Disability Movies

Deaf artist Seo Hye Lee gives new subtitles to a selection of archive films about pottery, ones which playfully examine the disparity between how...

Metzer 58 play Punk. They were founded in a meet-up at Lebenshilfe Münster, an NGO that provides housing and other services to people with...

Kat, a wheelchair user, navigates a city where access is improvised and progress remains uneven. Para-Paraan (Finding a Way Through) turns silence...

A film on SFSU Master’s student Bob Lenz, who would go on to serve as director of Disabled Student Services at Merced College, and his...

Art, activism and disability are the starting point for what unfolds as a funny and intimate portrait of five surprising individuals. Director Bonnie...

Symbolic story about a person with a congenital disability who immersed himself in a paper world of ideas

A portrait of the dancer Hanna Väätäinen, a friend of the artist, experiences her body after her hand was paralysed in childhood...

"Daisy's Final Goodbye" is an evocative animated tale based on a true story. It chronicles the heart-wrenching journey of Steven, a PTSD-afflicted...

Mary Lou Breslin, co-founder of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2009 Community Leadership...

The life story of Daniel Balimá, a horticulturist with a disability in Burkina Faso.

A knitted figure sits in a wheelchair, unable to resist as birds and squirrels peck at it.

BEING MICHELLE follows the astounding journey of a deaf and disabled woman who survived incarceration under unimaginable circumstances by a system...

This documentary chronicles the inspirational story of a man who would not accept "no" for an answer. Born with cerebral palsy, Cordell Brown faced...

Farhad, a well-known Iranian photographer, was born with a rare genetic disorder known as Treacher Collins syndrome (TCS), which affects the...

In a town where everyone has a handicap a person without a handicap might move into a house.

How do you find your place in an ableist world as a person with a disability? Disabled Hugo Schmidt talks to the almost 90 year old Franz-Josef...

Merlin, a 15-year-old student, has lost all feeling in his legs after an accident. He wonders blindly through life, never happy, never content. It's...

On the verge of losing the last thread of sight he has left, Adam tries to process his loss.