20/07/2024
🍿🎬 Flickerfest returns to Cairns!
🌟SAVE THE DATE! FRIDAY 6th & SATURDAY 7th SEPT, 7.30PM 🌟
🎬 Celebrating 33 years in 2024,Flickerfest returns as Australia’s leading Academy® Qualifying and BAFTA Recognised short film festival.
Join us at the Cairns Botanic Gardens on September 6th-7th for a showcase of award-winning short films. Experience the Best Of Australian Shorts and Short Laughs Comedy highlights.
There will be no food van onsite for this event.
⚡️On Friday, 6th September, at 7.30pm, celebrate the incredible talent within our emerging Australian industry with the Best of Australian Shorts programme.
Enjoy a selection of films that honour our unique identity and culture, including two remarkable North Queensland and Torres Strait highlights: "Djalbuyan Nahra" by young First Nations filmmaker and Bama man Jahvis Loveday, a moving family drama that explores reconnection to family and country, and "Just Beneath The Surface," a haunting short set in Erub in the Torres Strait, made in collaboration with TSI writer/director and artist Jimmy John Thaiday.
Other Aussie highlights include "Cold Water," featuring Bruce Spence in a powerful role, "Ashes," a heartfelt film starring Georgina Haigh, Michael Caton, and Michala Banas, and "Yeah The Boys," winner of the Panasonic Award for Best Australian Short Film, a unique exploration of Australian masculine identity scored by The Avalanches.
😂On Saturday, 7th September, at 7.30pm, don’t miss the Short Laughs Comedy programme, a clever and offbeat selection of funny shorts from around the world.
Highlights include the UK short "Linda" by comedian Joe Lycett, a hilarious tale of a woman with an unbelievable life, the Australian comedy "Room For One More", QLD Film "The Bank Manager," a true story of a 1932 bank heist in Cloncurry starring Gyton Grantly, and the highly humorous NZ film "Good Luck," a must-watch introduction to life for newborns.
✨Join us for two nights of outstanding short films and be part of the Flickerfest magic. We can’t wait to see you there!
Get your Tickets Here: https://bit.ly/CairnsFlickers