* From Céline Devaux's prize-winning Sunday Lunch (2015)
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This year's Accessible Film Festival will be held on October 11-17.
To be held for the ninth time, the Accessible Film Festival will screen a selection of short films under the title of "Absurd", offering a glimpse into the comedy of surreal situations, asynchronous behavior with the ordinary flow of life, inconsistency, and our futile search for meaning.
"Where logic ends, the absurd begins," reads the motto of the selection, which will consist of the short films curated by Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival, one of the most important short film festivals in the world.
Six films with a high dose of comedy from the history of Clermont Ferrand Short FF, which took place for the 43rd time this year, are included in the selection. The films that can be watched in the selection are:
A Pretty Funny Story directed by Evan Morgan which received the Festival's Canal+ Award in 2013; This Is How You Die directed by Michael Mohan; Alexandre Poulichot's short film Have a Good Death produced in 2020; United We Stand directed by Hans Petter Moland; Céline Devaux's award-winning animation Sunday Lunch produced in 2015, award-winning animation Negative Space directed by Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata.
All screenings free of charge
Organized by the Puruli Culture Art, the Accessible Film Festival offers all screenings to its audience free of charge. Accessible Film Festival presents all screenings with audio-description and caption subtitling.
About Accessible Film Festival
Showcasing nearly 40 feature, short and documentary films every year, Accessible Film Festival also presents parallel activities such as Q&A sessions with the filmmakers, workshops, virtual reality experiences, exhibitions etc. with the aim of extending the cinema culture.
Designed as an event where everyone can access to cinema under equal conditions, the Festival presents its films with Turkish audio description and Turkish caption subtitling. The Q&A sessions following the screenings are accompanied by Turkish sign language translators.
The workshops, panels and other parallel activities within the Festival are realized in an accessible structure and all venues are selected from the accessible ones. Also it is paid attention that the communication channels such as the website are accessible.
In 2019, Accessible Film Festival became a founding member of an international network called BE IN! Network of Accessible Festivals. Founded by the initiatives of Klappe Auf! Short Film Festival (Hamburg/Germany), Oska Bright Film Festival (Brighton/UK), Festival Inclus (Barcelona/Spain), European Film Festival Integration You and Me (Koszalin/Poland) and The Extraordinary Film Festival (Namur/Belgium) along with Accessible Film Festival, the network aims promoting equal access to cinema related events and representation of disabled people on cinema and TV by raising these topics on an international level. (SO/SD)
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