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Flickerfest returns with this one-off chance to see the Best of Australian Shorts, a programme officially selected for Flickerfest National Tour in Cairns, before these films continue their journey around the world.

This programme is a specially curated selection of highlights from Flickerfest’s Australian Academy® Qualifying competition programmes in Bondi 2024.

Celebrating its 33rd year, Flickerfest, Australia’s only Academy® Award and BAFTA qualifying short film festival, and the country’s largest Australian & International short film competition, screens the best of shorts from Australia and the world, selected from 3,400 entries; ensuring the presentation of A-list short film programmes recognised amongst the best in the world.

BYO Chairs, pillows, blankets and picnic on the grass. Please no glass.

The gates will open at 5:30 PM.

Classification: (M) Children under 15yrs must be accompanied by an adult.

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Flickerfest returns with this annual one-off chance to see the Short Laughs Comedy programme officially selected for Flickerfest National Tour in Cairns, before these films continue their journey around the world.

Chortle your way through a clever off-kilter selection of funny shorts from across the world.

This programme is a specially curated selection of highlights from Flickerfest’s Comedy programmes in Bondi 2024.

Celebrating its 33rd year, Flickerfest, Australia’s only Academy® Award and BAFTA qualifying short film festival, and the country’s largest Australian & International short film competition, screens the best of shorts from Australia and the world, selected from 3,400 entries; ensuring the presentation of A-list short film programmes recognised amongst the best in the world.

BYO Chairs, pillows, blankets and picnic on the grass. Please no glass.
We recommend arriving early to the Botanic Gardens to set-up. 

The gates will open at 5:30 PM.

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Wear your red shoes, click your heels, count to three.

When a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy (Judy Garland) and her dog, Toto, are whisked away in their house to the magical land of Oz. 

They follow the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, and en route they meet a Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) that needs a brain, a Tin Man (Jack Haley) missing a heart, and a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) who wants courage. 

The wizard asks the group to bring him the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) to earn his help.


BYO Chairs, pillows, blankets and picnic on the grass. Please no glass.
We recommend arriving early to the Botanic Gardens to set-up. 

The gates will open at 5:30pm.

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A Jonathan Demme masterpiece capturing Talking Heads at the peak of its powers in 1984.

Stop Making Sense is all killer, no filler.

This re-mastered 40th anniversary release widely regarded as the greatest concert movie ever made, an irresistibly uplifting chronicle of a Talking Heads show from 1983 has lost none of its famed ability to move you as it gets you moving.

Originally filmed over four nights, the results are a terrific piece of filmmaking that finds all the right ways to show a performance that begins as minimalist as possible and expands into something truly joyous, as well as weird, funky, and very fun.

It’s difficult to watch Stop Making Sense and not have a great, engrossing time, a fact that’s as true now as it was in 1984. With the benefit of hindsight, it may even be more so.

BYO Chairs, pillows, blankets and picnic on the grass. Please no glass.
We recommend arriving early to the Botanic Gardens to set-up. 

The gates will open at 5:30pm.

VIEW THE TRAILER