Movies: Deaf

The profound impact of technology on the lives and identities of young deaf adults is explored in The Listening Project. Fourteen deaf people tell stories beginning with a childhood wide-eyed about sound, into the growing pains of adolescence and, ev...

Maggie Yearwood moves to a new town to be near her son, Peter, who has gone deaf as the result of an accident and is now attending a special school. She moves into a small house next door to Owen Whister and soon falls in love with the cowboy, who ha...

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

Did you sleep well? For how long? Have you had breakfast today? What did you have? Now ask a Deaf person that....

WHAT? is a black and white, silent (and signing) comedy about a struggling deaf actor, sick of agreeing to increasingly humiliating tasks just to get a role, who decides to take matters into his own hands....

Meet Mark. A daydreamer who has lived with hearing loss for his whole life. As his condition deteriorates, Mark must listen to his past and face the present, in order to move forward with his life. Sometimes loss doesn't mean lost. At a routine check...

95 Decibels explores the emotional obstacles parents face when they get an unexpected diagnosis of hearing loss for their child....

A deaf boy is captivated by a red-haired girl reading a book in a park. He decides to use LIS (Italian Sign Language) to initiate an alternative way of approaching her. The short was born from a directing exercise focused on trying to tell a story wi...

"Diverse Disability" is a fictional short film that takes us into the lives of various deaf and blind characters, facing various challenges in a world that often excludes them. Set in Guatemala, the film addresses sensitive issues such as sexuality, ...

A series of three short films exploring the intersection of opera and American Sign Language, starring some of today’s most acclaimed Deaf and signing performers. Created by Up Until Now Collective....

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....

Sign The Show: Deaf Culture, Access and Entertainment is a feature-length documentary providing insight into Deaf culture and the quest for access to entertainment. It brings together entertainers, the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HOH) community, and Am...

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...

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...

A cop who became deaf as the result of a fight tries to break up a drug ring run by bikers....

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

Filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky aims her camera at her own life to capture the remarkable transformation of her deaf parents, who decided to undergo a life-changing procedure to restore their hearing after spending 65 years in silence. Chronicling her...

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...

Frida, a deaf girl, shows us La Casa del Sordo through her eyes and hands: a space where deafness ceases to be a barrier and becomes the identity of an entire community....

Growing up as a Deaf individual in Indonesia, Mufi was taught to speak instead of sign. As an adult, now she carves her music career to inspire others to express themselves through sign language....