Deaf

Winner of the Audience Award for Best Feature at the 2025 Berlinale, Eva Libertad's debut film portrays a Deaf woman on the cusp of motherhood.

Ángela, who is Deaf (Miriam Garlo, sister of director Eva Libertad), eagerly awaits the birth of her daughter with partner Héctor. But nestled within the excitement lies trepidation. Will the baby be Deaf like her mother or hearing like her father? Anxious that her daughter will be subject to the alienation she often feels, Ángela is confronted with long-held questions about her own identity.

This film started life as a short film ‘Sorda’, also starring Garlo and inspired by her own apprehensions over being a deaf mother in a hearing world. Winner of the Panorama Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival, Libertad’s film is a delicate yet assured debut feature about a woman on the cusp of motherhood.