
Naoki Higashida’s deeply personal account of living with the silence of autism from a non-verbal person’s perspective was a publishing sensation. Now Higashida and four other young people with autism spectrum disorder share their accounts of living with the condition in Jerry Rothwell’s critically acclaimed documentary. The film serves as a vital supplement to the book and won both an audience award and Special Jury Prize at Sundance.
This film contains a sequence of flashing lights which might affect customers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
- Year2020
- Runtime82 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited Kingdom, United States
- PremiereNational premiere
- DirectorJerry Rothwell
- ProducerJeremy Dear, Stevie Lee, Al Morrow
- EditorDavid Charap
- Sound DesignNick Ryan
- MusicNainita Desai

Naoki Higashida’s deeply personal account of living with the silence of autism from a non-verbal person’s perspective was a publishing sensation. Now Higashida and four other young people with autism spectrum disorder share their accounts of living with the condition in Jerry Rothwell’s critically acclaimed documentary. The film serves as a vital supplement to the book and won both an audience award and Special Jury Prize at Sundance.
This film contains a sequence of flashing lights which might affect customers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
- Year2020
- Runtime82 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited Kingdom, United States
- PremiereNational premiere
- DirectorJerry Rothwell
- ProducerJeremy Dear, Stevie Lee, Al Morrow
- EditorDavid Charap
- Sound DesignNick Ryan
- MusicNainita Desai