Film list, Friday 10.11.2023 & Saturday, 11.11.2023
No ordinary hero - The SuperDeafy movie (2013) 
Description:
SuperDeafy, a deaf actor who plays a superhero, must reveal the man behind the cape to find true love and inspire eight-year-old Jacob, a young deaf boy, to believe in himself. The movie follows the evolution of this unique hero. A beloved character and role model, SuperDeafy has a worldwide following. But as SuperDeafy seeks to redefine himself in the entertainment industry, he also influences Jacob to redefine what "being normal" means and to find the courage to stand up to a school bully. The cast includes: Oscar winner Marlee Matlin, Shoshannah Stern, Ryan Lane, and John Maucere. This film marks the first time in cinematic history that a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) commercial feature film was produced exclusively by deaf executive producers and directed by a deaf director.
Director:
Troy Kotsur
Feature Film
To my father (2023)
Description:
To My Father, is the story behind the speech that moved millions. Through American Sign Language (ASL),Troy narrates his courageous journey of achievement, drawing viewers into the world of the Deaf and presenting the challenges he faced to fit into the hearing world. The film explores his inspirational relationship with his dad who made it his mission to excel at ASL so he could be the best possible father to Troy. While growing up, Leonard Kotsur instilled a deep belief into Troy that he could achieve anything he set out to accomplish, and encouraged him to "follow his spark" and pursue his passion for acting. Tragically, Troy's father was struck by a drunk driver just before his high school graduation; however, the lessons Troy learned from his dad allowed him to turn the tragedy into triumph. To My Father, and Troy’s personal story, are truly inspiring and contain valuable lessons that can help each of us overcome the setbacks and challenges we all inevitably come to face in our lives.
Director:
Troy Kotsur
Feature Film
Du sollst hören (2022) 
Description:
Two-year-old Mila Ebert is deaf. An examination at the hospital reveals that her auditory nerve is developed - with the insertion of a cochlear implant and appropriate support, she would have the chance of a "normal" life. But Mila's parents, who are also deaf, refuse an operation. They do not perceive Mila's lack of hearing as an illness or disability. The hospital then calls in the Youth Welfare Office, and the case goes to court. Judge Jolanda Helbig must now decide whether Mila has a right to hear. But for her, the issue is complex and anything but clear from a legal point of view. And the more intensively she deals with the case, the more she is also caught up in her own past. A secret that not only puts her marriage at risk, but also threatens to throw her off track. It all revolves around fundamental questions: Do people have to adapt to society, or doesn’t our society have to adapt to its individuals? Who decides which way of life is more worth living? Is the state allowed to play a role in this – or does it even have to?
Director:
Petra K. Wagner
Feature Film
Tell her (2022) 
Description:
A deaf couple learns that it is not their inability to speak or hear that tears them apart. Deaf couple Miguel and Nat have been struggling to keep their marriage. After a huge fight, Miguel leaves his wife alone in Manila and decides to live in Baler with their kids. As he starts a new life, Miguel is reminded about the reasons why he married Nat by his family’s relentless stories about how modern a woman Nat is, and how he failed in so many ways to recognize that he fell in love with a younger deaf woman. One Christmas Eve, Miguel finally makes a move to tell Nat everything she needed to know.
Director:
REAL S. FLORIDO
Feature Film
Benny (2023) 
Description:
A portrait of Benny, Benedetta Zanetti, a Deaf actor & performer based in Glasgow, Scotland. In this short artistic, rehearsal-style documentary film, Benny tells us about her passion for acting and the impact it has had on her life.
Director:
Will Clark
Documentation
My Glow (2022)
Description:
A mature, Deaf, Muslim, British Sign Language (BSL) mother shares her pregnancy journey through the pandemic, and how she coped with limited communication with others such as the health service.
Director:
Sahera Khan
Documentation
The Silenced (2022) 
Description:
On April 5, 2021, Mediapart published an article about the mistreatment of deaf children at the deaf school in Asnières, the Gustave Baguer Institute just north of Paris. In fact, the mistreatment of deaf children in quite a few deaf schools and medico-social services has existed for many years. These six deaf people decided to break the silence and tell their stories…
Director:
Julien Bourges
Documentation
One Look (2022)
Description:
Music Video for Alexis Ffrench's 'One Look Reprise' is about a deaf woman interpreting the music she hears in her head into a combination of sign and dance.
Director:
Ted Evans
Documentation
Imaginings (2022) 
Description:
In Imaginings six young, deaf ‘signed word’ artists, present poems in sign language.
