Oska Bright Film Festival: A Celebration of Intersectional Joy

Join us for a vibrant and impactful short film screening featuring a curated selection of films from the Oska Bright Film Festival, the world's largest film festival celebrating learning disabled and autistic filmmakers from across the globe. Curated by learning disabled Head Programmer Matthew Hellett, this collection showcases the rich diversity of voices and creative expression within the learning disabled and autistic community.

Spanning genres and from countries around the world, these films exemplify the core values of Oska Bright: celebrating intersectional joy, amplifying underrepresented stories, and inspiring a more inclusive world of cinema.

Oska Bright is driven by a mission to change the UK and international festival landscapes, fostering a more inclusive and representative screen industry. Through this screening, we celebrate the importance of visibility because when we see it, we can be it. This is why the work of Oska Bright is so vital: it leads the way for learning disabled and autistic filmmakers, creating opportunities for their voices to shine on the big screen.

RADIAL Dundee
Australia 2018
Directors from Back to Back Theatre and National Theatre of Scotland. Co-directors Tamara Searle and Rhian Hinkley
7min
Playfully re-imagining video art, dance, music and fashion, RADIAL is a collaborative film-making process resulting in a video portrait of a community and landscape in motion. Led by artists from Back to Back Theatre, RADIAL explores what it truly means to be embodied.

Uonted!
Italy 2018
Directors Daniele Bonarini, Poti Pictures
13min
There's agitation in "la casa del sorriso", a social cooperative for disabled people: the guys can freely choose the destination of their trip, but Tiziano has no interest in democracy. He wants to go to the cinema amusement park "Cinecittà World" at any cost to visit the Old West finally... Will he make it? And what will happen if he finds out that the attraction is quite different from how he imagined it?

My Cameras
UK 2024
Director Lucy Skuce
5min
Lucy Skuce's film is based on her dual obsessions: recording her first-person experience of the world, and redundant technologies. Utilising mixed technology, from a 1980s VHS camcorder through to a contemporary 4k camera, Skuce documents her relationship with her home town of Didcot using both new and archival footage to create a sense of fractured and condensed time. Lucy is a member of the Shadowlight Artists, a group of learning-disabled and autistic artists and filmmakers based at the arts charity Film Oxford.

Kairo
Germany 2017
Directors barner16 and Aron Krause
3min
What happens when you want to fly to Cairo but haven't got enough money? You get a camel and drive to the Baltic Sea.

Chicken
Canada 2022
Directors Lucy McNulty and Emma Pollard
14min
When Sam splits up with her partner, she moves back into her childhood home with her mother and neurodivergent brother.

Dancing to Art
UK 2019
Directors Nadira Amrani and Corali Dance Company
6min
Four Corali dancers have chosen artworks from the galleries at Tate Britain and developed individual dance responses to them. Together with Tate, they show what happens when people have the freedom to enjoy the gallery however they want, and how this can open up new ways of responding to art. Dancing to Art showcases the creativity and talent of the dancers, but also invites you to have a go yourself.

A Tale of Swords and Smoke
UK 2023
Director Michael Strachan Brown
7min
The epic story of two young adventurers journeying across a faraway land.

Celeste
New Zealand 2016
Directors Kirsty Griffin and Viv Kernick
6min
As the social butterfly of Amy Street, the fun-loving and theatrical Celeste spends her days surrounded by friends and flatmates. On the occasions where she needs some alone time, she enjoys setting herself up in her beautiful room, and watching back episodes of her favourite soap operas. At times the lines between reality and fantasy can become a little blurred.

Dead Cat Film
UK 2022
Directors Josie Charles and Nathan Miller
4min
A young woman becomes increasingly attached to the taxidermied corpse of her housemate's cat.

Man Without Direction
Sweden 2016
Directors Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, Pelle Öhlund, Nina Jemth and Moomsteartern
15min
Within an almost Lynchian world of uncanny characters and labyrinthine settings, Man Without Direction explores concepts of self-discovery and self-acceptance. The narrative, beginning with a frustrated man who unwillingly stumbles across an impossible hotel – think Twin Peaks meets The Shining – develops into a bizarre yet fascinating mystical adventure.

Access information

At We Crip Film Festival we prioritise access. This screening will be in relaxed conditions; however, we will have some reserved seating. If you are unable to book your preferred seat, we have reserved seats for specific access needs including:

• BSL interpretation seats
• Wheelchair user spaces

Audio Description and Descriptive Subtitles will be available for this screening.

If you have any specific seating requirements that you would like to discuss, please get in contact with our Box Office Team either via email or telephone. Our email is [email protected] and dedicated Access Booking Line is: 020 7960 2102 (lines open from 12pm to 7pm Monday to Saturday, and 12pm to 6pm on Sundays). We will be more than happy to help!

For further details of access at BFI Southbank, please see the Access information page.