Sign Languages Movies

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...

A documentary that follows Dr. Penny Patterson's current scientific study of Koko, a gorilla who communicates through American Sign Language.

To encourage a positive attitude, hearing-impaired mother Asako joins a theatrical troupe with her daughter Ai. Problems arise during rehearsals...

Eight years before Brazilian Sign Language was officially recognized, Flora, a 7-year-old Deaf girl, grows up without linguistic autonomy. Forced to...

A deaf teenager submitted to a cochlear implant surgery must be face his fear of speaking to approach a young girl that he has fallen in love at...

On the eve of a catastrophic event which will wipe out the hearing population, we follow four deaf characters as they go about their daily lives.

A mother takes her young son to the beach in an attempt to rebuild their relationship. But what begins as a day of reconciliation shifts when a...

This film is a letter to my friend Vincent who died ten years ago. Vincent was Deaf. He introduced me to his language, his culture, his world....

God's story is unstoppable when it is in the heart language of a people group. Deaf Missions' Jesus Film uses native signers to bring the story of...

Nancy, an Indian-descended mother, returns to her hometown and opens a sign language school while caring for her son Ajay, who lives with both...

The profound story of Lucy Temerlin, a female chimpanzee raised as human from birth in a domestic environment, and Janis Carter, the woman who took...

Following the loss of his fiancé, Jason struggles to process his haunted emotions. This touching drama takes a creative approach to remind us...

After years of isolation in the hearing world, a mainstreamed Deaf adult learns sign language for the first time.

A dying woman confesses to her younger sister, she sought revenge by poisoning her sister's husband because she was jealous and wanted him to marry...

In an elegant apartment in Oslo, three pairs of friends gather for dinner on an early winter evening. It is a special occasion since the pandemic is...

A fairy tale about ghosts who have lost their home and are looking for a new one. When they finally find a dilapidated house they like, a young...

Because Quebec Sign Language cannot be captured on paper, videography has revealed itself to be the best way to represent this visual language. The...

A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time...