Movies: Autism

An experimental short film about sensory seeking behaviour in childhood. Filmed on VHS....

A wind strike, a splash of water and an accomplice look. Will they be enough to change the life of a child?...

A young boy overcomes challenges set before him in pursuit of his love for creating art....

An animated documentary short made by people with autism....

Guang is a story about two brothers. The elder brother, Wen Guang is autistic. Wen Guang is often misunderstood. Above all, he lives with attention deficiency disorder, struggles with social interaction, and has difficulty performing day to day oblig...

Leif, a man with a mysterious fear of the ocean and suppressed memories of bullying, confronts his former tormenter at a middle school reunion to uncover the truth, find peace and maybe understand what happened in his past...

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Upon learning of his father's terminal illness diagnosis, a young, autistic, hearing-impaired artist travels back to Taiwan with a filmmaker to make a film in his honour....

Star of BBC Scotland's Up For It! and BBC Radio Scotland, Ashley Storrie returns to the Fringe with a raw and hysterical show about mental health and the ways she uses humour to overcome her pain....

'Who I Am' follows a transgender teen who is also autistic. Research shows that people who are neurodivergent are more likely to be trans or gender diverse, but little is known about why. The story is told through observational moments, intimate refl...

I don’t know how to describe my sister. So instead of conveying with words, I decided to point a camera. The documentary 'Chizuru' was directed by Masakazu Akasaki of Rikkyo University's Department of Body Expression and Cinematic Arts in the School ...

Impossible Decision follows a dying man who realizes there's no one to take care of his autistic son after he's gone. The story revolves around a decision he believes is his son's only chance to survive without him. Unfortunately the decision causes ...

Ramiro has been diagnosed with autism. He loves order, his music, his sheets, the rhythm of the day, and the color of his room. His mother, Aurora, who has cared for him for years, will not reveal the reason why she has decided to move her son to her...

This documentary follows three people with autism at pivotal moments on the rocky road to being accepted as an adult. They are all fighting for independence and responsibility, but being frustrated by the shackles imposed on them by their disability,...

Disjunctive fabric or network that collides, by means of re-appropriated or stolen resources, liberated archives that disrupt structures of power and institutions. Psychiatry and universities explode in an accelerated disruptive essay of archiving ...

When filmmaker Yoshifumi Tsubota learns about his slightly autistic uncle who lives alone, he decides to visit him. Drawn to his uncle’s unique personality, he begins to roll his camera as he visits him over the years. Tsubota himself had been diagno...

Aldo has always felt like a being from another planet, stranded on Earth. His autism and long struggle to speak fluently alienated him from others. Now, he searches for meaning in the esoteric and for connection with people like himself....

A documentary about autism and Albion House....

A man attempts to operate a mysterious device, but with each attempt comes a new set of problems....

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