A deeply personal portrait of three lives, and the discoveries that lie beyond loss: a deaf boy growing up, his deaf grandfather growing old, and Beethoven the year he was blindsided by deafness and wrote his iconic sonata. The film premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and is produced by HBO, Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tahria Sheather.
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A young man leaves home to join a peace rally. On his way, he starts to experience strange occurrences.
A young dancer struggles with her identity and growing up hearing in a deaf family.
A man with cerebral palsy has a full day.
A sudden bereavement throws Luke, a fiercely independent young man with Down syndrome, into a group home—a daunting new environment where he finds unexpected support from his feisty, streetwise caretaker and a local heir dealing with his own demons. As friendships bloom, Luke’s frustration and disappointment with his new home soon turns to wonder when he discovers a way out and begins to explore the surrounding countryside. But as long-buried secrets are revealed, Luke treads dangerously close to disaster. My Feral Heart is a beautifully realized narrative, bolstered by strong performances, distinctive cinematography,and a deeply evocative score.
ANNA follows the actions and interactions of Anna, a young woman on the Autism Spectrum, and what happens when her routine is unexpectedly interrupted. Anna enjoys living a life of rigorous routine and her condition is made easier by her ability to control the little details of her day, which give her a sense of regularity. When someone unintentionally sits on her seat on her morning bus, her day is sent spinning out of control. This is a story about how Anna copes with unplanned changes to her day.
Inspired by incredible but true events, Carte Blanche is the uplifting story of a charismatic high school history teacher named Kacper who hides his progressing blindness from everyone around him in order to fulfill his educational duties. Kacper’s methods are unorthodox, sometimes hilarious, and devilishly effective. Carte Blanche is a paean to human perseverance and dignity.
MARY & MAX is a claymated feature film from the creators of the Academy
Award winning short animation HARVIE KRUMPET. A tale of pen-friendship
between two very different people; Mary Dinkle, a chubby lonely eight year old
girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horovitz, a 44 year old, obese,
Jewish man with Aspergers Syndrome living in the chaos of New York. Spanning
20 years and 2 continents, Mary and Max’s friendship survives much more than
the average diet of life’s ups and downs. Like Harvie Krumpet, MARY & MAX is
innocent but not na?ve, as it takes us on a journey that explores friendship,
autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism, where babies come from, obesity,
kleptomania, sexual difference, trust, copulating dogs, religious difference,
agoraphobia and much, much more.
