Christy Brownt még saját szülei is gyógyíthatatlannak, mozgássérültnek és gyengeelméjűnek tartják. Egy szép napon azonban a családnak rá kell döbbennie, hogy Christy nemcsak ért, érez, de gondolkodik és iszonyú elszántsággal küzd szerettei elismeréséért. Segítségükkel emberfeletti harcot vív azért, hogy teljes értékű embernek tarthassák.
A rebellious young woman with cerebral palsy leaves India to study in New York. On her journey of self-discovery, she unexpectedly falls in love.
Az Oasis egy fiatal, különc, társadalmilag kirekesztett férfi, és egy súlyosan fogyatékos lány története.
Mateusz egy fiatal fiú, aki 26 éve tolószékben él, és nem tud kommunikálni senkivel, mert agyi sérülése miatt a beszédre képtelen. Egy orvos ki is mondja róla az ítéletet: nem érdemes foglalkozni vele, mert nem több ő, mint egy növény. Ám Mateusz belül mindent átél. Ugyanolyan érzelmei vagy indulatai vannak, mint bárkinek. Nem adja fel a küzdelmet, próbál kommunikálni a környezetével, és be akarja bizonyítani, hogy ő nem egy növény, hanem nagyon is - ember.
Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah-jong parlour. Lately the customers have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby carriage through the streets. They say she is carrying something for a crime syndicate, and they wonder what it is she has in the carriage Money? Drugs? One day, the owner of the mah-jong parlour sends Tsuneo out to walk his dog. A baby carriage comes rolling down a hill and crashes into a guard rail. The old lady asks him to look into the carriage, where he finds a young woman clutching a knife. This is how Tsuneo first meets the girl who calls herself Josee.
A bright and determined teen who has mild cerebral palsy strives to be a wrestler on his high school's team and to win over the heart of a classmate, the girl of his dreams.
María's routine at school is altered by the arrival of a very special child. Soon, they become close friends.
Nehéz hátrányosabb helyzetű embert elképzelni, mint Bill Porter (William H. Macy), akit születése óta nyomoréknak bélyegeztek meg. Bill Porter azonban testi hibái ellenére, anyja (Helen Mirren) bátorításának köszönhetően házaló ügynöknek áll és elvállalja a legutálatosabb környéket, amit minden ügynök kerül. A kezdeti ellenállás után a lakók lassan megszeretik, Bill és tisztítószerei az életük részévé válik. Az üzlet annyira beindul, hogy hamarosan felvesz egy asszisztenst. Shelley (Kyra Sedgwick) tökéletes partnernek bizonyul, a technikai fejlődés azonban nem kedvez a házaló ügynököknek.
Paul, a man suffering from cerebral palsy, lives an unfulfilled life in a nursing home. Sitting in his wheelchair, he fantasizes about a life in which people understand him, women find him irresistible, and he is be a force to be reckoned with. He places this imagined self in four different sexual fantasies, each with a different woman.
A fiatal Travis egy düledező bérelt lakásban lakik Sydney-ben, ami hozzájárul a társadalmi elszigetelődéséhez és a benne egyre jobban halmozódó feszültséghez. Amikor a férfi elveszíti gondnoki munkáját, Travis egy kocsmában köt ki, ahol a lesújtó szarkazmusával megvédi a fellépő, kezdő stand-up komédiás Sunnyt egy szexista kötözködőtől. Mikey, a pub tulajdonosa és Sunny erőszakos barátja felbérli Travist, hogy segítsen a félénk Sunny tréningelésében, hogy visszatérjen a színpadra.
A single father tries to raise his daughter, who has cerebral palsy, even as she is beginning to wake up to her sexuality.
The Way of Saint James, northern Spain, 2016. Two brothers, Oliver, the eldest, and Juan Luis, the youngest, a disabled person in a wheelchair, face the hardest challenge they have found so far on their long road of dirt, stones, rain and cold. Everyone says they will not make it, but, fortunately, they are not alone.
Ian was born with cerebral palsy. All he wants is to make friends, although it seems impossible to achieve when discrimination and bullying keep him away from his beloved playground. However, this young boy is determined and won't give up easily. The emotional animated short film shares a story about a boy with a disability called IAN. Ian's mother created IAN foundation to fight against the lack of information and knowledge that often lead people with disabilities to be bullied and isolated. The short Ian rises from the need and goal of this foundation to reach every home with an inclusion message. Sheila, Ian's Foundation founder and works to make society understand that when talking about inclusion there is no time to waste. This award-winning film was written and produced by Gastón Gorali and Oscar winner Juan José Campanella's Buenos Aires-based animation studio took home the top prize at LA Shorts International Film Festival and several major international awards.
Yu Xiuhua was raised to hope for little from her life in the rural Chinese province of Hubei. At 19, Xiuhua’s mother encouraged her to marry a man nearly twice her age, fearful no one else would accept a wife with Xiuhua’s condition — cerebral palsy. But as her 20th anniversary approaches, Xiuhua’s poetry goes viral, and she becomes the voice of a rising feminist movement throughout China.
Blake, a keménykezű és keményfejű elítélt váratlan lehetőséget kap: az új reformprogram keretében büntetését - néhány társával együtt - a rokkantak intézetében töltheti le. Feladatuk: gondoskodni a magatehetetlen ápoltakról - a biztonság kedvéért a tolószékhez bilincselve. Az öntörvényű Blake akkor is a maga feje után megy, mikor felcsillan előtte a szökés reménye...
Mona Bergström is a sweet eurovision-obsessed woman in her 30s. She is married to a lazy husband and has four children, all named after her favorite Swedish Eurovision popstars. Her brother is a crossdressing guy self-titled "Candy Darling". Mona works in a retirement home for disabled people, where she is responsible for taking care of a young man named David who suffers a movement-restricting disease forcing him into a wheelchair. David's parents have abandoned him, as they wanted a normal child. Mona holds a big place in David's heart, and vica versa. David's goal is to get his parents to come and visit him, and he wants to show them that he is a great person, despite his handicap. Therefore he works with music on his computer, and his goal is to create a song, send it to "The Cardigans", a famous Swedish band and have them play the song and credit him, hoping his parents would spot it and want to visit him.
A teenager with cerebral palsy attempts to become pen pals with her idol, Elvis Presley.
Kuma is an author, a sex obsessive and a wheelchair user. Beautiful and volatile Ryoko is unlike anybody he’s ever met before. She barrages into one of his lectures, demanding to know why he only talks of sex, not love, before declaring her own affection. It’s the first of many inappropriate acts by Ryoko and the start of a relationship that is by turns sweet, strange and toxic. Ryoko hopes that she and Kuma’s love can change the world. What she fails to realise is that sometimes it’s the small gestures, not the grand ones, that feel most revolutionary.
Based on a true story about about a man who was told for many years that he was not employable, but threw all of his effort into working as a door-to-door salesman. Despite the pain attributed to his cerebral palsy, he walked eight to ten miles a day to meet his customers and achieved the highest sales for his company.