Disability Movies

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....

A large group of boys play hockey. One of the boys has only one leg, but with the help of a crutch, skates about and puts up a very successful game.

A portrait of the dancer Hanna Väätäinen, a friend of the artist, experiences her body after her hand was paralysed in childhood...

The true story of Bill Sackter's emergence from lifelong institutionalization, to become an international hero for people with disabilities.

A deafblind Danish woman travels to Nepal to meet a woman with the same condition in the hopes of communicating and engaging in a cultural exchange....

A knitted figure sits in a wheelchair, unable to resist as birds and squirrels peck at it.

Art, activism and disability are the starting point for what unfolds as a funny and intimate portrait of five surprising individuals. Director Bonnie...

"Scores for Carolyn" (2019) is a short video of instructional scores for care with two or more people that intentionally blurs the roles of care...

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

Merlin, a 15-year-old student, has lost all feeling in his legs after an accident. He wonders blindly through life, never happy, never content. It's...

BEING MICHELLE follows the astounding journey of a deaf and disabled woman who survived incarceration under unimaginable circumstances by a system...

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...

“Where’s Molly?” Since he was 6 years old, Jeff Daly kept asking that question. When his sister Molly was not yet 3 years old, she...

Deaf artist Seo Hye Lee gives new subtitles to a selection of archive films about pottery, ones which playfully examine the disparity between how...

Edgar, a thirty-something documentary filmmaker diagnosed with OCD, films his routine as he recounts his past and present dealing with this disorder....

On the verge of losing the last thread of sight he has left, Adam tries to process his loss.

Disgusted by the eugenicist and ableist Sagamihara massacre of 2016, emerging documentarian Taku Aoyagi offers a radiant film about Mirai Farm, a...