Director:
Anja Hiddinga
Documentation
What Did You Say?(2020) 
Description:
Pepa, a deaf guy, enjoys being among hearing people. But the access to information is not easy for him. Everyday misunderstandings happen, even during the communication with his hearing boyfriend, Jakub. Jakub tries to learn sign language, but his impatience doesn’t allow him to understand Pepa properly. How can both worlds be connected?
Director:
Jakub Volák
Documentation
Mur du Silence (2022) 
Description:
They live a bit on the margins of society. If it were only their hands that activate when they communicate with each other, we would not notice them. The signs betray them. Deaf from birth, they have learned sign language as best they can and it is only among themselves that they manage to express themselves, understand each other, learn or entertain themselves. They have dreams. They have trials. They have a life. They are just like us. The world of the Deaf is unknown, because there is little contact between them and the world of hearing. To cross this "wall of silence", we suggest you listen to them and, above all, hear them.
Director:
Denise Bouchard
Documentation
My father, A man of engagement (2022)
Description:
Audrey Sangla is one of the pioneers of the movement for deaf rights in France. Like many deaf people of his generation, after growing up in an oral environment, he belatedly became aware of the value of his deaf identity, his culture and his language, sign language. His actions have helped to give the community visibility in society and a better future. Today, his daughter Audrey takes the camera to share the legacy he passed on to her. Deaf too, she lives in a different world from the one in which he was built. So, by drawing a portrait of her father, both intimate and professional, she bears witness to the impact of his struggles on the place of the deaf today.
Director:
Audrey Sangla
Documentation
Elevated (2022)
Description:
Effective communication is a challenge every climber faces. It’s a sport that requires intense focus, dedication, and overcoming fear. For Deaf climber Sonya Wilson, communication and community is of vital importance. Elevated is a non-verbal film sharing Sonya’s experience as a Deaf woman and outdoor advocate working to bridge the gap between the Deaf community and the outdoor industry, one crag at a time.
Director:
Palmer Morse
Documentation
Deaf art in Action (2019) 
Description:
Filmed during the Clin d'Oeil 2019 Festival, attended by more than 8,000 Deaf people from all over the world, this short documentary film features twelve Deaf artists from nine countries sharing their vision of Deaf art.
Director:
Emilio Ferreiro-Lago
Documentation
Millstone (2023)
Director:
Peter Hoffman Kimball
Cast:
A Twisty Emotional Thriller In The Spirit Of Black Mirror. Featuring An Entirely Deaf Cast And Shot Exclusively In American Sign Language, This Is The Story Of A Married Couple Who - After Having Tragically Lost A Child - Seeks Out A New, Experimental Therapy. Their Grief Is Consuming Them, Destroying Their Marriage, And Driving A Wedge Between Them And The Rest Of Society. They Have Found The Only Therapist Who Might Be Able To Help Them - But His Process Could Be Worse Than Anyone Imagined.
Short Film
House (2022) 
Description:
In 2022, two close friends arrived at the HOUSE to meet their lifelong friends for a weekend getaway. The HOUSE has several backgrounds of sign languages, including Belgian Dutch (VGT), Italian (LIS), Finnish (FinSSL), German (DGS), Danish (DTS), French (LSF), and Spanish (LSE). We "understood" each other, but our plans for the trip completely changed when one of us won the lottery. This short film portrays Director Roy's life experience with his Deafness through a dark mystery plot, with delightful multilingual conversations in sign language and no sounds.
Director:
Roy Michael Maguire
Short Film
Romeo and Juliet (2022) 
Description:
Romeo and Juliet is an adaptation in Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) of Shakespeare's classic, with a hybrid and poetic visual aesthetic. During the Verona's Carnival, we follow the love of young Romeo and Juliet in a reality of hate and exploitation of violence by the media.
Director:
Adriana Somacal
Short Film
Silent Brainwash - The Interrogation (2019)
Description:
„Silent Brainwash - The Interrogation“ is a surreal thriller in wich a split personality tries to find the truth from his memory gaps - but is cursed under his own ego. A confused asian man is being held in an interrogation room. Suddenly an inspector appears, he is looking for a person who is said to have murdered a person. The asian man has only three minutes to answer his questions. Will the truth come to light? A race against time begins. The story was produced by a group of deaf people from Munich, who made this short film in International Sign.
Director:
Dominik Nimar
Short Film
19:24 (2023)
Description:
Justine is French, Karl is Danish. Both deaf in their forties, they have been in a long-distance love relationship for two years. When they are not traveling to meet each other, they keep in touch using modern technology. "19:24" is a short film inspired by these technologies by presenting the exchanges between the two protagonists as they appear on a smartphone. This cinematographic form unfolds a conversation and its history through the notifications that appear on the screen. Karl must soon join Justine in France for a weekend organized by friends. One evening, at 19:24, he sends her a video message to say that he won't be coming after all and that he needs to think things over. A conversation ensues to try to clarify the situation which reveals, through the interactions, the toxic dynamics that is creeping into the intimacy of this couple.
