri 20 Mar KUNUNURRA - WA CHINCHILLA - QLD DRILLHAM, QLD CYGNET - TAS NOOSA - QLD MACKAY - QLD KNX Picture Gardens Drillham Hall Cygnet Town Hall CQ Con of Music Chinchilla Cinema Thu 21 May The J, Noosa Junction Sat 28 Mar Fri 2 May Fri 28 Feb Fri 6 - Sat 7 Mar Sat 21 Mar CANBERRA - ACT DARWIN - NT Palace Electric Cinema Deckchair Cinema Wed 1 - Thur 2 Apr Fri 2 May TOUR PROGRAM

BEST OF AUSTRALIAN UTOPIA BEST OF INTERNATIONAL no matter what the cost, he DAD’S DIVORCE A FAMILY AFFAIR SHEEP DURATION: 109 MINS Australia / 15min / 2019 DURATION: 100 MINS absolutely has to be cast in a / 7min / 2019 / 13min / 2019 / 4min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Kosta Nikas role in someone’s life. WORLD WRI/DIR: Jesper Sichlau WRI/DIR: Florence Keith-Roach WRI/DIR: Julia Ocker PREMIERE REBOOTED PROD: Kosta Nikas, Aaron MEMORABLE PROD: Jesper Sichlau, Camilla PROD: Emily Barttelot PROD: Thomas Meyer- Australia / 13min / 2019 Bush, Rishi Shukla / 12min / 2019 THE MARVELOUS Schonberg When Annabelle wakes up in Hermann WRI/DIR: Michael Shanks A man returns to his country WRI/DIR: Bruno Collet MISADVENTURES OF THE When Oscar and his sister a strangers bedroom on her The lamb hops from one risky PROD: Nicholas Colla, Chris after decades abroad only PROD: Jean-François Le Corre, STONE LADY receive the news of their 30th birthday, she thinks her adventure into the next. The Hocking/LateNite Films to discover a society where Mathieu Courtois Portugal / 20min / 2019 WRI/ parents divorce, they have to day can’t get any worse. But flock would never take that risk! It’s not easy for a movie-star to therea re more freedoms Recently, Louis, a painter is DIR: Gabriel Abrantes PROD: do everything in their power to then Bernard walks in. THE FOX AND THE BIRD age, especially when you’re a inside prison than outside experiencing strange events, his Justin Taurand, Gabriel stop it from happening. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Switzerland / 12min / 2019 stop motion animated skeleton it. Desperate, but unable to world seems to be mutating. Abrantes AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI: Vincent Gessler, monster. escape, the brave act of one AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Tired of being a banal THE CIRCLE OF LIFE FLiCKERKIDS Christophe Pagnon AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE woman gives him his freedom. architectural ornament, a Australia / 7min / 2019 DURATION: 86 MINS DIR: Samuel Guillaume, THIS PERFECT DAY AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE RE-ENTRY sculpture runs away from the WRI/DIR: Dave Wade Frederic Guillaume The / 9min / 2019 Louvre to confront real life on SMALL Australia / 7min / 2018 THE COMPLEX PROD: Anna Bardsley-Jones, PROD: Robert Boner WRI/DIR: Lydia Rui WRI: Andy Weir the streets of Paris. Maxx Corkindale Australia / 1min / 2018 A solitary fox finds itself Australia / 15min / 2019 DIR: Ben Brand AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR/PROD: Justin Archer PROD: Olivia Cheung WRI/DIR: Dane McCusker After believing they’d missed improvising fatherhood for a Jules, a wayward youth, walks PROD: Studio Ruba their chance at parenthood, a This film’s not big enough for freshly hatched baby bird. PROD: Jessica Murphy, Chris When a man (you) dies in a into a music store. This could SHORT LAUGHS COMEDY loving couple make a discovery both of us. Squadrito, Jamie Lewis traffic accident and gets into THE GIRL AND THE CAT be the day that changes their DURATION: 108 MINS reignites their hope. MAESTRO While moving into a new a conversation with God, he Singapore / 13min / 2018 life. WORLD PREMIERE France / 2min / 2019 apartment, a young woman gets an answer to the biggest WRI: Ervin Han AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Illogic must content with the question of life. DIVISION SERIES SCHOOL’S OUT DIR: Ervin Han, Bernard Toh PROD: Bloom Pictures A DAY IN YOUR LIFE advances of a neighbour. WORLD PREMIERE Korea / 6min / 2019 The Netherlands / 11 min / PROD: Rachel Phang A taut social drama, The WRI/DIR: Ho Kwon Kim 2018 Deep into a forest, a gathering When a young girl is separated Australia / 17min / 2018 THE JACKPOT of wild animals start a nocturnal WRI/DIR: Milena Bennett Complex is an exploration of PROD: Jin Soo Lee WRI: Renske De Greef from her mother at a night the patriarchal bear-trap that is Germany / 23min / 2019 A Prime Minister goes into DIR: Jamille van Wijngaarden opera, conducted by a squirrel. market, she meets a cat PROD: Emma Diaz WRI/DIR: Alice von Gwinner modern gender relations. KFC to buy a chicken, but PROD: The Rogues ATHLETICUS: SYNCHRONISED who brings her deep into the A meditation on PROD: Alice von Gwinner, Hana WORLD PREMIERE the chicken is all sold out. At When mother Marit wants to TRAMPOLINE underbelly of the