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 Fri 19th, Sat 20th & Sun 21st
January 2007
Bangalow A&I Hall
Films Start: 8.30pm nightly (Doors open -
7.30pm)
Price: $12/10 conc | 3 night Festival Pass
$30/25
Running Time: approx 2hrs with intermission
Session Rating: 15+
For the festivals 9th year in Byron Shire, on
Friday & Saturday a different 100 min Flickerfest International
program will
screen each night.
Selected from over 1200 films entered from more than
20 countries around the World & Australia.
On Sunday evening, the only screening other than
Bondi, a special 86min program from Hiroshima International Animation
Festival, a selection from 25yrs of Grand Prix award-winners.
Food & Drinks Available | BYO cushion for
front rows | Chairs supplied behind | Arrive early for best comfort
Tickets:
Barebone Artspace (Bangalow-noBF) | All
Music and Vision (Byron, Ballina, Lismore.+BF) | & @ door.
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Fri. 19th - INTERNATIONAL
Prog.
1
Total Running Time: 9
Films = 101 mins
Session rating: 15+
Show date: Friday, January
19th, 2007
Doors: 8 pm
Show time: 8.30 pm |
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TRAGIC STORY WITH A HAPPY ENDING
(HISTORIA TRAGICA COM FINAL FELIZ)
Synopsis:
Some people are different against their will. Their only wish is to be
equal to others, deliciously mixing with the crowds. There are people
spending their lives fighting to achieve this, denying or hiding their
differences. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
 Grand
Prize - Annecy 06, Special
International Jury Prize - Hiroshima 06, Grand Prize Short Film - SICAF
Seoul 06
Festivals: Clermont-Ferrand
06, Dresden 06, Animamundi, Brazil 06.
Director:
Regina Pessoa
Producer: Abi Feijo, Patrick
Eveno, Jacques-Remy Girerd, Marcel Jean
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Running Time:
8.5min
Year: 2005
Format: 35mm
Country:
Portugal/France/Canada |
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SNIFFER
Synopsis:
In a society where everyone has the ability to fly, the citizens anchor
themselves to the ground via "gravitation boots". Devoid of sunlight
and the open sky, the members of society go about their routine without
any hope of personal gratification. One day, however, a man decides he
has had enough attempt to challenge the status quo. He quits his job,
loosens his bindings, and literally takes off.
Palme
d’Or - Short Film Cannes 06, Prix
UIP - Grimstad 06,
Golden Pram - Best Short Film Zagreb 06
Festivals: Melbourne 06, Pusan
06, London 06, Sao Paulo 06, Taipei 06.
Producer:
Maria Ekerhovd, Glenn Gardner
Director/Writer: Bobbie
Peers
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Running Time: 9.5min
Year: 2006
Format: 35mm
Country: Norway |
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| 3. |
Synopsis:
Lucky is an Aids orphan desperate to leave his rural Zulu village for
the bright lights of Durban. He is full of excitement and hope but
Lucky has to learn about life the hard way, not through school or
education…but through an unlikely bond with a racist Indian neighbour.
Winner
Best Short Film - Bradford International FFest 06, Winner Special
Mention -
Clermont Ferrand 06, Nominated BAFTA - Best Short Film 06
Festivals: Edinburgh
International Film Festival 05,
London Film Festival 05, Brief Encounters 2005, Berlin International
Film Festival 2006, Aspen shorts fest 2006, San Francisco International
2006
Producer:
Bex Hopkins
Director/Writer: Avie Luthra
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Running Time: 20min
Year: 2005
Format: 35mm
Country: UK |
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| 4. |
PEN-PUSHER (GRATTE-PAPIER)
Synopsis:
An unexpected spark of hope in the ordinary grey Paris metro.
Silver
Bear - Berlin 06,
Onda Curta Award -
Cutas Vila do Conde International 06
Festivals: Melbourne 06,
Brisbane 06, Sao Paulo 06, Edinburgh 06, Grimstad 06
Director/Producer/Writer:
Guillaume Martinez
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Running Time: 8min
Year: 2005
Format: 35mm
Country: France |
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THE SUBSTITUTE (HAYELET BODEDA)
Synopsis:
Zohara is an Isreali soldier on an isolated military base who is about
to get a much-anticipated transfer. Her hopes are shattered when her
substitute appears to be suicidal.
