Backlighting

A brief glimpse through the life of Granny Lue. A woman of faith, fearlessness, and fierce energy, she never allowed her disability to determine her...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make...

México-raised and currently Chicago-based artist Sofía Fernández Díaz details her process of adorning found objects and...

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard...

Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller out of solitude and helps integrate her into the world.

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her young son, who has inherited the same genetic...

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and...

A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during...

Lee, a soccer player who descends into depression when he goes blind, is encouraged to take up the game again by a maverick American and the...

After losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.

Guided by a queer deity, a closeted man is forced to confront his parents as he tries to regain his lost sense of identity.