Project type: Short Film
Duration: 6΄39΄΄
Language: Greek
Subtitles: English
Director: Mania Syriopoulou
Producer: VTC MARGARITA
Country: Greece

Speech, movement and emotion of an actor with a intellectual disability open up new ways of creation and expression, leaving behind social norms. They give us new suggestions for the art of acting and the identification of the viewer with the roles.

Project type: Documentary, Short
Duration: 12΄16΄΄
Language: English /German
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Karina Sturm
Producer: Karina Sturm
Country: Germany

Lego Oma is a micro-budget short documentary about Rita Ebel, a German grandma and wheelchair user. Rita is a few decades old - but who is counting? - loves to go water skiing and, generally, doesn’t step away from any athletic challenge. Since her car  accident, which caused paralysis from her waist down, she constantly had to find creative ways to continue doing the things she loves, whether that is sports or activities  taken for granted by non-disabled people. When she noticed most of the stores in her  hometown Hanau were inaccessible to her, she decided to make a statement by building  wheelchair ramps from Lego, each a unique piece of art. Her ramps are more than only  tools to overcome physical barriers; they also raise awareness for accessibility and start  conversations between different groups of people.

Project type: Documentary, Short
Duration: 4΄22΄΄
Language: English
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Allen-Pickard
Producer: ?
Country: United Kingdom

A visceral and empathetic exploration of people’s relationship with their prosthetic limbs. Material Bodies is a sensual and cinematic look at the relationship between amputees and  their limbs. This visceral and colourful short film explores how a prosthetic leg can be more like a piece of jewellery, a dance companion, or a part of you.

Project type: : Documentary Film
Duration: 52΄38΄΄
Language: Bosnian (Serbian Croatian)
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Sabahet Dzafica
Producer: Borislav Banjac
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

After the state turns its back on her, brave and dedicated mother Renata (42), facing financial difficulties, decides to take matters into her own hands and fight for the life of her daughter Mia after being told that she will remain in a vegetative state and be placed in  a home for children with disabilities. "Mia San Mia" is an emotional film that provides insight into the challenges faced by children with disabilities and their parents behind closed  doors. The main story follows the life of one family and their struggle with their child's  illness. Mia, a six-year-old girl, has been diagnosed with 100% disability, and her parents  face an uncertain future on a daily basis. The film portrays their courage and unwavering  perspective on life as they confront financial problems, isolation, and constant concern for  their child's health.

Project type: Short Film
Duration: 11΄5΄΄
Language: Greek
Subtitles: English
Director: Antigoni Karnesioti
Producer: Antigoni Karnesioti
Country: Greece

In HANDBRAKE, two young women from Athens, from different starting points and with different means of transport examine where disability begins and where it ends. The independence and autonomy they feel inside their home crumbles when they are called upon to face an almost inaccessible city and the people who make it up. What obstacles can a cyclist encounter on the Athenian streets? What really happens when we tell ourselves "Oh, I'll just leave the car here for 5' and come back, who shall pass"? How does a disabled person manage an inaccessible city? Is lack of accessibility a problem only for disabled people?

Project type: Documentary Short Film
Duration: 23΄30΄΄
Language: Greek
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Zaharias Spanos
Producer: PAOK Action
Country: Greece

"One world, two faces" moves on the border between social documentary and autobiography. Above all, however, the film is a dream and inspiration of the protagonist, Paraskevi Salavgia. Born with cerebral palsy, left hemiplegia due to premature birth, Paraskevi fought for her own struggle. She gave it for years, in such a way that the disability became invisible. But that was not enough. Her dream is to speak to every disabled individual and encourage them to look for options, find ways of empowerment and enjoy life. In the film she lays out her own path, subscribing with confidence and optimism to a deafening "dare".

Project type: Short Film
Duration: 18min
Language: Greek
Subtitles: Greek/English
Director: Myrsini Lantzouraki
Producer: Disabled Care Association "Agioi Theodoroi"
Country: Greece

We are in a small country town. Antonis lives with his father and is directly dependent on him. His daily life is limited to his work at the Day Care Center of the "Agioi Theodoroi" Mental Delay Association and his life with his father, in their ancestral home. He also has a brother, Grigori, father of Ioanna and husband of Athanasia, with whom his relationship is very close. When his father suddenly passes away, Antonis moves to his brother's house, his habits change but not without problems. What will happen when Antonis wants to go to a new house of his own?

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 1:03:12
Language: English
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Tarek McCarthy
Producer: Tarek McCarthy
Country: USA

Aziza Baccouche, a blind, African American, Theoretical Nuclear Physicist and Filmmaker fights to survive her fifth brain surgery. Blinded by a brain tumor at eight, immigrating to the US from Tunisia a disabled minority may be daunting to most, not to Aziza. She believes  her strengths lay, “beyond the cane.” Wheeled into possibly her final surgery, she continues to inspire minorities and the blind to reach for their dreams using her life an example that,  “it does not take sight to have vision.”

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 8:07
Language: Russian
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Galina Malova-Gra
Producer: Galina Malova-Gra
Country: Russia

A 13-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, Ilya likes to grow crystals and listen to songs in foreign languages. He is a very happy boy. A medical error in infancy chained him to a wheelchair. Now he is undergoing treatment in the hospital, shares treats on his birthday, and receives a portion of positivity from them. As a result of hard work,  he can now move around in a wheelchair by himself. Ilya talks about his dream and shares  his philosophy of life.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 4’ 51’’
Language: English
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Kym McDaniel
Producer: -
Country: USA

To apply for an accessible or Crip parking placard, a doctor within the state must approve the application. As part of the application, there are six medical conditions which qualify a person for a placard. These conditions include: (1) cannot walk two hundred feet without  stopping to rest; (2) cannot walk without the use of an assistance device; (3) is restricted by lung disease; (4) uses portable oxygen; (5) has a cardiac condition; (6) is severely limited  in their ability to walk due to an arthritic, neurological, or orthopedic conditions.  Many people with disabilities included in these categories, and many people are not. This  film is a record of my introduction to healthcare in the state of Utah. My processing of the appointment and consequential aftermath as a video object serves as a reclamation and assertion for understanding disability and the physical world otherwise.

