Flickerfest – A Celebration of Northern Rivers Talent!

FLiCKERFEST 2024 – 33rd International Short Film Festival Tour & BYRON ALL SHORTS – Northern Rivers Short Film Competition Mullumbimby Civic Hall | Thur 29th February to Sat 2nd March 2024.

Flickerfest and iQ inc kick off their 3-day festival of short films back home at the Mullumbimby Civic Hall, Thursday 29th February to Saturday 2nd March.Over 40 incredible short films will screen, handpicked from a record 3,400 entries received for Flickerfest’s Academy® and BAFTA Qualifying short film festival screened recently in Bondi. Highlights enjoying their Northern Rivers premieres include much loved festival award winners, festival favourites and Northern Rivers shorts, all enjoying their local premieres.

Djalbuyan Nahra

Thursday 29th February, raise a glass to 27 years of Flickerfest in the Northern Rivers at the festival’s Opening night party with delicious drinks and sumptuous snacks included. Then at 8pm take a trip around the world with the Best Of International Shorts programme. Amongst a host of 9 international highlights enjoying their Australian premieres are the delightful Last Days Of Summer from award winning Himalayan filmmaker Shenzin Tangkong, fun Swedish comedy ‘This Film Might Be White’ and moving UK drama My Week With Maisy, starring a tear-jerking performance from queen of the stage and screen Joanna Lumley.

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Duwarra Wujara

Friday 1st March 8pm, shines a spotlight on the incredible short film talent that exists in our emerging Australian industry in our Best Of Australian Shorts programme. Don’t miss award winners Cold Water, starring industry legend Bruce Spence winner of Best Original Script and Yeah The Boys, winner of Best Australian Short Film enhanced by a stunning original soundtrack from the Avalanches,. Local Northern Rivers shorts: Djalbuyan Nahra, written and directed by Jahvis Loveday and Living With It by Lennox Head born and raised Mobina Rowhani also shine.

Moments

Saturday 2nd March 4pm, celebrates more local talent at the 19th year of Byron All Shorts, as incredible Northern Rivers short films battle it out for a range of awards. Be moved by an outstanding programme of our regions short filmmakers screening in competition, followed by the Byron All Shorts awards presentation. An incredible collection of around 12 impressive local shorts, showcasing the talent of our region’s creators will feature in this year’s Byron All Shorts.

These Are The Sounds I Make

Films include Duwarra Wujura, fresh from its world premiere at Flickerfest Bondi, directed by Eltham based animator Brett D McKee and awarded the prestigious Yoram Gross Award For Best Australian animation at Flickerfest 2024. Duwarra Wujura is an ancient story written for the screen by Yanyuwa elder Dinah Norman a-Marrngawi from Booroloola. Now in her 90’s Aunty Dinah is old enough to remember the “old ways” of her ancestors. Wishing to share her love of culture, she has translated this story for the screen, from a story passed down the generations for hundreds of years.

Trinket

Saturday 2nd March 8pm, clever comedy also brings joy to the big screen with the Short Laughs Comedy programme of the most off-kilter Flickerfest shorts from at home and around the world. Highlights include the delightfully quirky Irish short Cantata about a man whose life is upended when his only means to communicate is song and the delightful UK short Linda by comedian Joe Lycett, about a woman whose tall tales and colourful life seem too good to be true.

Coming Home

Celebrating 27 years as national Flickerfest festival director in 2024 and 33 years of Flickerfest Bronwyn Kidd says: I’m always excited to be bringing Flickerfest home to the Northern Rivers where I live. The films we are presenting are clever, soulful, insightful, moving and funny and I think they will really resonate with our local audiences. Our Mullumbimby Flickerfest and Byron All Shorts weekend is for people of all ages who love cinema and great stories and want to celebrate the best of short cinema with other local cinema lovers, in a fun and welcoming festival environment.

Flickerfest Mullumbimby & Byron All Shorts 2024 is a fund-raiser for the Island Quarry Reserve. For the full Flickerfest Mullumbimby & Byron All Shorts programme and tickets, see here.

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