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.
10 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 -
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 -
Ingelore
The director's Deaf mother recounts surviving Nazi Germany as a Deaf Jewish girl.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
There Will Be Blood
An oil man's son is deafened by a derrick explosion and grows up signing.
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 -
The Good Shepherd
A CIA founder's youth includes a relationship with a Deaf woman.
ASL Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Marianna Ucrìa
A Deaf noblewoman in 18th-century Sicily uncovers the truth behind her lost hearing.
LIS Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Ridicule
A courtier at Versailles encounters an abbé teaching Deaf children sign language.
LSF Deafness as a theme -
To Live
A family endures decades of Chinese history; the daughter is deafened by childhood illness.
CSL Deafness as a theme -
Misjudged People
An early German documentary made to counter prejudice against Deaf people.
DGS Deaf actors in the cast