NAME ME LAWAND

Dir. Edward Lovelace | Documentary | U.K. | 2022 | 1 hr. 31 min. | Kurdish, British Sign Language, and English with English subtitles

Followed by a prerecorded discussion, via Zoom, with director Edward Lovelace

Lawand, a young Kurdish boy, has been deaf since birth. After he and his family make a treacherous journey and spend a year in a French refugee camp, a deaf volunteer helps bring them to the English city of Derby, where Lawand joins the Royal School for the Deaf. As he grows older, the film follows his dramatic progress learning British Sign Language, revealing a bright, charismatic, and inquisitive child who discovers friendship and a new way to express himself.

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