Le Pays des sourds

Standing in front of a sheet of music, four deaf persons gesture with their hands in chorus. This unusual musical approach to the world of silence leaves no doubt as to the filmmaker’s intention: "set our usual view of the deaf on its head, to rehabilitate their culture".
In this film, Nicolas Philibert exceptionally does not confine himself to a single site, Instead his camera roves from a school for teaching children how to pronounce sounds and words to a class in sign language, then on to interviews with several adults on what it is like to be deaf, to stage performances by a deaf-mute actor and, finally, to a wedding...