The movie

The Reason I Jump
In 2007, the 13-year-old Japanese boy Naoki Higashida wrote the bestseller ‘The Reason I Jump’, in which he gave extraordinary insight into his experience as a non-speaking child with autism.
Description
‘“Life-changing” is the kind of hyperbolic descriptor thrown around all too easily in the world of publishing, but it could quite reasonably be applied to Naoki Higashida’s nonfiction bestseller… Translating that perspective-shifting achievement to the screen is a tall order, but Jerry Rothwell’s documentary… does so with imagination and grace: Not so much a direct adaptation of Higashida’s book as an application of its insights… it finds supple visual and sonic language to bring sensory dimension to [the ASD] experience.’—Guy Lodge, Variety