SELECTED FILMS
FOR CFSIFF 2026
2026 SCHEDULE
Saturday September 26th
10:00 am
Who Will Cry For Me
Winner
Best Feature Film
Country: Spain
What will become of him when I'm gone? Many mothers with a disabled child wonder.
San is a young man with an intellectual disability who lives with his mother,
who is trying to secure her son's future when she's gone.
11:30 am
The Goalkeeper
Winner
Best Short Film
Country: Italy
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.
Lightning Flowers
Winner
Best Feature Documentary
Country: USA
Lightning Flowers follows two teenagers whose lives are forever changed when they survive
lightning strikes that should have killed them.
White Box
Country: Iran
The world of children has its own difficulties and complexities. Donut the Hero, along with his
candy friends, embarks on an eventful journey to find the white box to complete themselves.
An imaginative and dangerous journey that may even end without achievement.
1:00 pm
Our Circle in the Storm
Country: UK
A group of climate refugees, most of whom have disabilities, have made a home of an abandoned
house.They live, cook, laugh, cry, eat, dance and work the land together, feeling like
a family while feeling vulnerable to the hostile outside climate.
KEV
Country: UK
Short film about Kev.
He talks about his experience of being blind and the people and things that matter to him.
Nothing About Us
Country: Ecuador
Gerardo, a short-statured man, dreams of changing how disability is perceived. He starts
a YouTube channel and gathers others with different conditions to create inclusive,
entertaining videos. As their message grows stronger, the pandemic hits, testing their resilience and Gerardo’s personal relationships, pushing him to reflect on what truly matters.
Chapter 21
Country: USA
An anxious young couple attends an appointment that challenges their expectations of
parenthood and brings them to confront their uncertainties of their future son.
3:00 pm
A More Colorful World
Country: USA
An intimate short documentary about artist Rita Winkler, whose watercolor world reveals
a creative process shaped by instinct, rhythm, repetition, and color.
The Last Girl
Country: Iran
A fourteen-year journey into the life of a girl with Down syndrome, growing up in a remote
mountain landscape where nature becomes her companion, teacher, and refuge.
Wonderful World
with Clint Townsend
Country: USA
Wonderful World follows Clint — a man whose body is being taken from him by
one of the most unforgiving diseases known — and yet whose spirit refuses to follow.
From the shock of diagnosis to the daily reality of living with ALS, Clint's story is carried
by the people around him: family and friends who show up, again and again, in ways that matter.
The Eye
Country: Iran
Is a touching documentary that follows the life of a blind mother who faces the challenges
of daily life with remarkable strength and determination.
Decaying:
Behind the Seams
Winner
Best Short Documentary
Country: Australia
35 neurodiverse kids. 23 Saturdays. 10 zombies. 1 short film. Drag your rotting
corpse behind the seams of this handmade horror and discover
a love letter to creativity, neurodiversity, and organized chaos.
5:10 pm
Dementia
has a PR Problem
Country: USA
Challenging the pervasive narrative of loss, this short documentary explores
how shifting our focus from memory to the present moment can unlock profound
joy for those living with dementia. The film offers a powerful 'reframe' that empowers
us all to move beyond fear and find deep, meaningful connection.
Zona Cesarini
Country: Italy
Mina, a 40- a deaf woman, lives with her young son in a modest apartment.
Her life is quiet, meticulous, and structured—until one ordinary day,
while cleaning her window, she spots something terrifying: Ivan, her 25-year-old neighbor
across the courtyard, is preparing to hang himself.Without the ability to hear or speak,
Mina must act fast.
Time of Miracles
Country:Uzbekistan
Mirali Giyasov writes code as if he were reassembling the world around him—precisely,
logically, in his own way.Mirali was born and raised in Tashkent. He was born blind,
but for him, this was never a problem. It was simply a different way of perceiving reality.
From an early age, he understood a simple truth: the mind functions
beyond the limits of physical sight.
Our Shakespeare Club
Country: Ireland
A group of performers with intellectual disabilities deliver fragments of Shakespeare
directly to camera in a stark black-and-white portrait film that explores presence,
authorship, and who is permitted to inhabit classical language. Through stillness,
gaze, and performance, familiar texts are transformed into intimate acts of self-expression,
creating a meditation on dignity, visibility, and collective voice.
Viola
Winner
Champion of The Year
Country: Switzerland
The viola section of a large orchestra auditions (behind a screen) a new violist
for their ensemble. The candidates are terrible, and the violists bicker among themselves.
Suddenly, the perfect violist plays; it's pure bliss. But in the third round, when they discover
the candidate's identity and see their wheelchair, their awkwardness as able-bodied people
dealing with a disabled person pushes one of the violists in the section to reveal her own
invisible disability to her colleagues with a bang. Will the four violists
find a semblance of harmony again?
