Handicapped from birth, Ines Racheg miraculously survived thanks to her willingness and dedication of her parents. Self-taught, she finded in the painting a way to overcome her handicaps. Enrolled in an art club, she benefits from the care of her teachers who have all subsequently detected her talent. The portrait of this exceptional artist made known to the magical world of her paintings, while referring to the particular circumstances of his experiences.Shooted between Tunis and Sfax where Ines was born, this film tells a constant struggle for survival and self-assertion.
Attention à la marche! De la tête aux pieds - PULSATIONS TV - June 2011.
We are in a medical institut, young people study to make wall. With these learning, they study to be, to emancipate.
Florence and Jean-Philippe are about to get married; both are heavily handicapped and fully dependent. How can they fulfill their relationship and sexuality in the special establishment that hosts them? This film raises questions about togetherness and closeness, the right to intimacy for the physically and psychically weak, the professionals’ educational mission and the families’ part and responsibility. Questions to fuel debates and bring about more questions, in order to change and improve the quality of life of disabled people.
Manu and Erol, the kings of Belgian wheelchair-football promised each other to lead their team, the MEC, up to the French 1st Division. Erol died. The film follows Manu in his challenge, captures the intimacy of severely disabled athletes although almost like others: primarily competitive. It draws a nuanced portrait Manu, not really a hero but well a captain, determined to fight against wind, tides and his myopathy to lead his ship to port.
Twelve youth go across Lapland. An extreme adventure and a social laboratory: some are "normal", of stable schooling and families; others socially maladjusted, in foster care; four are disabled or Down syndrome youth. They drill the ice for water and fishing, cook on a wood fire. They live in community. It is the dream of the project founder: the opening up of individuals. A year later, we discover how their world vision has changed.
Brazzaville and Kinshasa are the two closest capitals in the world. A social agreement was found between the two countries, allowing the disabled people to go from one city to another, and trade, with an advantageous discount on customs and taxes. They are now almost five hundred doing so.
I met Philippine, a young girl with Down’s syndrome, and together we made this film
How do you cope with being told your child has a handicap? The news hits you like a tidal wave. All your dreams shatter in the face of this tragedy that takes over your life. But very quickly, to stay alive, these feelings give way to others. ABOUT THE FILM: This documentary gives the subjective viewpoint of the director, who was hit head-on by the difficulties of her child and then "patched up" a life for herself in order to make their day-to-day existence as happy as possible.
Viva holiday time" is the story of six disabled adult
holidaymakers travelling to Italy together.In August 2004, they left Besançon by minibus, supervised by two group leaders, with the desire to see pigeons and the sea, to step out of their everyday surroundings into the unknown and meet new people. This film is their summer road movie, the story of their pains and their joys. Six holidaymakers, all unique, all different.
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