Based on the internationally known SuperDeafy character, No Ordinary Hero (featuring Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin) is the evolution story of a hero in this family drama. While Tony Kane, a deaf actor who plays a superhero on television, looks beyond his cape to influence a deaf boy, Jacob Lang, to redefine what «being normal» means, he also finds inspiration to transform himself. Jacob is being bullied at school and is constantly misunderstood by his father. When Tony and Jacob’s paths cross, they inspire belief in each other and in themselves.
Chen Yu, a hawker of pirated DVDs, finds refuge and then employment in a
Beijing movie theater for the blind. As his relationship to the blind community
deepens, he finds love, acceptance, and heartbreak in this beautifully-shot ode to
the power of cinema. (English Dubs Available)
A romantic tale about two New Yorkers, Armando from the Bronx and Mia from the East Side,
and their love of ballroom dancing. Mia is a vivacious professional dancer but a tragic
accident forever changes her life. True to his heart, Armando dedicates himself, along with a
group of colorful misfits, to help Mia deal with her challenges and dance once more
A cinematic road trip follows a deaf couple and their young nephew on their way to Tehran.
Before they get there, the couple must break the bad news to the boy that his parents were
killed in an accident, but the journey proves to be more complex than they even expected.
Shokooh, a middle-age blind mother is seeking her disabled young son, Amir, whom
moves around on a wheelchair, in a park. Two boys have seen him moving around by a
girl. She sits by a woman who is having her first day out after nursing her baby for a
whole year. She sees Amir beside a girl(taraneh) on a bench. Shokooh asks her to go to
them and see if the girl is beautiful. The woman goes to Amir and sees the girl he is
seeing is blind as well.
Orson and Janice, two twenty-somethings with muscular dystrophy, go on an Internet date.
When Staff Sergeant Aaron Heliker returned from multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan with traumatic brain injury, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, third-degree burns and nerve damage, he was introduced to the unlikeliest of saviors: a horse named Fredand.
In this Sundance favorite, a journalist with no scruples and two Danish/Korean
comedians?one a self-proclaimed ‘spastic’ with cerebral palsy?travel to North
Korea under the guise of cultural exchange. Mixing biting humor and incisive
investigative skills the troupe exposes a totalitarian regime long suspected of
shunning its disabled population.
A man enters a pool area, gets out of his wheelchair, and goes for a swim.
Lior has Down syndrome, and has spent his entire life praying with utter
abandon. As Lior approaches Bar Mitzvah, the Jewish coming-of-age ceremony,
different characters provides a window into life spent «praying with Lior.» The
movie poses difficult questions such as what is «disability» and who really talks to
God?
