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