Audience
Award - Berlin 06, Best Film - Base Film Festival Barcelona 06,
Honorable
Mention - Norwegian Film Festival 06, Best Short Film - Melbourne 06,
Special Jury Prize - Fresh Film Festival Czech Republic 06
Director:
Talya Lavie
Producer: Gil Asher
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Running Time: 19min
Year: 2005
Format: 35mm
Country: Israel |
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| 6. |
BOOTH
STORY
Synopsis:
A story of loneliness in an underground car park and one small miracle.
Film
of the Festival - Raindance Film
Festival 06
Festivals: Melbourne Intl Film
Festival 06, Palm Springs Intl Film Festival 06, Tirana Film Festival 06
Producer:
Jason Byrne
Director/Writer: Kassimir
Burgess, Edwin McGill
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Running Time: 11min
Year: 2006
Format: 35mm
Country: Australia |
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| 7. |
DREAMS & DESIRES – FAMILY TIES
Synopsis:
Beryl acquires a digi video camera and becomes obsessed with
filmmaking, using it to keep a video diary of her friend Mandy’s
wedding with disastrous and hilarious consequences. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Audience
Prize & Special Jury Award & FIPRESCI Award Annecy 06, Grand
Prix & Int'l Critics Prize - Zagreb 06, Best Animation - Anima
Mundi Brazil 06, 2nd Place Jury Award - Palm Springs 06
Festivals: Edinburgh 06,
Telluride 06
Director:
Joanna Quinn
Producer: Les Mills
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Running Time: 10min
Year: 2006
Format: 35mm
Country: Wales |
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| 8. |
Synopsis:
A Moroccan teenage heavy metal fan feels that his talents as a drummer
are under-appreciated.
BAFTA
Nomination
Festivals: London Film
Festival 06, Clermont Ferrand 06, Berlin 06, Tampere 06
Director:
Toby MacDonald
Producer: Luke Morris
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Running Time: 6min
Year: 2005
Format: 35mm
Country: UK/Morocco |
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| 9. |
IT’S IN THE AIR
Synopsis:
An unusual run between a messenger and a song. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Premier
Film - Message to Man IFF St
Petersburg 06,
Audience Award - Toulouse 06, 1st Prize European Film -
Drama Greece 06.
Producer:
Arnaud Rouvillois
Director/Writer: Yohann
Glorguen
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Running Time:
9min
Year: 2005
Format: 35mm
Country: France |
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Sat. 20th - INTERNATIONAL
Prog. 2
Total Running Time: 9
Films = 104 mins
Session rating: 15+
Show date: Saturday, January
20th, 2007
Door: 8 pm
Show time: 8.30 pm
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| 1. |
Synopsis:
This film is about who I am and what I want. It is NOT about who YOU
are and what YOU want. You always think everything I make is about you,
but it’s not. It’s all about me…
Tiger
Award - Short Film Rotterdam 06, Baby Cow Best Animated Short -
Manchester Kinofilm 06, Animation Award - Darklight Dublin 06,
Best
Animation - Expresion en Corto 06 Mexico
Festivals: London 05, Brief
Encounters 05, Clermont-Ferrand 06, Melbourne Animation Festival 06
Producer:
Maria Manton
Director/Writer: Chris
Shepard, David Shrigley
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Running Time:
7.5min
Year: 2005
Format: 35mm
Country: Wales |
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| 2. |
Synopsis:
Sometimes the truth is hard to face: An old man tries desperately to
defend his house against burglers and gets a rude awakening.
Audience
Award - Short Film Slam Hamburg
06,
Special Mention - Fano Italy 05
Festivals: Cannes 06, Sao
Paulo 06, Melbourne 06, Message to Man Russia 06, Dresden 06,
Manchester 06, Clermont-Ferrand 06
Director:
Marc Brummond
Producer: Katharina Dufner
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Running Time: 6min
Year: 2005
Format: 35mm
Country: Germany |
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| 3. |
THE WATER AND THE MILK (LA LECHE Y EL
AGUA)
Synopsis:
A woman tries to get back her only companion in life: a cow.