bazaar where homelessness, A Day In Your Geisendorfer another table, presidents from discuss the behaviour of her France / 2min / 2019 fantasy meets reality. Life is quiet, thoughtful and FOR THE GIRL IN THE COFFEE Thanks to his best friend, the other countries start playing son during a parent-teach WRI: Grégory Baranes, Nicolas deeply human, it is a gentle SHOP chicken, Albert finds himself ELDERS cards to win the last chicken conference, teacher Yvonne Deveaux look at the world around us Australia / 9min / 2019 involved in a fateful game of Australia / 10min / 2019 basket. can’t repress her pent-up DIR: Nicolas Deveaux and the people pushed to its WRI/DIR: Rebekah Jackson chance that leads him to his WRI: Tracey Rigney AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE feelings anymore. PROD: Lionel Fages, Sylvain margins. PROD: Rebekah Jackson, true love. But was it really all DIR: Tony Briggs A murderous comedy with Grain AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Elaine Beckett just a coincidence? ARE YOU HUNGRY? PROD: Damienne Pradier finger paint. Hippos watch the perfect To get his book published, AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Finland / 12min / 2019 Two Elders feel their grandson FEATHERWEIGHT a hopeless romantic must WRI: Antti Toivonen AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE performance of two seals. is ready to start learning vitally Australia / 13min / 2019 divulge his true feelings to his TATTOO DIR: Teemu Niukkanen IT’S CHRISTMAS When it’s the hippos turn to important lessons that will WRI: David Vincent Smith muse; the only problem is that Iran / 15min / 2018 PROD: Daniel Kuitunen Australia / 20min / 2019 perform, will they measure up? equip him with the tools to WRI: Farhad Delaram, Dena DIR: Sam Lara he’s never actually spoken to A mother struggles to connect WRI: Tyson Yates BAGOLD! maintain the future survival of Rassam PROD: Jess Parker her before. with her adopted teenage son, DIR: Owen Smith Australia / 5min / 2019 his culture. DIR: Farhad Delaram Tas takes up boxing in an NSW PREMIERE who she believes to be gay. PROD: Gabriel Stoltz, WRI: Maija O’Keefe PROD: Dena Rassam A TOWN CALLED PANIC – effort to get away from her In an attempt to guide him Sam Monaghan, Tamara DIR: Andrew O’Keefe CHICKEN A young Iranian woman is trying THE COUNTRY FAIR unstable mother and get safely through this period of McLauchlin, Kyle McCallion PROD: Tuuli Forward Australia / 10min / 2019 to renew her drivers license, Belgium / 26min / 2019 closer to her estranged father. exploration, she sets him up on Its Darren’s first Christmas When a girl makes a magical WRI/DIR: Alana Hicks but when officials notice scars WRI: Vincent Pater, Stephane THE EGG a date. with the in-laws. His only discovery in her egg box, she PROD: Sleena Wilson and a tattoo on her wrist they Aubier, Vincent Tavier Australia / 10min / 2019 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE job was to bring the prawns, sets out to discover which of her All Barbara wants to do is become suspicious. DIR: Stephane Aubier, WRI/DIR: Jane Cho watch the Simpsons, but her DRÜBENLAND – THE LAND but when the family become chickens laid the golden egg. Vincent Patar NSW PREMIERE mysteriously ill, his fight for PROD: Jane Cho, Ilana Lazar recent migrated mum has just OVER THERE MELTING HEART CAKE PROD: Vincent Tavier, HOME SWEET HOME their approval becomes a fight Under the punishing and been overcharged at the local Germany / 15min / 2018 France / 11min / 2019 Nicolas Schmerkin / 21min / 2019 for his life. watchful eye of an elderly shops, and its up to Barbara to WRI/DIR: Arne Kohlweyer WRI/DIR: Benoit Chieux A horse, an Indian and a WRI: Michalina Fabijanska woman, a young girl, bored sort it out. As usual. PROD: Christoph Kulkula, Eike THE TENT PROD: Ron Dyens Cowboy race to find their DIR: Agata Puszcz and lonely in a world of AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Goreczka Norway / 17min / 2019 To share her chocolate cake missing tickets to the Annual PROD: Studio Munka foreign suburbia, becomes As soon as Marko’s parents are WRI/DIR: Rebecca Figenschau with her friend, Anna must Agricultural Fair before it’s Ten-year-old Olaf auditions for determined to claim a larger on vacation some odd wall falls PROD: Frode Sobstad cross a dangerous and too late. Rent A Life, a company that Easter egg as her own. down – and suddenly everything Putting up a tent becomes terrifying glacial forest. offers the wealthy a chance is in chaos. Grown-up talk a fateful event for a to hire family members and doesn’t help, so it’s up to Marko dysfunctional family of four. friends. He has a plan and, to make sense of it on his own. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE FLiCKERFEST.COM.AU AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE