A disability film festival

Celebrate cutting-edge cinema that portrays disability through a diverse, complex and engaging lens. The festival is one of a few worldwide, completely accessible to film-goers of all kinds.

The 5th annual Sacramento Superfest takes place on Sunday, January 28 from 3-6 p.m. on Zoom. Advanced registration is required.

Short films selected by disability rights advocates and filmographers

Featuring animated and dramatic shorts, plus full-length features

Completely accessible virtual and in-person film festival for film-goers of all kinds.

Films:

Mature Shorts:

Of Kisses and Capes: Isi and Finn are planning their first time. This proves to be a difficult endeavor when their insecurities and lack of communication almost jeopardize their relationship.

Content/trigger warning: sex, partial nudity

Chronic: Following a traumatic brain injury, a young woman’s recovery is interrupted when her friends insist she come out for a birthday party. After reinjuring herself, she takes the first step in her new life by joining a chronic pain support group.

Content/trigger warning: ableism, bullying, forced alcohol consumption, expletives, trauma

As You Are: When an interabled queer couple spends the night together for the first time, they must confront their complex relationships with desire, sexuality, bodily autonomy, and what it means truly to love another person.

Content/trigger warning: sex, expletives, discussion of past trauma/bullying, partial nudity

Whose Voice Is It Anyway?: A darkly funny mockumentary about two identically disabled forty-year-old women, Lottie and Charlie, who have athetoid cerebral palsy. Both celebrate their 40th birthday with family and friends—one is given the choice and the ability to communicate, and the other is not.

Content/trigger warning: ableism (portrayed mockingly), expletives, controlling parent

The Beauty of Being Deaf: Artist, director, and author Chella Man presents a meditation on Deaf identity and language—underwater.

Family Friendly Shorts:

We Care: Annie is surprised to find that her new carer happens to be a man, a manly man, a very manly man. This beautiful and funny piece takes a dark turn with devastating consequences when Annie is let down by the system that is meant to take care of her.

Content/trigger warning: ableism, discussion of a sexual assault, expletives

Invisible World: To apply for a disabled parking placard, a doctor within the state must approve the application. This film is a record of the filmmaker’s introduction to healthcare in the state of Utah. Her processing of the appointment and consequential aftermath as a video object serves as a reclamation and assertion for understanding disability and the physical world otherwise.

Content/trigger warning: ableism within a medical context, gaslighting

Take Me Home: After their mother's death, a cognitively disabled woman and her estranged sister must learn to communicate in order to move forward.

Content/trigger warning: ableism, parent death

(Un)fit to Work: A disabled mechanic takes us on a musical journey of 80s disco & ballroom after his local job center denies him access to work.

Content/trigger warning: ableism, discrimination

Culicidae: A mosquito’s late-night intrusion leads to a life and death struggle.

Content/trigger warning: mosquitoes

Date: January 28, 2024

Time: 3:00pm - 6:00pm

Location: Online

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