SAN FRANCISCO SCREENINGS
Saturday | October 19 | Exploratorium at Pier 15
Matinee Screening
Time: 12:00 pm -2:00 pm (doors at 11:00 am)
Passes: Eventive
Price: Passes are always sliding scale starting at $0.
Access Support: Email pklist@sfsu.edu | FAQ
Film Lineup:
Dancer: Gerelee, a Deaf teenage girl, decides to follow her dreams and audition for a dance company despite her father’s protests.
Mongolia + Australia | 2023 | Drama | 13 min.
Diagnonsense: In 1996, Deaf Social Worker Louise meets Patrick, a Deaf patient who has been institutionalized for 36 years and wrongly diagnosed as schizophrenic. Facing discrimination and bureaucracy, Louise tries to advocate for him and encourage him to appeal his diagnosis.
UK | 2022 | Drama | 27 min. | Award Winner: Best of Festival Fiction
Mo<3Kyra: It's prom night, and it's Mo's last chance to ask out the girl of her dreams: Kyra.
UK | 2023 | Drama | 13 min.
Sukaskieskwew (Strong Earth Woman): A slow, meditative, artistic film about a healing journey confronting, embracing and releasing illness with love.
Canada | 2018 | Experimental | 5 min.
I Told You So: After years of debilitating period pain and unexplained symptoms, Malak finally gets a diagnosis: she has endometriosis. Despite being so prevalent, the disease has no known cause, no cure, and is not taken seriously, even by her own mother. In "I Told You So," Malak grapples with a tumultuous relationship with her pain, her body and her dreams for the future.
Egypt + Germany + USA | 2023 | Documentary | 27 min. | Award Winner: Best of Festival Documentary
One Night Stand: One Night Stand is about a girl in a wheelchair who is preparing for her first one-night-stand, so she enlists the help of her quirky roommate to learn the art of seduction.
USA | 2024 | Comedy | 5 min. | Invited by Superfest, non-Juried
Tie Your Camel and Trust in God: A meditative documentary that explores what it's like to be a Muslim with a mental illness.
Canada | 2021 | Documentary | 12 min.
Ten to One: Daniel’s nerves get the best of him as he and his PCA (personal care assistant), Mark, prepare for a first date, but when bad turns to worse, Daniel calls on his best friend, Alex, to calm him down.
USA | 2023 | Comedy | 6 min. | Invited by Superfest, non-Juried
Existing Patient: A chronically ill woman fights to get her medication approved, encountering endless phone trees, unhelpful representatives, and stock photo families along her journey through healthcare bureaucracy.
USA | 2023 | Drama | 17 min.
Sleepyhead: High schooler Rae is chronically ill and stuck at home with only her glorious imagination and seething rage for company.
UK | 2023 | Drama | 10 min | Award Winner: Innovation in Craft
Afternoon Screening and Panel Discussion
Time: 3:00 pm -5:00 pm (doors at 2:00 pm)
Passes: Eventive
Price: Passes are always sliding scale starting at $0.
Access Support: Email pklist@sfsu.edu | FAQ
Film Lineup:
LUKi and the Lights: LUKi, a charming and upbeat robot known for living life to the fullest, confronts a life-altering ALS diagnosis with the support of his friends.
USA | 2023 | Drama | 11 min.
4 Deaf Yorkshiremen's Contest: A grumpy friend group of old deaf men enter a Tough Old Deafie contest. After getting entered into the competition against his wishes, Fred takes off. Can the rest of the group find him amid their wacky hijinks? Can Fred make it back home?
UK | 2022 | Comedy | 28 min.
Friendly Signs: Tommy Wickerd, an incarcerated man who grew up using sign language with a deaf older brother, seeks to make prison an inclusive place for "his brother's community" by starting a sign language class.
USA | 2023 | Documentary | 21 min. | Advocacy Award
Possum: When the leader of an artist residency kills the possum that’s been eating their cauliflower, the residents come to a shocking consensus.
USA | 2023 | Drama | 15 min.
Filmmaker Panel: Join us after the Afternoon Screening for our Superfest filmmakers panel featuring LUKi and the Lights director Toby Cochran and producer Adrian Ochoa, and Possum director Daisy Rosato and writer/actor/producer Sophie Sagan-Gutherz.
Please note, space is limited. To reserve your spot in-person, please select which screening you will attend during checkout. Your Superfest pass includes entry for the film festival and the Exploratorium. When you arrive at the festival, we will provide you with your access to the museum as well.
Access for Saturday Screenings
All of the films will be available with closed audio descriptions. This year, Superfest is partnering with the Exploratorium to offer wireless headsets with earbuds to play the audio descriptions. You can also bring your own headset if you prefer.
All of the films will play with open captioning.
Certified Deaf Interpreters will be present for all live dialogue but will not interpret during the films.
Wheelchair seating for you and wheelchair user / non-wheelchair user companions. The Exploratorium is a wheelchair accessible venue.
While the venue’s closest bathrooms are gendered, there are all gender bathrooms on the second floor directly above the theater. They do not have automatic door openers, so guests needing support should ask for assistance at the Superfest check-in table. Additional all gender bathrooms are available at Moore Gallery 4.
Some spaces are available for those who prefer to bring their own seating.
The Exploratorium offers a hearing loop system that transmits sound directly to hearing aids with a t-coil. To use a hearing aid, you will need to sit within the looped area of the auditorium.
Some bench seating is available.
We require our venues to abstain from using scented products leading up to and during the festival. However, we know this may not be adequate for all guests and Exploratorium patrons may be wearing scents.
We have seating areas where social distancing will be possible.
The venue is 0.6 mile from Embarcadero BART/MUNI. There is also a F stop across the street from the venue at Green and Embarcadero. See here for other transportation details.
For other access needs and questions, please contact Emily Beitiks or Shaina Ghuraya at pklinst@sfsu.edu.
Covid Protocols
All guests to wear masks in the auditorium. This is a large venue with an updated HVAC system, and we will provide options for more spacious seating for those who decide to attend but need a little more room.
The Exploratorium does not require masks for their patrons, however, Superfest guests enter almost directly into a mask-required space. There is a wheelchair-accessible single stall restroom in the masked space.
Photography
Photos will be taken. To opt-out, please contact us at pklinst@sfsu.edu or tell a Superfest staff person, and we will ensure that your photographs will be blurred out in any future promotional materials.