Project type: Short Documentary
Duration: 12’ 12”
Language: Italian
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Sergio Visinoni
Producer: Lab 80 film
Country: Italy

From the age of 4, following a car accident, Eya moves on a wheelchair, which she drives with great dexterity thanks to a joystick that she controls with her lips and chin. The story of her and her parents is characterized by constant leaps beyond the horizon of  possibilities. Today Eya is almost 17, she is a smart and tenacious girl and like many of her  peers she must begin to confront important questions: Who am I? How do others see me?  What direction should I take for my future? 

Project type: Short Film
Duration: 00:23:44
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Antonio Cuesta
Producer: Fernando Infante, Javier Infante
Country: Spain

Pepe and Jesús are father and son. That summer morning, Pepe has to work at a flea market, but the person in charge of looking after Jesús, who has cerebral palsy, calls and says that he won΄t be able to do it.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 16’ 40’’
Language: Spain
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Mario Capetillo Torres
Producer: Guido Lombardo
Country: Argentina

Short film that deals with how human strength can overcome the barriers that life interposes. Santi was recorded with a minimal budget and without neglecting any point of the dramatic structure that takes us throughout the story.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 00:38:34
Language: Russian
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Galimullina
Producer: Galimullina
Country: Russia

Breathing and blinking - are the only thing that ALS patients can do in the last stage of the disease. The whole body is paralyzed, and the mind remains fettered in its own body. This is an unexplored disease. It is not inherited and cannot be predicted or prevented. Patients  with this diagnosis are given 3-4 years of life, but there are those who live for 20 years or  more. The film is based on two stories. Tanya has been living with ALS for over 20 years.  Lena does not accept her diagnosis and tries to live as usual. Two parallel stories about  love and support, the value and importance of life in every moment. 

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 00:28:23
Language: Assamese
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Jyotirmoy Mazumdar
Producer: Jyotirmoy Mazumdar,
Manju Rani Barman
Country: India

"Letters from Mr Deka" is a documentary about Basanta Deka, a man who, after losing both his hands in a train accident, refused to let his disability define him. Through his determination, he became a school manager and set up an applied sciences school for  the specially-abled. Along the way, he inspired a young boy to reignite his thirst for learning. This uplifting film celebrates the human spirit and the power of perseverance. 

Project type: Drama Short Film
Duration: 16’ 28’’
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Director: Will Hextall
Producer: Harry Norton
Country: United Kingdom

Hiking in the Lake District, a young blind woman called Mills and her girlfriend, Rhea navigate the ups and downs of their inter-able relationship, learning how to embrace love and disability.

Project type: Short Film
Duration: 00:10:52
Language: Persian
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Rad Pourjabbar
Producer: Mahnaz Oftadehnia
Country: Iran

A blind boy decides to have a tattoo and we get to know the world of the blindness that his father made for him.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 6’ 30’’
Language: German
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Elisabeth Ehrenhauser
Producer: Tanja Ploner
Country: Austria

Most people are familiar with guide dogs. Rescue dogs are often seen on television. Some people have been sniffed by a police dog at the airport. But the work of dogs is much more diverse. Internationally, recognition and attention for "invisible" disabilities such as Post  Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), diabetes or autism are increasing. Unfortunately, there are still many prejudices and obstacles that have to be overcome. Assistance dogs help  their owners to navigate their everyday life and improve their life greatly. But this work is  also a great challenge for the assistance dogs: They have to be constantly ready to react  and warn in time in case of emergency. This documentary is intended to show the day- to-day struggles these dogs help their owners with and the reaction of the society. It also tries  to inform the viewers about the topic and prove why dogs really are “man’s best friends”.

Project type: Shortfilm
Duration: 00:21:07’
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Marco Cano
Producer: Marco Cano, Santos Moncayo, Gustavo Baeza, Max Blásquez
Country: Mexico

In a small town in Mexico Miguel, a 26-year-old disabled guy, lives isolated from the world because of his overprotective mother. Miguel starts to grow interest for the most beautiful girl in town, and it´s just then when he discovers the real cost of his freedom.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 7’ 10’’
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Director: Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo- Heimonen
Producer: Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo- Heimonen
Country: Finland

Documentary about State Prize awarded disability artist and activist Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen who is passionately building sculptures from used assistive  devices. Her works deal with structural violence, discrimination framed as kindness and  issues related to women with disabilities. She has osteogenesis imperfecta as a piquant characteristic. In 2024 she is one of three artists in the Pavillion of Finland at the  Venice Biennale.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 5’
Language: Portuguese
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Zoran Djordjevic
Producer: Zoran Djordjevic
Country: Brazil

In 2020 population of Brazil, the largest South American country, has reached 212 million. Around 46 million Brazilians claim to have some kind of special needs, and of those, 14 million are people with physical disabilities. This is the story of one of them...

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 30’
Language: Polish
Subtitles: English
Director: Marcin Lesisz
Producer: Bartosz Friese STUDIO MUNKA
Country: Poland

To process her traumas and the difficult relationship with her mother, Ewa, a woman with intellectual disability, creates dolls and tales based on her life. The animated sequences allow us to see her rich imagination and her perception of her disease.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 22’ 25’’
Language: Catalan
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Jordi Fradera
Producer: 2mentes films
Country: Spain

Marta has spent much of her life thinking she was stupid. The pressure of a rigid and intransigent educational system which formatted her childhood character and pushed her towards an internal struggle to try to fit in, many times without success. A path she was  forced to take, filled with doubts, anger and frustration, therefore, leaping through life towards the single goal of breaking all barriers and swimming against the "standard"  current in order to be oneself.

Project type: Short film
Duration: 4’ 9’’
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Director: Mark Hemsworth
Producer: Film Oxford
Country: UK

Mark Hemsworth explores how specific landscapes change from morning to evening and season to season. Mark has an archive of thousands of photographs of these landscapes across seasons, spanning many years. For this project, Hemsworth has  narrowed his focus to selected specific sites, which he has revisited across seasons  starting in early 2022 through to early Autumn. Mark Hemsworth is a lens-based learning- disabled and autistic artist, and his film for the Captured Moments exhibition (held at  Modern Art Oxford in December 2022) documents spans of time and explores  the meanings these have for him. Mark’s film, also called Captured Moments, documents  his process of photographing and producing composite images for the exhibition. Mark is a  member of the Shadowlight Artists, a group of learning-disabled and autistic artists and  filmmakers based at the arts charity Film Oxford in the UK.