Director:
Audrey Sangla, Aurélien Mancino
Short Film
The Last Words (2022)
Description:
A hitman coaches a target on the ASL translation of his last words.
Director:
Charlie Ainsworth
Short Film
Hamburger Airplane (2020)
Description:
A dramedy about a Deaf loner in his lake-condo as he takes on the challenge of grilling up the perfect hamburger and confronting his traumatic past, all while befriending a trophy deer.
Director:
Charlie Ainsworth
Short Film
Mute (2021) 
Description:
Most young deaf children in Kyrgyzstan study in specialized schools. In these schools, children have limited professions that they can learn: a seamstress, a cook, a plumber, an electrician. As a result, deaf children are subject to migration. But due to the fact that deaf children speak only Russian sign language, the only country of migration is Russia, where they are enslaved. Our young couple of deaf lovers, like everyone else, are trying to leave for Russia.
Director:
Omurbek Nurdinov
Short Film
A citizenship signed Bébian (2021) 
Description:
Baccalaureate in hand, a young deaf person wishes to study to become a journalist, he cannot yet imagine the difficulties he will encounter. On his way, he meets a deaf trainer who will help him a lot, not in his professional path, but telling him the life of a very important person for the deaf community.
Director:
Iléana Pansiot-Villon
Documentation
Interpretation (2023)
Description:
It’s the first day of classes, and an ASL interpreter realizes that it will be a painful semester interpreting for a myopic professor and a smart-ass student.
Director:
MJ Kiego
Documentation
Raising CODAs (2022)
Description:
Documentation
Director:
MJ Kiego
Cast:
It’s The First Day Of Classes, And An ASL Interpreter Realizes That It Will Be A Painful Semester Interpreting For A Myopic Professor And A Smart-ass Student.
Documentation
Father tongue (2021) 
Description:
A non-functional relationship between Dror (10) a deaf child and Moshik, his father who struggles to accept his deafness. Moshik insists on integrating Dror in a school for hearing children, where Dror experiences bullying. He first sees his son’s distress after Dror attacks the class bully and is expelled. Now the two have to communicate to find solutions.
Director:
Ivgeny Gashinsky
Short Film
Diagnonsense (2022)
Description:
Diagnonsense is a drama set in 1996 at a psychiatric hospital where Deaf Social Worker Louise meets Patrick, a Deaf patient who has been kept there for 36 years and wrongly diagnosed as schizophrenic by Dr. Nicholson. Louise has to fight discriminatory attitudes to get an institutionalised Patrick to appeal against his diagnosis to get him released but he has to recall his painful memories of the events that led to his incarceration.
Director:
Samuel Dore
Short Film
To know him (2018)
Description:
When a tragic accident leaves Sarah grieving for her deaf partner Rob, she is forced to track down and engage with his estranged hearing father. To lay the man she loves to rest, Sarah must overcome a barrier far greater than language.
Director:
Ted Evans
Short Film
Silently, in me… (2022) 
Description:
Nanda, a hearing and speech-impaired clay artist from a village in South India, lives in a world of beautiful silence. Soon, she experiences her first pangs of love but is wracked by her insecurities.
Director:
Anup Narayanan
Short Film
The Creation of a Skeleton (2023) 
Description:
A deaf Ukrainian came to Romania during the war between Russia and Ukraine. The Ukrainian refugees are tired of being asked about the war, of telling what the war is, what life means in the midst of death. They are just sad. This film is a story about a moment in the life of a deaf orphaned by his country, about his unwanted journey. A deaf person stopped in Oradea. He always thinks about his parents and his friends left in the war and those already gone to the other side in a gloomy story. It is the unbelievable story of a young deaf person who does not hear information, voices or the sound of bombs and bullets. The film is in sign language. The characters are real and deaf.
Director:
Remus Ilisie
Short Film
La Maynade (2021)
Description:
Sarah does not know her parents. One day, a message tells her that her father, Marc, has disappeared in the Pyrenees. She decides to go to Gérard, Marc's best friend, at "La Maynade" to find out more about his parents…
Director:
Julien Bourges
Short Film
Flirting (With Possibilities) (2021)
Description:
Harley, a Deaf man, is determined to figure out the most effective way to flirt with the cute hearing guy he sees in the coffee shop, which requires a bit of trial and error. As he stumbles through each attempt, "Flirting, with Possibilities" provides a glimpse of how it feels to communicate primarily via American Sign Language in a predominantly hearing, speaking, and English-using world.
