Flickerfest, Australia’s largest Short Film Festival is excited to be returning on its National Tour to The Civic, Gunnedah showcasing the Best of Australian Shorts and Best of International Shorts programme highlights, all handpicked favourites from our recent Bondi festival competitions.
The short films screening are all entertaining, inspiring, award-winning, and fresh from their premieres in competition at Flickerfest Bondi, giving Gunnedah Flickerfest audiences a window into the hottest contemporary shorts from at home and across the world today.
Friday, July 26 at 7.30pm, admire the incredible short film talent that exists in our emerging Australian industry with a host of Australian stories honoring our unique identity and culture in the Best of Australian Shorts programme. Highlights include the premiere Cold Water, poignant and memorable with moments of laugh-out-loud humour, it stars industry legend Bruce Spence, who delivers an electrifying performance as a man for whom the past cannot be divorced from the present.
If comedy is what you’re after, then don’t miss Ashes, written and directed by Georgina Haigh (The Sapphires, Back to the Rafters), who stars alongside laugh-out-loud performances from comedy masters Michael Caton and Michala Banas. (McLeod’s Daughters, Golddiggers).
Also included is Best Australian shorts winner Yeah The Boys filmed in Sydney. Equal parts larrikin, brutal, and tender, this choreographic short film scored by The Avalanches is an observation of Australian masculine identity and our nation’s relationship with drinking culture; the clever and fun QLD short The Bank Manager based on the true story of a 1932 bank heist, following some seriously colorful characters and their shenanigans; and don’t miss the hilarious Favourites, a comedy about two parents facing an impossible choice.
The following week, on Friday, August 2 at 7.30pm, the Best of International Shorts programme shines a spotlight on masterful international short film stories and talent. Enjoying their Australian premieres are the bittersweet UK drama My Week With Maisy starring legend of stage and screen Joanna Lumley, the stunning climate change drama from Ladakh in the Himalaya’s Last Days Of Summer, where a recurring mysterious sound from mountains is heard only by two curious young shepherds and bewitching Irish Clodagh about a young woman of exceptional talent.
The Bank Manager based on the true story of a 1932 bank heist.