Grand Prix - Drama Film
Festival Greece 06
Producer: Iván
Ávila
Director/Writer: Celso
García
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Running Time: 12min
Year: 2006
Format: 35mm
Country: Mexico |
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| 4. |
TODAY’S SPECIALS (OFFERTE SPECIALI)
Synopsis:
Shoppers flock to a supermarket during the summer holidays to take
advantage of the summer sales. But one shopper, a shy and quiet
transsexual, is about to experience something beyond her wildest
imagination…
Best
Short Award - Naples 05, Best Short Award - International Gay &
Lesbian Film Festival Barcelona 05, Prix Canal+ Montpellier 06
Festivals:
Melbourne 06
Director: Gianni Gatti
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Running Time:
7min
Year: 2005
Format: 35mm
Country: Italy |
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| 5. |
Synopsis:
When a woman on the brink of killing herself calls a crisis helpline,
her thoughts turn from suicide to murder as she becomes trapped in
their new-age automated phone menus.
Special
Jury Prize - Anonimul Intl Film
Festival 06,
Nominated for Golden Bear - Berlin 06.
Festivals: AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Director:
Chris Cudlipp
Producer: Lizzy Nash
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Running Time: 10.5min
Year: 2006
Format: 35mm
Country: Australia |
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| 6. |
JELLYBABY
Synopsis:
Jack and Jill had a great relationship. Then they had a baby.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Best
Short - Celtic Film Festival 06, Nominated Best Short - Montreal 06,
Best
Short - Crested Butte Film Festival 06,
Best Comedy - Golden Star Shorts
Fest Hollywood 06
Director:
Ronan & Rob Burke
Producer: John Wallace
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Running Time: 10min
Year: 2005
Format: 35mm
Country: Ireland |
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| 7. |
Synopsis:
The mesmerizing ballet of a discarded food wrapper leads a New York
subway rat into an adventure of love and loss.
Audience
Award/Best Animation ArtFutura - Spain 06,
Best 3D Animation -
California Animation Festival 06, Highly Commended Animated Short Film
Award - Melbourne International Film Festival 06, Future Filmmaker
Award - Palm Springs Int'l Short Film Festival 06
Producer:
Bryan Godwin
Director/Writer: Alex Weil
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Running Time: 10.5min
Year: 2006
Format: 35mm
Country: USA |
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| 8. |
THE LAST DOG IN RWANDA
(DEN SISTA
HUNDEN I RWANDA)
Synopsis:
David is like so many 10 year old boys fascinated by war. He builds
plastic models of all kinds of military vehicles and plays wargames
with his friends. At the age of 24 he establishes himself as a news
photographer with the world´s theatres of war as field of
occupation.
We meet him in Rwanda in May 1994 in the midst of the genocide of
Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Together with the thirty year older reporter
Mats, he travels through the war-torn country in order to depict the
massacres. The Last Dog in Rwanda is a film about the fascination of
war and the coupling between the little boy´s exciting wargames
and the
attractiveness of real wars to the adult.
Festivals:
Berlin Int'l Film Festival 06, Palm Springs Int'l Film Festival 06,
Nordic Panorama Arhus 06
Producer:
Anna Carlsten
Director/Writer: Jens Assur
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Running Time: 30min
Year: 2006
Format: 35mm
Country: Sweden |
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| 9. |
Synopsis:
Olaf is trying to reanimate his already dead relationship. Will a fancy
surprise dinner do the job? Who will be taken by surprise in the end?
Silver
Hugo - Chicago Film Festival 04, Future Filmmaking Award - Palm Springs
04, Best Student Film - Rome
Independent Festival
Festivals: Melbourne Intl Film
Festival, World Film Fest Montreal
Director/Writer:
Lancelot von Naso
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Running Time: 10.5min
Year: 2004
Format: 35mm
Country: Germany |
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Sun. 21st - HIROSHIMA
ANIMATION Special Prog.
Total Running Time:
7 Films = 86 mins
Show date: Sunday, January
21st, 2007
Door: 8 pm
Show time: 8.30 pm |
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PICA DON
Synopsis:
An animation documentary describing the tragic consequences of the
A-bomb explosion in Hiroshima, on August 6th, 1945. The flash of the
A-bomb, 100 times brighter than the sun, is called "PICA", and the
enormous shock wave which came right after the flash is called "DON".
At the time this film was completed, it was the very first attempt in
the world to deal with such a sensitive subject of Hiroshima using
animation media. Because of this short film, the City of Hiroshima
decided to establish the Hiroshima International Animation Festival in
1984, appreciating animation art as an effective medium.
Special
Prize - Annecy International Animation Festival,
Outstanding Film -
London International Film Festival,
Best Film - Lucca International
Animation Festival.
Festivals: Sydney
International Film Festival, Moscow International Film Festival, Los
Angeles International Animation Celebration.
