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Thursday's Children, 21minutes
Directed by Lindsay Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films
Actors Richard Burton

Tourné dans l'école pour enfants sourds de Margate dans le Kent en Angleterre, le film s'intéresse aux visages et aux gestes de petits garçons et petites filles. L'école apprend la lecture sur les lèvres plutôt que la langue des signes, et le film note que seulement un enfant sur trois finit par acquérir un véritable langage parlé.
Words in Blue, 1h55
Directed by Alain Corneau
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism, Sign-language films, French Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Sylvie Testud, Sergi López, Mar Sodupe, Cédric Chevalme, Isabelle Petit-Jacques, Esther Gorintin

Clara, (Sylvie Testud), works in a birdshop. She is concerned about her deaf-mute daughter Anna, (Camille Gauthier), whom she is bringing up on her own. She has never spoken a single word. Clara herself is illiterate. Ever since her grandmother Baba, whom she adored, had been the victim of an attack when she was reading her a story, she has always refused to learn to read and write. Now that the silence of her daughter Anna is causing her to be bullied by her peers, Clara feels obliged to withdraw her from her school, and to enrol her in a school for the deaf-mute, run by Vincent, (Sergi López). Vincent, the principal, suggests giving his new pupil particular classes to teach her Sign Language, and so facilitate Anna's integration.
Koshish
Koshish (1972)
, 2h5
Directed by Gulzar
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about disabilities, Sign-language films
Actors Sanjeev Kumar, Jaya Bachchan, Om Shivpuri, Asrani, Dina Pathak, Dilip Kumar

The movie is a lesson on how to live life, taking up the lives of Hari (Sanjeev Kumar) and Aarthi (Jaya Bhaduri) who are deaf and mute. They meet, fall in love, get married, have a child who they bring up to be well educated and who gets married to a girl similar to his parents. All they have to help them is their hope, confidence and some kindness in the society along with Uncle Narayan who is blind. Tragedy strikes their lives as well when they lose their first child thanks to Kanu's greed. But they never give up hope on life and not in one instance during the entire movie do they think about ending it. They live life, fight it and succeed in it at a bigger scale than any normal person.
Koko: A Talking Gorilla, 1h25
Directed by Barbet Schroeder
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Medical-themed films, Documentaire animalier, Documentary films about environmental issues, Films about apes, Films about disabilities, Documentary films about nature, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation

The film introduces us to Koko soon after she was brought from the San Francisco Zoo to Stanford University by Dr. Penny Patterson for a controversial experiment—she would be taught the basics of human communication through American Sign Language.
One Missed Call 3: Final, 1h44
Origin Japon
Genres Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Ghost films, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Meisa Kuroki, Jang Geun-suk, Maki Horikita, Mami Hashimoto, Itsuji Itao, Rakuto Tochihara

High school student, PAM, hangs herself at school due to severe bullying from her classmates, but she is saved and committed to a hospital in a state of coma. Her friend, Asuka Matsuda, who is also bullied, plans to take revenge against their classmates, all of whom have gone to Busan, South Korea on a field trip. Using her computer, she clicks her class photo to place the cell phone curse. Her first victim is Azusa Kusunoki; Azusa receives a message accompanied by a photo showing her hanged. At Busan, Azusa is separated from her classmates in a busy marketplace and is killed when a noose drags and hangs her, with her spitting out a red candy afterwards. Teruya Mikami receives the message next, but now accompanied with the text "Death exempt by forwarding the message". He shrugs it off and goes to a restroom, but is killed when a loose telephone wire electrocutes him to death. More students start to receive the message, and they race to forward it to their friends, saving them at the cost of their friends' lives.
Be with Me
Be with Me (2005)
, 1h30
Directed by Eric Khoo
Origin Singapore
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about disabilities, La cécité, LGBT-related films, Sign-language films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Royston Tan

Un mariage d'histoires construites autour des thèmes de l'amour, de l'espoir et du destin. Les personnages de Be with Me mènent des vies séparées, mais sont liés par un même désir : vivre auprès de l'être aimé.
Iqbal
Iqbal (2005)

Directed by Nagesh Kukunoor
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Cricket films, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Shreyas Talpade, Girish Karnad, Yatin Karyekar, Prateeksha Lonkar, Shweta Basu Prasad

Iqbal, un Pakistanais sourd âgé de dix-huit ans, ayant une passion dévorante pour le jeu de cricket, tente de surmonter ses difficultés et de devenir un joueur professionnel afin de réaliser son rêve d'intégrer l'équipe indienne de cricket.
See What I'm Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about disabilities, Personne sourde ou muette, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Bob Hiltermann, CJ Jones, Shoshannah Stern, TL Forsberg, Tyrone Giordano, Troy Kotsur

Ce film documentaire suit les traces des artistes sourds les plus populaires dans le monde des sourds américains comme le batteur Bob Hiltermann (du groupe rock Beethoven's Nightmare), la chanteuse TL Forsberg, l'humoriste CJ Jones et l'acteur Robert DeMayo.
170 Hz
170 Hz (2012)

Genres Drama
Themes Films about disabilities, Sign-language films
Actors Gaite Jansen, Porgy Franssen, Robert de Hoog, Ariane Schluter

Evy, 16 ans, est amoureuse de Mick, 19 ans. Lorsque les parents d’Evy désapprouvent leur relation, ils décident de s’enfuir et de se cacher dans l’épave d’un sous-marin. Mais Mick porte avec lui un terrible secret…
The Tingler, 1h22
Directed by William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts, William Castle, Dal McKennon

A pathologist, Dr. Warren Chapin (Price), discovers that the tingling of the spine in states of extreme fear is due to the growth of a creature that every human being seems to have, called a "Tingler", a parasite attached to the human spine. It curls up, feeds and grows stronger when its host is afraid, effectively crushing the person's spine if curled up long enough. The host can weaken the creature and stop its curling by screaming.
Miracle on 34th Street, 1h40
Directed by Fielder Cook
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Medical-themed films, Christmas films, Films about disabilities, Children's films, Santa Claus in film, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Sebastian Cabot, Jane Alexander, David Hartman, Roddy McDowall, Mara Wilson, Jim Backus

When an old man (Sebastian Cabot) spies the department store Santa Claus get drunk before taking part in the Macy's Thanksgiving parade, he immediately locates and complains to Karen Walker (Jane Alexander), the parade director. She promptly fires her Santa Claus and the old man, who turns out to be named Kris Kringle, volunteers to take his place for the sake of the children. Kris does so well during the parade that he is immediately hired to be the store's main Santa for the holiday period. At the same time, Karen's daughter, Susan (Suzanne Davidson), an intelligent but cynical six-year-old, meets her new neighbor, Bill Schafner (David Hartman), a lawyer, and decides to try and hook him up with her mother.
The Jennie Project, 1h16
Directed by Gary Nadeau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films about disabilities, Children's films, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films
Actors Lance Guest, Alex D. Linz, Sheila Kelley, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Abigail Mavity, Joel McKinnon Miller

Hugo Archibald (Lance Guest) is a doctor and brings home a wide variety of exotic animal species. The latest animal he brings home is a chimpanzee named Jennie. Dr. Archibald is not home very much, and Andrew feels he does not care about him.