Resistance Screening Program

A free online season of films presented by The Other Film Festival and ACMI Cinema 3

Resistance, The Other Film Festival’s (TOFF) 2023 screening program will be live Thursday 23 November – Thursday 7 December!

Click here for the 2023 Streaming Program

We will be streaming Deaf and Disability-led International feature documentaries and Australian shorts on ACMI’s Cinema 3.

The following films are screening as part of Resistance:

All Silent Dogs (Australia, 2022) A teenage girl is faced with a choice: give up her ability to transform into a dog. Or face the stigma and societal consequences of keeping it.

Beyond… I Wanna Go (USA, 2022) A fun and bold documentary celebrating 10 years of Beyond Trend Fashion Shows. Disabled artists from Creative Growth in California rock the runway!

Blockhead and Sparkles and the Flood of Tears (Australia, 2021)  Best friends, Blockhead and Sparkles, are struggling under the pressure of running their own cake shop, but when the Sad Prince’s tears threaten to flood the entire village, they must do what they can to mend their friendship and save the day.

Deafuturama (Australia, 2021) A utopian vision of a fully accessible world in different spheres of society.

Is There Anybody Out There? (UK, 2023) A Disabled filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches the world for another person like her. Exploring what it takes to love oneself fiercely despite the pervasiveness of ableism.

 Mine Mine Mine (Australia, 2022) A powerfully beautiful short film which subverts the Peter Pan myth to explore a Disabled man’s experience of the world.

Songbirds (Australia, 2022) A young, hard-of-hearing violinist auditioning for a music school in Ukraine is haunted by past memories.

The Tuba Thieves (USA, 2023) An aacclaimed experimental documentary asks what does it mean to listen.

Under My Tongue, Under My Hands (Australia, 2023) A Deaf led exploration of the everyday world. This film turns eight prompts into dance-like movements. Speech, sign, subtitle, and Auslan explore how everyone responds to stories.

When The Sky Was Blue (Australia, 2021) One Sunday, 10-year-old Leah experiences small but striking moments of longing and loss.

All films are free!

All films are captioned and audio described.

Download an interview with Artistic Director Fiona Tuomy. Audio File 12 min 05 seconds [Mp3 11, 336KB]

Transcript 3CR interview with Fiona Tuomy [Word 1837KB]

The Other Film Festival is Presented by Arts Access Victoria

Our Principal Partner is The City of Melbourne

Our Major Government Partner is Screen Australia

The Resistance screen program is in partnership with ACMI