Displaying items by tag: Winners 2016

Tuesday, 07 August 2018 16:38

No Limbs, No Limits

This is the extraordinary and awe-inspiring life story of Irish born Joanne O’Riordan. Joanne has a rare physical disability known as Total Amelia, one of seven known people in the world who was born without all four limbs. Directed by her brother Steven O' Riordan and narrated by Tony Award Winning actress Marie Mullen, this film follows Joanne's journey from her home in County Cork to the United Nations in New York, where she delivers a key-note speech and a challenge to the most influential women in technology: to build her a robot.

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  • Country Irland
  • Year 2013
  • Author Steven O'Riordan
  • Time 01:08:00
  • Возрастное ограничение 0+
Published in 2016
Thursday, 19 July 2018 15:14

My Life: It Takes Two

Twins Imogen and Amelia prepare to dance in the prestigious Blackpool Tower Ballroom. They are the only twins in the UK with Achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism, but Imogen and Amelia aren’t going to let being smaller hold them back from achieving their dancing dreams!

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  • Country United Kingdom
  • Year 2015
  • Author CBBC Channel
  • Time 00:15:00
  • Возрастное ограничение 0+
Published in 2016
Thursday, 19 July 2018 15:12

My Feral Heart

A sudden bereavement throws Luke, a fiercely independent young man with Down’s syndrome, into a daunting new environment where he finds unexpected support from his feisty, streetwise carer and a local heir dealing with his own demons. As friendships bloom and long-buried secrets are revealed, Luke verges dangerously close to disaster. My Feral Heart is a beautifully realised, understated character study bolstered by strong performances, distinctive cinematography and a deeply evocative score.

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  • Country United Kingdom
  • Year 2016
  • Author Jane Gull
  • Time 01:23:00
  • Возрастное ограничение 12+
Published in 2016
Thursday, 19 July 2018 15:03

Marina's ocean

A group of countryside students are preparing a special trip to the beach. Marina, a 15-year-old girl with Down Syndrome has a strong wish to visit the sea for the first time. Forbidden to travel with the other kids, Marina starts her own journey towards the Atlantic Ocean.

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  • Country Brazil
  • Year 2014
  • Author Cássio Pereira dos Santos, Heverton Lima
  • Time 00:16:40
  • Возрастное ограничение 12+
Published in 2016
Thursday, 19 July 2018 14:42

Ion

This is the amazing story of Ion, a visually handicapped man born under Ceausescu's regime in Romania. Thanks to his extraordinary hearing skills, he works today for the phone-tapping department at the Belgian federal Police. The film also explores the exodus and the beautiful but dramatic conditions in which Ion, his blind wife Maria and their young boy Ciprian, had to face in the past.

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  • Country Belgium
  • Year 2013
  • Author Olivier Magis
  • Time 00:57:00
  • Возрастное ограничение 12+
Published in 2016
Thursday, 19 July 2018 14:24

Forgotten

"Forgotten" is a love story about two people with hearing impairments. The main character is the director of a sign language theater who asks for a divorce from his wife since he has begun a love affair with an actress in his theater. His wife agrees to give him a divorce, but with one condition: every day he has to carry her wherever she asks.

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  • Country Russia
  • Year 2016
  • Author Alexander Korolev
  • Time 00:27:32
  • Возрастное ограничение 14+
Published in 2016
Thursday, 19 July 2018 14:13

Every 88th

A young Soviet soldier dies on the battle field. He wanted to survive but instead he ended up in another world, a world that no one ever writes about. All of his values and memories remain in the past and he waits for his ticket to a new life and hopes that he will be happy there.

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  • Country Russia
  • Year 2015
  • Author Daria Lebedeva
  • Time 00:26:00
  • Возрастное ограничение 14+
Published in 2016
Thursday, 19 July 2018 13:43

Becoming bulletproof

A diverse group of disabled people from across the US take on leading roles in a magical rip roaring costume drama Western, filmed on vintage Hollywood locations. This riveting film within a film immerses us in a dynamic, inclusive world of discipline and play, raising questions about why we so rarely see real disabled actors on the big screen?

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  • Country USA
  • Year 2015
  • Author Michael Baynett
  • Time 01:22:00
  • Возрастное ограничение 12+
Published in 2016
Wednesday, 18 July 2018 23:14

Awake

Anna, who is chronically ill, is visited by Doreen, a door to door proselytizer who makes herself at home and stays the day, slowly defrosting her non-welcome. Together, they walk in the park, bake a cake and watch an Ingmar Bergman film. Both women are blind, played by blind actors (Alex Bulmer and Margo Cargill) in this existential comedy.

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  • Country United Kingdom
  • Year 2015
  • Author Michael Achtman
  • Time 00:21:00
  • Возрастное ограничение 12+
Published in 2016
Wednesday, 18 July 2018 22:56

At eye level

Michael, an 11-year-old boy, lives in an orphanage and has to fight every day to win the respect of the other kids. Then one day, he finds out who his father is and writes him a letter. His dad, Tom, happens to be a persons of short stature and is even shorter than Michael, but he wants to accept the challenge of fatherhood, even though he did not know he had a son. For Michael, Tom’s disability is a disaster - the opposite of the manliness and strength he envisioned his father to have. As time passes, they discover they have more in common than other sons and fathers and they form an unlikely bond, until their relationship is suddenly put to the hardest of tests.

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  • Country Germany
  • Year 2016
  • Author Evi Goldbrunner, Joachim Dollhopf
  • Time 01:35:00
  • Возрастное ограничение 12+
Published in 2016
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