This is a 22-min film that won Best Live Action Short a few years ago when the Academy re-discovered deafness as a cause du jour.Libby (Maisie Sly) was born deaf to a hearing family and has struggled to communicate. Joanne (Rachel Shenton), a social worker, begins to teach Libby some sign language, opening an entire new world for the six-year-old. But Libby's mother (Rachel Fielding) wants Libby to focus on fitting in to the hearing world around her.
This is not a happy movie. It is a sad PSA about understanding the need for accommodation even if it means disrupting the nice, orderly view you have about the world. If it were any longer, it would be masochistic but it skates right under that limit. It's currently streaming on Kanopy.
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