Garage Screen. International Film Festival "Breaking Down Barriers"

Date

Place

Garage Auditorium

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Garage Museum of Contemporary Art will host screenings of the 9th International Disability Film Festival "Breaking Down Barriers."

Screening contemporary films that explore various aspects of living with disability, the festival creates a platform for dialogue between communities, fostering discussion of stereotypes and other issues that hinder the integration of people with disabilities. Films selected for the festival share a humanist message and a desire to create a world without barriers.

This year’s program features works from Colombia, Iran, China, Slovenia, USA, and other countries. Screenings at Garage include Olivier Weber’s The Baikal Challenge about a group of blind and partially sighted travellers taking on the snowy Baikal Lake; Ballad from Tibet by Chinese director Wei Zhang, which sees blind and visually-impaired teenagers negotiating social barriers; Jacques Navarro-Rovira’s Let Us Dance about dance classes for persons with reduced mobility; and Linas Mikuta’s Dead Ears that looks at how deaf and hearing members of one family experience the world.

Along with film screenings, the program includes meetings with filmmakers.
All events are accessible to visitors with various disabilities.

HOW TO TAKE PART

Free admission with advance registration

Schedule

Film screening. Hero Steps

The film follows a kid sent to an orphanage after losing his leg in a military conflict.

REGISTRATION

Date
Saturday, November 24

Time
12:00–13:40
Place
Garage Auditorium

Film screening. Ballad from Tibet

Blind and partially-sighted teenagers decide to cross China to perform on a popular show.

REGISTRATION

Date
Saturday, November 24
Time
13:50–15:30
Place
Garage Auditorium

Film screening. My Hero Brother

A group of young people with Down syndrome embark on a demanding journey through the Himalayas with their brothers and sisters.

REGISTRATION

Date
Saturday, November 24
Time
15:40–17:10
Place
Garage Auditorium

Film screening. Tis, Shock Therapy, Blind Vaysha, The Baikal Challenge

This selection of shorts features films about people that disprove myths about disability and overcome their fears and anxieties.

REGISTRATION

Date
Saturday, November 24
Time
17:15–18:45
Place
Garage Auditorium

Film screening. The Blind Boys of Alabama: How Sweet the Sound

REGISTRATION

Date
Saturday, November 24
Time
20:35–22:00
Place
Garage Auditorium

Film Screening. Kristjan, Angel's Mirror, Little Fire, Let Us Dance

People tend to feel sorry for children with disabilities, but in this selection kids show that they don’t need anyone’s pity. They can do everything other people can—and more, if their family are by their side to give them support.

REGISTRATION

Date
Sunday, November 25
Time
12:00–13:50
Place
Garage Auditorium

Film screening. Light, Shadow, Life; Zyara; I Want to Fly; Diamonds for My Ants

Short films from Iran, Lebanon, Azerbaijan, and Russia look at the challenges that people (and especially children) with disabilities face in these countries.

REGISTRATION

Date
Sunday, November 25
Time
13:55–15:30
Place
Garage Auditorium

Film screening. The Pocket Man, Louis, Ugly, Mm-Hmm, Kill Off, Partially Compensated, Scott + Julia

The program features films about friendship between kids with and without disabilities.

REGISTRATION

Date
Monday, November 26
Time
12:00–13:30
Place
Garage Auditorium

Film screening: Two Worlds, Dead Ears

In these films, protagonists use signs to communicate with the world. In Two Worlds,a twelve-year-old girl is a loving and reliable carer for her parents and helps them with all everyday, financial, and other problems. Dead Ears is a story of a deaf son and his elderly father who love each other despite the lack of understanding between them.

REGISTRATION

Date
Monday, November 26
Time
13:35–15:20
Place
Garage Auditorium

Film screening. Minh Tâm, Crazywise

Two films about persons on the autism spectrum show that society and the authorities are not always willing to accept people with developmental disabilities the way they are.

REGISTRATION

Date
Monday, November 26
Time
15:25–17:20
Place
Garage Auditorium

Film screening. A Love Story, Intimacy, The Sky Is Blue Everywhere, By Stanley for Stanley.

This selection focuses on the stories of love and friendship between people with disabilities.

REGISTRATION

Date
Monday, November 26
Time
17:30–19:15
Place
Garage Auditorium

Film screening. My Brothers

Brothers Rocco and Eddy were big on the indie rock scene in the 1990s, but now perform with a local marching band on an island.

REGISTRATION

Date
Monday, November 26
Time
19:25–21:10
Place
Garage Auditorium