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The Silent Child( 2017)

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Overview

A deaf 4-year-old girl named Libby lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker teaches her to use sign language to communicate.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Maisie Sly

      Libby

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      Rachel Shenton

      Joanne

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      Rachel Fielding

      Sue

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      Anna Barry

      Nancy

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      Philip York

      Paul

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      Sam Rees

      Seb

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      Annie Cusselle

      Pip

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      Marilyn Willrich

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    A review by Aliakbar Avani

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    Written by Aliakbar Avani on Sat Mar 11 2023
    **A perspective to the Silent Child (2017)** **Introduction:** The short film The Silent Child (2017), 20m, a brilliant low-budget film ($10k) made by Chris Overton, with a pleasant play and a fantastic multi-layered screenplay of his wife, Rachel Shenton (British), great cinematography by Ali Farahani (Iranian), and impressive music composed by Amir Konjani (Iranian), was truly deserved to achieve the title of the best short film at the Oscars 2018. **Plot theme:** The theme of the first layer of the film can be seen as a detailed and pathological approach to the problems of deaf or hard...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    10000.00

    Revenue

    -

    Keywords

    • social worker
    • deaf-mute
    • language barrier
    • school
    • rich parents
    • sign languages
    • british school system
    • difficult parents
    • lip reading
    • busy parents
    • wealthy family
    • incredulous parents
    • short film
    • parents and child
    • deaf girl
    • lack of communication
    • teacher for the deaf
    • deafness
    • language-barrier
    • deaf child
    • british
    • academy award