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Join River Tam on a tour through the many worlds of fan fiction and disability in this experimental audio-visual essay.

Jess is moving out, and her friends Marsha and Imani are down to help, until they realize they have a traitor in their midst.

Ayşe and Cenk have completely different backgrounds. However, they find love while attending university. Ayşe comes from a wealthy, modern, and religious family and is deeply committed to her faith. Cenk, on the other hand, leads a secular lifestyle and envies Ayşe's way of life. Cenk promises to change and live a proper life to win Ayşe’s heart. The couple gets married, but shortly afterward, Cenk breaks his promise to Ayşe by returning to his old habits of alcohol, gambling, and drugs. Ayşe makes great efforts to save her beloved husband from his addiction.

Orchid, Topaz, and Lavender are three friends, 20-somethings in age. They have a disability unique to each one of them, and they spend their time at their local coffee shop arguing whilst comparing and contrasting each other's experiences with ableism.

Since he was a child, Mari Sanders has been in a wheelchair. At school he was told that his dream of becoming a filmmaker was nice, but that he’d better be more realistic about his future. Now he uses his own story to discuss a broader subject: handicap and work. 80% Disabled is a humoristic investigation into our society’s struggle in dealing with handicapped people. Since his eighteenth birthday Mari receives state support, but he would rather not and would prefer to be completely independent. He wants to know the possibilities and impossibilities of working with a handicap in our society that is so set on having everyone participate.

“Disabled: A Love Story” is an animated documentary exploring the affect Multiple sclerosis (MS) has had on Terry and her husband/caregiver, Jon. Beginning with the diagnosis and continuing through their +35 year marriage, Terry struggles to continue working as a city planner and teaching while losing her mobility. Jon works as a writer, and together they learn to adapt to each stage of the disease while maintaining their relationship.

Our idea was based on the disabling of our five senses in today's society. In the first scene our hero waits at the bus stop looking indifferently at his cell phone as time passes and then returns home where he mechanically turns on the television and passively watches a blank screen. Then in a grocery store the heroine mechanically puts the products in her bag without listening. Then our hero watches a teleconference and by the end of it he has not heard anything of what was said, while then being hungry he warms up and "eats" water. At the same time, our heroine is walking down the street and as she looks up she fearfully notices that everyone around her is wearing a headscarf and can't see. Finally, the heroine who has been watering a flower pot on her balcony for days discovers how the flower inside is made of paper. The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.

Join BBC New Comedy Award finalist and wheelchair enthusiast Aaron Simmonds as he tells you how his first paid gig led to him performing on BBC2, and what happens when you’re trolled online for not being disabled enough. Far better at stand-up than standing up, his unique perspective on life - usually people's belly buttons - gives him a distinctive edge in his performances as well as a sore neck.

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Two friends find themselves lost in life, lost in love, and lost in translation.

Petrouchka is a young Gabonese woman who takes care of her brother who is a victim of a disability. Her love for her brother leads her to create an association that aims to help all young people who live in this situation and is now called the mother of the disabled. She proudly shares her career with her followers on social networks.

Following his groundbreaking win on NBC’s Last Comic Standing in 2006, Josh Blue has risen through the ranks to become a well-established headliner at venues throughout the world.

Short film by Igor Levinsky and Pyotr Tochilin

Elaine Jeffries, Chairperson of Ravelrig RDA, speaks to a group of Edinburgh College students about the organisation's history, its goals, and the importance of inclusive activities in today's society. Volunteer Lynn shares her experience, motivation, and involvement within the organisation. The film also follows Rachael, a participant and horse rider, exploring how her involvement has positively impacted her life and the lives of other members. More than a film about physical activity, this documentary highlights how community, inclusion, and shared purpose create a safe and supportive space for those who need it, and how everyone has the power to make a difference.

This shockingly-titled film is part documentary, part concert footage and part traditional comedy starring New York stand-up comedian Greg Walloch. Politically incorrect, politically challenging and politically untouchable, the disabled and openly gay Walloch will make the viewer question the term "disabled," as this gifted performer pokes fun at religion, society, his friends and himself.

