Autism Movies

For the past 20 years, the world has seen an alarming decrease in IQ and a rise of autism and behavioral disorders. This international scientific...

This Business Of Autism is an expository documentary film about the economic and societal benefits of employing young adults with autism. The film...

What constitutes a “disadvantaged youth”? Man Hang did have noble and lofty goals for his life after graduation, but they were quickly...

Paddy McGuinness and his wife Christine have three children who have been diagnosed with autism. In this documentary, they meet other parents,...

When filmmaker Yoshifumi Tsubota learns about his slightly autistic uncle who lives alone, he decides to visit him. Drawn to his uncle’s unique...

From fragments of the daily life of an autistic boy and his father (the director of the short film), a declaration of filial love is constructed and...

A fragmented documentary portrait of Sammy, an adult with undiagnosed autism growing up in Jersey. Through cut-up interviews, island landscapes and...

A Supply Teacher returns to his old college to teach, but after bonding with an autistic student, he soon finds, the college isn't how it used to be.

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

Autism by Salamtak, an awareness-evoking short cinema on how to discover and deal with autism.

A family in eco-fever. The Schuhmann Weils are radical environmentalists and mother their 19-year-old son like a small child. One day, when a chunk...

A spoken word piece about an autistic person experiencing sensory overload in a world that rejects their existence.

Follows five autistic children as they work together to create and perform a live musical production.

Off a dirt road in rural Maine, a precocious 20-year-old woman named Michelle Smith lives with her mother Julie. Michelle is quirky and charming,...

Nearly 30 years-old, Hélène still looks like a teenager. She is the author of powerful texts with corrosive humor. It is part, as she...

One day we visited Mauricio, a young man who daily experiences the metamorphosis of autism.

Fantasy A, autistic Seattle rapper, suffers trials and tribulations from total creeps as he attempts to become a superstar. Along the way he also...

Chris Packham invites us inside his autistic world to find out what it is like being him.

The Tragedy of an Artist, is an experimental short shot over the course of a week. This film is meant to illustrate who Hero Foltz is as a person...