Producer:
Sayoko Kinoshita
Director/Writer: Renzo
Kinoshita
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Running Time:
10min
Year: 1978
Format: Video
Country: Japan |
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| 2. |
Synopsis:
A philosophical film about relationship between men and women. Many
grooved stereotypes exist between men and women. If some of these
stereotypes are broken, extraordinary and many times absurd
complications and changes can be set in.
WINNER
HIROSHIMA 96, Grand
Prix - Montevideo 95, Trilobit Award 95, Kristian Award - Febiofest 95,
Best Animated Film - Tampere 97,
Special Jury Award - Annecy 95, Golden
Bear - Berlin 95
Director:
Michaela Pavlatova
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Running Time: 9
Year: 1995
Format: Video
Country: Czech Republic |
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| 3. |
Synopsis:
This sumptuous film reveals much about the St. Lawrence. Not only its
history but also the countless treasures it harbours and the people who
have garnered a living along its shores and who continue to do so.
WINNER HIROSHIMA 94
Director:
Frederic Back
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Running Time: 24
Year: 1994
Format: Video
Country: Canada |
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WHEN THE DAY BREAKS
Synopsis:
When the Day Breaks is the charming, bittersweet story of Ruby, the
pig, whose life takes an unexpected turn after she witnesses the
accidental death of a stranger. With deft humour and finely rendered
detail, the film illuminates the links which connect our urban lives,
while evoking the promise and fragility of a new day.
WINNER HIROSHIMA 00, Palme
d’Or - Short Film - Cannes 99,
Grand Prix - Annecy 99,
Genie Award - Best Animated Short, Canada 99, Grand Award - Best of the
Festival, Melbourne Intl Animation Festival 01
Director:
Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis
Producer: David Verrall
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Running Time: 9.5
Year: 1999
Format: Video
Country: Canada |
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FATHER AND DAUGHTER
Synopsis:
A father says goodbye to his young daughter and leaves. As the wide
Dutch landscapes live through their seasons so the girl lives through
hers. She becomes a
young woman, has a family and in time she becomes old, yet within her
there is always a deep longing to her father.
WINNER HIROSHIMA 02, Best
Int'l Animated Film - Clermont Ferrand 01, BAFTA - Best Short
Animated Film 01,
Academy Award for Best Short Animated Film 01,
Grand
Prix for Best Animated Short film & Audience Award - Annecy 01
Director:
Michael Dudok de Wit
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Running Time: 8.5
Year: 2000
Format: Video
Country: Netherlands |
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Synopsis:
After a stingy man eats some cherry seeds, a cherry tree grows on his
head and he gets into a lot of trouble. This animated film is a modern
interpretation of the traditional Japanese Rakugo story “Atama-yama”
set in contemporary Tokyo.
WINNER HIROSHIMA 04, Grand
Prix - Annecy 03,
Academy Award Nomination - Best Short Animation 03,
Best Animated Film - Mediawave 03, Best Animated Film - Dresden 03,
Best
Short Animation, Anifest 03.
Festivals: Flickerfest 04
Director:
Koji Yamamura
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Running Time:
10
Year: 2002
Format: Video
Country: Japan |
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MILCH
Synopsis:
A boy discovers love and comes face to face with the mortality of his
family. The film speaks of this through a web of oblique details,
attempting to capture the flesh of relations and, perhaps, the very
tension of being.
WINNER HIROSHIMA 06
Director:
Igor Kovalyov
Producer: Gabor Csupo,
Arlene Klasky, Genrich Padva
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Running Time:
15
Year: 2005
Format: Video
Country: USA |
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"Over the past ten years as festival
director, I have had the great pleasure of watching both the festival,
and indeed short film itself grow in popularity and profile throughout
Australia & the World. Short film is now seriously considered as an
entertaining and culturally significant art form in its own right with
people looking towards its storytelling to reveal the significant
social concerns and artistic movements of our times."
Flickerfest director, Bronwyn Kidd
"Each year we are expanding Byron
Flickerfest further towards growing this signature
'Byron International film event', outdoors at the amazing IQ
Amphitheatre & other venues".
Shane Rennie, Byron Flickerfest co-ordinator and president of IQ
Visit www.flickerfest.com.au
for the Awards event(5-14th Jan, Bondi), all Touring dates(Jan-Mar 07)
& more.
IQ
would like to thank the
following Sponsors:
FLiCKERFEST, AFC (Australian Film
Commission), the FTO (Film & Television Office)
  
And a special thank you to all the
volunteers / helpers.
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