Carmina – Viva a diferença

Length: 80'
Director: Sebastian Heinzel
Alemanha / 2014

CARMINA shows a completely unique international dance project. A total of more than 300 disabled and able-bodied people – both professional dancers and amateurs - perform the world-famous Carmina Burana by Carl Orff. The central theme of this endeavor – inclusion – is one that the participants come up against over and over again. The ‘normal’ male students, in particular, find it difficult to be in contact with their disabled fellow dancers. CARMINA follows the participants throughout the arduous rehearsal process as they are constantly challenged by a strict and loving team of renowned choreographers - Wolfgang Stange, Volker Eisenach and Royston Maldoom. The performers have only three weeks before the big performance to transform from this ragtag motley crew into a convincing dance ensemble.

Record Mundial

Length: 80'
Director: Eduardo Lucatero
México / 2014

Young Gustavo Sanchez Martinez is like any other 16 year old teen, who loves cars, video games and hanging out with his friends. He is also one of the world's fastest swimmers, even though he only has one arm and no legs.

Amor profundo

Length: 84'
Director: Jan P. Matuszynski
Poland / 2013

The film portraits Janusz, a self-confident 50-year old, an incredibly active person, a keen driver with a track record of outstanding achievements that suffers a stroke which leaves him paralysed. Rehabilitation and assistance of his partner Asia help him regain mobility and improve his functions. He is still struggling with speech and the only person who understands what he says is Asia who interprets him for the world. What keeps him going and motivates to carry on is his big dream – we would like to dive again, despite major hazard to his health and life. His goal is to travel to beautiful but perilous Blue Hole which poses a challenge even to a fit diver. This is a film about love than knows no limits, a passion bigger than fear and determination to start living again.

Como nos filmes

Length: 5'
Director: Francesco Faralli
Italia / 2013

Following his movies passion, Daniele Bonarini (from Associations Il Cenacolo Francescano) makes parodic and amateur films, with the enthusiastic help given by volunteer friends, always casting people with disabilities for the main caracters.

Prima Madenn

Length: 73'
Director: Gregoire Thoby
França / 2015

Madenn, a young developmentally disabled woman, visits her cousin in Paris after a breakup. This film lets her speak for herself, freely and unreservedly, exploring her dynamic personality filled with dark tendencies and exuberance. Realistic, sensitive, funny, uncontrollable, and very much in love, Madenn does not conform to our stereotypes about the developmentally disabled. This film combats indifference by emotion.

Enriqueta

Length: 10'
Director: Marcos Salazar Suazo
Chile / 2012

Enriqueta is a hundred years old lady of Aymara origin with disability who lives in Ayllu de Solcor, a small village in the middle of the Atacama desert, in north of Chile. This observational documentary shows us her surrounding e how she lives the sunset of her existence in profound loneliness acompanied only by her plants and animals.

Gabor

Length: 69'
Director: Sebastián Alfie
Espanha / 2013

Sebas ask Gabor to be the photography director of his film, but since Gabor cannot see, how will he manage do shoot a film? Follow this adventure that makes an important photography director reborn 10 years after losing his sight.

A viagem de Maria

Length: 6'
Director: Miguel Gallardo
Espanha / 2010

When María is with us, she make the world a better place. María´s Journey is a small trip to the inner world of an autistic teenager, a trip full of color, love, creativity and originality. The film originates in parents experience observing the special behaviour of their daughter until they confirm the diagnosis: autism.

Alcançando as nuvens!

Duração: 66'
Diretor: Tereza Vlčková
Czech Republic / 2013

Reaching Clouds! is a documentary portrait of a teenage girl Lucie, who suffers from autism spectrum disorder (ASD). While Lucie is fully immersed in her own world of creating and singing, her family tries, often with a great personal commitment, to find a place in our society for someone whose life needs and habits are on one side considerably beyond the mainstream society, and on the other hand, are so natural and normal as an ordinary person can imagine. The movie Reaching clouds! brings us through the story of Lucie a general insight into the life issues of people with ASD and reveals the fact that currently provided social and educational services for this target group are not sufficient.

A criança e o golfinho

Length: 18'
Director: Katsiaryna Makhava
Belarus / 2014

Maxim is an autistic child. He has a twin-brother Yaroslav, who is an ordinary boy. Maxim is five years old now. He lives in his peculiar world by his own rules which are radically different from Maxim's relatives` way of life. Maxim doesn’t speak. It’s hard for him to express his desires, feelings and thoughts. Mother takes Maxim to the course of the dolphin therapy.

