The captivating story of an Israeli national deaf soccer team set out to become one of the top eight contenders in the 2007 World Championship in Bulgaria. Through ground-breaking techniques, award- winning director Yael Klopmann follows the stars of this team through their victories and hardships.
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Shameless: The Art of Disability
Director Bonnie Klein gathers a motley crew of artists with diverse disabilities for a pajama party. A comedian, poet, dancer, and others take a subversive look at Hollywood stereotypes of people with disabilities. They decide to continue meeting , and together embark on a mission to create their own images of disability.
Every Time You Look at Me
In this ground-breaking BBC film, Chris and Nicky meet across a crowded nightclub. There’s an undeniable spark, but falling in love with another disabled person is the last thing either of them is looking for. This modern day love story questions relationships – “Every time you look at me you see yourself.”
Chris is a thalidomide impaired person with short arms and a fading relationship with Michelle an able bodied woman. They intend to get married, buy a house and have children. At a club Chris meets Nicky, a bubbly young woman with dwarfism. He is attracted to her, but does not want to admit it for fear of upsetting his relationship with Michelle and because her disability reminds him of his own.
Son of the Stars
In search of her husband, a young mother of an autistic child journeys to the land of tens of thousands of factories. She finds herself alone in the enormous city, with nothing but her wits and inner strength to guide herself and her little boy.
Autistic Like Me: A Father’s Perspective
Autistic Like Me examines the lives of fathers and male caregivers raising children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. Dispelling the archaic notion of “big boys don’t cry”, Autistic Like Me uniquely chronicles the emotional struggle of a group of fathers as they open up to one another about the fear, disappointment and, ultimately, the acceptance of a very different parenting experience than they had envisioned. The film candidly captures the journeys of these families, demonstrating that when a child is diagnosed with autism, the whole family is affected. Autistic Like Me brings into focus the fathers, who by having difficult time accepting the reality of the condition, often lead to the fracturing of their families. The men featured in Autistic Like Me are at various stages of their journey toward that acceptance and, catalyzed by the film, begin expressing emotions they’ve previously suppressed.
The Quiet Ones
In this murder mystery, a teacher at a boarding school for the deaf is brutally murdered, and the suspects are narrowed down to four students.
Mind/Game: The Unquiet Journey of Chamique Holdsclaw
Billed as the “female Michael Jordan”, basketball phenom Holdsclaw led Tennessee to three successive championships and became a WNBA number-one pick, Rookie of the Year and All-Star. But her hidden struggle with mental illness led to personal setbacks and a second career as a vocal mental health advocate.
Defiant Lives
Weaving together never-before-seen archival footage with reflective interviews and the personal stories of men and women with disabilities, Defiant Lives details the rise of the disability rights movement in Australia, the U.K., and the U.S.
By Stanley for Stanley
Several dozen years apart in age, both Stanislaw and Sta ́s were born without arms. A remarkable artist who uses his feet to paint, draw, eat, and drive, Stanislaw becomes an important mentor to young Stas, a boy still learning to navigate his unique place in the world.
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Bottom Dollars
The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act created the revolutionary workers’ rights protection: the minimum wage. Yet as the film uncovers, Section 14(c) still provides a terrible and abusive exemption that allows employers to pay “special minimum wages”—wages less than the Federal minimum wage—“to workers who have disabilities.”
