Movies: Disability

Muhammad Raditya Firmansyah, who is familiarly called Radit, is a deaf child from Tenggarong, Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan. Radit nicknamed as The Blue Eyes because his eye color is different from the eye color of the people in his environmen...

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Edgar, a thirty-something documentary filmmaker diagnosed with OCD, films his routine as he recounts his past and present dealing with this disorder. He has always been supported by the people in his close circle. However, he has never met someone wi...

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This documentary is about Lois Curtis, the liberator who was freed to create....

In a town where everyone has a handicap a person without a handicap might move into a house....

An animated allegory demonstrating the need to integrate the disabled into general society....

A film in which limbless Nikolai Kobelkoff demonstrates a series of tasks, from aiming a pistol to performing gymnastics. Kobelkoff was born without arms and legs but persevered, becoming an international star in the early 20th century as a "Human To...

Documentary film about a theater project at a school for mentally disabled children. For four months, the film crew observed the rehearsals of the students and teachers....

Jamila reads aloud a stack of printed emails written to individuals and organisations delaying, postponing, or cancelling work due to illness from her sickbed....

Mary Lou Breslin, co-founder of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2009 Community Leadership awards (the Robert C. Kirkwood Award) - for making a mark in defining disability rights as a civil righ...

Lee is a young man determined to win the heart of Claire, a young woman determined to make life difficult for him. Dancing playfully on her crutches, Claire frustrates Lee’s romantic advances, transporting him away to daunting environments where he’l...