Arnolfini Showcase

Saturday 1 March 2025

A curated selection of award winning films from the A&E festival, including feature documentaries, factual shorts, comedies, animations and experimental films on disability issues, accessibility and inclusion, health, and the climate emergency.

All screenings are Free Entry but you do need to book tickets to ensure a space.

All films are subtitled. Films labelled SDH have descriptive titles.

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Overview

1:30pm – Introduction

Brief introduction (with sign language interpreter).

2:00pm – Movements

Comedy, dance, animation and documentary shorts about identity, diversity & ways of healing. 1h 41m

Dolls Robyn Egan | United Kingdom | 14:27 SDH

Unbound Jemima Hughes | United Kingdom | 02:57

Autistic Joy Aaron Shrimpton, Maddi Crease | United Kingdom | 03:44

Pripyat Horse Sally Patricia Pearce | United Kingdom | 02:00 SDH

Picturing Wonderland Alfie Elms | United Kingdom | 08:24

Intermission 15mins

About Us TOMOMI YOKOO | Japan | 11:42

Traveling Light Alexis Karl | United States | 07:04

Crip/Mad Archive Dances Petra Kuppers | United States | 35:30 SDH

4:00pm – Spirituality, Sustainability & Symbiosis

Short and Feature documentaries offering a unique insight on burning environmental issues. 2h 31m

Rising Tides, Raising Voices Jody Kristina Santos | Samoa | 14:41 SDH

Guardians of the Rainforest Marianna Beltrami, Lia Beltrami | Italy | 52:00

Intermission 15mins

Burnt Country Kirsten Slemint | Australia | 17:45

Whale Wash – The Forgotten Whale Peter Carr | United Kingdom | 51:54

7:00pm – Resilience

Testimonies of resistance against the odds. 1h 26m

Oluwale Jeremiah Quinn | United Kingdom | 21:42

Invisible Life Mark Krol | Russian Federation | 1:04:00

1:30pm – Introduction

Brief introduction from the group to the A&E Accesibility and Environment Festival project (with sign language interpreter).

2:00pm – Movements

Comedy, dance, animation and documentary shorts about identity, diversity & ways of healing.

Programme length: 1h 41m

Dolls

Robyn Egan | United Kingdom | 14:27 SDH

A coming of age comedy, set in the early 00s, Cherry is faced with a collection of judgemental porcelain dolls as she explores her transition into sexual maturity.

An official abstract cut out collage that suggests the elements of a person and a wheelchair in the style of Kandisky's art.

Unbound

Jemima Hughes | United Kingdom | 02:57

A lively and colourful abstract animation presenting the filmmaker’s feelings about being perceived as ‘wheelchair bound’

A cluster of hands all cross each other with fingers extended embracing each other. Three bodies can be recognised behind the motion, the central one wears a black t-shirt with white stipes and on it's left there is somoene wearing a pale blue sweater while on it's right the other one wears a sand colour shirt.

Autistic Joy

Aaron Shrimpton, Maddi Crease | United Kingdom | 03:44

A micro short poetry film exploring the side of autism that often goes unspoken and under-explored: the joyful.

A golden painted horse looks at its reflection in a broken window of a run down building.

Pripyat Horse

Sally Patricia Pearce | United Kingdom | 02:00 SDH

Short experimental animation. A moment for mourning, for a friend, for the earth.

a photography dark room, in a red hue of walls, with a single lamp lit and the close up of the main woman featured as she pegs her developed photographs onto a thread.

Picturing Wonderland

Alfie Elms | United Kingdom | 08:24

An experimental snapshot of the experience of living with a degenerative blindness.

Intermission 15mins

An inter-generational group of Japanese women are facing the camera smiling with their hands raised up together in motion. They are surrounded by tall Cypress trees.

About Us

TOMOMI YOKOO | Japan | 11:42

We are deaf. Video poem. Physical expression using the body cultivated through sign language. The physical expressions of deaf elderly people are especially beautiful.

A circle of hands reaching into the centre. All the arms are clothed in red fabric.

Traveling Light

Alexis Karl | United States | 07:04

A short dance film celebrating performers with disabilities, reveals the language of movement as a profound form of communication.

A woman sat on a powered vehicle stopped in the middle of a natural landscape, is facing smiling proud to the camera. The landscape looks hard with cactus at the background and trees at the forefront with no leaves. The woman smiling looks also tough in the middle of the landscape. She is wearing a small dark grey trilby hat with an olive green strap. She seems in her late 30s. She looks proud and strong and full of endurance like the landscape.

Crip/Mad Archive Dances

Petra Kuppers | United States | 35:30 SDH

How do disabled and mad people survive, dance, insert their differences in a world full of stigma?

4:00pm – Spirituality, Sustainability & Symbiosis

Short and Feature documentaries offering a unique insight on burning environmental issues.

Programme length: 2h 31m

A wide shot of a path in tropical community landscape. On the left side of the frame we see from the back a man pushing a wheelchair with someone in. The path they are on is narrow and made out of concrete. There are bits of corrugated metal roofing scattered around different areas. On the bottom right side of the frame we see a brook side running along the concrete path. Debris and pipes are scattered all over it too. In the distance amongst the tropical trees, we see a cabin made out of wood and pieces of corrugated roofing.

Rising Tides, Raising Voices

Jody Kristina Santos | Samoa | 14:41 SDH

Faced with the urgency of increasing disasters, disabled grassroots activists across the Pacific are championing disability-inclusive climate action.

Head and shoulders of a woman. She wears a headscarf with yellow and black aztec angular strong patterns over light blue fabric. Her eyes are closed as if in prayer.

Guardians of the Rainforest

Marianna Beltrami, Lia Beltrami | Italy | 52:00

Amazon, Congo Basin, Borneo. A journey across rainforests. A collective song of Indigenous women’s voices as they share their stories,

Intermission 15mins

A man stands in darkness partially illuminated by a fire in the foreground

Burnt Country

Kirsten Slemint | Australia | 17:45

Could Australia’s past help secure its future? 65,000 years in the making, Burnt Country is about fighting fire, with fire – exploring the profound knowledge and wisdom of First Nations.

A wide image from the sea point of view, encompassing on the right bottom corner a cinematographer holding a camera capturing images of a whaling vessel with a whale cut in half hanging hooked over it's side in a stream of blood bath. The small rescue ESPA investigation boat in close proximity underneath the whaling vessel, is colliding information as investigating the whalers for potential unethical hunting methods to uncover the dark truth about modern whaling and the weak science used to justify minke whale quotas. (ESPA stands for Endangered Species Protection Agency).

Whale Wash – The Forgotten Whale

Peter Carr | United Kingdom | 51:54

An ESPA maritime investigations team pursues Norwegian whaling vessels at sea and films the unethical hunting methods.The film uncovers the dark truth about modern whaling.