Film Competition Section - RoDi - Reflection of Disability in Art

I IS ANOTHER

Type: Documentary, Experimental, Other
Duration: 00:38:00
Language: Portuguese
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): César Meneghetti
Producer: César Meneghetti
Country: Brazil

Through the VIDEO BOOTH the artist Meneghetti has created an effective sequence of single images that, assembled in a quadripartite scheme, exchange and interact. A Gallery of People with disabilities who present themselves for what they are, and who express themselves according about existence themes (happiness, love, loneliness, death, wealth, change, diversity and etc.). It is a gallery of anti-heroes and anti-heroines. The result is a unique projection in a single frame with an invisible and complex montage that portrays disabled artists, the artist and the curator in a sort of symmetrical dialogue that also involves the viewer.

How to train an antihero

Type: Documentary
Duration: 00:26:00
Language: Greek
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Yannis Bletas
Producer: The Association of Parents, Guardians and Friends of people with Autism, of Rethymno
Country: Greece

Antihero (meaning): Antihero is a protagonist who does not have conventional heroic abilities and is addicted pathologically to someone else. A group of young "antiheroes" with difficulties, decide to attend theater classes. The young "antiheroes" are trained theatrically. Through their great love for theater, they decide to create a theatrical, improvised performance, with the theme of superheroes. At the same time, the antiheroes live their daily lives. After all, do you have to go through walls so you can be a superhero?

A sound in motion

Type: Short film
Duration: 00:12:00
Language: Portuguese
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Ricardo Teixeira
Producer: Mafalda Leal Moura, Golpe Filmes
Country: Portugal

Rodrigo challenges Joana to dance again. The rhythm is the same but she hasn't heard it in the same way since the accident. Rodrigo's will, Joana's anger and another way of listening to the world reveal new challenges. Will Joana be able to adapt to a new normal? Will Rodrigo have the strength to help Joana overcome this new condition?

Conversation behind the scenes

Type: Documentary
Duration: 00:30:00
Language: Italian
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Giulia Zumpano
Producer: Rufa - Rome University of Fine Art
Country: Italy

The documentary follows the story of Dario Pasquarella, deaf theater director and actor, and his company. Through his work, Dario tries to bring together the deaf and hearing community, which are usually separated by a lack of communication. In his shows he uses both languages, the LIS, the sign language, and the spoken language to narrate stories where the deafs and the hearing can live in symbiosis.

Walls that matter

Type: Documentary, Short
Duration: 00:26:02
Language: Gujarati
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Tanmay Shah
Producer: Friaday Fiction Films
Country: India

WALLS THAT MATTER is an inspiring story of an artist who is on a mission to provide free access of art as much as free education in India. The municipal schools in India do not have ample art teachers. Students there have little or no exposure to arts and many talented young people never get chance to express themselves. Anil Shah, the artist from Gujarat, thinks art has to reach villages if villages cannot have access to art. Urban cities are full of art infrastructure but he thinks lot of real artists come from villages as well.

Who is Honorine Platzer?

Type: Short film Documentary
Duration: 00:22:44
Language: Greek
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Alexandos Chantzis
Producer: ARTOGETHER - Art of People With and Without Disability
Country: Greece

Motivated by the "projects" of Artogether- Art of People With and Without Disability on the famous painting " Woman in the garden of Mr. Forest " of Toulouse - Lautrec, the short documtary film focuses on the creativity, artistic exploration, coexistence and inclusion. At the same time with a kind of poetic and descriptive narration, the documentary presents the work of each team of ARTOGETHER (Theatrical game, Music theatrical, Artsy and Kinetic Improvisation) like an undivided whole, an artistic dialog which begins from 1891, the year of making the painting, until today.

TOKE

Type: Documentary, short
Duration: 00:06:42
Language: English
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): NONO
Producer: Jackson Forsythe, Jacob Jonas
Counrty: United Kingdom

Set in the urban metropolis of London, Toke, is an intimate portrait of Danish-born dancer Toke Broni Strandby. Director NONO expertly visualizes the emotionally layered journey we endure to fulfill our dreams while exploring themes of identity, contemporary alienation, and acceptance. An inspiring story about triumph, Toke, is a celebration of the beautiful resilience of the human spirit.

Heal by art

Type: Documentary, short
Duration: 00:10:00
Language: Russian
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Anna Rakhmanina
Producer: Pavel Roganov, Anna Rakhmanina
Country: Russian Federation

"Heal by art" is a film about the Theatrical Inclusive team "Krug", that was created more than 30 years ago in Russia and has produced until now 20 plays. The movie shows what Inclusive Theater is about. It shows the struggles of the team and the misinformation surrounding the people with disabilities. It also underlines that communication is key, for a team like this one, in order to succeed and that we can use art as a therapeutic process for our benefit.

