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So Far So Near

Slovakia, 2014, 80 minutes, Color; Slovakian; Turkish subtitled


Director:  Jaro Vojtek

Screenplay: Jaro Vojtek, Marek Leščák
Cinematography: Noro Hudec
Editing: Peter Harum
Music: Michal Nejtek
Production: AH production, Andreas, RTVS

When the father of Andrej with autism asked for special facilities for children with this developmental learning disability to be built in Slovakia, they told him to built himself. So he did. For seven years, Slovak director Jaro Vojtek filmed the efforts, and those of other parents learning to live their own children on various levels of the autism spectrum.