This Is Where I Sleep - Caroline
2013 · 5m · Canada
Directed by Annick De Vries, Ernest Godin, Eza Paventi
Genres: coming-of-age, documentary, sports
Tones: contemplative, tender
In France, blind schoolgirl Caroline navigates daily life independently with her guide dog Flash, competes in adapted sports, and hopes to reach the Paralympic Games.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Everyone expects a disability doc to be inspirational uplift, so of course this one just… lets Caroline be a kid with a dog and ambitions, no violin strings attached—which somehow makes it weirder and more honest than the consensus play.
The film sits comfortably in the observational documentary tradition, with the restraint of filmmakers who understand that Caroline's own agency is the through-line; formally modest but precisely calibrated.
The decision to keep Flash—the guide dog—in nearly every frame transforms what could've been another athlete-overcomes-odds story into something about partnership and presence; it's a small formal choice that completely reframes the narrative.