Beyond Limits: Into the ADHD Mind: Rising Above Failure vs Ella

Beyond Limits: Into the ADHD Mind: Rising Above Failure is the shorter watch at 56m compared with 1h 26m. Ella is the older of the two (2016 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Beyond Limits: Into the ADHD Mind: Rising Above Failure posterBeyond Limits: Into the ADHD Mind: Rising Above Failure2025 VS Ella posterElla2016
Beyond Limits: Into the ADHD Mind: Rising Above FailureElla
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 0.0/10
Year20252016
Length56m1h 26m
GenresAdventure, DocumentaryDocumentary
CountryUnited Kingdom–
DirectorRyan LovejoyDouglas Watkin
Main cast–Ella Havelka

Synopsis

Beyond Limits: Into the ADHD Mind: Rising Above Failure

Recently diagnosed with ADHD, Simon Blair confronts self-doubt and past failures in the grueling Marathon des Sables. As the desert tests his mind and body, can he turn his diagnosis into an advantage or will it hold him back?

Ella

Ella Havelka made history in 2013 by becoming the first Indigenous dancer at the 50-year-old Australian Ballet. In this engaging, MIFF Premiere Fund-supported world premiere, Ella – a descendant of the Wiradjuri people – charts her inspiring journey from growing up in modest circumstances as the only child of a single mother in rural Australia to gaining entry to National Ballet School, then spending formative years with the acclaimed Bangarra…

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