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Hijinx Unity Festival 2024 Day Pass
Buying a day pass allows you entry to all screenings on your chosen day for a hugely discounted price.
Unity Film Festival presents an exciting, diverse selection of inclusive features and shorts created by and with learning disabled and autistic creatives and actors, alongside Q&As and panel discussions. This is the second edition of the festival, which is a sister event to Hijinx’s international disability arts festival, Unity Festival.
All films at the festival are relaxed screenings. This means the audience lights will be left on low and you are welcome to leave your seat, make noise and move around.
Buying a day pass allows you entry to all screenings on your chosen day for a hugely discounted price.
A beautiful, honest and intimate documentary from France.
Join us as we discuss the changing TV and film access landscape, recap the past few years and look to the future, with guest panelists from producers to directors, funders to writers, and clips from upcoming projects.
The first ever short film written and directed by someone with Down’s syndrome accompanied by the multi-award-winning documentary Not A F***ing Horror Story, charting the process of bringing Otto’s vision to life, and the pitfalls along the way.
Comedy, drama, documentary and chillers combine in this first session of shorts, with films from Wales, Australia, Belgium and England. Content warning: very strong language and offensive terminology
A former minor-league basketball coach receives a court order to manage a team of players with learning disabilities. A hilarious and touching comedy.
Our first screening to feature specifically family and young-person-friendly films, with animation, music, documentary and drama from Wales, France, Australia and the UK.
Animation, drama, black comedy, animated documentary and dance cover themes of sexuality, nature, family, despair and personal ambition in this selection of films from around Wales and the UK. Content warning: explicit content
An ode to the liberating power of unlimited imagination, the actors from Theatr Kamak reflect on their own lives, dreams and limitations as they create a performance of Furia.
Scabrous satire in Bristol, touching family comedy drama in Canada, witchcraft in 1600s England, dystopia in near future London and adoption in late 20th Century Carmarthen. Content warning: some derogatory language
Shadow follows a trio of activists with learning disabilities as they hold a town hall meeting about the future impacts of artificial intelligence. Followed by a Q&A with director Bruce Gladwin.