IPEK
Sweden 2016. Director: Erik Akervall. 5 min.
PEK is an up close portrait of a charismatic actor and mum, Ipek D. Mehlum. We join her during a period in her life where she is trying to balance her two biggest dreams – being a mum and being a professional actor.
THE DREAMER
Sweden 2017. Director: Erik Akervall. 30 min.
Life is difficult, and seems to just do its own thing. But how do you survive as part of a minority in a society overrun by norms? You become a dreamer.
LISTEN TO ME
USA 2017. Director: Touacha Her. 8 min.
The story of a deaf girl who has been the victim of bullying to the point where she now wants to take her own life. A student counsellor sees what’s going on, and sets out to save her.
KISMET DINER
United Kingdom 2014. Director: Mark Nunneley. 9 min.
Sometimes you have to listen with your heart… It’s Saturday night and halfway through an improvised concert, Laura notices a customer that she hasn’t seen before. The guy looks at her in complete disinterest, almost as if she wasn’t there. Normally, Laura wouldn’t care, but she can’t stop wondering who he is – and why she can’t stop looking at him.
MUSTAFA – EN UNG MANS VARDAG
Sweden 2016. Director: Adil Ahmed. 12 min.
In the film, we follow an average day in Mustafa’s life. He talks about his hobbies, his time as a student at the Mo Gård community college, and his dreams for the future.
THE SILENT CHILD
United Kingdom 2017. Director: Chris Overton. 20 min.
The Silent Child is about a deaf 4-year-old girl called Libby. Born into a middle class family, she lives a life of silence, until a social worker who cares teaches her the gift of communication.
JÄGAREN
Sweden 2016. Director: Erik Akervall. 30 min.
She is tormented by a childhood memory. The hunter should never have shot that swan. This film is about how each of us can be seen as the sum of our actions.
KARI
Iceland 2017. Director: Elsa Björnsdottir. 17 min.
A short about Kari, a 6-year-old deaf boy. He has to live with regret for a mistake made in a moment of sudden anger in the past.
WORDS OF CARAMEL
Sweden 2016. Director: Juan Antonio Moreno. 20 min.
In a refugee camp in the Sahara desert lives a deaf boy who wants to learn to write so that he can express the words of his good friend, the young camel, Caramel.
ALL SHORTS HAVE SWEDISH SUBTITLES