Something about Paolo

Type: Documentary
Duration: 00:50:00
Language: Italian
Subtitles: Greek & English Director(s): Donato Canosa
Producer: Malfè Film
Country: Italy

Paolo is twelve years old, Donato is his special educational teacher. They meet in seventh grade. Their shared passion for cinema leads them to a special project: a documentary about themselves, a story inspired by instinct, improvisation and natural inclination captured during school daily routines. There is Something About Paolo represents a pedagogical journey, where reality and fiction blend together and become the educational means through which we discover a little more about ourselves and the world.

What to do with your tabloid news

Type: Animation, documentary, short, student
Duration: 00:02:26
Language: English
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Anne Marie Las Pinas, Bobby Toresdahl, Brandon Sims, Brandon Williams, Bryan Ramirez, Christian Pech, Eric Thompson, George Manukyan, Haileigh Tenney, Jade Boyd, Joshua Jo, Kobe Aceves, Lawren Cruz, Leo Romero, Michael Miro, Noemi Hernandez, Ramon Gonzalez, Jr., Tori Boyd, Vincent Guerra-Hernandez
Producer: Andrew Haldeman, Beth Maki, Jennifer Stillwell, Christine Andrade, Marlene Sharp
Country: United States

In the last two years, there sure has been a lot of news. Much of which is bad news. But each and every one of us can do something about it. "What to do with your tabloid news" is a film that teaches you exactly how to recycle, reuse, and recover the bad news! This short movie was made by 20 writers/directors that are on the autism spectrum.

My dreams

Type: Documentary
Duration: 00:27:44
Language: Persian
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Eiraj Afkar
Producer: Arash Amiri
Country: Islamic Republic of Iran

“My dreams” is a movie about Ahsan Ahmadi, a young man with disabilities whose biggest dream in life is to be a director. He has written a short movie, which he wants to make. His family though does not support him and does not want him to be a director, because they believe that it would be hard for him. Ahsan however, believes that he will be successful if he makes his film.

Flashback

Type: Experimental, Other
Duration: 00:03:43
Language: English
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Danny Smith
Producer: -
Country: United Kingdom

Danny remembers his past, both the good times and when he was bullied as a teenager and contrasts with the present where he is a successful confident professional artist. He has clear artistic intentions; to show independence, demonstrate emotions associated with change and personal empowerment

Some new Broadway

Type: Documentary, Feature
Duration: 01:27:20
Language: Bosnian
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Denis Bojic
Producer: RTRS
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

After the age of eighteen, people with Down syndrome in Bosnia and Herzegovina generally become socially invisible. The plot of the film follows six people with Down syndrome who, overcoming numerous obstacles, are among the first in Southeast Europe to become students in a professional acting school. When one man’s dream becomes the strength of all, nothing is impossible anymore. An amazing film story about the steadfastness of the human spirit and faith in your own abilities will take you on a journey after which you will not be the same.

Root

Type: Short, experimental
Duration: 00:09:30
Language: No text
Subtitles: --
Director(s): Vasco André dos Santos
Producer: Era Uma Vez... Teatro, APPC - Associação do Porto de Paralisia Cerebral, Mónica Cunha
Country: Portugal

The bodies that are born from the water to the earth return. During their existence they try to retaliate the loneliness looking for their mothers, appeasing themselves..

Shade Guzzling

Type: Documentary
Duration: 00:20:00
Language: German
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Ulrike Korbach
Producer: Ulrike Korbach
Country: Germany

Anke Ames is a violist, writer and painter who has chosen love as her main life path and perspective. People, music and ideas help her find her life centre. She was last hospitalized a few years ago. Doctors say it is bipolar disorder, meanwhile thought she describes her mission as "shade guzzling".

I only see what I believe

Type: Documentary
Duration: 00:11:58
Language: French
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Anissa Bouchra
Producer: Anissa Bouchra
Country: France

This is a movie about the story of Laetitia, a blind woman who is passionate about music and especially about the violin. She has the ability to hear the colours when she plays her music, which is a very rare trait called sensation. This movie is a colourful journey that gives people the opportunity to listen to the colours and see the music, thanks to this great musician. Through her story, this documentary passes a message of hope and makes clear that one substantive can be invisible in one's eyes.

