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TOMOMI YOKOO

| Japan

| 00:11:42

2:00pm Saturday 1st March 2025

we are deaf. video poem. A video that pursues physical expression using the body cultivated through sign language. The physical expressions of deaf elderly people are especially beautiful.
All the performers were deaf, and they asked others to act as if they were the actual daughters and mothers. I tried to make this video look like it was talking to us in sign language, and it looked like it was dancing, giving it a strange feeling.

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Programme

IN THE SEA

A professor travels to swim for 8km in Rio de Janeiro. He narrates the sensations of spending hours alone in the sea, unveiling issues such as the autonomy of the use of his body, the ableist discourse of overcoming, and racial inequality in his country.

Invisible Life

This is an observational documentary that portrays the daily lives of visually impaired individuals in a provincial city in Russia. Despite their limitations, these individuals find ways to overcome their challenges in various aspects of life, ranging from navigating...

THE MAN OF THE TREES

Daniel Balima is a senior horticulturist from Tenkodogo, a small Sub-Saharan African town in Burkina Faso, where he lives with his large family and has worked since he was born 67 years ago. Daniel as a child falls ill with polio and, although growing without the use...

Two People One Toilet

Robert, a young man who is intellectually disabled is taken to the park by his brother Tom. But what is meant to be an uneventful day trip proves to be the opposite.

Autistic Joy

Autistic Joy is a micro short poetry film exploring the side of autism that often goes unspoken and under-explored: the joyful. From happy stimming to sensory delight, Autistic Joy delivers an insight into the positives within our autistic experience....

Dolls

A coming of age comedy, set in the early 00s, Dolls tells the story of Cherry and her unsolicited collection of judgemental porcelain dolls as she explores her transition into sexual maturity and faces the anguish of leaving her childhood behind.