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Set in a hospital, this four-minute clip brings us into the lives of patients, their families and healthcare workers. It shows a short description hovering near each person, saying what he or she is feeling or going through. In this way, it makes the invisible, visible.

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This is a sharing by a doctor in Singapore who went through a transformation after he was diagnosed with cancer.  He shares with such honesty, the material life he lived and how, after cancer, he became more compassionate.

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    Set in a Polish state aid office in 1966, Urzad is a five minute documentary film by director Krystof Kieslowski and a short and evocative reminder of just how bureaucracy may be used for political ends.               
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Kieslowski's short 1980 film documentary 'Talking Heads', made for Polish state TV, takes people from all backgrounds and all ages (from one to one hundred years old) and simply asks them two things:
Who are you?
What do you want?

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This is a very sentimental movie that you can see through three strong  women persperctives, in different moments of time. It's my favorite.

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The British Council and Sasol’s Definitely Able conference and ILHAM art exhibition took place at the Museum of Islamic Art on March 17 2015 under the patronage of Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Chairperson of Qatar Museums.

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This 25 minute film was created by a young teenager who has disabilities. Reuben uses a communication device to be understood. In this film he interviews many people who speak various languages. Reuben shows how communication is a universal issue and not a disability related issue.

 

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A young man wheeled around the streets of an average small town in New England. He shows the condition of the sidewalks and why it is often necessary for people who use wheelchairs to wheel on the roads rather than on seemingly perfectly good sidewalks.

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A young man wheeled through a downtown shopping area to evaluate wheelchair accessibility in this small New England town. What he found is no different from what most people who use wheelchairs deal with in their own towns and cities.

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