Project type: Short film
Duration: 5’ 38’’
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Director: Lucy Skuce
Producer: Film Oxford
Country: UK

Lucy Skuce’s film is based on her dual obsessions: recording her first-person experience of the world and redundant technologies. Utilising mixed technology, from a 1980s VHS camcorder (which was the first kind of camera Skuce owned) through to a contemporary 4k camera, Skuce documents her relationship with her hometown of Didcot using both new and archival footage to create a sense of fractured and condensed time. Lucy is a member of the Shadowlight Artists, a group of learning-disabled and autistic artists and filmmakers based at the arts charity Film Oxford in the UK.

Project type: Short film
Duration: 2’ 30’’
Language: No Dialogue
Subtitles: No Dialogue
Director: Shadowlight Artists
Producer: Film Oxford
Country: UK

The Shadowlight Artists group explored the work of Futurism, an artistic movement begun in Italy in 1909, which strongly rejected traditional forms and embraced the energy and dynamism of modern technology. The group then worked together at Film Oxford to create this film inspired by Futurism artworks. The Shadowlight Artists is a group of learning-disabled and autistic artists and filmmakers based at the arts charity Film Oxford in the UK.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 53’
Language: Farsi Iran
Subtitles: English
Director: Azam Moradi
Producer: Yousef Torabi
Country: Iran

Ahmad Arjmandi is an artist who, according to himself, does not take command of his body from his brain. To enter the world of art and stay in it, he has to work many times harder than healthy people. Ahmed falls in love on the way to achieving his artistic dreams.

Project type: DANCE FILM
Duration: 3’ 31’’
Language: N/A
Subtitles: N/A
Director: IMOGEN BUTLER
Producer: IMOGEN BUTLER
Country: UNITED KINGDOM

The dancers were asked to explore dancing with a chair and with contact. They started this dance on Zoom and then continued to create dance work once they began to meet in person.

Project type: Short film
Duration: 4’ 47’’
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Director: Rosario Liotta
Producer: Malandrino Film
Country: Italia

That circumstance there will always be something uncomfortable and incommunicable. This message makes us understand how to face and overcome the situation. Which is a strong metaphor and also as imagery. This short film encourages us to reflect on the  people who allow us to overcome any impact of communication. Each of us has an interior hidden somewhere in a corner that we can draw by force to have a small weapon to  overcome within ourselves.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 55’
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Director: Manuel Prados
Producer: Medialab Prado
Country: Spain

"Sensitive spectrum" shows the results of a research project on the limits of sensitive perception. Several creators from various artistic fields explain collective artistic and inclusive experiences conceived together with people with sensory or physical disabilities to transgress our usual way of seeing the world around us, while scientific communicators and experts explain how perceptual phenomena take place in our body and mind.

Project type: Short film
Duration: 11’ 25’’
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Director: Monica Felloni
Producer: NèonCinema
Country: Italy

The plot “A Winter Garden” is a place where plants survive winter frost. “Villa di Bella” on the slopes of Etna has one and it’s particularly charming. It’s the ideal place, a metaphor in itself, for the meeting between Angela Longo and Gaia Santuccio. The strong polarisation of the differences that characterize the two actresses is not a stumbling block to the realisation of a dream, to a shared wish to play together, but it is their strongest and most
adventurous motivation, the poetic embodiment of human life and the relationship between human beings.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 63΄
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Director: Elena Bursztein & Axel Rosito
Producer: Elena Bursztein & Axel Rosito
Country: Argentina

An intimate journey through the lives of Dahyana, Maxi and Analía, three young people  who live with acquired disabilities as a result of a road accidents. Through their voices, "Survivors" addresses a problem that silently claims the lives of more than 5000 people every year in Argentina and is the leading cause of death and acquired disability in  young people in our country and Latin America.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 53’
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Richard Zubelzu
Producer: Magda Calabrese
Country: Spain

"Seconds outside" is a daily battle faced by Esther, Mario, Juan Carlos and David, protagonists of the documentary. Some fighters who claim their rights and overthrow erroneous prejudices, arguing social taboos and declaring undisputed winners with a knockout blow. This new work had the support of the organization "Afanias" and the Spanish lightweight champion Cristian Morales, which demystifies the prejudices about boxing, dispelling false myths. Bringing the viewer closer to the values and principles of a sport full of surprises and parallels of the social stigma against intellectual disability.

Project type: Novel
Duration: 8’
Language: Spanish/English
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Julieta Tetelbaum
Producer: Genderless films
Country: Argentina

Black Chalk is a film about the intimacy of a woman with Down's Syndrome who writes with black chalk a list of daily activities to organise her life.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 23’
Language: English
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Barnali Ray Shukla
Producer: Dark Chocolate Films
Country: India

After losing his eyesight to Glaucoma at the age of 19, Divyanshu was working to get his life back on track when he got an earful of free advice from well wishers and rehabilitation counselors: “Your life is over.” “You can only stay at home now and make cane furniture.” He soon found that his blindness or health struggles were not a problem. It was people’s attitudinal barriers which created stereotypes, and were the source of the real disability he faced. How does the world change when at 19 one wakes up blind and now at 43 asks what it takes to get my eyes back?

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 38’
Language: English / French / Italian
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Julia Pietrangeli
Producer: Human Installations
Country: Italy

“Everyone knew it was impossible”. What? That blind people could fly planes Sabrina, blind from birth, with great perseverance learned to pilot. She takes us to France where she attends a workshop organized by Les Mirauds Volants, the European Association of visually impaired pilots. This story goes beyond overcoming disabilities, it's about the strength of those who live up to their own dreams: there are no barriers up in the clouds.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 47’
Language: Polish
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Dariusz Janiczak
Producer: Mateusz Mirocha
Country: Poland

The last year of school is a very difficult time for Darek, a 24-year-old student with  intellectual disabilities. He leaves the place where he spent more than 10 years and has to start all over again. During this difficult time, he can count on his friend from school, Daniel, to help him cope with his new challenge. Together they reflect on passing, loss and Darek records on his camera what is important to him. Each of them, in their own way, has to
cope with what they do not fully understand and what they will face.

