Movies: Sign languages

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Deaf Australian man Barry Priori was a thriving teacher, adventurer and tireless advocate for sign language and Deaf culture throughout his life. Having experienced oppression and language deprivation from his hearing family, Priori made it his missi...

Featuring an entirely Deaf cast and shot exclusively in American Sign Language, this is the story of a desperate, grieving couple who think they have found the only therapist who can help them - but his methods might be worse than anyone imagined....

A documentary that follows the story of Dario Pasquarella, deaf director and actor, and his company. Through his work, Dario seeks to bring together the deaf and hearing community, who are usually separated by a lack of communication. In his shows he...

Candice - Australia's only profoundly deaf truck driver....

In American Sign Language (ASL) with subtitles available in English, Spanish and Canadian French. This powerful documentary uses real life experiences from Deaf people of varied social, racial, and educational boundaries showing how this form of opp...

Contemporary Shanghai, summer. Xia Qing, a boy who has been wearing Cochlear Implants due to hearing impairment, has a deep love for dancing. He gains so much joy just from copying Martha Graham’s hand gestures in a dance magazine. A kid with a preco...

Set in 1986, this riveting drama centers on Jeremih, a Deaf black painter who must navigate a tense racially charged confrontation with police on the very night his art is being celebrated. Filmmaker Chantay Taylor’s storytelling aims to rewrite the ...

Neapolitan Hard of Hearing filmmaker Rosario Liotta explores how the Deaf community in Italy has mobilized against the outdated terms of “deaf-mute” and “deaf and dumb.” Both creative and informative, this impactful film reminds us that words matter,...

Aubrey brings her girlfriend Kat to meet her family for the first time at an intimate family dinner and is met with hostile disapproval. During the evening, tensions rise, and the toxic dynamic reaches a breaking point....

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....

As an important pioneer in the movement for Deaf rights in France, Jacques Sangla was responsible for ushering in a new era of access for the French Deaf community by advocating for sign language, equal access and television programming for the Deaf....

Because Quebec Sign Language cannot be captured on paper, videography has revealed itself to be the best way to represent this visual language. The first ‘comic strip’ in sign language, the film depicts snatches of conversations between various deaf ...

Rinkoo Barpaga is a multi-discipline performer from the U.K. making a name for himself on the comedy circuit, but as a Deaf Asian man, his journey has not been easy. Barpaga shifts between performing stand-up comedy and reflecting on his life while v...

As the only surviving member of her family, deaf guitarist Kaya is sent deep into the forest to hide and learn the mysterious melody passed down through generations. In order to survive the mercenaries assigned to kill her, she must learn to play the...

A telepathic intelligence operative is interrogated by her handler for connecting with the minds of unsanctioned targets....

Kitty O’Neil (1946-2018) was a racecar driver, stunt legend, and daredevil. Known as “the fastest woman in the world,” O’Neil broke the land speed record in 1976. The first woman to join with Stunts Unlimited, the leading stunt agency in Hollywood, O...

Lucie is a young Deaf woman born into a family of hearing classical musicians. Marginalized by her own family, she makes a choice to claim her own identity after an unexpected encounter with two Deaf people in the park....

When his daughter announces her sudden engagement, Angus worries that she may be marrying the wrong man. In the meantime, Angus and his grumpy buddies try to catch a burglar that has been menacing their village. This delightful comic gem is sure to p...

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