Movies: Deaf

Middle aged sisters Mimi and Martha still live together. In fact, Martha still cooks, cleans and oversees Mimi’s life, afraid that her deaf sister cannot cope on her own. Mimi, in turn, hides behind a veneer of make-up and wigs to avoid confronting...

Dress rehearsal for the annual show runs smoothly until a disgruntled deaf girl named Meghan storms into the cafe pursued by her frustrated and furious hearing father, Jim. Meghan has just learned that, instead of spending time with her similarly dea...

In the middle of what would have otherwise been a banal evening, everything Céleste has been trying to hide comes to light....

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Deaf artist Seo Hye Lee gives new subtitles to a selection of archive films about pottery, ones which playfully examine the disparity between how people with different levels of hearing experience art....

In an isolated deaf community, cracks begin to appear in Matt’s seemingly idyllic world when the arrival of enigmatic outsider Eva forces him to question the realities of his identity. Is Matt prepared to discover what lies beneath the surface of his...

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Unseen footage from the British Deaf Association archives is used to tell the story of the Deaf community's fight for civil rights....

Jill and Michael Stark are both deaf, as are their two children. Stuck between two cultures and wanting the best future for their children, they make the controversial choice for both of their children to undergo surgery for cochlear implants. They a...

Marta and her deaf younger sister Noemí live together with their grandfather on an Argentine farm in the 1960s. One day, Noemí finds a strange figure made of branches and when she touches it, she becomes possessed. The situation becomes more terrifyi...

In this animation integrating Deaf symbols and motifs, Hana, a deaf child, has exceptional artistic talent but struggles with an overwhelming soundscape. Hana represents a collection of deaf people’s childhood stories....

Alma, a beautiful girl who didn’t get the chance to hear how chaos the world is since she was born. Her mother then bought a hearing device for Alma hoping she would love the idea of sound. She got it wrong. It wasn’t just that she couldn’t hear, she...

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The story of Olga, a young deaf woman from Central America, receives what appears to be a scholarship to a faith-based sign language school located in Brooklyn, New York....

A deaf girl visits her partner in prison. During visiting hours, physical contact is forbidden, but they can see through one another just by touching each other's hands. Their hands conceal an intimate secret... something that, despite their pure and...

When a young, deaf schoolgirl is bullied and left to take the long walk home alone, she realizes that she's being followed and a frantic game of cat and mouse begins. (ALTER)...

Follows the trials of Yoosuf, a deaf man from rural origins as he falls in love and begins a life with a city girl....

With honesty, humour and heart, Deafinition presents the first-hand narrative of Paul and his experiences being deaf. From the physical day-to-day, social interactions, the intricacies of communication and language, the frustrations and challenges w...

A thought-provoking dystopian short film, “ERASED” follows a woman trapped in a world under constant surveillance, where silence is LAW and even the smallest act of resistance could COST her everything....

Luan, a deaf 16-year-old boy, faces an unusual fear. For a long time the boy comes guarding their anguish, born of a past trauma. But the time is coming to confront the unconditional fear that this aberration brings it: a fear that, contrary to what ...