In the Land of the Deaf
Nicolas Philibert
['Yusry Abdul Halim', 'Tom Shadyac', 'Vijay Krishna Acharya', 'Julian Fellowes', 'Tom Walls', 'Salvatore Samperi', 'Edward Sedgwick', 'Smeep Kang', 'Andrucha Waddington', 'Carlos Schlieper', 'Timothy Hutton', 'James Ivory', 'Adam McKay', 'YVS Chowdary', 'Gene Nelson', 'Vijay Bhatt', 'Ranald MacDougall', 'Li Minwei', 'Scott Shaw', 'Jordan Galland', 'William Peter Blatty', 'Boaz Davidson', 'Buzz Kulik', 'Adam Davidson', 'Jandhyala', 'Burt Lancaster', 'Pitof', 'David Mamet', 'Ralph Bakshi', 'Herbert Wilcox', 'Isaac Julien', 'Ifa Isfansyah', 'William Monahan', 'Claude Sautet', 'Stuart Gillard', 'Clifford Odets', 'Hiroyuki Nakano', 'Ralph Nelson', 'Michael Powell', 'Atom Egoyan', 'Steve Carell', 'Hans Deppe', 'Demofilo Fidani', 'Kazuaki Kiriya', 'Mario Camerini', 'Stephen Poliakoff', 'Prashant Nanda', 'Marino Girolami', 'Paul Wegener', 'David Lynch', 'Arne Mattsson', 'Chester Withey', 'William Kotcheff', 'Norman Lee', 'Albert Dupontel', 'Bill Plympton', 'Del Tenney', 'Fred Niblo', 'Herschell Gordon Lewis', 'Tim Van Patten', 'Boris Sagal', 'Otto Brower', 'Eric von Stroheim', 'Scott Cooper', 'Daniel Birt', 'Ronnie Barker', 'Fazil', 'Ralph Ceder', 'Ken Annakin', 'Ramin Bahrani', 'Tom McGrath', 'Michael Damian', 'Lo Wei', 'Stephan Elliott', 'Yuliya Solntseva', 'Michael Lembeck', 'Henry Joost', 'George Schaefer', 'Gregory Ratoff', 'Joseph Ruben', 'Carlos Hugo Christensen', 'Euzhan Palcy', 'Muzaffar Ali', 'Joseph Strick', 'Larry Bishop', 'Dale Resteghini', 'Bill Mason', 'Michael Carreras', 'Seth Rogen', 'Robert Altman', 'Joseph Losey', 'Chakri Toleti', 'John Singleton', 'Willard Huyck', 'Carl Franklin', 'Alain Tanner', 'Albert Lamorisse', 'Charles Crichton', 'Haskell Wexler']
In the Land of the Deaf
In the Land of the Deaf is the English title of a French documentary (Le Pays des sourds) created and produced by Nicolas Philibert in 1992. The film is presented French Sign Language (FSL) and French, with English subtitles and closed captions. Philibert uses sparse dialogue in creating an unsentimental, non-manipulative work which allows its subjects to communicate their feelings about the richness of life despite hearing problems. Prior to its initial theatrical release, this excursion into the unique world of Deaf communities in France was featured in international film festivals. In its subsequent broadcast debut in the United States, the film was honored with a Peabody Award for excellence.