Ángela, a deaf woman, and Héctor, her hearing partner, are in a loving, solid relationship, using sign language and lip reading to communicate. When Ángela becomes pregnant they are both very excited. However, the question of whether their baby will be deaf or hearing charges an unexplored tension between the couple in this tender, moving and brilliantly acted drama.

Starring director Eva Libertad’s deaf sister, Miriam Garlo.

Click here to read The Irish Times interview with director Eva Libertad. “My parents found it really hard to watch. They never knew my sister suffered like this.”

The film authentically explores the challenges faced by deaf individuals in a hearing world without ever feeling patronising or preachy. A low-key crowd pleaser. – Screen International

The film becomes a bang-on illustration of how cinema can be an engine for empathy, and certainly viewers won’t need to be deaf themselves to get what Angela is going through. – Click here to read full review in The Guardian

The filmmaker meets the audience most effectively in the film’s stiller moments, where Ángela’s emotive state can be felt through the heaviness of Garlo’s expressions as well as the freedom that breaks through when she feels like herself in a society that often prefers to act like she’s an oddity or invisible and not, simply, a mother, wife and human. – Cineuropa

Immersive and profoundly effective filmmaking. – Journey into Cinema

100% Rotten Tomatoes

• DEAF [Sorda]
• Spain, 2025 | Language: Spanish | 1 hr 39 mins | Cert: 15A
• Director: Eva Libertad
• Cast: Miriam Garlo, Alvaro Cervantes, Elena Irureta, Joaquin Notario
• Foreign language films are subtitled.
• Cert: CLUB for over 18s.
• A short Irish film, BEYOND, directed by David Gould will be shown before the feature. 

• BOOKING
• Tickets: €8.50/€7 concession.
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