Whacked

Rafael Cherkaski, Adapei Papillons Blancs D'Alsace

| France

| 00:16:57

Sunday 23 June 11:30 AM

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.

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.

Twerk for Yemen

A committed documentary filmmaker follows in the footsteps of the Swedish cult classic I am Curious Yellow and asks people in Stockholm what to do about the war in Yemen. The reactions she encounters and the answers she receives are at the same time deeply distressing...

Picturing Wonderland

Picturing Wonderland reflects a collaboration between the filmmakers and Maud Rowell, an experimental snapshot of the experience of living with a degenerative blindness. The film explores Maud's fascinating relationship with the colours of the world around her as well...

Imagination

Imagination is a lively, colourful cut-out animation inspired by Matisse paper cuts. The disabled and deaf protagonist in her pink wheelchair escapes from a grey street into an exhibition where artworks interact with her through movement and sign, bringing life and...

Whale Wash – The Forgotten Whale

A maritime investigations team led by ESPA's Chief Operating Officer Pete Carr, pursues Norwegian whaling vessels at sea and films the whalers unethical hunting methods, and ESPA investigator Hannah interviews marine biologists, whaling experts and whaler skippers, to...

Guardians of the Rainforest

Amazon, Congo Basin, Borneo. A journey across rainforests. A collective song of Indigenous women's voices as they share their stories, what the forest means to their very being, their fears in a reality of socio-ecological destruction, and their hopes for constructing...