About this Short Film
See Me Not My Disability, by John Makhuwira (Malawi, 2022), is a concise, powerful short included in the Focus on Ability programme. While keeping its specifics purposely spare, the film speaks to achievement and the everyday realities faced by adults with physical disability. Viewers will recognise themes of employment, business and individual resilience, and encounter perspectives shaped by lived experience without sensationalism. As part of our festival, this work invites audiences to pay attention to ability rather than assumptions, and to consider how communities and workplaces can open up meaningful opportunities. A thoughtful piece that complements the festival’s focus on possibility and inclusion.
Film Details
Film Transcript
Here is the school of literature. Being a man has never been easy for Leecher. This 45 aged man has to wake up every morning to craft some mood so that he can feed his wife and his five children.
Richard provides for other people alone by working hard every day. His family rely on him so that they can eat, they can go to school and do all other things that need money.
Richard likes feeling the fascination of music and he likes playing guitar when he is free. Richard proves that all people are equal despite their disabilities. His family are used to his condition and they don't see any problem with that. Disability is not inability — let people see my abilities, not my physical condition. Sadly.
Filmmaker
John Makhuwira is the filmmaker behind this entry. See every Focus on Ability entry from John Makhuwira.
Nice
So impressive
Very nice and inspiring
This is so encouraging and very educative to the masses
Very nice firm