Project type: Short film
Duration: 11’
Language: Italian
Subtitles: No dialogue
Director: Monica Felloni
Producer: NèonCinema
Country: Italy

It is the story of the meeting between the blind sculptor Felice Tagliaferri and the writer who speaks only with his eyes Danilo Ferrari. The body and poetics of NèonTeatro are in common. Sometimes you feel the need to attest and document your existence in life. So it was for Danilo Ferrari. He decided one day that he wanted a marble half-bust for himself sculpted by the most unlikely of sculptors: Felice Tagliaferri. A more unusual choice could not have been made: Felice was blind and he, Danilo, spoke only with his eyes.Andrei Bene Per Il Cinema Muto directed by Monica Felloni is the title of the short film produced by NèonCinema.The action takes place over several days and includes the thoughts, reflections, actions that happen in the meeting between the two protagonists, in the  body's memory of the Theatre. A meeting that, in natural paradoxicality, finds inspiration and fun to signal and underline the meaning of living together in the  complementarity of human relationships.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 55’ 56’’
Language: Ukrainian
Subtitles: Greek
Director: Snizhana Husarevych
Producer: Svitlana Rudiuk
Country: Ukraine

Once upon a time, 16 children who did not know each other came together at the  rehabilitation center to take part in an inclusive film workshop and create a fairy tale about themselves. Half of the groups are children with special educational needs, and the other half are neurotypical. But each child is a bright star that will learn to shine  even brighter next to other stars. Classes in screenwriting and acting, music, applied arts  and animation are waiting for them. And all these subjects are combined with each  other, complementing and leading the young participants to a great goal - the joint creation  of the "Stars on Earth" cartoon. And when the cartoon is ready, it becomes clear that there  are no differences between children with special educational needs and neurotypical  children. They are all  stars that shine confidently and brightly on the Earth. 

Project type: Documentary Short Film
Duration: 13’ 17’’
Language: Turkish
Subtitles: English
Director: Mevlüt Karabulut
Producer: Mevlüt Karabulut
Country: Turkey / Izmir

Her disability did not hinder her. When she opened her first exhibition, she could not  convince anyone that she had painted the paintings herself. She tried to draw by imagining the places she could not visit or see, "Painting became a guide for me”. "If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces".

Project type: Experimental
Duration: 11’ 24’’
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Director: Olga F. Koroleva
Producer: Olga F. Koroleva
Country: UK

Hidden (2023) is the latest iteration of my research and moving image project on the  relationship between hidden disability and the companion working plant. It marks a new trajectory in my practice that explores vegetal narratives concurrent in humans and  plants, tracing colonial patterns of medicinal plant travel in the longer term. The film is  based on my personal experience and life practice of managing fibromyalgia, a  neurological condition that manifests itself with muscle and nerve pain in its full range throughout the body, working closely with Callisia Fragrans plants, while both of us experience displacement,  encounter and adapt together to less than hospitable places of habitation. 

Project type: Documentary Short Film
Duration: 15’
Language: Albanian
Subtitles: English
Director: Burim Haliti
Producer: Eureka film
Country: Kosovo

Sparks of Light is a documentary short film that follows a real story of the protagonist Fahri Krasniqi, who as a child was hit by a car and since then his left hand is unable to function! Our protagonist tell how from a great fall, he rises to become a great wood carving artist, even though he has limited abilities!

Project type: Documentary, Experimental
Duration: 7’ 16’’
Language: Romanian
Subtitles: English
Director: Blaga Steliana
Producer: Faculty of Theatre and Film/ Babes- Bolyai University
Country: Romania

He can’t see, but he teaches us how to do it properly. Together with Radu, blind since birth, we discover a world unseen and yet so clear to him: his garden where there is no light. In a visual experiment of a world that cannot be seen with our eyes, we instantly discover  vitality and a unique sense of joy.

Project Type: Short film
Duration: 2’ 19’’
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Director: Jakob Puff
Producer: SoleFamily Bali
Country: Indonesia

Wayan lives with a rare and incurable skin condition known as Epidermolysis Bullosa - despite his illness, he discovered his natural talent for painting and dreams of one day hosting his own art exhibition.

Project type: Short film
Duration: 13’
Language: English/ASL
Subtitles: no
Director: Danielle Ofri
Producer: Linda C. Lombardi
Country: USA

An exhilarating blend of poetry and dance, inspired by the challenges and possibilities of disability. Dancers with disability create original choreography based on poetry about disability, set to music commissioned for this special event, plus ASL interpretation. A co-production of Bellevue Literary Review and The Paige Fraser Foundation.

Project Type: Short film
Duration: 4’ 15’’
Language: No dialogue
Subtitles: No dialogue
Director: IMOGEN BUTLER
Producer: IMOGEN BUTLER
Country: UNITED KINGDOM

QUIET PLACES is a response to the isolation and solitude of lockdown. Filmed in  adherence to social distancing, each dancer chose their preferred place within the house. The dancers’ individuality is captured as they react to their quiet place.

Project type: Short film
Duration: 3’ 50’’
Language: No dialogue
Subtitles: No dialogue
Director: IMOGEN BUTLER
Producer: IMOGEN BUTLER
Country: UNITED KINGDOM

"THREE" communicates the idea of togetherness through unanimity and diversity. It explores the idea of a contained space and central object to create movement and connection.

Project type: Short film
Duration: 9’ 9’’
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Director: Dany Gamal
Producer: Dany Gamal
Country: Egypt

A documentary film that highlights blind photographers who, despite their disability, are professionals.

Project type: Video-Poem
Duration: 4’ 42’’
Language: Portuguese and Brazilian
Sign Language
Subtitles: English
Director: Caio Mendes e Camila Vilar
Producers: Ana Laura Maceiras, Caio Mendes, Cibelle Arello, Fran Oliveira, Júlia Ferreira,  Júlia Fumagalli, Larissa Carbone, Laura Hille, Maju Silveira, Ricardo dos Santos e Sofia Rodrigues
Country: Brazil

We are Coletivo Humana Mente, a collective formed by students, teacher and sign  language interpreters from Cotia in São Paulo, Brazil. We meet every week to debate  themes related to the humanities and since 2013 we produce accessible art. Our first  audio-visual production was the translation of the poem Meditations on the word man (Especulações em torno da palavra homem) by the Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond  de Andrade. Now, 10 years after our first production the collective decided to remake our videopoem, this time highlighting Brazilian Sign Language even more. In the video  we have the participation of deaf students and interpreters, all fluent in Brazilian  Sign Language, but also of hearing students and teachers, who learned to sign the verses  of the poem making this an extremely valuable work for our school community.