We examine the work of four disabled musical and film artists living with Cerebral Palsy and SMA (Spinal Muscle Atrophy) who are helping to lead the movement that is advocating for inclusion of more disabled artists in the music, film and entertainment industries. Their extraordinary talents are showcased for all to see. Their advocacy work for disability inclusion leads them on a difficult path demanding more access for disabled creators. They use their creative gifts to make their statements and to move their work forward. We showcase their talents and messages in this film produced and directed by disabled filmmaker Emmitt H Thrower.

For more than a century, one group of people in Britain has been shut out of society, denied basic human rights and treated with fear and prejudice. Now, in this shocking, moving film, writer, actor and presenter Cerrie Burnell is going to uncover the hidden story of how disabled people fought back – and won their freedom. Cerrie was born without the lower part of her right arm. As a presenter on CBeebies, Cerrie was astonished to learn that some viewers thought her appearance would scare watching children. Now, she wants to find out where these attitudes to disabled people come from and why they persist today.

Our Hearts Aren't Disabled examines the romantic lives and trials of six people living with mobility challenges. Its characters are people of different ages, genders, orientations, and ethnicities. Multi-disciplinary artist Josh Dunn features as both subject and interviewer as he endeavors to shed light on the difficulties he and others face. Sometimes a painful journey filled with heartbreak, Our Hearts Aren't Disabled also features a healthy dose of wit, humour, and perseverance, helping the viewer to see that disability places no barrier on the power and beauty of one's humanity.

The Worlds Worst Place To Be Disabled

Incarcerating the mentally ill in sheds and other private enclosures was permitted under Japanese law and continued in Okinawa until 1972. The film leads us to hear the unheard song of victims of this cruel system of social isolation.

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

Lou Clark, a directionless 26-year-old from the English countryside, takes a job at the local castle as a caregiver and companion to a wealthy young banker, Will Traynor. Wheelchair-bound from an accident two years prior, the once adventurous Will has all but given up — that is until Lou determines to show him that life is worth living.

Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force – a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe - the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico - to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.

After taking his dying father's advice, Hal dates only the embodiments of female physical perfection. But that all changes after Hal has an unexpected run-in with self-help guru Tony Robbins. Intrigued by Hal's shallowness, Robbins hypnotizes him into seeing the beauty that exists even in the least physically appealing women. Hal soon falls for Rosemary, but he doesn't realize that his gorgeous girlfriend is actually a 300-pound-not-so-hottie.

Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the market. One of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head.

Phillip is a wealthy quadriplegic who needs a caretaker to help him with his day-to-day routine in his New York penthouse. He decides to hire Dell, a struggling parolee who's trying to reconnect with his ex and his young son. Despite coming from two different worlds, an unlikely friendship starts to blossom.

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver, Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky.

In the racially divided town of Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, football coach Harold Jones spots a mentally disabled African-American young man nicknamed Radio near his practice field and is inspired to befriend him. Soon, Radio is Jones' loyal assistant, and he becomes a student at T.L. Hanna High School. But things start to sour when Coach Jones begins taking guff from parents and fans who feel that his devotion to Radio is getting in the way of the team's quest for a championship.

Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations as a parent start to become a problem and the authorities take her away. Sam convinces high-priced lawyer Rita to take his case pro bono and in turn teaches her the value of love and family.

A group of people gather at a Copenhagen suburban home to break all the limitations and to bring out the 'inner idiot' in themselves.

After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.

A policeman forsakes his dream of world travel to care for a mentally impaired brother, who is later kidnapped by gangsters.

A significantly deformed but highly intelligent teenage boy and his biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.

Events in India's history — from the Emergency and the famous Cricket World Cup win to the Punjab riots , unfold from the perspective of an innocent Sikh man Laal Singh Chaddha, a person with a low IQ but high optimism. Laal is able to achieve everything under the sun but his childhood love continues to elude him.

A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.