In her feature directorial debut, Charlotte Glynn moves home to chronicle the last year of school for her sister, Rachel. Rachel has a developmental disability. Rachel is mysterious, funny, difficult and full of contradictions. Without the skills to comfortably inhabit adult life, and with limited services to help her develop them, Rachel and her family don’t know what she will do when she finishes school. Yet what Rachel longs for most is what most people her age want – greater independence – a seemingly impossible dream that is taking its toll on her family relationships.

Rachel Is moves past the safety of political correctness and into the most intimate and honest moments in one family's life as a sibling searches to understand how her sister with a disability sees the world and how the world sees her.

This film is being screened with:
The Other Child

director: Charlotte Glynn