About this Short Film
Good Neighbours (The Hub - Susan, Halie & Christina, Australia, 2025) is a short film that explores connection, creativity and community among adults with intellectual disability through music and group interaction. The filmmakers create moments of warmth, humour and quiet reflection, favouring observational scenes over exposition. It does not prescribe a single narrative, but instead offers glimpses of shared experience and everyday cooperation. Presented as part of the Focus on Ability International Short Film Festival, the film complements a program devoted to celebrating ability, achievement and diverse forms of expression. Accessible and respectful, Good Neighbours invites audiences to listen, watch and appreciate the talents on display.
Film Details
Film Transcript
Neighbours. Everybody needs good neighbours. Just a friendly wave each morning helps to make a better day.
Neighbours need to get to know each other. Next door is only a footp. Understand? You can perfect.
Can I please have the bowl of sugar, please? There might be some complaint from next door. Please don't pull the sugar.
Good neighbours become good friends. Maybe time's broken. Yeah. How long has it been broken for? Long time. Three years. Four years actually. All right. Four years. Okay. I may turn it on.
Everybody needs the neighbour with a little understanding. You can find the perfect way to look for one another. That's when good neighbours become good friends. But justice.
Filmmaker
The Hub - Susan, Halie & Christina is the filmmaker behind this entry. See every Focus on Ability entry from The Hub - Susan, Halie & Christina.
