Topic: Down Syndrome

Direction Travis Fine

Cast Alan Cumming · Garret Dillahunt · Isaac Leyva · Frances Fisher

Synopsis In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight a biased...

Direction Marcos Carnevale

Cast Norma Aleandro · Luis Luque · Leonor Manso · Peto Menahem

Synopsis "Anita" is the new film from director Marcos Carnevale. After the successful "Elsa & Fred" and "Touch the Sky", Marcos Carnevale back into the limelight with a sensitive film that tells the story of Anita, a girl who suffers from...

Direction Bernardo Moll Otto

Direction Jaco Van Dormael

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Pascal Duquenne · Miou-Miou · Sabrina Leurquin

Synopsis The Eighth Day tells the story of the friendship that develops between two men who meet by chance. Harry (Daniel Auteuil), a divorced businessman who feels alienated from his children, meets Georges (Pascal Duquenne), an institutionalised man with Down's syndrome,...

Direction Maite Alberdi

Cast Ana María Rodriguez · Ricardo Urzúa · Andrés Martínez · Rita Guzmán

Synopsis Anita, Rita, Ricardo and Andrés have been attending a school for children with Down syndrome for 40 years. After all this time, they are starting to tire of this safe, familiar environment. Now over 45 years old, some of them...

Direction Javier Fesser

Cast Javier Gutiérrez · Jesús Vidal · Daniel Freire · Athenea Mata

Synopsis A story about a Spanish basket League coach with emotional disabilities sentenced to training a basketball team whose players have a range of learning disabilities.

Direction Matías Venables

Cast Amparo Noguera · Claudia Di Girolamo · Sergio Hernández · Mario Horton

Synopsis TV Series (2022). 8 Episodes. When the police discover a man with Down syndrome hiding at a crime scene, they launch an investigation to determine whether he's a witness or a suspect.

Direction Jean-Marc Vallée

Cast Vanessa Paradis · Kevin Parent · Hélène Florent · Evelyne Brochu

Synopsis A love story about people separated by time and place but connected in profound and mysterious ways. Atmospheric, fantastical, tragic and hopeful, the film chronicles the parallel fates of Jacqueline, a young mother with a disabled son in 1960s Paris,...

Direction Álvaro Pastor · Antonio Naharro

Cast Lola Dueñas · Pablo Pineda · Isabel García Lorca · Pedro Álvarez-Ossorio

Synopsis Daniel (Pablo Pineda), a young 34-year-old from Seville, is the first European man with Down syndrome to have earned a university diploma. He starts his working life with the public administration where he meets Laura (Lola Dueñas), a workmate with...

Direction Tyler Nilson · Mike Schwartz

Cast Zack Gottsagen · Shia LaBeouf · Dakota Johnson · John Hawkes

Synopsis Zak, a young man with Down syndrome, runs away from the nursing home where he lives to pursue his dream of becoming a professional wrestler and attending a wrestling school. Through circumstances beyond their control, a small-time outlaw also on...

Direction Anne Zohra Berrached

Cast Julia Jentsch · Bjarne Mädel · Johanna Gastdorf · Emilia Pieske

Synopsis Centered on the dilemma faced by a woman who is already six months pregnant when she learns that her unborn child will have Down's syndrome as well as a serious heart defect. Should she be able to choose the option...

Direction Chelo Loureiro

Synopsis Valentina is fed up of her Down´s syndrome, convinced that it prevents her from making her dream true: becoming a trapeze artist. But a magical journey will reveal to her all that she is capable of doing.

Direction Francisco Josè Fernandez

Cast Giancarlo Giannini · Chiara de Bonis · Giuliana de Sio · Riccardo Garrone

Synopsis Adult Down's syndrome sufferer Eugenio is reintroduced to a woman who spurned his love when they were schoolchildren together

Direction Xavier Bermúdez

Cast Marta Larralde · Guillem Jiménez · Gary Piquer · Jaime Vázquez

Synopsis León and Olvido are twin orphans. León suffers from Down’s syndrome. Olvido had to drop out of school and begin to work. What is more, her love life is not good at all. León wants to have her whole attention....

Direction Marcelo Galvão

Cast Ariel Goldenberg · Rita Pokk · Breno Viola · Lima Duarte

Synopsis Colegas (Buddies) is a road movie that shows the simple things in life in a poetic light through the eyes of three young people with Down syndrome, who love movies and work at the video library of the institution where...

Direction Javier Fesser

Cast Elisa Hipólito · Sergio Olmo · Brianeitor · Juan Margallo

Synopsis Our team of "champions" abandons basketball to enter by mistake the fascinating world of athletics under the guidance of a novice coach. Between the harsh demands of the new discipline and the coach's surprising ability to attract all kinds of...

Direction Gabriel Le Bomin

Cast Lambert Wilson · Isabelle Carré · Olivier Gourmet · Catherine Mouchet

Synopsis Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.

Direction Stefano Cipani

Cast Alessandro Gassman · Isabella Ragonese · Rossy de Palma · Francesco Gheghi

Direction Mick Jackson

Cast Dermot Mulroney · Gretchen Mol · Emily Watson · Krystal Hope Nausbaum

Synopsis The birth of a child should be the happiest moment in a couple's life. But when a doctor's wife has twins, one of whom has Down syndrome, this physician makes the difficult decision to send one of his babies away....

Direction Bobby Farrelly

Cast Woody Harrelson · Ernie Hudson · Cheech Marin · Matt Cook

Synopsis It centros on a basketball team training and competing in the Special Olympics under the guidance of an imperfect but dedicated coach Marcus.