Screenability

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Sydney Film Festival marks 10 years of showcasing bold, groundbreaking stories by creatives living with disabilities on the screen.

10 years of stories

Featuring trailblazing stories, audience favourites, and award-winning documentaries fresh from Slamdance, spotlighting local and international talent with compelling thrillers, and joyful films that will warm the heart. Screenability is your destination for accessible screenings and relaxed sessions.

Rebecca McCormack,
Screenability Curator 

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Documentary
Joybubbles
Born blind, Joybubbles uses his gift for perfect pitch to manipulate the phone system and make free calls in this exuberant, life-affirming documentary. Sundance 2026.
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Retreat
An all-deaf cast enrich this atmospheric thriller in which a young woman arrives at a remote wellness retreat for Deaf people where nothing is as it seems. Toronto 2025.
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Short
Sarsaparilla
When a determined Sheriff catches up with his outlaw nemesis, rivalry quickly turns to respect after the duo find common ground over their mutual love of line dancing. 

Screens with Joybubbles
On Sale
Short
Trapeze
A powerful exploration of autonomy, ancestral ties and Deaf identity expressed through movement, narration and Auslan choreography. A deeply personal work from Jeremy Lowrenčev. 

Screens with Retreat
On Sale
Short
When You Hear Hoofbeats
Dive into the horrors of misdiagnosis. When a young woman struggles to have her medical symptoms taken seriously, she starts to believe she’s been possessed by the devil. 

Screens with You Look Fine  
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Documentary
You Look Fine
In this award-winning doc, comedian J. Snow records himself with humour and perseverance to capture the unfiltered realities of living with sickle cell disease.
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Sydney Film Festival acknowledges Australia’s First Nations People as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land, and pay respect to the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, upon whose Country SFF is based.

We honour the storytelling and culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia.

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