A camera made for the disabled unlocks fields of vision in Shooting Beauty.
On May 14 and May 15, see cinema for a worthy cause. STRIVE-New Haven, an organization that aids people in overcoming job-related obstacles, both in hiring and in working, will be the beneficiary of a film festival at Davies Auditorium at Yale. Tickets for each event are a $10 donation to STRIVE; a weekend pass for all four screenings is available for $30; for info and tickets: strivenewhaven.com.

7 p.m., May 14: The Day After Peace follows filmmaker Jeremy Gilley in his 10-year struggle to establish Sept. 21 as a worldwide day of peace; with the short film, Gamers, a comedy by The CT Film Industry Training Program (CTFITP); writer and producer Marty Lang, an instructor in the program, will be present for Q&A.

9:30 p.m.: Shooting Beauty, an aspiring fashion photographer invents cameras usable by people with disabilities, thus unlocking a world of beauty for them, directed by George Kachadorian; accompanied by Down to the Wire, a comedy short by the CTFITP.

7 p.m., May 15: Moving Midway, a film about moving the Midway Plantation in North Carolina, chronicles how the history, secrets and emotions of a family are involved in this symbolic site; directed by Godfrey Cheshire; with Saybrook’s Best Kept Secret, a documenary short by Bob Czepiel on slavery in CT in the American Revolution period and after.

9:30 p.m.: The Voice (Boses), an emotional film about the rights of children and the value of music in the story of a mute 7-year-old boy from an abusive environment and his friendship with a depressed violinist; directed by Ellen Ongkeko-Marfil with English subtitles; with Times Up, a comedy short by the CTFITP.

And for comedy revivals this weekend, the Criterion’s theme seems to be child-men and their comical insecurities and ineptness. “Insomnia Theater,” May 14-15 at 11:30 p.m. offers Tim Burton’s Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985), in which the maestro of darkly tinged entertainment gave the world Pee Wee Herman (Paul Reubens), an oddly stunted young man of no specific age in a grey glen plaid suit with red bowtie whose perhaps unhealthy obsession with his fancy bike, and the shock of its theft, leads him through a series of road adventure tropes — such as phantom trucker Large Marge — only to wind-up, in glib po-mo fashion, in the movies. For “Movies and Mimosas,” May 15-16, at 11 a.m., it’s Artists and Models (1955), a Martin and Lewis comedy-musical in which the ever-slick, and often bare-chested, artist Rick Todd (Dean Martin) croons and the wacky, fey and comic-book devouring Eugene Fullstack (Jerry Lewis) charms as only he can, while Shirley Maclaine, Eva Gabor and Anita Ekberg provide support.

What do the two films have in common? A chance to enjoy grown men acting like 5 year olds, and to reflect on how that shtick never seems to die. Reubens is hipper because he’s more clearly an adult in a child’s mind; Lewis is perhaps more artful because of the mawkishness that makes him seem either a mentally challenged man or an emotionally precocious child, or both.

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