Project type: Short film
Duration: 5’ 23’’
Language: Czech
Subtitles: English
Director: Stepan Novotny, Petr Kalkus,
Markéta Novotná
Producer: -
Country: Czech Republic

He played the autobiographical idea of a young person who can't talk, walk, move...  Nevertheless, he fights against the obstacles in an admirable funny and very persistent way and proves to the world that although he can do almost nothing, he can actually do a lot.

Project type: Short Film
Duration: 15’ 45’’
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Director: Liz Sargent
Producer: Minos Papas
Country: United States

Anna is an adult with a Cognitive Disability living with her mother in Midland Florida. When her mother is unresponsive, she calls her sister for help, but without the language to be believed, Anna is brushed aside. Emily returns home and is immediately engulfed in a futile struggle for medical information, while Anna’s world is deconstructed. In this sadness, Anna sees the bigger picture and with a straightforward strength, Anna holds her own. The uncertainty for the sisters’ future independence remains but they are now a team against all odds

Project type: Short Documentary
Duration: 05’ 42’’
Language: Nepali
Subtitles: English
Director: Durga Rana Magar
Producer: Durga Rana Magar
Country: Nepal

Unspoken Bond is a heartwarming true story that follows the daily life and struggle of an elderly mother and her two disabled daughters as they strive to live a normal life.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 28’ 46’’
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Director: Vera Vyatskaya
Producer: Polina Pushkareva
Country: Russia

Talented gymnast Natasha becomes a victim of a cruel teenage prank and falls out of the window. The only thing that her mother hears from doctors is ‘Injuries incompatible with life’. After numerous doctors’ refusals of medical treatment for Natasha, her mother decides to bring daughter back to life by herself. Extremely hard struggle, incredible perseverance and unwavering faith in miracle go hand in hand with mother and daughter fourth year in a row. But Natasha’s dream to get back on her feet is still a long-cherished goal.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 05’ 24’’
Language: Kinyarwanda
Subtitles: English
Director: Gilbert Sibo Sibomana
Producer: 100 Pixels studios
Country: Rwanda

Cynthia was born with intellectual disability that causes her to drool. Just after the birth of Cynthia, Cynthia’s mother left her to her mother to look after her. After Cynthia was diagnosed with the problem, the doctor recommended the family to take Cynthia abroad for treatment, but the family could not afford it. Her grandmother continued to raise her enduring mistreatment, insults and isolation Cynthia had to face from children her age every single day. Her grandmother was also always worried that Cynthia would one day get raped or face any other violence due to her condition. As a growing girl, her grandmother tries to teach her about her reproductive health though it is not easy. Despite all this, Cynthia is an active girl like any other child who was born without disability, she plays and can do domestic chores.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 04’ 02’’
Language: Kinyarwanda
Subtitles: English
Director: Gilbert Sibo Sibomana
Producer: 100 Pixels studios
Country: Rwanda

When Alice was born, she was diagnosed with a serious intellectual disability but her family was poor and could not afford the treatment that was required. Alice continue to grow with disability and when she was 17 she was raped, impregnated, and gave birth to a boy. Her mother struggled a lot to take care of both the daughter and her son while trying hard to teach her about reproductive health. Now that the boy has grown, Alice is able to attend a nun's training class where they teach the youth who were born with disability different basic lessons to help them adapt to society.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 33’ 33’’
Language: Slovak
Subtitles: English
Director: Marek Vajduliak
Producer: Academy of Arts in Banska Bystrica
Country: Slovakia

Jaro is the 31-year-old man blind from birth who lives in a close relationship with his stepsister Vlada. They spend their free and working time together filled with various activities ranging from sports, animals, charity events to music therapy. Recently, he has been taking African drumming lessons taught by the music therapist Miro. He plays the piano at the conservatory, enjoys performing, going to concerts and his collection of musical instruments is constantly growing. The documentary portrait depicts the intimate world of eternal boy, whose character and morality are being formed in confrontation with adults during music therapy sessions and various activities. The main topic observed in the film is the positive impact music therapy has in the life of the blind man on his journey to inner freedom and happiness.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 21’ 26’’
Language: Polish
Subtitles: English
Director: Mikołaj Janik
Producer: Leszek Kopeć & Jerzy Rados
Country: Poland

Weronika baked sausages over an Icelandic volcano, kayaking through Costa Rican rivers and she guided tourists around the ruins of ancient kingdoms. Then she gave birth to a daughter - Wiktoria, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Since then, Weronika's life has completely changed. Will she manage to be a part of her former self in life with her daughter? An intimate portrait of a mother and child and a record of their hard struggle for the joy of life.

Project type: Short - Drama
Duration: 18’ 56’’
Language: Hebrew
Subtitles: English
Director: Or Getz
Producer: Esther “Eti” Genis
Country: Israel

On the day of Or’s sixth-grade graduation, his mother Anat learns he won’t speak at the ceremony because of his stutter. Anat feels this is a huge mistake and makes no compromises to ensure he goes on stage. Or fearfully takes the stage with hope of bringing pride to his mother — will he succeed? Will he fail?

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 14’ 00’’
Language: French
Subtitles: English
Director: Stephane Noumo
Producer: Roseline Fonkwa
Country: Cameroon

This documentary tells the admirable story of a man who became blind and who works with his hands to provide for his family and help his village.

Project type: Documentary Short Film
Duration: 17’ 30’’
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Director: Victor Kozhenkov
Producer: Alyona Yanushko
Country: Russian Federation

The life of a musician is up and down. Zhenya created his own music group, gathered an audience on YouTube, shot several videos. He was inspired to do what he loved and opened his talent to the world. But after Zhenya had a stroke, he can only play with one hand, and his friends no longer believe in the success of the group. My wife comes up with a new idea - to make a TV series about music and dreams. He begins to write the script for the series, which at the same time becomes the script for his own life.

