Ricky, a 13-year-old boy with autism, lives in Rockaway Beach with his sister, father and his mother, Mariana, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. Mariana works long days cleaning houses while Ricky, deeply imaginative but painfully isolated, struggles to cope. Mariana watches in helpless frustration as Ricky’s difficulties separate him further from the world around him. One day Mariana yells at Ricky for skipping school and, in a panic, he escapes into the NYC subway system. Overwhelmed by his surroundings, he loses track of space and time in the massive, underground labyrinth. Ricky embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery, observing scenes of urban pathos and oddity while his body weakens from hunger.
Enlisted to teach a class of teenagers in wheelchairs about filmmaking, the
neurotic Jasper is met with a snappy attitude from the streetwise adolescents. This witty comedy questions condescending outreach projects, self-defeating attitudes, and the vacuity of the film business- all with a healthy helping of self parody.
28-year-old Enea is looking for love – physical love that is. But as the autist he is, living in Italy, this is anything but easy. So he and his best friends Carlo and Alex set out on a journey through Europe and eventually find a lot more than they are looking for.
The Sudanese/Dutch Mazin (12) is deaf from the day he was born. But now he faces an operation that is supposed to make him hear.Excited about all the new things he might discover, Mazin is looking forward to it. How will a dog sound? And fishes, do they make any noise? But he keeps on having second thoughts. For one of his closest classmates a similar operation turned out to be a disaster. And even if he succeeds, the world as he knows it might never be the same again, he feares. Will he get used to this whole new universe, or will it make him go crazy?
Enter a world where sound gives shape to space.
Alex, an ex-convict on a road trip picks up Vivienne, an eccentric hitchhiker. A
serious car accident kills Vivienne, prompting Alex to visit Vivienne’s mother.
What he discovers is a woman with high-functioning autism. Convincing him to
stay after the funeral, Alex learns about her uniqueness as he struggles to come
to terms with his own grief.
Emma, a magnetic, attractive, blind woman is determined to have a baby. In her search for a man, she woos Germn, her psychologist from group-therapy, and her young neighbour, Diego. Emma finds herself falling into the trap of her own devising and discovers that blindness comes in many forms.
Two men with autism, an accomplished artist and an activist, embark on a global quest to change attitudes about autism and intelligence. Tracy Thresher and Larry Bissonnette travel to Sri Lanka, Japan and Finland, dissecting, challenging, and reshaping public conceptions along the way.
In 1964, a young pediatrician begins his residency at Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, only to discover that the institution is conducting Army funded experiments on developmentally disabled children. Based on true events.
Twelve-year-old Itamar has a deep passion for ice skating. However, he is slowly losing his hearing, and therefore his balance, forcing him away from his dream. Itamar refuses to accept his doctor’s orders and his parents’ wish that he stay away from the ice rink. Natalie, his new partner, who is a wild and disobedient girl, decides to help him. Together they struggle and grow within a complicated world of adolescence.
