Film

The Reason I Jump

Director
Jerry Rothwell
Certificate
12A
Running Time
82 mins

An adaptation of Naoki Higashida’s non-fiction book of the same title exploring the experience of living as a “non-speaking person within the autistic spectrum disorder.”

Director Jerry Rothwell‘s immersive documentary follows the daily lives of an artistic Indian girl named Amrit, a British teenager named Joss, American best friends Ben and Emma, and Jestina from Sierra Leone.

By robin askew, Monday, Jun 14 2021

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  • Documentary

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