Movies: Disability

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Magdi, a strong-willed, but lonely caregiver faces a daunting reality as she grows older: If she were to pass away, her disabled adult son, Feri would be left to the inhumane conditions of the Hungarian state care system, and would quickly follow her...

A lonely typographer with a cruel speech impediment but an eloquent inner voice must face his greatest fear....

A short 1982 film that offers a thought-provoking look at stereotypes about physical handicaps as seen in the story of a teenager with cerebral palsy who decides to try out for cheerleader....

A new film by Sheik Althaf Hussain...

A lonely man is invited to dinner by the woman who spies every night with his camera. The secrets will come to light, when both want to satisfy their desires....

Two young men form a connection on the swings of their local park....

This is the face of someone the world assumes was stripped of her potential at the age of 18. But tragedy is not Mallory Weggemann's reality. Suddenly paralyzed from the waist down, she was turned loose to become a Paralympic Champion and activist. A...

Anxious about a new school and his relationship to his brother, a boy with Cerebral Palsy meets an alien who helps him cope with his fears....

Raymond, a deaf working student aspires to become a school paper photographer. Set in 2009, Raymond refuses to let his disability prevent him from being a voice....

A professional company of actors with disabilities defies expectations by taking center stage in Chicago the musical....

Amidst a psychotic episode, a young man breaks into a house and is confronted by the homeowner, their underlying connection unbeknownst to both of them....

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A blind ex-hustler and a fast-talking disabled con man team up to find the culprit responsible for their welfare checks being stolen....

Desperate to feel normal, a boy with epilepsy goes to prom knowing the lights will make him have a seizure....

Metzer 58 play Punk. They were founded in a meet-up at Lebenshilfe Münster, an NGO that provides housing and other services to people with disabilities. The band consists of disabled people and able-bodied people. That doesn't really affect the topic...

Charlie Brouwer, a Virginia sculpture artist, shares his experience of becoming legally blind later in his career. Unexpectedly, he finds acceptance through an unlikely muse....

David Vandenbrink seems like a healthy 21-year-old, bright and articulate young man. There is little to suggest that while in his mother's womb, he suffered permanent brain damage. His condition, fetal alcohol syndrome (F.A.S.), went undiagnosed for ...

Deaf artist Seo Hye Lee gives new subtitles to a selection of archive films about pottery, ones which playfully examine the disparity between how people with different levels of hearing experience art....

Ayumu, struggling with a rare condition that turns him to stone, creates a new persona for himself, but his feelings grow for his teacher, Kouya, who sees beauty in his transformation....