Flickerfest - Maules Creek

Celebrating 33 years in 2024 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 3,400 entries!

Flickerfest, Australia’s largest short film Festival is excited to be bringing its National Tour to Maules Creek Hall showcasing the Best of Australian Shorts programme highlights, all handpicked favourites 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 Maules Creek Flickerfest audiences a window into the hottest contemporary shorts from at home and across the world today.

Admire the incredible short film talent that exists in our emerging Australian industry with a host of Australian stories honouring our unique identity and culture in the Best of Australian Shorts programme. Highlights include the heartwarming Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, directed by Hattie Archibald who grew up in the upper Hunter of NSW, a live-action adaptation of the classic children’s book by Mem Fox. If comedy is what you’re after, then don’t miss Ashes, written and directed by Georgina Haigh (The Sapphires, Back to the Rafters), who stars alongside laugh-out-loud performances from comedy masters Michael Caton and Michala Banas (Mcleod's Daughters, Golddiggers).

Also included is the clever and fun QLD short The Bank Manager based on the true story of a 1932 bank heist, following some seriously colourful characters and their shenanigans; don’t miss the hilarious Favourites a comedy about two parents facing an impossible choice; 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..

Arrive early to enjoy the hot meal included in your ticket, provided by Fairfax Public School P&C; drinks are available to be purchased separately.

Flickerfest Maules Creek is supported by Narrabri Council.

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Maules Creek Hall