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.
121 films found — page 1 of 4
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A Deaf woman expecting her first child with a hearing partner confronts a world built without her in mind.
LSE Deaf-led production -
Marty Supreme
A table tennis drama featuring a Deaf Japanese champion.
Deafness as a theme -
Concerto for Abigail
A musician learns she is going deaf as her career takes off.
Deafness as a theme -
Hear Me: Our Summer
Korean remake of the Taiwanese romance about a young man who falls for a swimmer's Deaf sister.
KSL Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Living in Two Worlds
A CODA grows up interpreting for his Deaf parents and struggles to build a life apart from them.
JSL Deaf actors in the cast -
Rally Caps
A boy at summer baseball camp befriends a player with a cochlear implant.
Deaf actors in the cast -
The Hearing
A Deaf boy's abuse case tests a legal system with no reliable way to hear him.
FSL Deaf actors in the cast -
The Way We Talk
Three young Deaf people in Hong Kong disagree over implants, speech and sign language identity.
HKSL Deaf actors in the cast -
All the Silence
A Deaf actress and sign language teacher in Mexico City learns she is losing her remaining hearing.
LSM Deaf actors in the cast -
Close to You
A trans man returns home for the first time in years and reconnects with an old Deaf friend.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Creed III
The family signs together as Adonis confronts a friend from his past.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Lapse
A Deaf teenager navigates a hearing world that keeps mistranslating her.
Libras Deaf actors in the cast -
Causeway
A soldier home from Afghanistan visits her incarcerated Deaf brother.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Love Life
A woman's life fractures when her Deaf first husband reappears after a family tragedy.
JSL Deaf actors in the cast -
Millstone
A grieving couple seek help from an unconventional therapist.
Deafness as a theme -
Past Future
A partly-signed musical made during the pandemic.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Small, Slow But Steady
Based on the memoir of Keiko Ogasawara, Japan's first professional Deaf boxer.
JSL Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
The Night of the 12th
Detectives working an unsolved murder consult a Deaf witness to lip-read a silent recording.
LSF Deaf actors in the cast -
CODA
The only hearing member of a Deaf fishing family is torn between the family business and music school.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Drive My Car
A theatre director stages a multilingual Uncle Vanya that includes a signing actress.
KSL Deafness as a theme -
Feel the Beat
A failed Broadway dancer coaches a small-town dance team that includes a Deaf girl.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Out of This World
A taxi driver becomes fixated on a Deaf dancer.
LSF Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Unsound
A struggling music venue is reborn as a Deaf club, bringing together a trans man and a Deaf musician.
Auslan Deaf actors in the cast -
Feeling Through
A homeless teenager helps a DeafBlind man get home on a late New York night.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Sound of Metal
A metal drummer loses his hearing and enters a Deaf recovery community.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
A Star Is Born
A musician's noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus shape his decline.
Deafness as a theme -
Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen biopic featuring a Deaf actor as Freddie Mercury's father.
BSL Deaf actors in the cast -
Bori
A hearing girl in a Deaf family wishes she could lose her hearing to belong. Directed by a CODA.
KSL Deaf actors in the cast -
Creed II
Adonis and Bianca raise a Deaf daughter while he faces a legacy fight.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
A Silent Agreement
A Deaf man and a hearing screenwriter navigate a relationship strained by miscommunication.
Auslan Deaf actors in the cast -
The Shape of Water
A mute cleaner communicates in sign with an amphibian creature held in a government lab.
ASL Deafness as a theme -
The Silent Child
A social worker teaches a Deaf four-year-old to sign, against her family's wishes.
BSL Deaf actors in the cast -
Wonderstruck
Two Deaf children fifty years apart run away to New York in search of family.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
A Silent Voice: The Movie
A former bully seeks out the Deaf classmate he tormented years earlier.
JSL Deafness as a theme -
Wild Prairie Rose
In 1950s South Dakota a young woman returns home and falls for a Deaf man against her mother's wishes.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Creed
A musician with progressive hearing loss becomes the fighter's partner.
ASL Deafness as a theme -
Marie Heurtin
A nun teaches a DeafBlind girl to communicate in a 19th-century French convent school.
LSF Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
The Bélier Family
A farming family's hearing daughter discovers a gift for singing. Deaf parents played by hearing actors.
LSF Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
The Tribe
A new student at a Ukrainian boarding school for the deaf is drawn into its criminal hierarchy.
USL Deaf actors in the cast -
Lake Windfall
Five friends, three of them Deaf, take a camping trip that turns dangerous.
ASL Deaf-led production