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Is There Anybody Out There? (2023)

Nov 17, 2023 Documentary 1h 27m
55%
User Score
7.2/10
88%

Overview

While navigating daily discrimination, a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches the world for another person like her, and explores what it takes to love oneself fiercely despite the pervasiveness of ableism.

Ella Glendining
Director

Top Billed Cast

Ella Glendining
Ella Glendining

Self

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Media

On release 17 November
On release 17 November
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Ella Glendining and Jack Thorne talk about Glendining's film Is There Anybody Out There? | BFI Q&A
Ella Glendining and Jack Thorne talk about Glendining's film Is There Anybody Out There? | BFI Q&A
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Official Festival Trailer [Subtitled]
Official Festival Trailer [Subtitled]
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A review by CinemaSerf
Written on February 3, 2024

Ella Gledining presents us here with an emotionally charged documentary that follows her search for people with a similar disability to herself. She has a rare bone disorder which essentially means that she has bones missing from her legs. Aside from some fairly tortuous surgery when she would have been young, followed by some prosthetics, she was destined to remain smaller but otherwise just as intellectually capable, vibrant and ambitious as anyone else. We follow her determination to have a family (with the sparingly featured Scott) and then her own quest to use the internet to find others with whom she can share experiences, chat and perhaps bond. Glendining is an engaging lady who seems very much from the glass half full school of philosophy. Even when clearly exhausted - mentally and...

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