Our professional jury has finalized their official selection of the shorts that will be screened. We are very proud to present them here briefly. Do you want to know which one will receive the award of the jury for best short or do you want to vote yourself, then please buy a ticket for our shortfilmevening!

All short movies will have English subtitles.

Twin Link

Director: Jess Killen

Runtime: 3 minutes 47 seconds
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English

Two twins discuss their dual diagnosis of Autism with their mother and reflect upon how it affected their relationship growing up. Twin Link was created to bring awareness about how different Autism can present in individual people, and how family can tie into the subject matter.

Typical?

Director: Sarah Leigh

Runtime: 14 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English

Through verbatim dialogue workshopped with actors during the writing of the stage version of this movie, TYPICAL? shows how, frustrated by how they are treated, a group of disabled individuals challenge the narrative, and barriers, that society has placed upon them.

Invisible barriers

Director: Iban Colón

Runtime: 15 minutes 12 seconds
Country: Spain
Language: Catalan, Portuguese, Spanish

"Invisible Barriers" looks at the lives of three young people with functional diversity:

Ylenia, an activist very present on social media, has Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome and lives in a village in Barcelona. Lorién is 14 years old, lives in Zaragoza and has Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Elson is a young man living in Mozambique. He lost his sight at the age of 8 and loves to read Braille. All three are pursuing different dreams, but they have in common the fact that they have to face many barriers: the physical ones and also the barriers of mind.

LUKI and the lights

Director: Toby Cochran

Runtime: 10 minutes 40 seconds
Country: United States
Language: N/A

LUKi, a charming and upbeat robot known for living life to the fullest, confronts a life-altering ALS diagnosis. Through the lens of LUKi's unwavering resilience, the story of his battle against ALS transforms into a testament to the human (and robotic) spirit's ability to find light even in the darkest of times. With every choice he makes, every smile he shares, and every second he cherishes, LUKi paints a vivid portrait of what it means to truly live, even as the sands of time slip through his grasp.

Intro

Director: Anne Isensee

Runtime: 7 minutes 10 seconds
Country: Germany
Language: English

Enervated by the visual clutter and bumbling incompetence of this animated film, the narrator of the audio description falls out of her role and retreats into the inner world of her head. There she rummages acoustically in forgotten memories and repressed feelings and tries out various ways to let the audience participate in her inner life.

La rampa (The ramp)

Director: Juanfer Andrés

Runtime: 14 minutes 51 seconds
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish

Justo has to carry her granddaughter Lola, a girl with cerebral palsy, up the stairs outside her house every day. One day, he decides to go to a meeting of the residents' association of his apartment to ask for a ramp to be installed. While he hopes to facilitate access to the road above the stairs outside their house, it seems that hisrequest will not be easily met.