Directed by Shaina Allen
USA, 65 minutes, Documentary In English with Open Captions

The Rebound follows the underdog journey of the Miami Heat Wheels wheelchair basketball team in their quest for a national championship. Despite the team’s dwindling financial resources, these motivated athletes, each with their own emotional and physical challenges, rally toward the title while striving to accomplish their own life goals off the court.

Discussion to follow with athletes from a local wheelchair basketball team

Free admission

Directed by Alex Lehmann
USA, 82 minutes, Documentary In English with Open Captions

Asperger’s Are Us is “the first comedy troupe consisting of openly autistic people.” In this documentary, produced by Jay and Mark Duplass, four friends from the North Shore of Boston prepare for their final, ambitious comedy show before going their separate ways. The film details each member’s experience through their last journey together.

Discussion to follow with director Alex Lehmann and members of the comedy troupe

Co-presented with Bright Lights Series

Free admission

Directed by Juan Rayos
Spain, 82 minutes, Documentary In Spanish with English Open Captions and Audio Description

An astonishing journey as seen through the eyes of 26-year-old Sergio Aznárez Rosado, who was born both blind and with autism, yet lives a life packed with adventure. Over the course of 30 days, Sergio embarks on a 1,300-kilometer tandem bike ride with his brother, Juan Manuel, who pilots the bicycle. Together, they traverse desert and high mountains, starting in Cuenca in central Spain and finishing in one of the most remote villages in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains.

Co-presented with Waypoint Adventure

Free admission, Tickets available at the door

Directed by Michael Gitlin
USA, 84 minutes, Documentary In English with Open Captions

This film follows a community of painters, sculptors, musicians, and writers who create art at the Living Museum, an art space on the grounds of a large state-run psychiatric facility in Queens, NY. Shot over the course of two years and structured across the arc of a day, the film observes with an intimate lens and unspools like a musical, both bracing and tender. It explores the liberation and healing that creativity can offer those drawn together by shared struggle, creating a more humane and holistic approach to mental illness, and to the joy of transforming society itself.

Discussion to follow with artists from Gateway Arts

Co-presented with Gateway Arts

Free admission, Tickets available at the door

Directed by Yonatan Nir
Israel, 77 minutes, Documentary In Hebrew with English Open Captions

A group of young Israelis with Down syndrome and their siblings embark on a demanding trip through the Indian Himalayas, where the conflicts and the complexities of the their relationships come to the surface. Set against the richly colorful backdrop of India, new bonds are forged, and familial ties become deep friendships. From the director of Dolphin Boy.

Discussion to follow

Co-presented with The Boston Jewish Film Festival

Pre-registration strongly advised at Boston JCC

Free admission

Directed by James Spinney and Peter Middleton
UK, 90 minutes, Documentary In English with Open Captions and Audio Description

In 1983, after many decades of deterioration, writer and theologian John Hull became totally blind. To help him make sense of the upheaval in his life, he documented his experiences on audio cassette. Expanding upon the Emmy Award- winning short film of the same name, actors lip-sync to the voices of the family. The result is a poetic and intimate story of loss, rebirth, and transformation.

Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

Skype Q&A to follow with directors James Spinney and Peter Middleton

Screening with Still Running, Directed by Wayne de Lange & Sven Harding
USA, 5 minutes, Documentary In English with Open Captions and Audio Description

Tickets $12 each, available online or at the Brattle Theatre box office

Co-presented with The DocYard

Directed by Charlotte Glynn
USA, 67 minutes, Documentary In English with Open Captions

Rachel is mysterious, funny, difficult, and ready to move out of her mother’s house. Her mother, Jane, is just as ready, but Rachel has a developmental disability, and Jane is desperately seeking a solution as Rachel prepares to graduate high school. The relationship between mother and daughter is full of frustrations, as each wants independence from the other.

Selected for the PBS Documentary Reframed series.

Pre-screening reception: 6:00-6:30pm

Discussion to follow with director and film subject Charlotte Glynn, and Susan Senator, author of Autism Adulthood: Strategies and Insights for a Fulfilling Life

Free admission

Directed by Luke Terrell
USA, 72 minutes, Documentary In English with Open Captions

Gabe Weil is a 27-year-old who was born with the most severe form of muscular dystrophy, but that does not stop him from earning a college degree, going on road trips with friends, or indulging his passion for great food. For his entire life, Gabe has been told he would be lucky to live past 25. The news that he was misdiagnosed, and might live well into his 50s, presents a surprising obstacle: Gabe does not have any long-term goals, and is forced to rethink his life from scratch.

Pre-screening reception: 6:00-6:45pm

Discussion to follow with director Luke Terrell

Screening with Quest for the Cup, Directed by Andrew Mudge
USA, 10 minutes, Documentary In English with No Captions

Free admission