Project type: Docudrama (mockumentary)
Duration: 39’ 59’’
Language: Persian (Farsi)
Subtitles: English
Director: Farhad Irani
Producer: Farhad Irani
Country: Iran

Farhad, a well-known Iranian photographer, and his wife Mahsa decided to leave Iran due to difficulties they were facing in their homeland. Farhad was born with a rare genetic disorder known as Treacher-Collins Syndrome (TCS), which affects facial structure development. Although TCS has made Farhad stand out all his life, his ability to rise above all challenges sets him apart.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 17’ 00’’
Language: Turkish
Subtitles: English
Director: Yavuz Özer
Producer: Yavuz Özer
Country: Turkey

Ercan and Aysun are two handicapped actors who suffer from achondroplasia from birth. They have established a family despite their physical disability. They have two children named Yağmur and Damla. They live in Afyon, a small city in the Aegean region in Turkey. Although they have difficulty earning their keep by theatre, they have been committed to theatre for many years. They remained far from stage during the pandemic. When they are unable to find an opportunity to stage their plays in their city, they go to road shows in different cities. The Ercan & Aysun documentary documents the period from 2018 to 2022 related to their family life.

Project type: Documentary Short Film
Duration: 05’ 09’’
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Director: Eilidh Gow
Producer: Eilidh Gow
Country: Scotland

7-year-old Robbie has a rare gut condition called Pseudo-Obstruction, which has resulted in various surgeries as well as a stoma - a surgically created opening from the bowel through the abdomen - something many children with the condition struggle to cope with. We follow the journey of a teddy bear from a Canterbury factory to a charity sewing group in the Highlands of Scotland where the bear is specially adapted with its own stoma and finally onto Robbie in Glasgow, to see how it changes his life.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 62’ 00’’
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Director: Hiba Dhaouadi
Producer: Nada Mezni Hafaiedh
Country: Tunisia

“Moon Girl" is the story of three women's battle against a dangerous incurable disease called "Xeroderma Pigmentosum”. It is a genetic disease characterized by intolerance to ultraviolet rays. It obliges the victim to avoid exposure to daylight in order to avoid the development of cancers. The film unveils the monotonous daily life of these three characters, the difference in terms of acceptance of the disease, the way each one chose to challenge this reality...

Project type: Animadoc, Short Film
Duration: 10’ 00’’
Language: German
Subtitles: English
Director: Victoria Joelle Hesselbach
Producer: Victoria Joelle Hesselbach
Country: Germany

Influenced by aphantasia, the phenomenon of a lack of visual imagination, the protagonist embarks on a personal journey. It's about accepting the condition where you lose your autobiographical memories and how to live a fulfilled life when you don't have any memories of your life. What it means to always live in the present and always forget. It is a search for answers to one's own identity and the acceptance that goes with it.

Project type: Short Film Documentary
Duration: 08’ 00’’
Language: French and Swahili
Subtitles: English
Director: Daniel Makasi Mahamba
Producer: Daniel Makasi Mahamba
Country: Democratic Republic of Congo

Léa Sous le Soleil (Lea Under the Sun) is the story of Léa Ziraje, a woman with albinism. She lives in Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. As coordinator of an organization called Albino Compassion (Compassion Albinos), Léa recounts how she faces a number of challenges. Living with albinism in a very hot environment is a test. She says that global warming is preventing people with albinism from living a normal life. In addition to this problem, there is the scarcity of sun cream in Goma, the town where she lives. 

Project type: Documentary, Short
Duration: 22’ 00’’
Language: Portuguese
Subtitles: English
Director: Erenice de Oliveira, Marcia Denardin e Luiz Alberto Cassol
Producer: Erenice de Oliveira, Marcia Denardin e Luiz Alberto Cassol
Country: Brazil

In the eyes and in the voice of four women that live with multiple sclerosis (MS), we find what's beyond the diagnosis.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 30’ 00’’
Language: Farsi
Subtitles: English
Director: Soren Rezaee
Producer: Naser Pooyesh
Country: Iran

"Abrash" is about the life of a blind old man named "Uncle Rashid" and his beautiful horse "Abrash", who lives with his family in the village on the slopes of the mountain. Uncle Rashid lost his sight when he was a child and two years apart. But being blind does not mean the end of life. He earns his living by selling dairy products that he makes with his wife. The horse faithfully accompanies him in the rainy weather, in the foggy atmosphere, in the heat, in the strange events that always have such a course with him.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 25’ 00’’
Language: Farsi
Subtitles: English
Director: Mahdi Zamanpoor Kiasari
Producer: Mahdi Zamanpoor Kiasari, Somayyeh Zaraatkar
Country: Iran

This documentary is a short story about the life of the 11-year-old boy "Abolfazl" and the 8-year-old girl "Setayesh" who has no birth certificate in one of remote border areas and who move along in hardship and strive for their living.

Project type: Documentary Short Film
Duration: 28’ 02’’
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Director: Mohanad Diab
Producer: Royal Dutch Visio
Country: Netherlands – Botswana – Egypt – Ghana – Uganda – South Africa – Palestine

The short documentary film "The Light in My Eyes" by Egyptian director Mohanad Diab tells about the nature of life lived by children and youth around the world with different forms of visual impairment, at the level of similarities and differences in their lifestyle. The film seeks to raise awareness to look more positively at these young people, The film revolves around five themes. The theme of participation, the theme of exclusion, the theme of assistive devices, the theme of daily life activities, the theme of independence and empowerment, and in this context, shooting began in June 2022 and continued until the end of 2022, including 7 different countries, namely the Netherlands, South Africa, Botswana, Ghana, Uganda, Palestine and Egypt And that was under the auspices of the Visio International Foundation in the Netherlands, and the film relied on the support of local art crews in the forementioned countries.

Project type: Short Film
Duration: 23’ 00’’
Language: Català
Subtitles: English
Director: Carlos Puig Mundó
Producer: Roser Vega
Country: Spain

Maria arrives at the institute with her father. Once inside the center, the receptionist welcomes them to the new class. As soon as she arrives in class, a classmate, Ana, who seemingly wants to want to help her, is actually teasing her, and together with her friends they begin to bother her. A new student, Julia, defends Maria. Maria tries to be normal in class, where she seems to get along with Julia, but during the break she needs to go to the bathroom to clear her head. The peace doesn't last long: she locks herself inside a cubicle when she hears Ana and two of her friends enter the bathrooms, who end up discovering her and taking pictures of her with her cell phone without her permission. Upon returning to the classroom, Maria feels observed and violated.

