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This is the first television program in Russia in sign language for children with full or partial hearing impairments.
The Village Crocodiles face a moral dilemma: they want to defend the unfairly condemned foreigners, but they don’t want to give up some criminals, since one of them is Frank’s brother and Frank considers it...
Many children want a pet. But who needs a lame puppy? This short film is the story of the friendship between a child with disabilities and a lame puppy.
Eleven-year-old Anne is a beautiful girl – the kind of girl you can’t take your eyes off. And the longer you look, the more you see her “tics.” Anne suffers from Gilles de la...
Drona and Me is a portrait of the autistic Hindu boy Drona. We see him through the eyes of Arjun, his elder brother, creating a loving doubleportrait of the two brothers.
Daniel is a 13- year- old runner who lost his foot because of a land mine. He was a champion at his village, and so his parents don’t want people to know anything about...
Morteza Mehrzad, the tallest person in Iran with his 2.47 m, could have made a career in sports if not for his disability that excluded him from normal life. Today, this young man from a...
Jasha is a young deaf art student who doesn’t much care about the hearing world. But he can’t escape it if he wants to fulfill his ambitions. This makes him rebellious and uncertain.
Meanwhile Josia is eight years old – a lively and cheerful boy. He is attending primary school in Bubenreuth and loves riding, swimming and playing the French horn. With his unbridled vitality Josia keeps his parents...
The film I’m Alive! reveals the character and fate of people with physical disabilities who found the strength to live after going through a tragedy – and not just live, but live full, rich...
At the height of the Great Depression, the showman of a renowned circus leads his troupe through the devastated American landscape, lifting the spirits of audiences along the way. During their travels they discover a man...
You See Me is a series of nine short animations made by people perceived to have a disability. Animated by Nick Kallincos, these deceptively simple animations tell the participants’ stories of adversity to triumph in their...
21 Paralympic swimmer Cameron Leslie won gold in Beijing. He has no lower legs and only one finger. This documentary celebrates his 21st birthday.
Scarlet Road follows the extraordinary work of Australian sex worker, Rachel Wotton. Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression and the rights of sex workers, she specializes in a long over-looked clientele –...
This film about four members of the Russian Paralympic fencing team and their example of commitment, energy, and love of their sport thrills audiences. It shows once again that aiming...
«Let the Journey Begin» explores the lives of three individuals and their families as they progress through the Independent Living Support Initiative (ILSI) program over the course of twelve months. ILSI is an...
Giota’s Journey is an intimate portrait of Giota Boussions’s, a 48-year-old Montreal woman with cerebral palsy. Warm, good humored, acutely sensitive and keenly intelligent, Giota uses a wheelchair and is...
A story of three disabled friends who want to go to Spain to lose their virginity.
Sight and sound are the senses we rely on, but in telling the story of a man who has been deaf and blind from childhood. Planet of Snail is an...
This animation shows how stupid war is. It opens with Ben Laden Playing Tennis with the Stature of Liberty. The chief Air Marshall becomes suspicious of flying objects in the...
What is normal? This question resonates in Ponchin, an eleven-year-old who tries to answer it while playing with his friends. Through his self-reflective journey, the complex yet personal answer lies...
Austin’s deafness may appear to be his disability, but that isn’t what makes him self-conscious. Burdened by female anatomy, he binds his chest every day. Despite his challenges, Austin is...
«I don’t wish anyone a stroke. But I wish everyone a second chance. I got it – and I took it». Cinna is a 31 year old show artist and actress. One day...
After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caretaker.
A man is mugged by a very unusual criminal, who has an unwilling accomplice. The government pays for disabled people to get the interpreter support, or note takers. Ben Green,...
Although it’s been said that «In regione caecorum rex est luscus» (translated, «In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king»), the social model of disability challenges such...
Thibault Stoclin didn’t choose to be born with a disability but he chose to write his destiny. His passion is horseback riding and thanks to his horse, who serves as...
The film is about Mark, a learning disabled man who cannot come to terms with his father’s death. He is truly all at sea.
«Even if I’m blind I start to see now». After a failed, risky eye operation, Monika, 20, has to fight for her independence against her fragile mother that cracks under...
What did resourceful and upbeat deaf Russian tourists do when they lost their documents, got lost in a strange city, or had to converse with a policeman in sign language? This animated...
Kelsey Carroll lived with homelessness, self-mutilation and ADHD. She was a poster child for high school dropouts -- until she encountered an education revolution that’s about empowering, not overpowering, teens...
