Keyword Visual Impairment

An ambitious young man struggles to achieve his dream of becoming an employee in a Munich luxury hotel despite being strongly visually impaired.

May 2021: The world sees a way out of the coronavirus pandemic. Manuele Bertoli takes over as President of the Ticino cantonal government and enters his last term of office with a great deal of optimism. But things don't turn out as he had hoped.

Denise, Dilma and Teresinha are three women with visual impairment who live in Teresina. Each one with a type of impairment, they share their experiences, challenges and hopes as women who feel the world beyond what their eyes can see.

After school, high school student Sanghyun heads to his blind friend Jeongwoo’s house. When Sanghyun arrives, Jeongwoo asks him what scene from the movie is showing on TV. Sanghyun nonchalantly responds, “They are just standing.” The world that is natural for Sanghyun is no longer natural for visually impaired Jeongwoo. Sanghyun starts making notes for Jeongwoo who says his past is like a dream. On the last page, one can finally understand the two human beings.

At sixty-six years old, Venezuelan Sonia Soberats lives alone in a modest New York apartment. A trauma in the past –the death of her two children– left her completely blind, and today she dedicates herself to blind photography, a particular discipline that finds new expressive forms by exploring and experimenting with what is conventionally taken for a disadvantage. A creative process that reflects different life experiences, returning in 35mm mental images informed by touch, smell and hearing, which encapsulate another way of being in a world saturated with images. A member of the Seeing With Photography collective, Sonia is dedicated to seeing beyond sight, and teaching others to do so. This is the remarkable story of his life and work