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Oska Bright Film Festival 2024

Two young girls in period dress stand stoically in a forest.

A pick n mix of some of the highlights from Oska Bright Film Festival, the world's biggest international film festival featuring work by learning disabled and autistic filmmakers.

The screening packs a punch and is a great way to see a little bit of everything and celebrate Oska Bright Film Festival 2024.

With less than 5% of disabled people working in the UK film industry, Oska Bright Film Festival is driven to make change happen. Working internationally with industry partners and funded by the BFI, our team produces the BAFTA and BIFA qualifying Oska Bright Film Festival, promotes accessible screenings, runs training for venues and develops skills for aspiring filmmakers.

Oska Bright Film Festival puts people with learning disabilities or autism where they should be, on the big screen. 

www.oskabright.org

Tagged with: Cinema Relaxed Screenings

Oska Bright Film Festival is the world’s leading festival for films made by or featuring people with learning disabilities or autism.

Please note: This programme will start at 6.30pm sharp. There will be no ads for this screening and doors will be open from 6pm to allow for a smooth entry.

Cinema 3

Location
Barbican Cinema 2 & 3 are located on Beech Street, a short walk from the Barbican’s Silk Street entrance. From Silk Street, you’ll see a zebra crossing that will take you across the road to the venue. 

Address
Beech Street
London
EC2Y 8DS

Public transport
The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route information in ‘Your Visit’ or book your car parking space in advance.

How is this screening relaxed?

How is this screening relaxed?

A relaxed event takes place in an environment that is specially tailored for a neurodiverse audience, as well as those who find a more informal setting beneficial. 

The cinema environment is tailored to the needs of the audience.

For this screening:

- The lights are dimmed, though not off.

- The volume levels a little lower than usual.

- You are free to move around the screen and to enter and exit the cinema at any time, with easy access for any wheelchair users.

- You're free to make noise in these screenings. 

- Staff are trained and ready to assist with any help you or other audience members may need while you're at the cinema at Barbican.

A visual guide to our cinemas is available on request – just click on the Visual Stories tab on our Accessible Events page. For more information please contact the Box Office

Programme

A Tale of Swords and Smoke

Michael Strachan Brown, UK 2023 6.52min

A Tale of Swords and Smoke is the epic story of two young adventurers journeying across a far away land.

 

Dead Cat Film

Josie Charles, Nathan Miller, UK 2022, 4.38 min 

A young woman becomes increasingly attached to the taxidermied corpse of her housemate’s cat.

 

Unscarfed

Anita Bruneburg, Germany 9 min 

Three humans serve a giantess in a giant-ruled land. They try hide their true feelings.

 

Glitch 

Dan McGowan, UK 2022, 13 min

When a new router arrives, Tom thinks it’s the end of his lockdown wifi woes. But the new router has mysterious powers.

 

Holiday Maker

Harry Mead, UK 2022 7min 

After she can’t afford to go on her dream holiday, Emily builds a miniature model wonderland of her desired destinations.

 

Happy Okay Mate

Luke Collins, UK 2022 3.59min

Rob arrives to collect the bins at the back door of a theatre before his eyes fall on a ‘cancelled’ theatre production.

 

My Cameras

Lucy Skuce, UK 2022, 5:41min

An experimental film about Lucy’s obsessions: first-person experiences and redundant technologies.

 

The Cunning

Alexandra Maher, UK 2022, 3:48 min
 

A teenager with Down's syndrome helps herself, and others, to escape from accusations of witchcraft.

 

What I am hiding from you 

Conor Powell, UK 2023 5min

short semi-animated experimental horror film about masking neurodivergence.

 

Good Vibrations

Tamsin Louise Parker, UK 2022, 5 min

 Explore Tamsin’s complicated relationship with the sound of snoring in film and TV.

 

Chicken

Lucy McNulty, Emma Pollard, Canada 2022 14 min

When Sam splits up with her partner, she moves back into her childhood home with her mother and neurodivergent brother.