Soluções promissoras

Length: 52'
Director: Romain Carciofo
França / 2012

"Hopeful solutions" sums up Romain Carciofo's journey through autism. A road movie across France to answer one question : How are autistic people and their families assisted in France ? This moving documentary enlightens the alarming situation of people suffering from autism and how their relatives are dealing with this disease

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Teatro do Coração Aberto

Length: 15'
Director: Andranik Saatchyan
Rússia / 2015

What is theatre for people, whose life is daily overcoming? All actors of the Theatre of Open-Hearted have Down`s syndrome, and their hearts are open to new experiences, discoveries, a new way of life. They are happy because they love what they do.

Complexo de Canguru

Length: X'
Director: Sarah Moon Howe
Bélgica / 2014

This film raises an important question for us, parents of different children: how do we part while the situation imposes, in essence, the hand-to-hand fight?
If the baby kangaroo leaves the pocket at a certain moment, the handicapped child stays longer in the lap of his/her mother. The stake being then to dare to push him/her gently out.
On his/her part, the child also has to prove to his/her mother that (s)he can become independent. 
It is a long and complex process... One back and forth ceaseless way between the inside and the outside of the pocket that only the end of one life stops.

O coração partido e a beleza

Length: 14'
Director: Genevieve Clay-Smith
Australia / 2015

Heartbreak & Beauty is an experimental film that explores the notion that we are all connected through our shared experiences of love and loss through visual metaphor, dance and poetry, all from the perspectives of twelve people living with an intellectual disability.

O mar me faz lembrar

Length: 11'
Director: Ray Jacobus
UK / 2012

The film, created and performed by Marcos, a man with Down syndrom, talks about the loss of his father and about his non-resigned feelings on the loss. In a beach that brings him many childhood regards, he travels through the landscape, imagination and memory. The film takes us to a place where the real and the imaginary world live together and reminds us that sometimes we have to travel to within ourselves in order to overcome a crisis brought on by a loss.

E agora José, Maria e João?

Length: 52'
Director: Marcio Takata
Brasil / 2014

The film reflects about the perspectives of independent future life os adults with intellectual disability, under the view of Assisted Housing. From the positive experience of housing in Holland, the film makes a comparison with the situation in Brazil, where people is still dreaming with an opportunity like that.

Você cairá de novo

Length: 6'
Director: Alex Pachón
Espanha / 2015

This experimental ficcion film brings a dancer performance in a thrilling cenary, a room which ceiling is about to fall. Dreamlike allegory about human strength and determination to overcome obstacles, even when they seem to be insurmountable.

Conjuntos

Length: X'
Director: Rodrigo Cavalheiro e Monica Farias
Brasil / 2014

During an afternoon of rehearsal, the coreographer Marcos Abranches works with the dancer Alessandra Bono Vox to take to the stage his conception of inclusive dance.

Ser ou não ser

Length: X'
Director: Aziz Zairov, Mukhamed Mamyrbekov
Kazakhstan / 2015

Shakespeare unespectedly emerges in this documental portrait that shows the daily routine of Takhir Umarov, a young man with cerebral palsy. The film focuses at his brave struggle to overcome his physical limitatios and to ensure his autonomy. Takhir´s images at a snowy environ ment dressed with shakespearean costumes mixed with the documental portrait, in addition to subtle narrative surprises, are the very elements that make this film a piece of art.

Tatuagem e terremoto

Length: X'
Director: Sávio Tarso e Nilmar Lage
Brasil / 2015

Tattoo and Earthquake could be a documentary about millions of people with disability. This is an intimate and personal story of a polio victim who keeps a peculiar relationship with the sequels the decease left in his body.  Like a tattoo, which has impregnated his skin and his soul, the disability has become his unique trait but couldn’t prevent him of fully living in “normal” people’s world.

Mente pura

Length: X'
Director: Kristina Lapsanska
Slovakia / 2013

Pure Mind brings the portrait of handicapped sportsman Jaroslav Švestka, who stands out of the conventional microcosm of handicapped population with his attitude towards life, values and his difficult situation. The movie covers four years of his trying’s to achieve the Paralympic dream. On his personal tragedy he shows the power of human mind to push the limits of human capabilities and to overcome even the most difficult obstacles.

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Beleza desconhecida

Length: X'
Director: Mahboubeh Honarian
Iran / 2014

"Unknown Beauty" is a moving documentary which portrays the lives of three girls in Iran who try to live independently and escape isolation. Despite their daily struggles in a country that offers them meager services, these Iranian girls embrace their disabilities and work hard to practice their artistic talents.

Marcelo

Length: 13'
Director: Jéssica Lopes
Brasil / 2013

Through a mix of sound and silence, you’ll get to know Marcelo’s universe of sounds. He is a kid trying to adapt to coclear implant.

