Film finder

This catalogue includes all i.e. the good, the bad and the ugly feature films, shorts, seriesi.e. including television, streaming and web series, documentaries and children’s screen texts made in sign language, with d/DeafThose identifying as deaf (physically living with hearing loss or low/no hearing) and Deaf (a cultural identity connected with Deaf Community and sign language use), and anywhere in between. participants or about deafness, from the silent film era to the present day.

About the database

This data is drawn from our original research into sign language cinemas, cross-referenced against existing publications (Fougère and Kitchen 2017, Jouannet 1999, Norden 1994 and Schuchman 2006) plus online databases including IMDb, Allocine.fr, Metacritic, Wikipedia, Rotten Tomatoes and national film industry sites.

This is a live catalogue that is constantly updated. Know of a missing entry? Email us at gemma.king@anu.edu.au and we’ll add it.

Citing this database

If you are conducting research or other work into sign language cinemas, you are welcome to download our complete database for your own use. If you use the data in any publications, please credit Sign on Screen by citing us:


King, Gemma, Sign on Screen Film Finder, Sign on Screen, accessed [date], https://signonscreen.com//film-finder.

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