The contact

Type: Documentary
Duration: 00:28:45
Language: Italian
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): K. Sarkyte
Producer: K. Sarkyte
Country: Italy

The Contact is a documentary based on a series of research of how can one experience real connection to others, especially to autistic ones. It's possible that the answer to this question could lie among audiovisual art, inside one screen.

Limit

Type: Short, experimental
Duration: 00:07:00
Language: Persian
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Javad Daraei
Producer: Arezo Balali Dehkordi
Country: Islamic Republic of Iran

Somebody in a peaceful area asks random people he sees in the streets for help. He asks to be followed, up to a house, and when someone enters an unexpected incident occurs...

Τatata

Type: Animation
Duration: 00:04:26
Language: English, Chinese, Japanese
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Yi Yang Sun
Producer: Yi Yang Sun
Country: China

Yi Yang Sun created three animated cartoons, which are based on Congenital Insensitivity to pain, Chondropathy, Marfan Syndrome. "HeSheHe" not only represents the three narrators, but all the people who have been alone and need to create sentimental bonds with the people around them. She uses her body as a means of establishing empathy, to achieve the transformation from perceptual empathy to cognitive empathy. She created a picture of sculptural entity for each animated character to reproduce the physical form of three types. Sculpture works can be used as a medium for people to share their memories of the body, which adds another layer of touch and connection to the animation. As an animation work that can be physically touched, YiYangSun hopes that through this way the audience can further enhance the emotional perception of the three narrators.

The uncommons

Type: Animation
Duration: 00:08:40
Language: Polish
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Tadeusz Kabicz
Producer: The Education, Rehabilitation and Care Centre in Ustroń
Country: Poland

This movie is based on paintings made by disabled people and it points out the colorful glory of one person’s mind. One boy tells the story of attending one special school, introducing as into his way of life, being " uncommon".

Little fairy tree

Type: Short
Duration: 00:15:48
Language: English
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Frank W. Kelly
Producer: Frank W. Kelly
Country: Ireland

Ellie is upset, feels lonely and not having a lot in common with the people who surround her. She loves books and aspires to communicate with others, but everyone seems to be attached to their phones. One day, out of nowhere, she finds a magic book that should hold many surprises...

After the eclipse

Type: Animation
Duration: 00:12:00
Language: No text
Subtitles: --
Director(s): Bea R. Blankenhorst
Producer: Bea R. Blankenhorst
Country: Argentina

Argentina in the 1920s. The social club of a small rural town hosts the "Grand Evening Ball" which gives the attendees the opportunity to get close to each other and dance. However, this is not such an easy thing to do in a small society like this.

His shoelases

Type: Documentary
Duration: 00:10:00
Language: Greek
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Elpida Chelioudaki, Argiro Tzagkaraki, Froso Emmanouilidou
Producer: Chania Film Festival
Country: Greece

Many times something that is easy for us can be extremely difficult for someone else. Tying laces is a skill that children learn at a young age and is taken for granted. But is it granted for everyone at the same time in their lives? A wonderful journey for a young man, who with the help of his mother, tries to learn to tie his shoelaces. Love, understanding and perseverance carry a strong message. Every dream can be achieved with the support of our loved ones and hard work. In the end, does it matter how and when you reach your goal or what have you achieved?

Τoo beautiful

Turation: 00:15:00
Language: French
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Aïcha Ghembaza
Producer: Aïcha Ghembaza
Country: France

This is a film about the immense love of a mother. The beauty and uniqueness of the daughter is captured through the eyes of the mother. Louise, a ten-year-old girl who belongs to the autism spectrum, is for her mother the most beautiful jewel in this world, many times she thinks that the ugliness of the modern world is not even worth her beauty. The real and demanding daily life of a mother and her daughter. A complete immersion without detours in the heart of a powerful story between Louise and her mother, who is ready to do anything to protect her from the world around her.

A son like others

Type: Documentary
Duration: 00:19:00
Language: Portuguese
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Antonio Sequeira
Producer: Carlos Alberto
Country: Portugal

How can life change in a few moments? Dinis is a teenager who was recently diagnosed with schizophrenia. Adjustment is difficult for the whole family. The love and fear of the mother, the need to keep him safe but also to live a normal life, fight within her. The little sister captures the innocence of the children, in her eyes her older brother is the hero who has always been despite the harsh words of the people around her. Dinis, like any teenager, dreams and wants to go to university. Will he go? Will everyone be able to adapt to the new data and control their fears and themselves? In the end it is love that always makes the difference ...

