Rothwell speaks volumes with this glorious film, winner of the Audience Award in the World Cinema Documentary category at Sundance 2020. The striking scenes impress, open the eyes and often coincide with the words of Naoki's book. These are young people who experience reality in different ways and who have learned to express themselves, with the help of friends and family. With his documentary of the same name, award-winning filmmaker Jerry Rothwell uses the power of cinema and the insights drawn from the book to provide intimate portraits of five remarkable non-speaking autistic young people from various parts of the world. In 2007, the 13-year-old Japanese boy Naoki Higashida wrote the bestseller ‘The Reason I Jump’, in which he gave extraordinary insight into his experience as a non-speaking child with autism.
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