DEAF
[SORDA]
Winner of the Panorama Audience Award at this year’s Berlinale, Eva Libertad’s solo feature debut, adapted from her own short film, is a warm and honest portrayal of a deaf woman’s relationship with motherhood. Ángela (deaf actor Miriam Garlo, Libertad’s sister) is expecting a child with her hearing partner, Héctor (Álvaro Cervantes). As eager as she is to be a mother, she is equally anxious about raising a child in a hearing world that often excludes her. Even worse, if her baby is born able to hear, will Ángela even be able to connect with her own child? After an emotionally taxing birth (in which the caregivers are seemingly unaware their patient is deaf), Ángela and Héctor embark on a new journey as parents, but the doubts continue to grow, threatening their relationship with each other and their daughter. DEAF is a work of unbridled empathy centered on a visceral and profoundly moving performance by Garlo that recalls Marlee Matlin’s acclaimed performance in CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD. –Javier Chavez
Official Selection, 2025 Berlin and Málaga film festivals. DIR/SCR Eva Libertad; PROD Adolfo Blanco, Nuria Muñoz Ortín, Miriam Porté. Spain, 2025, color, 99 min. In Spanish and Spanish Sign Language with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Run Time: 99 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, December 19, 2025
Genre: Drama
