Pier Presents: Unauthorised Absence film screening at Patch Bournemouth

Pier has teamed up with Patch Bournemouth to put on a film screening of the powerful and important film Unauthorised Absence in Dorset - spotlighting the very real experience of parents supporting their neurodiverse children in a system not designed for them.

About the film

Unauthorised Absence is a 15 minute narrative short film born from lived experience and shaped by the testimonies of hundreds of families who are being harmed by the very institutions intended to support them.

At its centre is a mother placed under intolerable pressure by an education system that repeatedly mistakes her daughter’s distress for defiance. Our aim is to spotlight the real, human experiences that live behind headlines and statistics about attendance or education reform: the sensory distress of a child, the exhaustion of a parent, and the gradual erosion of a family under constant scrutiny.

At a time when media attention and public discourse is focused on data, statistics and labels, this film from Mimesic is designed to evoke empathy and understanding for the real families, and the real stories, behind the headlines.

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