International Barikat Film Festival
True blindness is ignorance!
We make the unseen visible, the unheard heard, and culture accessible to all.
Barikat Art Foundation was born from 36 years of struggle, dedication, and advocacy for the rights, visibility, and dignity of persons with disabilities.
Festival Film
Watch the story behind Barikat.
A glimpse into our movement for accessibility, dignity, art, sport, and a world without barriers.Through the International Barikat Film Festival, we bring together art, sport, culture, and social awareness to create a more accessible and inclusive world.
Our work focuses especially on ensuring that visually and hearing-impaired individuals can experience cinema and cultural life through audio description, subtitles, and dubbing.
Accessible Cinema
We work to make cinema accessible through audio description, subtitles, and dubbing, because participation in cultural life is a fundamental right.
Art, Sport & Culture
Through film screenings, cycling events, futsal matches, panels, theatre, music, and cultural activities, we create spaces of visibility and participation.
A World Without Barriers
Barikat is more than a film festival. It is a cultural movement for equality, dignity, accessibility, and human rights.
Our Movement
From awareness to participation.
Barikat brings people together through accessible cinema, cultural production, sport, dialogue, and public visibility. Every event is designed to challenge prejudice and open space for equal participation.2018 Awareness Ride
A journey that carried a message beyond borders.
Starting in Türkiye and ending in The Hague, our 4,521-kilometre cycling journey across 10 European countries was realised with the participation of visually and physically impaired individuals. It was not only a route, but a peaceful call for equality, visibility, and dignity.Support & Recognition
International support for our movement.
A special video featuring the support and recognition received from consulates and international representatives.We believe that disability is not a one-day awareness topic, but a human reality that exists every day of the year.
Our goal is to make the unseen visible, the unheard heard, and to build a world without barriers.
Stichting Barikat KunstReady to connect?
Let us build a more accessible cultural life together.
Accessibility touches billions of lives.
More than 1.3 billion people worldwide live with significant disability. Together with families, friends and communities, accessibility becomes a shared responsibility for billions of people.
A connected world without barricades
◎ inclusion expanding
We dream of a world where culture is open to everyone.
Through audio description and inclusive storytelling.
Through subtitles, dubbing and accessible communication.
Through art, sport, culture and public awareness.
Because accessibility is not a favour. It is a right.