World Deaf & Disabled Dance Film Festival 2026

World Deaf & Disabled Dance Film Festival (WDDDFF) Friday November 6th-Saturday November 7th, 2026 at YBCA Screening room.
About this Event

EXCITING UPDATES: New prices $15/program and $50 Full Festival Pass for both Friday and Saturday!

Do not miss the inaugural World Deaf & Disabled Dance Film Festival (WDDDFF)

When: Friday November 6th-Saturday November 7th at YBCA Screening Room (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) in San Francisco.

We are incredibly excited about this year’s program. 28 selected films. Different countries. Different languages. Different bodies. Different experiences. Different ways of communicating and creating. The World Deaf and Disabled Dance Film Festival was created to give Deaf and Disabled dance filmmakers a place to show their work. Give Deaf and Disabled artists a place to share their stories, their movement, and their truth. WDDDFF is about creating a space where Deaf and Disabled artists are not treated as an afterthought.Our stories, movement, languages, cultures, bodies, experiences, and artistic visions belong on the screen and at the center of the conversation.

OFFICIAL WDDDFF 2026 FILM PROGRAM

FRIDAY — NOVEMBER 6, 2026
EVENING DANCE DOCUMENTARY AND SHORT FILMS PROGRAM
6:00 PM–9:00 PM

1. Harmonic Pulse: Where Sound Meets Soul

2. Liquid Tongues

3. Killed It

4. Deafness Is Just a Language

5. TELON

6. Look Here/Not Here

SATURDAY — NOVEMBER 7, 2026
MORNING DANCE DOCUMENTARY FILM PROGRAM
11:30 AM–1:00 PM

7. Lives Beyond Motion San Francisco Film Premiere

SHORT DANCE FILM PROGRAM 1

1:15–3:00 PM

8. Girl in the Mirror

9. #DeafWoke: Unheard Deaf Refugees…

10. Delusion

11. Los Portales del Corazón

12. From Invisible to Invincible

13. I’M A WARRIOR

14. Unbound

15. The Last Dance

16. Traipse

17. SMA

3:00–4:00 PM
BREAK — 1 HOUR

SHORT DANCE FILM PROGRAM 2

4:00–6:00 PM

18. Handscape

19. Steps of an Instant

20. #ThisIsDance ENVISION

21. Moonlight On Water

22. Les Chaussures Rouges (The Red Shoes)

23. A Light in the Darkness

24. AT WATER’S EDGE

25. Voice of Dance – Tribute to Astad Deboo

26. Our Circle in the Storm

27. Here/Not Here

EVENING DANCE DOCUMENTARY FILM PROGRAM
6:15–7:30 PM

28. ASSOLUTA

ACCESS INFORMATION FOR ALL PROGRAMS:

•ASL/ENGLISH INTERPRETATION

• CAPTIONS

• ADA WHEELCHAIR ACCESS

•AUDIO DESCRIPTION

•GENDER NEUTRAL BATHROOMS

For Audio Descriptions, please call 510-575-9711 or email [email protected] to pre-register and reserve a headset.

For Additional Access Requests please email [email protected] by Friday October 30th.

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Text reads:

WORLDDEAF & DISABLEDDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

Light ConcessionsProvided

Tickets$15 per program

$50 Full Festival Pass

November 6–7

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

701 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103

Friday, November 6

6–9 PM: Evening Dance Documentary & Short Films Program

Saturday, November 7

11:30 AM–1 PM: Morning Dance Documentary Film Program 11:15–3 PM: Short Dance Film Program 1, 4–6 PM: Short Dance Film Program 2, 6:15–8:15 PM: Evening Dance Documentary Program 2

Tickets here: WDDDFF2026.eventbrite.com

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