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Keywords:
Contemporary history, Human interest, Deaf and Hard-of-hearing


Producer(s): POINT DU JOUR

Coproducer(s)/co-financing:
FRANCE 5 - France Télévisions

Length:  1x70

Format:  One-off

Original version: French

Versions available: English / International

Nationality: France

Year: 2009

Rights: TV & DVD worldwide

Support(s):  SD – Digital 16/9

Program available
by ADAV

I'M DEAF AND I DIDN'T KNOW

Director(s): Igor OCHRONOWICZ – Writer(s): Sandrine HERMAN, Igor OCHRONOWICZ   Contact Contact   Download Print page

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There is a world of difference between being deaf and…not hearing. We all know someone who is and we take it for granted that they adapt to the hearing world: they lip-read, they sign. But do we really know what it is like to grow up in a world of silence, with no notion that there are people who can hear?
How does a deaf person discover that people communicate through sounds, that the shaping of lips they see produces words and communication?
This drama-documentary looks at the issue “from within”, from the vantage point of Sandrine and her true story. Deaf since birth, she was born to hearing parents. From early childhood to adult age, we discover the “hearing universe” as Sandrine did - looking at her surroundings with wonder and puzzlement. At first, noone fully realised she was deaf. She even went to regular school wondering how the others comprehended what the teacher was trying to impart…
It is a surprisingly funny film, a film that makes us wonder whether the truly deaf and hard-of-hearing are not the ones we first thought…

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Festivals and Awards:
* 2012: "Best Documentary Film for the Hearing" at the "CineDeaf" Festival, Rome, Italy.
* 2012: Selected at the "Hong Kong International Deaf Festival" (Feb.)
* 2012: Selected at "Breaking Down Barriers", Moscow
* 2011: "Golden Thumbs" Best Documentary Award at "Deaf in the Picture", Amsterdam, Holland (June 2011)
* 2011: Best Documentary & Audience Award at the Toronto Intl. Deaf Film & Arts festival, May 2011.
* 2010: Selected at the"Worlddeaf Cinema Festival", Washinton DC (Nov. 2010)
* 2010: 'Special Mention' at the Intl. Festival of Films on Health, Liège, Belgium.
* 2010: "Etoile" Award, SCAM (Sunny Side, La Rochelle)
* 2010: Selected at the Prix Europa, Berlin (Oct. 2010)
* 2009: Best Documentary Award at the Intl. Festival of Independant Films, Brussels Belgium.
* 2009: Selected at the PRIX EUROPA, category TV Documentary, Berlin, Germany.

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