About this Short Film
Mercy The Celebrity (2023), by Kitsha Kyasi Joseph (Uganda), appears at the Focus on Ability International Short Film Festival to highlight attitudes and perceptions around physical disability. The film attends to family and individual viewpoints, and considers how children and teenagers understand themselves and others. It prompts audiences to rethink assumptions without prescribing a single answer. Mercy The Celebrity invites quiet reflection on identity, attitude and belonging, asking viewers to notice how perception shapes relationships. As part of the festival, it contributes to a broader conversation about ability and youth, emphasising lived experience and the varied ways people see and are seen.
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