Flickerfest 2026 | Best of Australian Shorts

Flickerfest is coming to Araluen Arts Centre's Circus Lawns!

Celebrating 35 years in 2026, 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 3,700+ entries!
We are excited to be returning our National Tour to the Araluen Arts Centre in for two spectacular nights showcasing the Best of Australian Shorts and Short Laughs Comedy programme highlights, all handpicked from our recent Bondi festival competitions.

The short films screening are entertaining, inspiring, award-winning, and fresh from their premieres in competition at Flickerfest Bondi, giving you a window into the hottest contemporary shorts from at home and across the world today.

Friday 8th May | Australian Shorts

Catch a collection of stunning shorts supported by big names both in front of and behind the camera:

Moving drama Tuesday Tuesday, won best female director at Flickerfest 2026 and stars Peter Phelps (Stingers) in a stellar performance as a man whose world is fading.

Whilst Packed Away gives us the directorial debut of actress Michala Banas (Always Greener, Mcleod's Daughters) who shines both on and off camera in this personal and intimate drama and actor Matt Day (Rake) writes and directs the comedy Baby Shower starring the legendary Hugo Weaving in a dark comedy about family friendship and unexpected happening at this familiar ritual.

Returning Flickerfest alumni Jesse Vogelaar brings The Suit, a sharp and hilarious comedy featuring award winning actress Kat Stewart and much-loved comedian Colin Lane delivering big laughs with plenty of bite.

Saturday 9th May | Short Laughs

Short Laughs Comedy delivers big laughs with a riotous collection of off-kilter Flickerfest shorts from Australia and around the world.

Don’t miss Carcassonne-Acapulco, where a chance encounter at 30,000 feet sparks a surprisingly profound and funny existential debate whilst hurtling through the sky; Baby Blues, a sharply observed comedy that hilariously captures the anxieties, paranoia and emotional free-fall of new parenthood; Laterz winner of Best Comedy Short at Flickerfest 2026, which will take you on a wild and hilarious ride with 3 misguided rappers; the delightful french comedy Bowl Cut where a summer haircut gone awry prompts seven year old Suzie to take matters into her own hands as family tensions rise; Odd Socks stars Sandi Toksvig, (QI, The Great British Bake Off) in a riotous comedy that follows a maverick detective investigating a sock-monster murder in a world where humans and sock-monsters coexist and much more!