Films Without Barriers
Me: First-Person Disability
Spain, 2013, 20 minutes, Color, Spanish; Turkish subtitled
Director: Melissa Silva Raquel Cortés
Screenplay: Melissa Silva
Cinematography: Antonio Rivero Moya
Editing: Raquel Cortés
Production: COCEMFE, AECID, Fundación ONCE
The documentary focuses on the working and employment rights of the disabled. We give an ear to what physically disabled people tell about their lives. Hubert, Marylin, Candelario and Yolanda from Ecuador, Peru, Dominican Republic and El Salvador… With their daily routines, we witness the statistics so far from reflecting the realities of the disabled.
Count Us In
Turkey, 2014, 45 minutes, Color, Turkish
Director: Sema Turhan
Cinematography: Levent Özenç
Editing: Sema Turhan
Production: Engelli Kadınlar Derneği, Trabzon Sinema Derneği
Participants: Aygül Toksoy, Çiğdem Akpunar, Figen Bulut, Firdevs Çolak, Havva Bulut, Kübra Çolak, Özlem Aşan, Özlem Kara, Şeyma Bulut, Zeynep İskenderoğlu
Being a disabled woman in Turkey… It’s a doubly disadvantaged tough life requires struggle. The disabled women living in Trabzon tells this tough struggle and what it means to be a disabled woman in Turkey by means of their own experiences.
I Am Not to Complain About
Turkey, 2015, 14 minutes, Black&White, Turkish
Director: Okan Avcı
Screenplay: Okan Avcı
Cinematography: Okan Avcı
Editing: Ali Kerem Öner
Music: Tape / Johan&Andreas Berhling, Thomas Hallonsten
Production: Alargafilm
Cast: Türkan Soydemir
The film tells the story of Türkan, a hearing impaired civil servant who lives without no complains and her first diving experience.
The Kiss
United Kingdom, 2014, 7 minutes, Color, English; Turkish subtitled
2014 Basque Region Festival of Sign Languages; Best Film, Best Screenplay
Director: Charlie Swinbourne
Screenplay: Charlie Swinbourne
Cinematography: Ted Evans
Editing: Nick Padley
Production: Charlie Swinbourne
Cast: Matt Kirby, Deepa Shastri, Ben Rufus Green, Chloe Gilgallon
When a couple on a first date strikes up a conversation with the couple on the next table, they find themselves witnessing a very unusual kiss.