This programme has now ended but you can still see details of the films below.
Forced Perspective: Becca Schall. USA. 2025. 06:18. DDD. F. European Premiere. Strange events begin to affect the life of a senator when she hesitates to address the concerns of the disability community.
Familiar Stranger. Ace Mahbaz. UK. 2025. 14:43. F. D. Familiar Stranger is an intimate, dialogue-light drama about identity, belonging, and the unexpected ways two people can find connection across discomfort and time. Includes audio-description.
Erased. Rydrea Walker. USA. 2025. 04:00. F. DDD. UK Premiere. Set in a future where sign language is banned and Deaf people are pressured to abandon their natural language, ERASED follows a young man resisting a system determined to silence him. Surrounded by eerie soundscapes, government broadcasts, and rising tension, he takes the first quiet step toward a rebellion that refuses to disappear.
Maru and My Friend’s Wedding. LEE Hyunbin. South Korea. 2024. 31:39s. D. F. Mina carries various labels: single by choice, office worker, disabled person, actor, and activist. On the day of her friend Hyunkyung’s wedding, a black Chihuahua approaches her. Mina names the black Chihuahua ‘Maru’ and begins to learn about the life she has lived. ‘Cute’ Maru, the time she has endured just to be cute, to provide cute lives for the human world. “Maru, what do you see now?”