Australian Shorts

• Australian 1
• Australian 1 - Repeat
• Australian 2
• Australian 2 - Repeat
• Australian 3
• Australian 3 - Repeat
• Australian 4
• Australian 4 -Repeat

Documentary Workshop

• George Gittoes for Documentary Masterclass

International Programme

• International 1 - Opening Night Screening
• International 1 - Repeat
• International 2
• International 2 - Repeat
• International 3
• International 3 - Repeat
• International 4
• International 4 - Repeat
• International 5
• International 5 - Repeat

Short Documentary

• Documentary 1
• Documentary 2

Special Programs

• Celebrity Shorts
• Celebrity Shorts (Repeat screening)
• Endless Summer (Repeat Screening)
• Endless Summer Shorts
• Hiroshima Animation Special - 1
• Hiroshima Animation Special - 2
• Wonderful World of Dogs
• Wonderful World of Dogs (Repeat Screening)

Flickerfest 2007 Programme Calendar

Short Documentary - Documentary 1

Two sessions of the best international and Australian short documentaries in competition.

Total Running Time: 106
Session rating: 15+
Show date: Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Show time: 4:30 pm

WIR SIND DIR TREU (WE ARE THE FAITHFUL)

Synopsis:
The Swiss football team FC Basel's crowd animator gives his all for the team: he decides what music to play at matches and choreographs the fans to peak performance. It's all about the energy and emotion he transmits to the fans and how he directs them. Or is it rather the game itself that the fans follow?

Best Swiss Short, Winterthur 05, le Prix Canal + Clermont Ferrand 06, Audience Award, Documenta 06, Silver Impakt Award, Impakt 06.

Festivals: Toronto World Wide Short FF 06
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Director: Michael Koch

A MAP WITH GAPS

Synopsis:
A Map With Gaps is a surreal and comic account of a journey made by the director's father through Soviet Russia in the early '70s, in a van he built and named Supervan. The film utilizes a combination of archive audio recordings and still photographs, drama reconstruction and animation.

Best Intl Short - Audience Award & Winner Youth Jury, Cork Intl Film Festival 06, Best Doco, Hull Intl Film Fest 06, Special Commendation - Short Doco, Edinburgh Intl Film Festival 06, Runner Up Intl Doco Award, Curtas Vila Do Condo 06

Festivals: Melbourne Intl Film Festival 06
Writer: Brian Nelson
Director/Producer: Alice Nelson

A DOLLAR FOR THE GOOD ONES

Synopsis:
Drugs, alcohol and golf balls..This documentary follows two friends, one who spends the bulk of his time on the wrong end of a bottle of port, the other trying to deny he has a drug habit while it spirals more and more out of control.

Best Doco, WA Screen Awards, Best Doco, NASS Film Festival.

Festivals: Official Selection Revelation Intl Film Festival
Director/Producer/Writer: Josh Lee

EUT-ELLE ETE CRIMINELLE. (EVEN IF SHE HAD BEEN A CRIMINAL)

Synopsis:
France, summer 1944. The public punishment of women accused of having affairs with Germans during the war.

International Grand Prize, Tampere, Best Film, Odense (Denmark), Best Intl Film, Bochum (Ger).

Festivals: Including:Clermont Ferrand, Sydney Film Festival, Vienna, Sao Paulo, Animafest Zagreb, Warsaw, Geneva, Brief Encounters UK, Edinburgh, Leeds, Sheffield, Taipei.
Producer: Yves le Yaouang
Director/Writer: Jean-Gabriel Perrot

CIVIL STATUS

Synopsis:
The Marriage Palace. This is the place where people's destinies are crossing the bureaucratic system. The most significant events of people's lives - weddings and divorces, births and deaths - are registered.

Principal Prize, Oberhausen 06, Jury First Prize, Documenta, Madrid 06, Grand Prize, Stutgart, TV Jury Prize, Vila do Condo 06.

Festivals: AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Producer: Vacheslav Telnov
Director/Writer: Alina Reidnitskaya