Win Two Tickets to Flickerfest's Grand Opening Night and Afterparty

Supplement your afternoon swim with a dose of the world's best short films when the 25th Flickerfest International Short Film Festival comes to Bondi Beach between January 8 to 17.

Celebrating 25 years of insanely good short films, the 2016 program features 116 shorts officially selected in competition, chosen from over 2400 entries received in the Australian, international, documentary and GreenFlicks programs. Flickerfest is the only competitive short film festival in Australia to be both Academy®Accredited and BAFTA-recognised, so expect these films to be top tier.

With 20 world premieres and 60 Australian premieres, this is where you'll see the next wave of film talent (and score mad bragging rights when they get all famous). Some sizeable Academy®Accredited prizes are up for grabs, including the Flickerfest Award For Best International Film, the Yoram Gross Award For Best Animation and Virgin Australia Award For Best Australian Film. Plus, this year’s official Australian Competition features 21 female directors (slam dunk, Flickerfest) — the festival's had a strong push over many years to encourage and support female filmmakers.

Alongside the Academy®Accredited competitions, there's also a smorgasbord of shorts screening across Flickerfest's specialty programs including Short Laughs (comedy), Love Bites (relationships shorts), Flickerkids (shorts for Shorties), Windows on Europe, a special Flickerfest 25 years retrospective and Flickerup, the national schools competition.

Want to be there when the Flickerfest 2016 curtain falls on January 8? We're giving away two double passes (valued at $130 each) to the opening night, which includes a screening and afterparty. For your chance to win, just subscribe to the Concrete Playground newsletter and email us at [email protected] with your name and address. You can find more information about the opening night event here. 

By Jasmine Crittenden and Shannon Connellan.