Movies: Blindness and impaired vision

It all starts with a bang. The car breaks through the crash barrier and falls off the bridge. The lights go out. After that, he is not able to see anymore. His optic nerve is severed, from now on the young stage-director Jakob is blind. His life will...

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness....

Blind and deaf sisters, Anna and Beth, live happily in a secluded small town with Father....

Eleven time Fiddler of the Year and even a Grammy nominee, but that's just part of the story. Though born with disabilities that left him blind and partially deaf, Michael Cleveland is considered by many to be the greatest fiddler of all time....

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Turning to alcoholism following his wife's death, a deaf painter is very confused when he finds her alive two years later....

Nathan Quinell is a fully trained chef… he also happens to be legally deaf and blind. That’s never stopped him from chasing his dreams to become a full-time cook, but now Nathan must prove himself to his peers, his students and potential employers....

Six blind people around the world are given a camera and asked to take photos of whatever they like....

Rosie Wong, a blind woman, shares a retrospective account about the three lives which shaped her life. Taking inspiration from ‘The Giving Tree’, her life is significantly changed by a kind stranger, Pak Cik Tubi Moh Salleh, who helped her get to work...

Filmmaker Rodney Evans embarks on a scientific and artistic journey, questioning how his loss of vision might impact his creative future. Through illuminating portraits of three artists: a photographer (John Dugdale), a dancer (Kayla Hamilton), and a...

A family suffers greatly during the First World War....

A documentary short celebrating the life of Louis Braille, his invention of the writing system named after him, and the legacy he has left behind....

Girls in my Hometown, released in 1991, is a melodrama dealing with individualism and sacrifice. A young girl has a friend who has just come back from abroad, bringing with her foreign fashions and foreign ideas. When the solider to whom the friend w...

A kid dreams of being a photographer despite his blindness and his father's disapproval....

A brief glimpse through the life of Granny Lue. A woman of faith, fearlessness, and fierce energy, she never allowed her disability to determine her ability to live....

What’s it like to live with vision loss, knowing that someday soon you’ll never be able to see the faces of those you love again? This film is a survey of the lives of people living with visual impairments who have either already gone completely blin...

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A poetic portrait of a blind father with a bright perspective on life, who is strongly determined to deliver his message to the world....

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Nura is determined to live her life to the full, despite a future without her eyesight....