Director:
Garrett Zuercher
Short Film
Chocolat Viennois (2022)
Description:
Gabrielle, a deaf young adult raised in an oralist family, feels like she is missing out on her life. His unexpected meeting with Avril, a deaf signer and proud of it, upsets his way of seeing things.
Director:
Elie Vilmin
Short Film
4 Deaf Yorkshiremen and a Wedding (2022)
Description:
Comedy about four grumpy deaf Yorkshiremen. Angus’s daughter announces she’s getting married. But has she chosen the right man?
Director:
Louis Neethling
Short Film
Monsieur Michel (2019)
Description:
Taken from a true story and set in France, the film is the story of a temporary substitute nurse’s in-home experience with a retired patient and her discovery that he is the victim of a terrible misjustice.
Director:
Julien Bourges
Short Film
captain deaf (2022) 
Description:
Ten years after the world war IV, a deaf boy finds a watch that can control the movement of people and…
Director:
Erfan Vahidi
Short Film
Andi macht's (2023) 
Description:
Andi presents his new navigation app in sign language with his low-budget team in front of the camera. Conflict arises between Andi and the production manager right from the first shots. It remains uncertain whether Andi can endure his problems until the end.
Director:
Christoph Kopal
Short Film
Give me a sign (2022)
Description:
A mute woman tries to order a drink at the bar but without success and has an unexpected encounter.
Director:
Pierre Vincenzo Marcantonio
Short Film
Anamnesis (2023)
Description:
Hearing murderer encounters a Deaf clerk who reminds him of his daughter.
Director:
Kiyotoshi Sato
Short Film
BURBLE (2019)
Description:
A short film about how a modern couple tries the ancient remedy for foul language from children. DISCLAIMER: do not try it at home.
Director:
Megan Malzkuhn
Short Film
Alfredo Corrado (2023)
Description:
Julien Bourges partly retraces the life of Alfredo Corrado, an American deaf artist. Today, considered an important figure in the French deaf community, Alfredo Corrrado came to Paris in the late 1970s, at a time when sign language was forbidden and scorned. This unique documentary on Alfredo Corrado recounts the creation of International Visual Theater (IVT) and the adventures of the first deaf theater in France at the Château de Vincennes, which changed the history of deaf people in France.
Director:
Julien Bourges
Documentation
Pas le choix (2022)
Description:
Hugo is a cabaret drag artist at "Chez Titi". With his sister Victoria, his faithful friend Matt, and all the regulars of the famous cabaret at hand, Hugo takes to the stage for his latest number. Afterwards, when he is found murdered in his dressing room, Matt seems to be the obvious culprit... but is he? "No Choice" is both a murder mystery and a bilingual psychological thriller which addresses the themes of guilt, falsehood, and identity, performed in French Sign Language (LSF) and French
Director:
Hrysto
Feature Film
A Hand Telling (2021)
Description:
CHANGER: A HAND TELLING is an innovative Deaf-centric and Native-centric filmed performance with Deaf Native storytellers performing the Coast Salish myth of CHANGER in Native and artistic sign language and the next evolution of an original play by Fern Naomi Renville (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate) and Roger Fernandes (Lower Elwha S’Klallam, Makah). Helmed by Deaf director Howie Seago, CODA film maker Kyle Seago and Native film maker Raven Two Feathers, CHANGER: A HAND TELLING is a cinematic take on Coast Salish origin stories. Filmed on the traditional lands of the Lower Elwha s’Klallam Tribe, the 75-minute narrative follows mythic characters into a future transformed by tribes exercising sovereign treaty rights
Director:
Howie Seago
Feature Film
Wake up, Zé! Your wife is on her feet! (2021)
Description:
The movie - Wake up Zé! Your wife is up! (DEAF), is the only feature film in the world with the cast exclusively of deaf people. A comedy in LIBRAS, freely adapted from the theatrical play “Acorda Zé, sua mulher é pé!”. The film is inspired by an eccentric farce narrative, delving into the Brazilian cultural universe, drawing a parallel between characters from the Italian Commedia dell'arte and some types of popular culture in Brazil. In this adaptation, all characters are played by deaf actors, as mentioned above.
Director:
Adelino Matias de carvalho, Venício Fonseca
Feature Film
A sonic pulse (2019)
Description:
Sonic Pulse explores Deaf people’s experience of electronic music from a visceral, communal and scientific perspective.
Director:
Dorothy Allen-Pickard, Antoine Marinot
Documentation
Torvajanica - nothing is what it seems (2021) 
Description:
The plot of the film talks about the guys who go the party of the 80s but during the trip something they don't expect happens and they are forced to stay one night an abandoned house and from there they are killed one by one by a psychopath and the last survivor who trying to escape will the last one survive?
Director:
Grace Giacubbo
Feature Film