Based on the bestselling book by Naoki Higashida, written when he was just 13, this acute documentary threads the revelatory descriptions of his autism through intimate portraits of five remarkable young people in different countries. Using colours, kinetic lights and immersive sound, it opens a window into an intense and overwhelming, but often joyful, sensory universe and enables us to see the world through their eyes. Naoki’s core message is plain: not being able to speak does not mean there is nothing to say.

Audience Award, Sundance Film Festival 2020

Best Documentary & Best Sound, British Independent Film Awards 2021

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Jerry Rothwell