Project type: Student Short Film
Duration: 06’ 00’’
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Director: EmmaLynne DeRoss
Producer: EmmaLynne DeRoss
Country: America

OCD is a film adaption of a spoken word poem by Neil Hilborn. The film follows Jack, a young man whose OCD impacts his daily life. The film takes a look at how OCD not only impacts a person’s daily life but also their relationships.

Project type: Documentary Short Film
Duration: 04’ 43’’
Language: No dialogue
Subtitles: English
Director: Michele Pastrello
Producer: Coop.Arcobaleno
Country: Italy

Five women with intellectual disabilities talk, without words, their achievement in their everyday routine life: independent living of individuals with disabilities. They live in a small hill town in a sheltered apartment together with other residents. A director was asked to describe their typical day by images. The result is a documentary full of surprises in their very normal everyday life, as that of each of us. The beauty of their actions and the connection between them stands out. Above all it documents how a condition of objective dependence can generate independence.

Project type: Short film, Student
Duration: 14’ 00’’
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Director: Daria Zabava
Producer: Evgeny Novikov
Country: Russian Federation

A single woman lives in her old apartment, where everything is always in its place. She keeps a collection of porcelain toys, which she builds in straight lines every day. One day she receives a letter without an address and name. Since that day, she has received such letters every morning. Inexplicable chaos also begins to occur in her apartment. Who writes to her? What does he want to report? All the answers lie within her.

Project type: Video
Duration: 08’ 00’’
Language: English
Subtitles: English/ Spanish
Director: Lisa Spencer, Yoyo Anchondo
Producer: MESA
Country: USSR

Dr. Lisa Spencer teaches her students about historic, systematic bullying in the USA which leads to a film about bullying at their school. Students conduct research, conduct interviews, perform drama, and learn ways to support each other.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 14’ 42’’
Language: Portuguese
Subtitles: English
Director: John Lennon Moreia Campos
Producer: CinemUai
Country: Brazil

We asked a question to students from the Association of Parents Friends of the Disabled in Brumadinho, Brazil. What is happiness?

Project type: Short Film
Duration: 14’ 00’’
Language: Persian
Subtitles: English
Director: Emad Hoseini Fard
Producer: Emad Hoseini Fard
Country: Iran

The story of a single mother who works full-time in people’s houses to make ends meet for herself and her 6-year-old sightless child. Her cherished time of the day is the minutes on bus on the way to work, which she spends describing the outside images for her son.

Project type: Documentary, Short Film, Student
Duration: 12’ 23’’
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Director: Leah Byck
Producer: Leah Byck
Country: USA, New York City

This film is about disability justice and invisible disability. Not everyone can see each other's disabilities, so this film is to continue to share experiences of people with invisible disabilities. It is important that people from all walks of life understand the importance of mental health and the understanding that mental illness is an invisible disability. Captions/subtitles and image descriptions are already embedded into this film, so that no extra measures have to be taken in order for someone to listen or hear this film. This film aims to stop the stigma of mental illness and hidden disabilities and to shed light on the fact that people with invisible disabilities don't always have the same rights of those that are visibly disabled.

Project type: Short Film
Duration: 15’ 00’’
Language: Spanish/ Chilean Sign Language
Subtitles: English
Director: Francisco Jorquera
Producer: Agencia Rizomas
Country: Chile

Antonella is the only deaf transformer in Chile. After the confinement due to Covid 19 in 2021, she traveled to Santiago to perform her first solo show.

Project type: Social Short Film
Duration: 18’ 47’’
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English and French
Director: Georges Abi Ramia
Producer: Toni and Rebecca Lahoud
Country: Lebanon

A girl with special needs is harassed by her uncle.

Project type: Documentary Short Film
Duration: 07’ 00’’
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Director: Jared Jacobsen
Producer: Jared Jacobsen
Country: United States

Five athletes discuss their experiences learning and playing wheelchair tennis.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 39’ 00’’
Language: Persian
Subtitles: English
Director: Mehrdad Shaabani Nia
Producer: Mehrdad Shaabani Nia
Country: Iran

Champion is the title of the documentary about the Paralympic champion, Bahman  Golbarnejad, who was born in Abadan, Iran.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 20’ 00’’
Language: Tagalog
Subtitles: English
Director: Arjanmar H. Rebeta
Producer: Khaye Medina, Arjanmar H. Rebeta, Geraldine ‘Jedd’ Tan
Country: Philippines

Marites Burce, a victim of polio outbreak in 1970’s, is now a mother, a wife, an employee & a national para athlete who is preparing for her journey to represent Philippines in ASEAN Para Games to be held in her own country & to be qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics until the Covid-19 pandemic appeared.

Project type: Documentary Short Film
Duration: 04’ 46’’
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Director: Juan Fernández Gebauer
Producer: Camila Péndola / Signature Studios
Country: Argentina & Germany

Once one of the most promising talents in Argentinian football, Alexis lost his eyesight in an exchange of fire. Now he has to learn how to be blind.

Project Type: Documentary
Duration: 35’ 19’’
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Director: Tung JY
Producer: Tung JY
Country: Malaysia

Malaysian Wheelchair Athlete, Daniel Lee, was born with osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bones), he aims to pursue his goal in wheelchair racing in spite of limited resources provided in Malaysia. Though economic fallout from the pandemic adds on to the impact of existing adversities, Daniel is still committed to raise awareness for the PWDs community, hoping to liberate PWDs from the shackles of limitation through participation in various fields. His objective is to promote an idea-Different but The Same. He aspires to empower individuals with all abilities via All Ability Sports.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 23’ 00’’
Language: Portuguese
Subtitles: English
Director: Rafael Luis Azevedo
Producer: Larissa Cavalcante
Country: Brazil

A farmer from the countryside of Brazil was considered a talented football player but lost a leg after a serious hit and run. Today he is an example of overcoming as he competes, despite being an amputee, in the championship in Miracles City.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 19’ 15’’
Language: Turkish
Subtitles: English
Director: Evrim Inci
Producer: Evrim Inci
Country: Turkey

A fairy tale documentary of Büşra Ün, the first female tennis player to represent Turkey in the Olympics, her stance against life and the sacrifices she has made on the way from her daily life to her sports career.

