Disability Movies

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

The independent documentary is about people with disabilities who struggle with a lack of work and purpose and who are trying out something new....

"Scores for Carolyn" (2019) is a short video of instructional scores for care with two or more people that intentionally blurs the roles of care...

How do you explain what you don’t know? That is the question I try to answer in the film: Wired Wrong. Here, I narrate the feeling of being...

"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...

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

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...

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

While indoors alone, a disabled woman reflects on a recurring social phenomenon she encounters when outside. The implications regarding self...

A deafblind Danish woman travels to Nepal to meet a woman with the same condition in the hopes of communicating and engaging in a cultural exchange....

A blind ex-hustler and a fast-talking disabled con man team up to find the culprit responsible for their welfare checks being stolen.

The true story of Bill Sackter's emergence from lifelong institutionalization, to become an international hero for people with disabilities.

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

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

Short documentary on the Cambodian Handicraft Association which trains and supports women who have been affected by polio, landmine injuries,...

A hairdresser's hard-of-hearing hearing aids begin to malfunction...

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...