A Normal Life

The Kingdom

November 1994 •Danish

Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", a number of characters, staff and patients alike, encounter bizarre phenomena, both human and supernatural.

The Peanut Butter Falcon

August 2019 •English

A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

April 2008 •English

During a blizzard in 1964, Dr. David Henry delivers his son Paul with the help of nurse Caroline. But when Henry realizes his wife is also carrying a girl with Down syndrome, he hands the second child over to Caroline without his wife's knowledge. Henry's fateful decision yields grave consequences for his family over the next 20 years.

Valentina

December 2021 •Spanish

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.

A Costume for Nicolas

September 2021 •Spanish

After losing his mother, a boy with Down syndrome takes his trunk of magical costumes to live with his grandparents in this animated tale.

Brother of Sleep

September 1995 •German

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.

Born for You

October 2023 •Italian

Alba has Down's Syndrome and was left in the hospital when she was born. Thirty families rejected her before the court decided to entrust her to Luca: a Catholic — and gay — single man.

No Child of Mine

October 1993 •English

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

The Eighth Day

May 1996 •French

Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife or his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from the institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him, whose mother is dead. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person.

S.A.M.

March 2020 •English

Two young men form a connection on the swings of their local park.

The Surrogate

July 2021 •English

Jess is thrilled to be the surrogate for her best friend and his husband, but when a prenatal test comes back, it creates a moral dilemma that threatens their friendship.

Be My Baby

June 2014 •German

Be My Baby "tells the story of Nicole, a confident young woman with Down syndrome who wants to have a boyfriend, get married, have a baby, and just be normal, grew up with neighborhood boy Nick, and as children, they've planned Nick is 15 and wants to be cool, but he is an outsider and constantly under pressure to satisfy everyone, Nicole si of all people, makes him special and gives him what he secretly desires : unconditional love and affection Nicole 's direct and honest nature contrasts with her environment in which all deny their true feelings and become entangled in their "quite normal" abysses.When Nicole expects Nick to have a baby, the openness and tolerance of Families put to the test - a race against sterilization, abortion and deadlocked views and the right to self-determination - a young woman with Down-Sy ndrom.

Touched By Grace

November 2014 •English

The Senior Prank is family drama about a group of popular teenagers who wage a fake campaign to elect a girl with Down Syndrome as the schools Homecoming Queen. Inspired by real bullying events witnessed by real teenagers in their local high schools.

Twisted Nerve

December 1968 •English

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.

What Is It?

January 2005 •English

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

Mr. Blue Sky

November 2007 •English

An unconventional love triangle between three childhood buddies; two girls, one born with Down syndrome, and one boy, who all grow up fighting who they are inside, how they are perceived by society as a whole, and who they ultimately strive to become as individuals through the obstacles that are inherently present.

Any Day Now

December 2012 •English

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 the legal system to adopt the child.

Yolk

February 2007 •English

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.

Prax

March 2014 •Spanish

Café de Flore

November 2011 •French

Jacqueline is a young mother living in 1960s Paris with her disabled son Laurent. Abandoned by her husband, Jacqueline sacrifices everything to care for her son and vows to give Laurent a “normal” life full of happiness. Antoine, is a successful DJ in present day Montreal who seems to have it all: a thriving career, two beautiful daughters, partner Rose, with whom he is passionately in love. However, nothing is perfect and Antoine’s ex-wife Carole remains devastated by their recent separation.