23 November 2020, 12:01 am
FRAMING ABILITIES – I
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions

A festival of disability films organized in collaboration with We Care FilmFest and Brotherhood. Ten award-winning short documentaries from Burma/Japan, Lebanon, India, Iran, Italy and Trinidad & Tabago will be screened over the next two weeks.

Tiny Step (India)1:00 min; English subtitles
 Director: Ganga Bharani
Recipient of the Best Film Award and Special Mention, We Care Film Festival 

Question of Success (Mai Pakpagee Wahang/India)(5:01 min; English and with subtitles)
Director: L. Amarendra Sharma

The story of Md. Abdul Haque, a national Paralympic gold medalist in swimming

The Attitude (India)(5:06 min; Oriya & with English subtitles)
Director: Santosh Kumar Panda

A job interview for Bhagwan Patra aka “Rintu”

 

The Fish and I (Iran; 6:10 min)
Director: Babak Habibifar
Multiple award winner including Young Jurors Prize, International Short Film Festival Ingolstadt, Germany 2015; Best Short Film, 6th Skepto International Film Festival, Italy 2015; Jury Grand Prize & Audience Award, Short Short Story Film Festival, USA 2014; among others. The film recounts the story of a blind man trying to save his fish

Turning a Page (Trinidad and Tobago)(10:13 min; English & with subtitles)
Director: Miquel Galofre

The film explores how differently abled students relate to the world through creative outlets like a paper recycling project at their school

Elsewhere (Altrove/Italy)(18:05 min; Italian with English subtitles)
Director: Cesare Cicardini

Recipient of the Award for Best Film, Bluenose Ability Film Festival 2015. A trip beyond boundaries: beyond Italy and beyond stereotypes