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Flickerfest

Flickerfest is Australia's premier short film festival. Each year we present the highest level of international competition under the stars at Bondi Beach. Flickerfest is an Academy accredited festival.

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15^th edition

2006 | 6 - 15 January

Awards

Selected short films

Edition details

Best Film

Tama Tu

New Zealand | 2004 | 18:00

Director: Taika Waititi

Best Animation

City Paradise

United Kingdom | 2004 | 5:58

Director: Gaëlle Denis

Best Documentary

Rave Against the Machine

United Kingdom | 2004 | 24:00

Directors: Richard Rudy, James Harvey, Stevan Riley, Holly Lubbock

Best International Cinematography

Binta y la Gran Idea

Binta and the Great Idea

Spain | 2004 | 34:58

Director: Javier Fesser

Best Achievement in Sound

Blue Tongue

Australia | 2004 | 7:00

Director: Justin Kurzel

Best Direction in an Australian Short Film

Green Bush

Australia | 2004 | 27:00

Director: Warwick Thornton

Best Editing in an Australian Short Film

The Saviour

Australia | 2005 | 18:30

Director: Peter Templeman

Special Jury Prize

Hamsafare Khamoosh

Silent Companion

Iran | 2004 | 15:00

Director: Elham Hosseinzadeh

SBS Television Award

Azadi

Australia | 2005 | 20:00

Director: Anthony Maras

Highly Commended - Best Documentary

The Prodigal Son

Australia | 2005 | 27:00

Director: Tony Radevski

Alice et moi

Alice and I

Belgium | 2004 | 19:00

Director: Micha Wald

Simon has to drive his old aunt Mala and two of her friends, Lydia and Colette, to the seaside. While driving, he argues with his girlfriend Alice ove...

At the Quinte Hotel

Canada | 2005 | 4:00

Director: Bruce Alcock

Based on Al Purdy's 1968 poem, this vibrant, kinetic riff has the poet waxing lyrical about beer and blooms in a small-town basement tavern.

Azadi

Australia | 2005 | 20:00

Director: Anthony Maras

An Afghan father and his young son flee the violent street of Kabul only to encounter another type of persecution upon arrival in Australia.

Bawke

Norway | Jun 2005 | 15:00

Director: Hisham Zaman

Two Kurdish refugees from Iraq, a father and son, approach their goal after being on the run for a long time. However, it is only when they arrive at ...

Before Dawn

Hungary | 2004 | 13:00

Director: Bálint Kenyeres

Before dawn, the wheat is quietly undulating on the hillside. Before dawn, people will rise and other people will take away their hope.

Binta y la Gran Idea

Binta and the Great Idea

Spain | 2004 | 34:58

Director: Javier Fesser

Binta's father has an idea, but he doesn't know if it is a good idea or not.

Blue Tongue

Australia | 2004 | 7:00

Director: Justin Kurzel

David Lynch meets Jane Campion. On the fringes of a housing estate a girl seduces a boy with a secret she will only reveal in exchange for his love. W...

City Paradise

United Kingdom | 2004 | 5:58

Director: Gaëlle Denis

When Tomoko arrives in London, she has no idea that soon she will discover a mysterious secret hidden beneath the city.

Dimmer

United States | 2004 | 12:20

Director: Talmage Cooley

Mike is a blind teenager who is just trying to keep it together amid the decaying rust-belt factories and neighborhoods of Buffalo, New York. Commissi...

Everything in this Country Must

United Kingdom | 2004 | 21:00

Director: Gary McKendry

Northern Ireland, 1985. On a rainy night, a teenage girl must choose between gratitude to the British soldiers who saved the family horse from a flood...