Special People

| UK
| 01:20:00
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Saturday 22 June 1:00 PM
Technology for Talking

Technology for Talking

Technology for Talking is a bright cut out animation which introduces voice output communication aids and explains how and why some people talk using assistive technology. Using the electronic voice and perspective of its disabled filmmaker, it challenges stereotypes...

Dear Vladimir

Dear Vladimir

A Ukrainian refugee narrates a letter to her least favourite world leader. The film shows a day in her life.

Crip/Mad Archive Dances

Crip/Mad Archive Dances

How do disabled and mad people survive, dance, insert their differences in a world full of stigma? How do we live through bodymindspirit experiences of alienation and pain? This experimental documentary charts disability culture archives and embodied gestures of...

THE MAN OF THE TREES

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...

Whacked

Whacked

How do disabled or deficient workers perceive global warming? In the North-East of France, a succession of interviews in an ESAT, a kind of factory in a protected environment, leads these atypical people to wonder about climate change and its consequences.