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My Brain: After the Rupture
Ursula Macfarlane • UK • 2025 • 87 MIN • short
Not available in 48 states
On a bright January morning in 2020, writer, broadcaster, and musician Clemency Burton-Hill suffered a catastrophic brain haemorrhage. After emerging ...
White Nine
Nilou Safinya • US • 2026 • 29 MIN • short
Not available in 48 states
After sustaining devastating spinal cord injuries in the 1960s, three teen boys form an unbreakable bond and dedicate their lives to the independent l...
WE ARE THE AUDIENCE
Eliza Brownlie • Canada • 2025 • 6 MIN • short
Not available in 48 states
We Are the Audience centers people who stutter as they reflect on how they are seen and assert how they wish to be represented. Blending documentary i...
Them That's Not
Mekhai Lee • US • 2026 • 18 MIN • short
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Andrea "Drea" Stoney, a Deaf poet, attends her grandmother's repass and navigates a family that doesn't understand ASL. Complicating matters, her fath...
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Tragically Deaf
Maxx Corkindale • Australia • 2019 • 3 MIN • Narrative
Paul is having a great day. It’s a pity that the documentary crew following him doesn’t seem to see that…
The Interviewer
Genevieve Clay-Smith, Robin Bryan • Australia • 2012 • 13 MIN • Narrative
Thomas Howell is a lawyer looking for more in life – the chance to make a difference in the world. When he snags the opportunity of a lifetime an inte...
Mind/Game: The Unquiet Journey of Chamique Holdsclaw
Rick Goldsmith • US • 2015 • 57 MIN • Documentary
Billed as the “female Michael Jordan”, basketball phenom Holdsclaw led Tennessee to three successive championships and became a WNBA number-one pick, ...
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Take Me Home
Liz Sargent • United States • 2023 • 15 MIN •
After their mother's death, a cognitively disabled woman and her estranged sister must learn to communicate in order to move forward.
Is There Anybody Out There?
Ella Glendining • UK • 2023 • 87 MIN •
While navigating daily discrimination, a filmmaker who loves her unusual body searches the world for another person like her and explores what it take...
Remedial
Laurie Jeanette Gardiner • US • 2022 • 20 MIN • Narrative
As Will struggles to cope with the tragic loss of his father, he and his mother resolve to build a new life by relocating to Houston, Texas. At his ne...
focus on: employment
A Whole Lott More
Victor Buhler • US • 2013 • 83 MIN • Documentary
Lott Industries in Toledo, Ohio, employs more than 1200 workers, all with developmental disabilities. For decades the company excelled in assembling c...
Bottom Dollars
Jordan Melograna • US • 2016 • 55 MIN • Documentary
The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act created the revolutionary workers’ rights protection: the minimum wage. Yet as the film uncovers, Section 14(c) stil...
How Much Am I Worth?
Rachel Handler and Catriona Stevens • US • 2020 • 11 MIN •
"HOW MUCH AM I WORTH?" delves into the experiences of diverse women with disabilities across the U.S., and expats in England and Norway, as they navig...
REEL TALKS
CRIP CAMP | Q+A with Jim LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham
EZRA | Q&A with Tony Goldwyn, Tony Spiridakis, Bill Horberg, and William Fitzgerald
HONORING JUDY HEUMANN | Q+A with Judy Heumann and Lawrence Carter-Long
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