AU

Type: Documentary
Duration: 01:05:00
Language: English, Italian & Ukrainian
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Olga Kalchugina
Producer: Olena Driz, Nadiya Grachova, Oksana Kosyk
Country: Ukraine

Autism is not a disease, but a condition with which a person is born. Autism is a lifelong feature of the development of the brain, which affects communication and relationships with other people, on perception and understanding of the surrounding world. The film focuses on two families raising children on the autism spectrum. The film realistically captures the daily life of the families, the difficulties they face and the moments full of love between their members. Throughout the journey, the great role of friendship between the two mothers is emphasized. The two women have developed a strong friendship despite living in different countries. They share both difficulties and joys, supporting each other and taking life lessons.

Heartbeat

Type: Documentary
Duration: 00:24:36
Language: Serbian
Subtitles: Greek & english
Director(s): Dimitri Udovicki
Producer: Zoran Mircetic
Country: Serbia

This Documentary film is about Rastko Jokic, a Serbian Paralympic champion who broke the world record on 50 meters distance in pistol shooting. It takes us to the darkest parts of his life and the obstacles he had to go through to succeed.

No difference

Type: Documentary
Duration: 00:05:55
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: Greek & english
Director(s): Gerardo Panero
Producer: Franco Carbone
Country: Argentina

On December 4th, 2019, the professional Wheelchair tennis player Gustavo Fernández, being number 1 in ranking, resigned his nomination for the Olimpia awards. His commitment leads us to reflect on the differences with which the sport performed by people with disabilities is measured.

What happens tomorrow

Type: Documentary
Duration: 00:13:13
Language: Russian
Subtitles: Greek & english
Director(s): Anastasia Shtandke
Producer: Anastasia Shtandke
Country: Russian Federation

Now Leisan is preparing for the European Championship in a table tennis, so awards, years of athletic trainings are behind her on her way to her dream. Enduring love of her family and support of her close friends help her overcome stereotypes and rejection of the society, as there was a period of time when she did not have a chance even to attend a kindergarten with other children. Her mother was allowed to bring Leisan to school only once to take a photo and then they found themselves out of the game. After this, Ramzia, Leisan’s mother, decided that no matter how, but she would help her daughter develop her talents. Will Leisan take gold in the coming European Championship in Finland in future?

Those who don't want to see

Type: Documentary
Duration: 01:04:00
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Graciela Patricia De Luca
Producer: Cine en Marcha
Country: Argentina

Natalia and Daniel are blind but that condition was never an impediment for them, they live their lives to the full and love each other. Suddenly, something interrupts everything, imposing itself and hindering what blindness could not.

Being Haddie

Type: Documentary
Duration 00:06:22
Language: English
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Jason Carter
Producer: Daniel Ambrosio
Counrty: Liberia

Meet Haddie, a Liberian American girl living in Bahrain and her attitude towards her disability, Cerebral Palsy. Haddie's goal is to reach out to families of people with disability and let them know that, they are not alone.

Wing chair

Type: Documentary
Duration: 00:05:30
Language: Tagalog
Subtitles: Greek & english
Director(s): Arjanmar Rebeta
Producer: Arjanmar H. Rebeta, Khaye Medina
Country: Philippines

Christian Apolinario, a young man with disability, gives wings to his wheelchair to conquer his dreams. This is a documentary that shows us how Christian became a dancer, an actor and a worker.

ASAK

Type: Documentary
Duration: 00:30:00
Language: Persian
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Mahdi Zamanpour Kiasari
Producer: Somayyeh Zaraatkar, Mahdi Zamanpour Kiasari
Country: Islamic Republic of Iran

A 80 years old blind man from the south, has the gifted power to narrate dreams .From the heart of the mountains he chooses the rocks by touching and by tasting them and without any special advanced tools, only with simple tools and a hand saw he makes traditional pots for the villagers. In this way he makes a living.

Mugisha (Blessing)

Type: Documentary
Duration: 00:06:38
Language: English
Subtitles: Greek & english
Director(s): Fisca Jean Paul Habimana
Producer: Fisca Jean Paul Habimana
Country: Rwanda

Eric and Marie Jeanne are a deaf couple and have a son Mugisha, a listening child, and whose name in their language means "blessing." Eric is a shoemaker and together with Marie Jeanne describe the challenges they face every day both at work and growing up Mugisha.

