Wirnitj.

‘It’s Great Short films, It’s On Tour, It’s The Vibe ’

Celebrating 32 years in 2023 Flickerfest remains Australia’s leading Academy® Qualifying and BAFTA Recognised short film festival, ensuring that we continue to present A-list short film programmes recognised amongst the best in the world with films hand-picked from the festival’s record 3,200 entries!

Flickerfest, Australia’s largest Short Film Festival is excited to be returning on its National Tour to the Camelot Outdoor Cinema in Mosman Park showcasing the Best of Australian Shorts including stunning WA highlights, Best of European Union Shorts and Short Laughs comedy highlights, all handpicked 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 Perth Flickerfest audiences a window into the hottest contemporary shorts from at home and across the world today.

On Thursday the 23rd Feb The Australian programme screening shines a spotlight on the incredible short film talent that exists in our Australian industry with a host of stories honoring our unique identity and culture. Highlights include the world premiere of the delightful quirky comedy ‘The Fritz’, where a confused man, acclaimed Noongar actor Trevor Jamieson (Storm Boy) is forced to confront his big family at a overwhelming birthday event after being hit by a meteor.

Good Fortune.

Local WA films also shine with ‘Match Made’ written by Peter Williams and Chantelle Naude and directed by Matt Hogkinson, where Zac searched for love through the online dating landscape, ‘Wirnitj’ by writer/ director Karla Hart, based on the true story of her grandfather Noongar elder Aden Eades retelling of the supernatural phenomena of stones falling from the sky and comedy ‘Good Fortune’ written by Lata Periakarpan, directed and co-produced by by Alexandra Eftos and produced by Kate Separovich, where Liza’s visit to a psychic doesn’t go as planned.

On Friday the 24th Of Feb enjoy an incredible collection of outstanding cinema from the European Union in our Best Of EU showcase. Amongst a host of EU highlights enjoying their Australian premieres are the Danish Academy-Award winning team Kim Magnusson and Anders Walter, who share their masterful filmmaking on a journey through the vast Greenlandic landscape in ‘Ivalu’ and the delightful Canadian animation ‘The Flying Sailor’, both recently Nominated for an Oscar.

On Saturday the 25th of February, clever comedy also brings joy to the big screen with the Short Laughs Comedy programme featuring hilarious Flickerfest shorts from at home and around the world. Highlights include the delightfully quirky French comedy romance, ‘Born to Cry’ where a man confronts his fears and gets the girl, alongside an incredible band of followers and the laugh out loud comedy ‘The Diamond’ from Sweden, an absurd story about a small man and his tiny friend and the delightful Australian animation ‘An Ostrich Told Me The World Is Fake And I Think I Believe It’, also an Oscar finalist.

Flickerfest 2023 – Best of Australian Shorts, Best of International Shorts
Camelot Outdoor Cinema
Opening Night $27 /$22.50/ 20.50 members | All other sessions $22, 17.50 and 15.50 members
Thurs 23rd, Fri 24th, Sat 25th February| Doors open 6.15pm | Films 7.30 pm
TICKETS & INFO HERE

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