Project type: Animated Documentary
Duration: 05’ 08’’
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Director: Nico Meissner
Producer: Nico Meissner, Ani Parry
Country: Australia

Katie Kelly was declared legally blind in January 2015. 18 months later, at the age of 40, she made her Paralympics debut in Rio de Janeiro, winning Australia’s first gold medal in the sport of Para-Triathlon. Last Seen: Katie Kelly is an animated short documentary that traces Katie’s remarkable journey in Tracie Eaton’s painting of Merewether Baths, Katie’s most cherished visual memory. The short film is part of Last Seen-a multi-sensory project to save sight. How can we capture visual memories of those who lost their sight? This short documentary uses computer animation to bring alive the memories of Katie Kelly OAM PLY and her journey to become Australia's first para-triathlon gold medalist during the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. Gold Coastbased artist Tracie Eaton captured Katie’s last seen memory of the Merewether Baths in Newcastle in a unique painting. The animated documentary uses Blender to bring to life Tracie's painting and Katie's memory in a captivating visual narrative.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 50’ 00’’
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Director: Raquel Abellán
Producer: Esmeralda García
Country: Spain

“The Power of Hands” is a journey-documentary that tells the story of the life and journey of Esmeralda, from birth to adulthood. With the participation of other deaf people, who add different experiences, but who coincide in the problems and the confusion that the environment generates for them. Confusion that, at the same time, from another point of view, is shared by the director, Raquel Abellán, who, through her voice-over, narrates throughout the documentary the experience of a hearing person who finds it difficult to understand some things about the deaf community but at the same time discovers a completely new and magical world where there is only silence.

Project type: Short Documentary
Duration: 24’ 00’’
Language: Indonesian Sign Language
Subtitles: English
Director: Riani Singgih
Producer: Annisa Adjam, M. Ismail
Country: Indonesia

Growing up as a deaf individual in Indonesia, Mufi was taught to speak instead of sign. As an adult, now she carves her music career to inspire others to express themselves through sign language. When Mufi was diagnosed as deaf at her early age, her parents insisted on moving to the capital city to get access to a proper education. Unfortunately, like any other Indonesian deaf people, they’re taught to communicate more orally at school rather than using sign language. Living as the only deaf person in the family, Mufi felt left out in a lot of the family’s conversations due to struggling to comprehend the fast conversation. Only after Mufi has grown, she started to use the sign language on a daily basis with her closest friends. After finding her safe space, through her work Mufi aims to show her identity as a deaf artist.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 44’ 00’’
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Director: Anastasia Sarycheva
Producer: Stanislav Duzhnikov, Alla Kargina
Country: Russia

The film is about an actress of the theater “Nedoslov”, Daria Katidi – a disabled child with congenital absolute deafness. Born in Omsk, in a family of deaf parents, she was able to overcome all prohibitions and obstacles and become the leading actress of the capital’s theater.

Project type: Short Film
Duration: 08’ 52’’
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Director: Enza Lasalandra
Producer: Enza Lasalandra
Country: Italy

Desyrèe did not pass the audiological screening at birth and the parents are given the news that the child suffers from profound bilateral deafness. Anxiety seizes them with force but science will find a solution for them and a world made of sounds will open up for Desyrèe.

Project type: Short Film
Duration: 13’ 47’’
Language: Polish
Subtitles: English
Director: Gracjana Piechula
Producer: Krystyna Doktorowicz, dean of Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School at the University of Silesia
Country: Poland

Zosia is a 13-year-old CODA – a hearing child of deaf adults. Together with her dad she sets off to fight for her dream swimming competition, in which she is not allowed to participate due to her father’s oversight. Along the way, they encounter complications that put Zosia in the role of interpreter and intermediary between her deaf father and the rest of the world. Having a voice starts to be not only a privilege for the girl, but also a burden.

Project type: Short Documentary
Duration: 20’ 25’’
Language: Indonesian
Subtitles: English
Director: Andini Pradya Savitri
Producer: Andini Pradya Savitri
Country: Indonesia

Muhammad Raditya Firmansyah, who is familiarly called Radit, is a deaf child from Tenggarong, Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan. Radit is nicknamed as The Blue Eyes because his eye color is different from the eye color of the people in his environment due to a genetic disorder (Waardenburg Syndrome) that also affects his hearing. At the age of 13, Radit still doesn’t use hearing aids, so his communication skills are still limited in visual form. Radit’s parents also tried so that their son could hear voices, even though he was only able to write.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 06’ 03’’
Language: Kinyarwanda
Subtitles: English
Director: Gilbert Sibo Sibomana
Producer: 100 Pixels studios
Country: Rwanda

Tharcise was born deaf. After his parents died he was adopted in a very poor family but after some time an organization that supports youths who live with a disability helped him and taught him how to make shoes. Now his life has changed as he can be able to make shoes, sell and earn some money to support himself and his adoptive mother. It has also boosted his morale.

Project type: Short Film
Duration: 05’ 03’’
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Director: Jack Smallwood
Producer: Nikki Stratton
Country: United kingdom

A film produced by Jack Smallwood will portray the emotions expressed by D/deaf people via a short BSL poem created specifically for this project. The poem will tackle the concept of dual identity with D/deafness in relation to selfhood. This short film features people who are deaf/hard of hearing and are born, raised and live in Wolverhampton. This #offSite9 project has been commissioned by Creative Black Country as part of Arts Council England’s Creative People and Places scheme, and supported by Paycare.

Project type: Documentary
Duration: 24’ 00’’
Language: Czech
Subtitles: English
Director: MgA. Ivan Crnac
Producer: MgA. Miloň Terč
Country: Czech Republic

The film takes us into the large Sedláček and Půlpán family, where the only hearing members are their children – CODA. In the 1980’s, the term CODA was coined for these children, which is an abbreviation for Children Of Deaf Adults – loosely translated from English as hearing children of deaf parents. The main protagonist is a sixteen-year-old hearing girl, Jolanka, who lives in the shared custody of her deaf parents. She is trying to find her place “in between” these two worlds. We follow her daily life full of challenges, obstacles and joys, whether she is in hearing or deaf world. “I am CODA” brings viewers a unique insight into the lives of family members from two different language cultures, a view of their communication in spoken and sign language. All of this leaves us with a deep awareness of the power of the human spirit and a desire to understand all those who share their worlds with us.