Name Me Lawand

Edward Lovelace explores the power of communication and community with this rapturous portrait of a young deaf Kurdish boy.

This powerful documentary highlights the importance of community and the transformative effect of finding your voice. Convinced of the potential of their deaf son, a Kurdish family leave Iraq and finally arrive in the UK, where Lawand joins the Royal School for the Deaf Derby. Empowered with British Sign Language, he reveals himself as a witty and popular student.

Meanwhile, his family navigate a new common language and have to fight to remain in the community that has embraced them. Director Edward Lovelace (who made The Possibilities Are Endless with co-director James Hall) spent four years alongside Lawand and his family, whilst learning BSL to produce this inspiring portrait.