Deaf films from around the world
A directory of feature films, shorts and documentaries made by, with and about Deaf people. Every entry records which sign language appears on screen and whether Deaf actors and filmmakers were actually involved — so you can tell Deaf-led work apart from a hearing actor playing a Deaf role.
20 films found
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Deaf President Now!
The 1988 student uprising at Gallaudet University that won the school its first Deaf president.
ASL Deaf-led production -
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone
A portrait of Marlee Matlin's career and the cost of being Hollywood's only Deaf star for decades.
ASL Deaf-led production -
We Met in Virtual Reality
Filmed entirely inside VR, including a community teaching sign language in virtual space.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Audible
A football team at the Maryland School for the Deaf plays through grief and a losing streak.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements
Three generations of one Deaf family, framed by Beethoven's own loss of hearing.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Deaf men expose decades of abuse at a Wisconsin school for the deaf and the cover-up above it.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Deaf Jam
A Deaf teenager brings ASL poetry into New York's spoken-word slam scene.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Ingelore
The director's Deaf mother recounts surviving Nazi Germany as a Deaf Jewish girl.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
See What I'm Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary
Four Deaf entertainers chase mainstream careers across a year on the road.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Hearing and Now
The director's Deaf parents decide in their sixties to get cochlear implants.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Through Deaf Eyes
Two hundred years of Deaf American life, from residential schools to the fight for ASL.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Sound and Fury: Six Years Later
Revisits the family from the original film after their implant decisions.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Touch the Sound
Deaf Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie on hearing music through the body.
Deaf actors in the cast -
Wedding of Silence
A wedding inside Russia's Deaf community.
RSL Deaf actors in the cast -
What the Bleep Do We Know!?
A Deaf photographer is the through-line of a docudrama about quantum physics and perception.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Sound and Fury
Two brothers, one Deaf and one hearing, split over whether to give their children cochlear implants.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
In the Land of the Deaf
An immersive look at Deaf life in France, told largely through LSF without narration.
LSF Deaf actors in the cast -
Language Says It All
Deaf women discuss sign language and raising children between two languages.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Helen Keller in Her Story
A portrait of the DeafBlind author and activist in her own later years.
Deafness as a theme -
Misjudged People
An early German documentary made to counter prejudice against Deaf people.
DGS Deaf actors in the cast