Rivkah Beth Medow’s Holding Moses is a short documentary about the mother of a disabled child, but it is unfortunately another film that prioritizes the experiences of a parent or caregiver rather than the experiences of the disabled child themselves. The film spends too much of its time focusing on what the parent has lost in caring for their child, too much time on the parent learning to love their child, too much time on what the parent has had to overcome… so that by the end of the film it paints them as a saintly model of parenthood for all to follow. This portrait of disability also sanitizes the child’s disability so that he becomes a caricature of the sweet, disabled, angelic child. It’s an insensitive, self-serving short documentary.