Pac Rim 2025
Pre-Conference Events
SUPERFEST Disability Film Festival
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM HST
Hawaiʻi Convention Center, Liliʻu Theatre (Room 310)
1801 Kalākaua Ave, Honolulu, HI 96815
Diagnonsense
UK, 2022 (Drama, 27 min)
In 1996, Deaf Social Worker Louise meets Patrick, a Deaf patient who has been institutionalized for 36 years and wrongly diagnosed as schizophrenic. Facing discrimination and bureaucracy, Louise tries to advocate for him and encourage him to appeal his diagnosis.
*Best of Festival – Fiction*
Dancer
Mongolia/Australia, 2023 (Drama, 13 min)
Gerelee, a Deaf teenage girl, decides to follow her dreams and audition for a dance company despite her father’s protests.
Existing Patient
USA, 2023 (Drama, 17 min)
A chronically ill woman fights to get her medication approved, encountering endless phone trees, unhelpful representatives, and stock photo families along her journey through healthcare bureaucracy.
LUKi and the Lights
USA, 2023 (Drama, 11 min)
LUKi, a charming and upbeat robot known for living life to the fullest, confronts a life-altering ALS diagnosis with the support of his friends.
One Night Stand
USA, 2024 (Comedy, 5 min)
One Night Stand is about a girl in a wheelchair who is preparing for her first one-night-stand, so she enlists the help of her quirky roommate to learn the art of seduction.
*Invited by Superfest Team/Non-Juried*
Tie Your Camel and Trust in God
Canada, 2021 (Documentary, 12 min)
A meditative documentary that explores what it’s like to be a Muslim with a mental illness.
Mo<3Kyra
UK, 2023 (Drama, 13 min)
It’s prom night, and it’s Mo’s last chance to ask out the girl of her dreams: Kyra.
Sleepyhead
UK, 2023 (Drama, 10 min)
Highschooler / sixth-former Rae is chronically ill and stuck at home with only her glorious imagination and seething rage for company.
*Innovation in Craft Award*
