ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus

ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus

ReelAbilities is a groundbreaking film festival that promotes awareness and appreciation of lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with different abilities, all through the easily accessible art form of film.

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Upcoming Films

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23jun9:00 pm11:00 pmReelAbilities Columbus & The Vanderelli Room Present: Maricarmen

Past Films

Bedlam

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month in May, RAFF-Cleveland and RAFF-Columbus are teaming up for a virtual screening and a live virtual discussion on the award-winning documentary film, BEDLAM. FILM SYNOPSIS: BEDLAM is a feature-length documentary that addresses the national crisis and criminalization of the mentally ill, its connection between hundreds of thousands of […]

The World is Bright

SYNOPSIS: What would you do if your only child died mysteriously in another country and was buried in your absence? The World Is Bright follows the epic 10-year journey of an elderly Chinese couple searching for the truth behind their son’s death in Canada. What starts out looking like a murder mystery becomes something else […]

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Best Summer Ever Talkback with Michael Parks Randa and Andrew Pilkington

Join us for a live talkback via Zoom with Best Summer Ever’s director, Michael Parks Randa and film producer Andrew Pilkington. Register today to receive film and talkback reminders as well as the links you’ll need to access the Talkback. Reminder! Best Summer Ever will stream September 15-18. Make sure you catch it before the Talkback! […]

woman in light blue skirt suit and patterned scarf sits in wheel chair smiling mischievously at seated shirtless man in glasses whose back is turned to us

Based on a True Story: An Evening of Shorts

Join Art Possible Ohio for four short films: Misinterpretation – Students from Bridgeway Academy write, direct, produce, and star in four short films about bullying and friendship. Developed in partnership with VSA Ohio, Thurber House, Matt + Nikki Swift. 14 minutes long Best Friend – After moving across the country, a little girl finds more […]

woman of color wearing a parka and using a wheelchair in the foreground with transportation van in background

ReelAbilities Columbus Presents: Give Me Liberty

In this freewheeling comedy, medical transport driver Vic risks his job to shuttle a group of rowdy seniors and a Russian boxer to a funeral, dragging clients like Tracy, a young woman with ALS, along for the ride. Director: Kirill Mikhanovsky Length: 110 min Films Date/Time: February 24, 7 PM Films will be FREE to screen and available […]

three actors in 1950s dress sitting around a table with glasses of beer on it

Mad to be Normal

David Tennant of Doctor Who fame stars as 1960’s celebrity psychiatrist R.D.Laing who revolutionised the treatment of people diagnosed as ‘mad’. ‘Mad To Be Normal’ reveals the story of R.D. Laing, the famous psychiatrist and one of Scotland’s greatest ever minds. Working out of Kingsley Hall in East London throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Laing […]

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Ballad from Tibet

Based on a true story. Four young students from a school for the blind embark on an odyssey from their remote village in Tibet to the giant city of Shenzhen in order to sing on a TV talent competition. Art Possible Ohio will also be joined by the Ohio State School for the Blind Marching […]

movie poster with title ESPECIAL written across the top and with two men sitting facing each other. Both have brown skin and dark hair. The man on the left has Down syndrome and the man on the right does not. They do not have shirts on and are sitting under a rattan-style ceiling light.

The Special

Title: The Special Category: Feature Genre: Down Syndrome, Visual Arts, Relationships Running Time: 91 minutes Country: Venezuela Year: 2021 Language: Spanish Subtitles: English SYNOPSIS: Chuo, a charming young man with Down syndrome, must navigate the challenges of early adulthood as he seeks to build a life of independence from his troubled father. Long separated by […]

Endless Abilities

In the spring of 2012, four best friends drove across the country in search of adaptive sports for individuals with physical disabilities, and lived to tell the story in a feature documentary film. From rehabilitation patients to Paralympic athletes, our cameras captured the reality of broken boundaries and common goals among all who are active. We went […]

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Jmaxx and the Universal Language

Title: JMaxx and the Universal Language Category: Short, Documentary Genre: Autism, Dance, Hip-Hop Running Time: 13 minutes Country: U.S.A Year: 2019 Language: English SYNOPSIS: Jarell is a teenager with autism who has learned to use hip-hop dance as a means to communicate his true self to the world. CREDITS: Directed by Ryan Mayers PREVIEW:

ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus