The Together! 2025 Disability Film Festival took place free online from 6-7 December 2025. You can view the programmes using the links below, together with recordings of our live events on Zoom. Click here to see the 2025 Kat Award winners. 

Saturday 6 December 2025
Programmes are released at 12noon and are available for 24 hours.

• Animations 1
• Artists Films 1
• Dance Films 1
• Documentaries 1
• Short Dramas 1
• International Day of Disabled People 1

3-4pm on Zoom: Film-making by and alongside people with learning difficulties. Filmmakers discuss the issues with Ju Gosling. With British Sign Language interpretation and live captions.

Sunday 7 December

• Animations 2
• Artists Films 2
• Dance Films 2
• Documentaries 2
• Short Dramas 2
• International Day of Disabled People 2

3-4pm on Zoom: Documenting Activism. How do filmmakers work successfully alongside Disabled activists, and how do Disabled people document their own campaigning, to create films that inspire as well as preserving vital social history? Ju Gosling is in discussion with Kevin Caulfield and Julie Newman. With British Sign Language interpretation and live captions.

About the Together! Disability Film Festival

The Festival takes place annually in December as part of Disability History Month. We began in East London in 2012 and moved online in 2020. Most of the films we screen will have been completed in the last 12-18 months, and many are premieres. Filmmakers do not need to identify as disabled themselves if Disabled people or Disability are the subject of the film; Deaf/Disabled filmmakers can submit work on any subject. Our priority is to provide a platform for strong storytelling, highlighting the lived experiences of Deaf/Disabled people from diverse backgrounds, and the talents of  emerging and mid-career Deaf/Disabled filmmakers. Many of our films are world or international premieres, and go on to festivals worldwide. We are IMDb accredited.

We give Kat Awards for the best films. These are named in honour of the late artist and filmmaker Katherine Araniello. 

We use our own ‘D’ rating system – one D each for a Deaf/Disabled (self-defined) person generating the film’s content, taking overall lead in making the film, and being the focus or star(s) of the film, working with or without support.

Follow this link for a history of Together! 2012 CIC’s annual international Disability Film Festival.