God loves Porkhov

Type: Documentary
Duration: 00:36:25
Language: Russian
Subtitles: Greek & english
Director(s): Marina Zabelina
Producer: Marina Zabelina, Yuri Savin
Country: Russian Federation

Children with disabilities from the Russian provincial town of Porkhov, who are helped by the famous writer and playwright Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, had no right to a future. After the orphanage, all of them, without exception, were supposed to go to a psycho-neurological boarding house for adults. Modern concentration camps. Charitable organization Rostok helps orphans with intellectual disabilities gain freedom and have families. Here, they learn to live not behind a fence, but just like you and mе. Life in Porkhov is monotonous, like the flow of the Shelon River. But Rostok gives hopes to those who never had it.

The Silent Chaos

Type: Documentary
Duration: 00:45:00
Language: Kongo
Subtitles: English & greek
Director(s): Antonio Spanò
Producer: Edoardo Picciolo, Antonio Spanò, Agostino Spanò, Francesco Picciolo
Country: Italy

We are in North Kivu, at Democratic Republic of Congo. After a bloody civil war that lasted for years, Congolese society has lost its identity. However, archaic superstitions and magical beliefs are the only elements left which still bring the population together. These forces guide the defense of the territory led by Mai-Mai rebels, but they also make people consider those who are different as a threat, just like what happens to the deaf in Butembo. This is the story of those who have no voice and no hope, but who keep struggling for their own dignity, not willing to resign to unhappiness.

Inner me

Type: Documentary
Duration: 00:30:00
Language: Swahili
Subtitles: English & Greek
Directors(s): Antonio Spanò
Producer: Office Number Four, Over The Line Pictures
Country: Italy

Butembo, North Kivu, D.R. Congo
While following Jemima, a little curious girl who wanders through dusty roads, crowded markets, slaughterhouses, furnaces and bat hunters we get acquainted with three women who describe the harsh realities of being born female and deaf in a society that discriminates against both women and people with disabilities. The stories of Immaculée, Sylvie and Stuka are stories of everyday struggle against marginalization, abuse and oppression, but despite the insurmountable obstacles imposed on them by society, the protagonists show us how their strong and undefeated will allows them to take hold of their fate every single day and reveals the beautiful resilience of the human spirit.

Solo

Type: Experimental, Student
Duration: 00:09:34
Language: Turkish
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Zeynel Hebun Guler
Producer: Feyzi Baran
Country: Turkey

It is about the tragedy of Rushen in this dystopic world, which is normal in a world where only the visually impaired can read and only the hearing impaired can listen to music.
"What is Normal?"

Movement

Type: Documentary
Duration: 00:19:33
Language: Portuguese
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Luis dos Santos Miguel
Producer: Luis dos Santos Miguel
Country: Brazil

"Movement" presents a day in the life of a Deaf man with his hearing family from the countryside of São Paulo state (Brazil) and the means they found to communicate.

The secret life of Tom Lightfoot

Type: Movie
Duration: 00:10:00
Language: English
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Ray Jacobs
Producer: Ray Jacobs for Arty Party
Country: United Kingdom

Tom is anxious, he holds a secret in his human heart, a wing beat and a flutter and its bursting to take flight. The Secret Life of Tom Lightfoot is a tale of magical realism to be witnessed and shared. It is a tale of healing revealing how we can learn to live with the secrets of our more than human hearts. Tom Lightfoot works as a calls operator for ‘We have the Answers’. A call center, which answers anybody’s questions about absolutely anything. Tom, is secretly studying for a PHD in bird migration but this is not Tom’s secret life, his secret is inside of him. This film is part of a series of films ‘Secret Lives’ combining the artistry and experiences of UK learning disability group ‘Arty Party, the film direction of Ray Jacobs and the writings of NYT bestselling fantasy author Jeff Vandermeer.

Born to dance with an extra chromosome: the drag queens (and kings) with Down's syndrome

Type: Documentary
Duration: 00:09:42
Language: English
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Nikolay Nikolov
Producer: Nikolay Nikolov
Country: United Kingdom

The film follows the transformation of four drag artists with Down's syndrome as they prepare for a show in East London. Each performance highlights the unique character behind the artist. The film sees the artists tell a much bigger story about living life with love and achieving your dreams, while also allowing a group of marginalised people – LGBTQ, people with Down's syndrome – to speak for themselves and to showcase, proudly, who they are.

With my face

Type: Documentary
Duration: 00:28:42
Language: English, Portuguese
Subtitles: Greek & English
Director(s): Madalena Silva Carlos
Producer: -
Country: Portugal

A short documentary that captures the life of four women from different parts of the world, dealing with genetic syndromes. A series of interviews about their unique experiences, with stories that go far beyond a diagnosis. "With my face" is a journey through the deconstruction of labels and preconceptions.