ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus is showing another film this fall at the Columbus Museum of Art. We are so excited to be showcasing the film, Name me Lawand directed by Edward Lovelace. 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.

This program is free with registration.
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Schedule
2:00 PM
Name me Lawand screening.

3:30–4:00 PM
ASL led tour of Columbus Museum of Art's special exhibitions Ming Smith: Transcendence and Fragments of Epic Memory.

About the Film
Lawand is a young Kurdish boy, deaf since birth. After a treacherous journey and a year in a Dunkirk refugee camp, the help of a deaf volunteer brings his family to Derby, where Lawand joins the Royal School for the Deaf. As he grows older, the film follows his dramatic progress learning British Sign Language, revealing a bright, charismatic and inquisitive boy who discovers friendship and a new way to express himself.

Access
Open Captions and ASL.

Questions?
Contact Simone Robinson at info@ArtPossibleOhio.org or call 380.799.(MAKE).