Stephen Page demonstrates how his life has been affected by multiple sclerosis and shows us how important a positive attitude to his disability is. “The single most important choice I...
Mitra is a disabled girl and her sister is deaf. They depend on each other. This film is a story about their relationship and what they are able to achieve...
«Labels» was produced by the Art Video Studio in the framework of the project «Mobilizing the Disability Community to Speak out for the Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities,» implemented...
Lea is a girl like many others, if it wasn’t for her plastic leg. This morning she got up on the wrong foot and she still doesn’t know what to...
A coming of age tale takes on new depth as a young girl with downs syndrome learns about love, sex and looking out for those who need our protection.
The film tells the story of three friends who live in an institution for people with Down syndrome, and who run away to search for their dreams. This road trip...
The documentary film, A House That Warms the Heart, is part of the series Rising. This film is about a home for visually and hearing impaired children in Sergeev Posad.
Jack Blond is a regular guy with Down syndrome who idolizes James Bond. When a priceless diamond comes to town he gets the chance to prove he’s as good as...
This film is about the Theater of the Open-Hearted, where all the actors have Down syndrome. But while every show requires special preparation, the result is great for everyone –...
To Be or Not To Be tells the tale of a deaf worker in a provincial town who spends his free time rehearsing on the stage of the local House...
This is a story about blind musicians. People who choose to live full lives, pursuing their hopes and dreams every day. They dare to enter an invisible sea of people,...
Starring Lara Steward, My Song is a coming of age story which follows Ellen, a young deaf girl stuck in the middle of the deaf and hearing worlds. Feeling as...
This 7 minute dance-on-film was produced thanks to Arts Council England's Impact fund to support disabled artists. Enter a dream like world as a secret underwater world unfurls. Beyond the...
After heavy epileptic seizures as a baby, one suspected autism when Agnes was one year old. Mother and filmmaker Heidi Sundby focuses on the inner family sphere over a span ...
And so begins the saga of the last true punk rock band in the world, Finland’s Pertti Kurikka’s Name Day. Singer Kari’s screaming growl targets everything from rulers who don’t...
Everyday situations, like shopping for groceries or riding the bus are torture for him - from the perspektive of the so-called «normals». At work, he isn't taken seriously. His overly...
When Wiebke Topf was told in the 25th week of her pregnancy that she was expecting a severly disabled child, she was dumbfounded. But for her and her husband Hans-Georg...
Dani, a young man lives his life to the limit, getting the most of it iin every sense and plays like an acrobat among freedom, search and love to truth....
The Italian Under 22 Wheelchair Basketball National Team and its way to the European Championship. The stories of Stefano, Domenico, Dod? and Silvia, sportsmen living on a wheelchair. The team...
Apostolos Mavrothalassitis is a four times Greek champion in paragliding. In January 2009, he goes to Mexico for the World Championship. On the last day of the competition, while Apostolos...
A mix of first person narrative in spoken English and ASL, archival footage, verite footage, and simple re creations, this film is a remarkable and uplifting story of personal and...
In the picturesque Israeli Negev desert lays the Bedouin Village of El-Sayed. It has the largest percentage of deaf people in the world yet, no hearing aids can be seen because...
35 persons with developmental disabilities answer the same question: if you could change one thing about yourself, what woukd you change?
People with disabilities are one of the largest minorities in the United States. But for most of American history, they occupied a sub-class of millions without access to everyday things...
Two Brothers tells us a story about a special brotherhood. Rino is eleven years old and loves to be in the water. He is taking part in a swimming competition....
The gift is a story of kindness, tragicomedy communication barriers and love. It centres around a couple, Iron (a hearing musician) and Tara (a deaf dancer). Iron rescues Tara from...
MOON POINT is the funny story of an ambitionless 23-year old who travels hundreds of miles in a wagon hooked onto the back of his friend’s electric wheelchair.
One Revolution opens as dawn breaks atop Africa's tallest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro. Briefly, glimpses of the mountain frame Chris Waddell as he transfers to his specially designed handcycle. The air...
Academy Award® winning director Wurzburg's inspiring documentary WRETCHES & JABBERERS chronicles the world travels of disability rights advocates, Tracy Thresher and Larry Bissonnette. In a bold quest to change attitudes...
This is a movie about the will of a man to move forward.. It is a ilm about freedom and the value of human life. It’s about the desire to...
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