Crip Ciné Shorts

Critical fantasy, family drama, liberation, intense emotions, and hard-hitting moments!

Crip Ciné presents a fresh selection of short films focusing on disability politics or created by disabled filmmakers.
 
Films included in the screening:
 
Satu Tani & Maima Tani: Maatuminen  (Finland 2025, 8 min, No dialogue)
 Satu and Maima Tani’s second short film was created as a commissioned work through the Outsider Art Festival’s OAF Academy for the Espoo Ciné Film Festival. A strange godlike creature tirelessly rolls a giant dung ball across a field. In a café, a human revels in their role as the 'crown of creation.' Things get a bit out of hand. Elsewhere, in a neuro-weird future, the Microplastic Clothes Moth and the Moth-being reshape their environment through very different processes.
 
Jussi Rinta-Hoiska: Tasoristeyksen valo (Finland 2025, 18 min, languages: Finnish, Finnish Sign Language)
 A lonely man lives his daily life trapped in routine – the same shows, the same moments, day after day. For years, life has followed the same familiar pattern, until one day he notices a sign that disrupts the rhythm. Something has changed. The man begins to awaken and investigate the cause behind it all. Eventually, he discovers what has been keeping him stuck and realises that only he can change direction.
 
Audrey Sangla: The Blooming (France 2022, 12 min, languages: French, French Sign Language)
 A deaf woman is released from prison after 27 years. Slowly, the possibility of a new life and human connection begin to emerge — but it doesn’t come easily.
 
Julieta Tetelbaum: Joy (Argentina 2023, 11 min, language: English)
 Joy is a journey through the mind of a 65-year-old autistic lesbian who's addicted to sugar and can't stop thinking about her ex-girlfriend from her youth. She lives with a mannequin that she's built to look like her former partner. The tragicomic short delves deep into moments of intimacy, loneliness, sexuality, joy, and the desperate longing to be loved.
 
Kalevi Helvetti: The Boxer (Finland 2025, 7 min, language: Finnish)
The Boxer grapples with feelings of self-loathing, self-acceptance, and the search for happiness in a hellish modern world, where society’s most unfit members make their lonely journey at the very bottom.