Sign language - Movies

Had my last class of sign language at Noida Deaf Society yesterday. If only, I could explain how it feels to be able to communicate without using words - how immensely wonderful it is to finally know something I have been dying to learn, how deeply overwhelming it is to be able to understand and share the funny nitty-gritties of life in sign language, how beautiful it is to connect two worlds - hearing and deaf.

Some movies that I have seen related to sign language :

1. Children of lesser God

A highly recommended movie (winner of 5 academy awards) with an actual deaf actress (who also won an Oscar for her performance) playing an estranged deaf student turned sweeper and a hearing speech teacher who wants her, yet also wants her to change certain of her ways. A must watch!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_a_Lesser_God

2.  See what I'm saying

A documentary about deaf artists (A comic, a drummer, an actor and a hard-of-hearing singer) struggling to make it in America. A side of life that we might never know.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1125387/

3. Koshish

Sanjeev Kumar and Jaya Bahaduri playing a deaf-mute couple in an innocent and beautiful Gulzar creation as early as 1972.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koshish

4. Hear Me

A Taiwanese movie about a delivery boy who falls for one of the two hearing impaired sisters. But as the story unfolds, it just gets even more interesting. Also available on youtube.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1562328/

5. Sound and Fury

A powerful documentary about cochlear implants and American deaf community's take on it. "If you could make your deaf child hear, would you ?" - The answer isn't that obvious, if you actually see the impact. Also recommended - "Sound and Fury - 6 years later"