I'll Come To You With Deaf Eyes

As with each of her films, Laetitia Carton starts from the intimate, talks about her history. In this first-person diary, she talks to her Deaf friends and tells us about the years she spent with them. A path strewn with pitfalls, grief, anger and struggles. Because the people who do not hear are not necessarily the ones we think. By successive touches, we discover this fight for a language, base of a minority culture denigrated or even denied by the hearing society. "I am a stranger in my own country" confides a young Deaf man who is prevented from learning sign language. From then on, approaching this "country of the Deaf" becomes as much a poetic gesture as one of emancipation. A film in the form of a bridge to this invisible people who have so many things to say and to teach us.

Éva Tourrent
Filmmaker