FLICKERFEST: Best of International Shorts

This programme is a specially curated selection of highlights from Flickerfest’s International Academy Award® Qualifying competition programmes in Bondi 2025.

Flickerfest, celebrating 34 years bringing you the Best of International Shorts.
‘Strictly Great Short Films!’

*This programme contains mature themes & is not recommended for children under 15.
Classification: Children under 15yrs must be accompanied by an adult.
*Times & Prices may change, please check with the venue.
**Local films may replace listed films below, in some venues.

Screening: On Tour | Running Time: 116 min | Classification: Under 15yrs to be w/adult

Beautiful Men

Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Director: Nicolas Keppens 
Writer: Nicolas Keppens 
Producer: Emmanuel-Alain Raynal
Runtime: 19min
Year: 2023
Country: Belgium

A Summer’s End Poem

Shortly before the end of the summer holidays, a country boy spends his savings on his dream of a city hairstyle – with surprising results. A story about bidding farewell to childhood and the poetic end of a summer.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Director: Lam Can-zhao
Writer: Lam Can-zhao, Yupeng He, Shutong Xu 
Producer: Lam Can-zhao
Runtime: 15min
Year: 2024
Country: China

Game Rules

A youth handball team is about to participate in their first major tournament. As they aim for the top, facing professional players, talent scouts and sponsors, the game is suddenly interrupted by adults questioning who’s really allowed to play.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Director: Christian Zetterberg
Writer: Christian Zetterberg, Albin Abrahamsson
Producer: Liselotte Persson
Runtime: 12min
Year: 2024
Country: Sweden

Me And Dad

A boy struggles in his attempts to bond with his oblivious father at a bar. All efforts are ignored. The barman is the boy’s only soft ear. He empties everything in one final push to break dad.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
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Director: Shane Connellan
Writer: Shane Connellan
Producer: Jamie Eileen Strickler
Runtime: 9min
Year: 2024
Country: Ireland

This Is Not A Character, This Is Betrayal

The film tells the story of mother and son. The 58-year-old hairdresser Melanie drives her son Stefan (32), a young author, to the first reading of his autobiographical debut novel DER SALON.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Director: Romina Küper
Writer: Romina Küper, Max Lindemann
Producer: Katharina Messias Mumper, Maxine Paatzsch, Isabella Müller de Paula
Runtime: 13min
Year: 2024
Country: Germany

Rhubarb Rhubarb

In the legendary Yorkshire Rhubarb Triangle, Jo and her elderly father produce the pink delicacy that made the region world-famous a century ago. Harvesting by candlelight like their ancestors before them, they could not prepare for the danger looming in the dark.
WORLD PREMIERE
Director: Kate McMullen
Writer: Kate McMullen, Paul Wauters
Producer: Rob Godbold
Runtime: 16min
Year: 2025
Country: United Kingdom

The Cockroach

After a body altering accident, a woman must find a way forward in her new reality.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Director: Mary Pat Bentel
Writer: Mary Pat Bentel
Producer: Mary Pat Bentel
Runtime: 20min
Year: 2024
Country: United States

Thanks For The Milk

A young delivery man realizes he’s the reincarnation of an elderly man’s beloved cat, rekindling a bond from a past life.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Director: Côme Ferré
Writer: Côme Ferré
Runtime: 8min
Year: 2024
Country: France