Thursday Evening Screening: Shorts Block 1
Join us in-person at the DCC for a cozy screening of a collection of shorts. Doors will open a half hour early. Please review the content notes and warnings for each of the films.
Date: Thursday, September 10th
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm PT
In-Person: 165 Grove St., San Francisco
Access: ASL | Captions | Closed Audio Descriptions | Masks Required Inside and Outside
Film Lineup:
Monstrous Me
When Ariel was a disabled and disfigured child of three years old, a bad babysitter brought over a bag of weed, her boyfriend, and a VHS of A Nightmare on Elm Street. From under the coffee table, through the railings, Ariel saw themselves in that Zenith television, in the face of Freddy Krueger, and decided there was agency in being a monster rather than a martyr.
The Goalkeeper
It’s 1944 and a group of friends with disabilities are playing a soccer game until Zeno, the goalkeeper and youngest of the team, is taken by Nazis. This prompts the others to embark on an unlikely rescue mission.
Changing Land
Once, the land Steven Bukaya farms was green and full — a place of trees, rain, and steady seasons. He remembers it as "a shiny place," alive with growth. Today, that landscape is changing. Trees have been cut down, rainfall has become unpredictable, and the land has been divided into smaller and smaller pieces.
Getting There
Getting There is a heartwarming stopmotion film about 2 best friends trying to get to the beach whilst navigating public transit in the big city. Will they make it?
Grace
Grace is a poignant coming of age drama centred on a woman in her late 20s with Down Syndrome, navigating the complexities of adulthood, independence and first love from within a residential support house. When Grace pushes the boundaries set for her, the consequences ripple through her carefully managed world.
‘Rubbers’ - 2D
A neurodivergent woman who struggles to form relationships explores her private passion for stationery to unlock her explosive fantasy world. A comedy fantasy…with a dark twist, where the pen is mightier than the sword.
Them Thats Not
Andrea “Drea” Stoney, a down-on-her-luck poet, finds herself at her grandmother’s repass, along with her seditty larger-than-life family. But Drea is sticking out like a sore thumb; she’s introspective, Queer, artistic and proudly Deaf, albeit surrounded by her distant family members who don’t care to know ASL. So Drea resorts to finding solace in hidden, lonely moments that she can steal in the pockets of her grandmother’s generational brownstone. Her visit is complicated by the arrival of her father Samuel, who’s 20 years into a 25-year prison sentence, released for the day on a furlough to say goodbye to his late mother. The two strangers, bound by blood & their love for the deceased, are forced to reconcile with each other before his inevitable return to prison.