About this Short Film
Samuel Barkley’s The Power of Motivation (Australia, 2025) appears in the Focus on Ability International Short Film Festival. The film explores themes around accident and brain injury, the realities of physical disability and wheelchair use, and questions of motivation, goals and independence in young adulthood. It also acknowledges connections to farming life and the presence of intellectual disability, offering a respectful and human view of individual experience. As part of the festival, this short sits alongside films that highlight the abilities, experiences and achievements of people with disability, inviting audiences to reflect and reconsider their assumptions.
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