Director: Igor Ochronwicz
RT: 70:00 | FRANCE | Language: International Sign Language / LSF w/ English Subtitles
Being deaf is not just about not hearing…Do we really know anything about deaf people? Who they are? Sandrine was born deaf. In this film, Sandrine has chosen to tell her own story and share with us her vision of the world. Through her memories, from birth until adulthood, we discover a world where nothing has been easy for Sandrine: the way people have looked at her, her schooling, how she had to learn, and then re-learn, and her socialization. Throughout Sandrine’s life, everyone tried to fit this little girl into a mold, to “repair” her into normalcy: To make her hear and speak. But what if there was something more, than just hearing and speaking? This film invites us to enter into a world where sign language is very much alive. Sign language: a bearer of identity, history and culture. “There are not two separate worlds” Sandrine tell us in the film, “Deaf and hearing people can live together and accept their differences.”