Projects in genres: Disabilities

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Deen Peels needs sleep, but the world just won't shut up. Over one relentless night, he’s determined to take back control - even if it kills him.

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Mr X has been in state care most of his life. He builds extraordinary structures out of found objects. As he prepares to leave hospital, his objects become space vehicles to travel across society’s boundaries. He builds for us a vision of his new life. Official Selection Women X Film Festival 2025

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In an isolated deaf community, Matt's idyllic world cracks when Eva arrives, making him question his identity and the costs of maintaining his supposedly utopian society. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 Official Selection Zurich Film Festival 2025

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The true life story of John Davidson. Diagnosed with Tourette's at 15, Johnson was targeted as insane by his peers, as he struggled with a condition few had witnessed. Campaigning for Tourette's as an adult, he was awarded an MBE in 2019 by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his pioneering advocacy. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2026

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A young woman's psyche is haunted and fractured by the relentless demands of the predatory industry she sought to break into. Set against the backdrop of a female actor returning to the casting room, a psychological short film about the mental experience of dissociation. Through a surrealist lens, the film explores themes of performance, identity, gendered power, and a destructive nature of ambition.

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Lewis, a young, dishevelled, unsuspecting man finds himself in a cacophony of trouble, as a local gang leader, Frankie takes advantage of his need for connection and sets up shop in his flat. At its core, this film is a gritty, cinematic look into the manipulative world of cuckooing and what happens when you underestimate someone's abilities to make their own choices. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025

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An experimental feature film that dives into the murky waters of memory. The filmmaker's daughter Eden, dressed as Dorothy, walks a path of recollection but she does not walk alone. On her journey she is accompanied by workers from a factory that produces memory. Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

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A grandson sets out to reconnect with his Nigerian grandmother as her sense of time and clarity begins to slip away.

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A group of facilitators, apprentices, volunteers, people living with dementia, and their supporters gather in a community hall. Together, they revisit memories of food, discovering how the past can affect the present.

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A tender short documentary on friendship and motherhood in Liverpool 8, where over one in six families are headed by a single parent. Through letter-writing, conversations and retrospective walks, director Amber Akaunu delves into her childhood, as the daughter of a single mother, contextualising the experiences of single mothers today. These intergenerational stories are connected by the community found in corner shops, places of worship, neighbours, community centres, family and friends.

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CRYBABY is a deeply personal animated short by Welsh filmmaker Eleri Edwards, created through Ffilm Cymru’s Beacons scheme and produced by Biggerhouse Film, a company dedicated to amplifying marginalised voices. Drawing on her own experiences of late-diagnosed autism, Edwards crafts an intimate portrait of self-discovery, memory, and the struggle against internalised negativity. The film follows Carys, a 24-year-old woman packing boxes as she prepares to leave her parents’ house. What begins as a simple act of moving soon dissolves into an otherworldly landscape where she is overwhelmed by endless boxes and the haunting weight of her past. Lurking in the shadows is Carys’s internal voice, brought to life as an angry, chaotic scrawl of pencil scribbles - an embodiment of self-doubt and internalised stigma. As she sorts through the fragments of her childhood, memories of early school days and teenage sleepovers resurface, revealing the pain of exclusion and misunderstanding that shaped her. The 2D animation shifts fluidly between reality and imagination, capturing the turbulence of Carys’ inner world. CRYBABY is both a personal reckoning and a universal story - an exploration of autism, mental health, and the fight to silence the critic within.

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An unflinching portrait of four bare-knuckle fighters, including a devoted father fighting for his family’s future while haunted by his past. Set between the chaos of the cage and the quiet of home, it explores masculinity, survival, and the cost of breaking the cycle you were born into.