Entrando no mundo do som

Length: 24'
Director: Daniela Prusse
Suiça / 2015

How does it feel when your long awaited child is born deaf? And when, two years later, your second child turns out to be  deaf as well? The parents of the two children talk openly about their experience and their decision to go for Cochlear Implants. They tell about painful and happy moments in their daily life, giving comfort and courage to those facing similar difficulties.

A onda traz, o vento leva

Length: 25'
Director: Gabriel Mascaro
Brasil / 2012

Rodrigo is a deaf guy who works installing sound systems in cars. The film is a sensorial journey through a daily life made of noise, vibration, non-communication, ambiguity and doubts.

Mãos dadas

Length: 7'
Director: Ignacio Tatay
Espanha / 2014

When a girl surrenders to the desire to kiss a stranger on a bus, she could not gess how strange he was. After an unexpected twist, she will have to take action to correct a situation in which she reacted mistakenly. All under the watchful eyes of passengers. A movie at the same time light and hard-hitting that talks about love and brings issues like stigma, image, prejudice and acceptance.

Pássaro sem asas

Length: 20'
Director: Sergei Andrienko
Ukraine / 2014

When Natasha was born with physical disabilities, she was abandoned by her parents in the hospital. Today the young woman lives in a nursing home. Solitude does not always end when you find someone to share it with – sometimes, solitude just begins at that moment. You can break that feeling by creating a new meaning of your or someone else's life. Natasha found this meaning in colors, paints, and brushes. Natasha believes in importance to reach out not only to receive, but also to give. Such communications happen in her work. Is it that important to seek recognition for your work? Perhaps the real art doesn’t need to be scored. Perhaps art works should be created without any desire to please or to remain in history…

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Lições de Italiano

Length: 27'
Director: Tofik Shakhverdiev
Russia / 2013

A deaf-mute girl, wheelchair ability. She can’t speak her native Russian, nor the sign language. But it doesn’t prevent her from having fun and chatting with employees and guests of the Hotel where she stays with her group on her holiday in Italy. The film is about her and her friend, a little boy, who thinks to know why some children are born healthy and other sick

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Independente

Length: 33'
Director: Ariela Alush
Israel / 2015

Eldar Yusopov was born in Uzbekistan 27 years ago, but during the birth process there were some complications and the doctors told his father to choose Who's going to live- Eldar or his mother. Rafael, Eldar's father chose his wife, Mira, to live, and Eldar was born dead. But against all the medical predictions he got back to life, born with Cerebral Palsy, and since then he does anything he can to make a stand and hear his voice out loud. He cannot speak or hold a cup in his hands, but he writes scripts with one finger and act the main character as if he was Brad Pitt. But his parents don't allow him to live by himself and in his journey for independence he has to prove - to himself and to his family, that he can be a normal guy like anyone else around him. This is a story of decisiveness and self-belief, and of a great desire to speak out love, when one can hardly move or speak at all.

O entrevistador

Length: 12'
Director: Genevieve Clay-Smith
Australia / 2012

Thomas Howell gets more than he's bargained for in a job interviewer at a prestigious law firm; an insult about his tie, a rendition of Harry Potter, and the chance to change the lives of a father and son. This experimental ficcion film brings a dancer performance in a thrilling cenary, a room which ceiling is about to fall. Dreamlike allegory about human strength and determination to overcome obstacles, even when they seem to be insurmountable.

Alenka

Length: 17'
Director: Jan Pavur
Slovakia / 2014

Hard-working Milan meets charming Saša. They are getting closer and closer, but Milan can’t hide keep hiding everything anymore. His need for love and understanding gives him courage to invite Saša to his place one evening. She meets his daughter, a teenager with Down syndrome that fullfils his life with mixed feelings. Milan holds the weight of the world on his shoulders as he has to make difficult decisions.

Marina não vai à praia

Duração: 17'
Diretor: Cássio Pereira dos Santos
Brasil / 2014

A group of teenagers from the countryside is about to make a trip to the coast. Marina, a girl with Down’s Syndrome, wants to know the sea. When she is not allowed to join the group, she seeks for other means of making her dream come true.

Outro olhar

Length: 28'
Director: Renata Sette
Brasil / 2014

In Santa Maria, a city in the country side of Rio Grande do Sul, Renata Basso is a teenager girl who lives a regular life. Renata has Down’s Syndrome, as thousands of brazilian in school years. The film shows how the attitude of people around her, including the school´s institucional stance, influences her relationship with her surrounding and with the community as well.