Dans une institution spécialisée, une professeur de musique, en désaccord avec les méthodes du médecin, s'attache à un enfant attardé mental.

Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.

Documentary film and home movie about Dwight Core, Jr., a boy with Down syndrome. The footage was originally shot throughout the 1960s and 1970s by Core's father, Dwight Core, Sr. The footage was later discovered and completed by the filmmaker's grandson, George Ingmire

Jeannot has Down’s Syndrome. Living in a claustrophobic suburban setting, he is treated like a child by his parents and denied any responsibilities of his own. Things change when a young woman named Pauline is hired to take care of Jeannot, and his world opens up beyond the restrictive one imposed upon him.

Bob and Joanna, both over 40 years old, have a baby with the Down syndrome. Their doctor advises them to give the child away, not to "waste their time" with a kid with a mental deficiency. But the parents decide to keep their son, to allow him a life with dignity and to support him as best as possible. And their devotion bears fruit...

A woman attempts to stop her daughter signing away her down syndrome grandson for adoption. Based on a true story.

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ at the village church. After experiencing an "acoustic wonder", his eye color changes and he can hear even the most subtle sounds.

Harry, homme d'affaires surmené, comble à coups de mimiques et d'admonestations le vide effrayant d'une vie désertée par la femme qu'il aimait et qui est partie en emmenant leurs deux fillettes. Un jour, Harry croise le chemin d'un jeune trisomique, Georges, qui a fui l'institut spécialisé où il vivait. Harry n'a tout d'abord qu'une idée: se débarrasser au plus tôt de l'encombrant personnage, qui réclame à tue-tête des chaussures neuves dans les magasins et qui risque la mort s'il mange du chocolat. Peu à peu, pourtant, dans l'âme desséchée d'Harry, se glisse une affection pour l'être simple et bon qui s'est accroché à ses basques et l'appelle «mon copain»... Double prix d'interprétation masculine du Festival de Cannes 1996 pour Daniel Auteuil et Pascal Duquenne

jefftowne is a 1998 documentary shot and directed by Daniel Kraus and distributed by Troma Entertainment. It chronicles the life of Jeff Towne, a 40 year old Iowa City resident who suffers from Downs Syndrome, obesity, alcoholism, and circulation problems. Towne also enjoys pornography and lives with his 90-year-old adoptive grandmother.

Another film about Martina Schaub, now thirty years old.

A gentle tale of love told in halting words. A film about healing after profound loss. John and Michael pays homage to two men with Down's syndrome who shared an intimate and profoundly loving relationship that deeply affected the filmmaker. Animated with clay backlit on glass, the film shimmers like stained glass in motion. Narrator Brian Davis, also intellectually challenged, brings the men alive with great sensitivity. The audience shares in the various emotions that infuse their everyday living. John and Michael, by its artistry, rises above society's traditional ideas around disability, sexuality and death. When the heart is touched, differences melt. Love is what defines humanity.

The story of two kids, Kaew and Tong who catch a bus to Bangkok while escaping a rowdy boy who tries to bully Tong. The two innocent kids heading to the big city without knowing what they'll have to face in the future. When they step out from the bus, the adventure is about to begin.

A young man journeys through a bizarre land inhabited by mentally impaired people, demons, and snails.

This documentary gives a look without prejudice into Down syndrome, exposing families and individuals with Down syndrome. Parents discloses their experiences from the moment the doctors tell them that their babies have Down syndrome and how they supersede their initial rejection by the feeling of the motherhood and parenthood. But the most important, the director and writer shows how the patients with Down syndrome may succeed in their lives, dancing, practicing sports, reading and even loving and getting married.

Documentary about the enigmatic and experimental music group "Reynols", his lead singer and leader who was down syndrome and the peculiarity of having a discography published in the most dissimilar corners of the planet.

The story of Dwight Core, Jr. and his family, following up the events of the home documentary "Think of Me First as a Person", shot decades ago by his father Dwight Core, Sr. and portraying the love a boy with Down syndrome shares with his four sisters, but also a heartache common to the era's disabled: leaving home for an institution. The little boy, Dwight Core, Jr., grew into a tall, 48-year-old man who enjoyed coloring and watching television in the living room of the Ocean View section of Norfolk, Virginia home he shared with one of his sisters, Cindy Klingler. In 2007, filmmaker Roger M. Richards brought the story of Dwight Core, Jr. to the present, documenting him as a grown man and the continuing love and devotion of his sisters to their brother.

Lena, a teenager with Downs Syndrome, is fascinated by sex and all the mystery that surrounds it - fertility, desire, and the mechanics of childbirth. When she steals a sex book from a mobile library, her mother forces her to take it back in an embarrassing family spectacle that only strengthens her daughter's rebellious and irrepressible desire.

En plein hiver 1964, en compagnie d'une infirmière Caroline Gil, le docteur David Henry aide sa femme Nora à mettre leurs jumeaux au monde. D'abord c'est un garçon baptisé Paul, puis une fille Phoebe. Il constate immédiatement que sa fille est trisomique. Il décide alors de la confier à l'infirmière pour qu'elle la place dans une institution spécialisée, en lui expliquant que ce syndrome ne lui donne pas une longue espérance de vie. L'infirmière, une fois arrivée là-bas avec le bébé, voit la triste situation d'autres patients atteints de la même maladie chromosomique et, écœurée, décide d'élever elle-même l'enfant… David Henry présente le petit garçon à sa femme toute heureuse et, peu de temps après, lui fait croire que leur fille est morte…