Independent Films, Documentary, Social & Corporate Responsibility
We're Normally Different
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Dionne, Fran, Bertus and Maurits are actors with a mental disability. In the documentary We’re normally different you get taken away into their recognizable, but also surprising emotional life. You’ll discover a world where boundaries between play and reality are fading and dreams and desires take central stage. Told in beautiful images, this is a warm, poetic and touching film that deeply penetrates the existence of people with a mental disability.
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Language: English
Year of production: 2006
Length: 01:07
Country: Netherlands
Directors:
Susanne Engels
Producers:
Joost Seelen
Film Festivals:
IDFA, Amsterdam
Birds-eye-view, London
Human Rights Filmfest, New Zealand
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Film reviews for We're Normally Different
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docfan
"I know what I want." These are the words of a self-assured woman, who happens to have learning difficulties. She wants to fall in love, get married and have children, just like other people, but at the same time, she is painfully aware of how impossible some of her dreams and desires are. In We're Normally Different, four actors with learning difficulties express their emotions. In the face of their daily routine - doing laundry, making phone calls, shaving, withdrawing money, vacuuming to music and eating a herring at the local fishmonger - their lives appear just as normal as they are different. One wants to be a cameraman, and learn to read and write, another wants to take public transportation and a third is looking for a boyfriend.
With an incredible intimacy and exquisite cinematography, director Susanne Engels transports the viewer into their recognizable, but also surprising emotional life and allows an insider's perspective on a community often viewed from a discreet distance. In We're Normally Different, she has created a warm, poetic and touching documentary that penetrates a world in which boundaries between play and reality are fading and dreams and desires take centre stage.
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francesco
Exquisite people make exquisite films.
Genuine and fun, can move your heart and for sure teach everybody a lesson of life.
We all have a lot to learn from this film, a lot more than we can imagine.
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