Threshold is a deeply personal exploration of what it means to have a little machine as part of your body, a portrayal of the Deaf experience rarely seen. The acceptance of a cochlear implant is not an automatic, seamless entry to a world of sound but rather a chaotic understanding of what it is like to hear.
The hearing community has, through the course of history, treated the Deaf community as a particularly undesirable species of weed. Hearing aids, cochlear implants, speech education, the marginalization of signed languages, sterilization programs, and now even the use of CRISPR gene splicing technology, are all attempts to remove or correct the Deaf weeds in humanity’s garden. Crab theory is a major and ongoing discussion in the Deaf community due to the intensity of the internalized oppression felt by group insiders who have often been intentionally isolated from their peers and language models. This poem uses the metaphor of unwanted weeds as a way to process that history and reframe the community as a stubbornly resilient population, capable of growth and beauty.
Julien Bourges partly retraces the life of Alfredo Corrado, an American deaf artist. Today, considered an important figure in the French deaf community, Alfredo Corrrado came to Paris in the late 1970s, at a time when sign language was forbidden and scorned. This unique documentary on Alfredo Corrado recounts the creation of International Visual Theater (IVT) and the adventures of the first deaf theater in France at the Château de Vincennes, which changed the history of deaf people in France.
When the owner of a handmade hat store and his apprentice learn that the store is on the verge of bankruptcy, they decide to take inspiration from the neighboring hat business in order to make some changes to the store.
Sarah does not know her parents. One day, a message tells her that her father, Marc, has disappeared in the Pyrenees. She decides to go to Gérard, Marc's best friend, at "La Maynade" to find out more about his parents...
A non-functional relationship between Dror (10) a deaf child and Moshik, his father who struggles to accept his deafness. Moshik insists on integrating Dror in a school for hearing children, where Dror experiences bullying. He first sees his son’s distress after Dror attacks the class bully and is expelled. Now the two have to communicate to find solutions.
Mila Ebert, who is just under two years old, is deaf. An examination at the hospital reveals that her auditory nerve is developed – with the insertion of a cochlear implant and appropriate support, she would have the chance to develop almost normal hearing and speech. And with that, a chance at a “normal” life. Who decides which way of life is more worth living? Is the state allowed to play a role in this – or does it even have to?
Hugo is a cabaret drag artist at "Chez Titi". With his sister Victoria, his faithful friend Matt, and all the regulars of the famous cabaret at hand, Hugo takes to the stage for his latest number. Afterwards, when he is found murdered in his dressing room, Matt seems to be the obvious culprit... but is he? "No Choice" is both a murder mystery and a bilingual psychological thriller which addresses the themes of guilt, falsehood, and identity, performed in French Sign Language (LSF) and French.
In 2018, they broke into politics. By putting on a yellow vest, they revolted for the first time in their lives. The film tells the story of the aftermath. Through their intersecting itineraries, modified life paths are then embodied: paused, twisted or illuminated by this decisive experience that will somehow politicize their existence. Echoing the stories of other uprisings, their words question the places of citizenship and the transformative power of revolt.
ndoa is a documentary/video art directed by Tadeu Fidalgo. The film features the testimony of an (unidentified) Kenyan woman from the Kalenjin region about her childhood and her parental relationship.
Under the Eyes retraces the route of a parisian hardcore band, from creation to their first concert.
Follow the conception of their first EP, from rehearsals to the studio.
Discover what's behind the scenes of the evolution of a band in an underground environment.
As Lou prepares for her first art showing at a prestigious gallery, she notices a man staring at her most recent painting. As the man turns around, Lou realizes the man is her father, whom she hasn’t spoken to in ten years since he left his wife and daughter. Confused by his sudden and unwelcome appearance, she pushes herself to let the night progress unbothered. As they pace through the gallery, they stop at various art pieces Lou has created throughout the year: Paintings that represent her journey in recognizing the struggles and emotional emptiness she experienced growing up without a father.
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