Moving Pictures
Move over Tribeca and make way for the Over-the-Rhine Film Festival.
OTR Film Festival Schedule
Thursday, July 7
Not A Hero
The Woodward Theatre, 4ç5:15 p.m.
Feeling Through & Connecting the Dots
Art Academy of Cincinnati, 4:30–5:30 p.m.
Opening Night Festivities
Site 1212
6–8 p.m.
Leylak / Eggshells / Our Baby Knows / Paper Geese
The Woodward Theatre
6–7 p.m
Opening Night Film: Poppy
Art Academy of Cincinnati
8–9:45 p.m.
Friday, July 8
Breakfast With tt
Site 1212
9–10 a.m.
The Echo of the Epidemic
The Woodward Theatre
2–3 p.m.
The Race Against Race & In a Whole New Way
Art Academy of Cincinnati
2:30–3:30 p.m.
Congenital / Saman / Amputee
The Woodward Theatre
3:30–5 p.m.
The Cemetery / Mani Pedi / Identibye / Alex - Reach For The Stars / F^¢k 'Em R!ght B@¢k
Art Academy of Cincinnati
4–5:30 p.m.
Celebration of Ohio Storytellers Party
Somerset, 139 E McMicken Ave.
4–6 p.m.
Framing Agnes
Art Academy of Cincinnati
5:30–7:30 p.m.
Bourbon, Bluegrass, And Belonging:
A LADD Community Event
Northside Distilling Co., 922 Race St.
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Away Yet Awake and 400: An Afrikan Epic
The Woodward Theatre
5:30–7:15 p.m.
Bad Axe
Freedom Center
7–9 p.m.
7 Days
Art Academy of Cincinnati
7:30 - 9:15 PM
Maybe Someday
The Woodward Theatre
7:30–9:15 p.m.
Rez Metal
The Woodward Theatre
9:30 –11:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 9
Breakfast With tt
Site 1212
9–10 a.m. @ Site 1212
Pacing the Pool / Painting By Numbers / The Last Photo / Deaf Reach: Hope For Pakistan / A Gallery Tale / A Homecoming I'll Remember
Art Academy of Cincinnati
10–11:30 a.m.
Inner Self / Matin Ecchymose / Scars / Salvage / Telos
The Woodward Theatre
11 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Marvelous and the Black Hole
Art Academy of Cincinnati
11:30 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
Here. Is. Better.
The Woodward Theatre
12:30–2:15 p.m.
Exposure
Art Academy of Cincinnati
1:30–3:15 p.m.
Invisible Manners / Family Business / Siblings
The Woodward Theatre
2:45–4 p.m.
Fraser Syndrome & Me / Running Home / Our First Priority
Art Academy of Cincinnati
3:30–4:45 p.m.
The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic
The Woodward Theatre
4–5:45 p.m.
Cha Cha Real Smooth
Art Academy of Cincinnati
5–6:45 p.m.
Why We Walk
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6–7 p.m.
Award Ceremony
Site 1212Filter
7–8 p.m.
Closing Night Film: Never Better
Art Academy of Cincinnati
8:30–10 p.m.
Closing Night Party
Site 1212
10 p.m. - midnight
Sunday, July 10
Breakfast With tt
Site 1212Filter
10–11:30 a.m.
See film descriptions and order tickets at otrfilmfest.org/2022-schedule
This year’s festival, July 7–10, showcases films from across the globe in venues throughout Over-The-Rhine with the theme “See the Story, Be the Story.” The festival brings together stories from diverse points of view that celebrate difference, and honor our shared humanity.
Cincinnati’s very own film festival was launched in 2013 by LADD (Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled) as the Cincinnati ReelAbilities Film Festival. The festival was created as a biennial celebration of the lives, stories, and art of people who experience disabilities growing it to the largest film festival in our region.
In 2018, LADD is expanded the festival’s scope to focus on a celebration of shared humanity.
This call for empathy, togetherness and personal storytelling activates the festival’s mission of bringing together films and film makers with diverse points of view to celebrate difference and honor our shared humanity. Untold stories are the heart of this festival.
The 2022 festival touches on the importance of seeing reflections of your own story in film and media.
The venues for the festival are based in OTR, with The Woodward Theater, which opened as a silent film house in 1914, home to the first film on Thursday afternoon.
At Art Academy of Cincinnati and its event space, Site1212, welcome the official opening film, Poppy, along with a variety of events and parties during the festival, including the awards ceremony on Saturday.
Though not in OTR, the Freedom Center welcomes the film Bad Axe, a real-time portrait of 2020 as an Asian-American family in Trump's rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Killing Fields.
True to the festival’s roots, artists from LADD partnered with Happen Inc.’s Breadwinners, an earn-and-learn program where teens meet weekly to share a meal, design and print their own T-shirts, and learn the basics of screen printing and running a small business. They met several times this spring to brainstorm ideas and consolidate the favorites into final design options.
