Leo, a “vertically challenged” public officer and comedian, is about to marry Carol, a teacher who is 5’5″ tall.
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Just, Go!
Just, who lost both of his legs in an accident, chases the thieves who stole his crush’s purse.
Filmmaker Bio
Pavel Gumennikov learned storytelling from his grandfather, but his career began in China where his first film, Kaleidoscope, won the Sony Award at the China Normal University Film Festival, after which he began directing commercials and music videos in addition to his own films.
Intimacy
A first date between a deaf woman and a blind man, experienced through their alternating perspectives.
Filmmaker Bio
Ryan and Jackson Hogan are part-time film-makers and full-time brothers living in Leyton, East London. Ryan studied Film and Literature at the University of Warwick, and has since pursued a career in screenwriting while freelancing in film and television post-production. He mostly writes. Jackson studied Film at the University of Kent, and has since made a living shooting music videos, commercials, and live events. He mostly shoots. Their previous directorial efforts include Fishbowl (2016), The Laytons (2012) and Working Lunch (2011).
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.
Keep the Change
David is an upper-class charmer struggling to hide his high-functioning autism. Forced by his parents to attend Connections, a support group for people on the autism spectrum, David falls in love with Sarah, a sheltered young woman who challenges his identity as “normal.”
Winner, Best U.S. Narrative Feature and Best New Director, 2017 Tribeca Film Festival
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Sanctuary
Larry and Sophie are in love. What could be more natural for them than to want to be alone, together? They bribe their feckless caretaker to book them a hotel for an afternoon. But Larry and Sophie aren’t any couple—they both have intellectual disabilities, and by attempting to be intimate, they’re breaking the law in Ireland. While Larry and Sophie try to figure out their feelings, their future, and how to use a condom, their friends from the training center escape the not-so-watchful eyes of their caretakers and go on a joyful rampage through Galway. Both hilarious and heartbreaking, Sanctuary is a truly subversive piece of cinema about two young people trying to be together, in a world doing everything to keep them apart.
Children of God
A young boy bets his prized possessions – a series of football posters – on the girl’s team winning a battle-of-the-sexes football match in an attempt to gain the affections of his crush, their goalkeeper.
Bumblebees
Despite being told as a child he would never walk or speak, Vance accomplished the impossible. But now he has a new challenge: dating.
Aglaee
When Benoit loses a schoolyard bet he must invite Aglaee, a girl with CP, to go out with him.
AKA Doc Pomus
After being paralyzed by polio as a child, Jerome Felder renamed himself Doc Pomus,
reinventing himself first as a blues singer and then as one of American popular music’s
greatest songwriters, writing classics like, ‘Save the Last Dance for Me,’ ‘This Magic
Moment,’ ‘A Teenager in Love,’ and ‘Viva Las Vegas.’ AKA DOC POMUS brings to life Doc’s
joyous, romantic, heartbreaking, and extraordinarily eventful journey.
