Flickerfest brings its 'Short Films - Licensed To Thrill' into the Northern Rivers from the 23rd to the 25th January, for it's 17th year screening a smorgasbord of short films; along with Byron All Shorts finalists, audiences will experience the best of short films from the Byron Region, Australia and around the World over 3 days at the A & i Hall Bangalow. more info: www.iQ.org.au

BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 2 PROGRAM

We Can't Live Without Cosmos

Russia / 15min / 2014

WRI/DIR: Konstantin Bronzit

PROD: Alexander Boyarsky

Two cosmonauts, two friends, try to do their best in their everyday training life to make their common dream a reality. But this story is not only about the dream.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

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Denmark-Finland / 13min / 2014

WRI/DIR: Rungano Nyoni, Hamy Ramezan

PROD: Helene Granqvist, Valeria Richter

Copenhagen. A police station. A foreign woman, wearing a burqa, is there with her young son to file a complaint. Yet, it seems the translator is not willing to report what she is telling.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

The Chicken

Germany / 15min / 2014

WRI/DIR: Una Gunjak

PROD: Jelena Goldbach

Selma gets a live chicken. When she realises the animal is going to be killed to feed the family, she decides to save it.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Chum (Hjunabandss la)

Iceland / 15min / 2014

WRI/DIR: J rundur Ragnarsson

WRI/PROD: Elizabeth Rose

PROD: Kjartan r r arson, Ragnar Agnarsson

Two lifelong friends find their small-town routine thrown into peril when a buxom woman their own age shows up in their hot tub.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Symphony 42

Hungary / 14min / 2014

WRI/DIR: R ka Bucsi

PROD: J zsef F l p

The small events, interlaced by associations, express the irrational coherence of our surroundings. The surreal situations are based on the interactions between humans and nature.

NSW PREMIERE

The Karman Line

UK / 24min / 2014

WRI: Dawn King, Oscar Sharp (story)

DIR: Oscar Sharp

PROD: Teirnan Hanby, Campbell Beaton, Max McGill

When a mother is hit by a rare condition that sees her lift off the ground at a slow but ever increasing rate, her husband and daughter are forced to come to terms with losing her.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Ice Cream

Turkey / 16min / 2014

WRI/DIR/PROD: Serhat Karaaslan

PROD: Serkan akarer

Rojhat (11) lives in a small, remote village. On a hot summer day, an ice cream peddler comes to the village with his motorbike and he is immediately surrounded by the children of the village. Soon, all the children start bringing what they can find from their homes and in return they get some ice cream.

Australian Premiere

DURATION: 112 MINS