Best Of International Shorts – 2018 Tour | 115 minutes |
Classification: Under 15yrs to be an adult
This programme is a specially curated selection of highlights from Flickerfest’s International Academy® Accredited competition programmes in Bondi 2018.
Flickerfest, celebrating 27 years bringing you the Best of International Shorts!
Screening at 50+ venues nationally!
SCREENING:
Thursday 5 April 2018 @ 6:30pm
TICKETS:
Adults $18 / Concession $15(+BF if purchased online) (includes post screening drinks & nibbles)
Or purchase a Festival Pass Adult $30 / Concession $26
Tickets available ONLINE via moshtix or at the door
Featured Films:
Protector and Defender
The evening will commence with the Tasmanian Short Film Protector and Defender from Ninna Millikin. This short documentary was created as part of the Women of the Island documentary web-series, an initiative of Wide Angle Tasmania and AFTRS, telling the untold stories of the women who inhabit the island of Tasmania.
Director: Ninna Millikin | Tasmania, Australia
An Imagined Conversation: Kanye West & Stephen Hawking
Over a Chinese food picnic at the beach, Stephen Hawking and Kanye West discuss Dance moves, Drake and the art of Divination.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | Director: Sol Friedman | Writer: Sol Friedman | Producer: Sol Friedman, Sarah Clifford-Rashotte | Runtime: 7 minutes | 2017 | Canada
Five By Five
In a bustling metropolis of millions, young Ash is lost. Then a chance encounter leads him to make a dangerous decision which begins a chain reaction of events.
Director: Kate Herron | Writer: Cat Jones, Lee Coan, Namdi Khan, Selina Lim, Nathaniel Price | Producer: Dean Byfield | Runtime: 25 minutes | 2017 | United Kingdom
Wren Boys
On the day after Christmas, a Catholic priest from Cork drives his nephew to prison.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | Director: Harry Lighton | Writer: John Fitzpatrick, Harry Lighton | Producer: Sorcha Bacon | Runtime: 11 minutes | 2017 | United Kingdom
Döda Farmor (Killing Grandma)
There are 90s and two young girls practicing for QuakeCon. When they are forced to spend time with one of the girls’ grandmother, they discover that she is a world-weary woman of strong will.
WORLD PREMIERE | Director: Lars Vega Persson | Writer: Lars Vega Persson | Producer: Isabelle Björklund | Runtime: 21 minutes | 2017 | Sweden
The World In Your Window
Eight-year-old Jesse lives in a twilight world of sadness and silence, squeezed into a tiny caravan with his grief stricken father.
Director: Zoe McIntosh | Writer: Zoe McIntosh, Costa Botes Producer: Hamish Mortland | Runtime: 15 minutes | 2017 | New Zealand
Watu Wote (All of us)
For almost a decade Kenya has been targeted by terrorist attacks of the Al-Shabaab.
Director: Katja Benrath |Writer: Julia Drache |Producer: Tobias Rosen | Runtime: 22 minutes | 2017 | Germany
Who’s Who In Mycology
A young trombone player spends an adventurous night trying to open an impossible bottle of wine.
Director: Marie Dvorakova | Writer: Micah Schaffer, Marie Dvorakova, Tony Hendra | Producer: Marta Kuchynkova, Marie Dvorakova, Milan Kuchynka | Runtime: 16 minutes | 2016 | Czech Republic, United States
