This programme has now ended but you can still see details of the films below.
£12.40 An Hour For A Shower. Richard Butchins. UK. 2025. 33:10. DDD. F. Set in Hammersmith & Fulham, £12.40 An Hour For a Shower tells the story of Disabled activists who fought relentlessly against the injustice of charging for essential support to live at home with choice and control. In doing so, they became the driving force for lasting change in a major London borough and a source of inspiration for others locally, nationally, and internationally.
Stop Gap Measure. 2025. Canada. May 2025. 11 min. International Premiere. When temporary solutions become the status quo, who gets left behind? A Stop Gap Measure follows the disability activist Luke Anderson on his fight for accessibility to be a right, not a privilege.
i’ve never climbed a tree. Siobhán Scarlett O’Reilly. United Kingdom. 2024. 07:19. DDD. FFF. i’ve Never Climbed a Tree is a quiet video essay about disability, embodiment and the strained relationship between the body and the natural world. Drawing on Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, dyspraxia and the after-effects of trauma therapy, the film reflects on what it means to feel disconnected from one’s own body and from environments that are meant to offer grounding. Created in a single day during IMPRINT Collective’s Body of Earth workshop, it weaves personal narration with a contrast between nature and the artificial textures of a shopping centre. The film considers how we find alternate routes upwards when the obvious ones aren’t available.
Up Syndrome. Taylor Wiginton. US. 2025. 20m. DD. International Premiere. The film is about an aspiring Filmmaker with Down Syndrome who wants to give his friends a voice and show his community the helpful programs around town. He dreams of working in the film industry and traveling with his wife.
Everybody’s garden: A call for inclusive heritage. Tomasz Wierzbianski. UK. 2025. 4:18. F. D. World Premiere. This short film is about a project exploring the arts as a way to improve access to, and enjoyment of, landscapes and heritage sites for sight-impaired visitors. It shares their journeys through Wakehurst Kew’s wild botanic garden, located in the heart of Sussex and home to the Millennium Seed Bank. It invites us all to think differently about landscapes and heritage.