The Listeners Saison 1

An elementary school in the mountains is to be abolished due to the decreasing population. The PE teacher is assigned to form a choir and to win the national choir contest to solve the crisis. With limited resource and absolutely no music background, the PE teacher and a group of tone-deaf students start to prepare for the contest. The choir and their community eventually find their own voice and identity.

The artist Cildo Meireles in search of the sound of Brazil's main water basins in order to construct the sound sculpture Rio:Oir (River:Hear) created from the play on words and concepts. From Foz do Iguaçu to the Pororoca of Macapá, from the Águas Emendadas Park to the mouth of the São Francisco river, and later, in a studio, gathering the pieces and matching them to the cacophony of residual waters and human laughter. The documentary "Listening to the River" reveals the artist's simplicity, the relation of region's inhabitants with water, and it enhances our perception between sound and image.

Documentary without audio produced by deaf people. Music is depicted visually with the complete absence of musical instruments or voices. Directed by Makihara Eri and choreographer Dakei. With a diverse lineup including ordinary deaf people with zero acting experience and a choreographer who performs in Japan and abroad, this film pulls out all the tops to give visual expression to music through the physical body. An aging man uses multiple sign language poems to convey the four seasons, and a girl expresses the wind amidst the rustling trees.

Socially anxious guy meets deaf girl on a night out in Budapest.

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This is a letter of hatred and love of a son to his father, where he talks about everything that he could not say before.

Blind and deaf people converse, question, surprise and educate each others. Fingers move about quickly, translation follows promptly, both visible and audible, hands get touched and squeezed, and out of their tactfulness, sentences, stories, reserve and emotions arise

Starting with doctors and staff of the Metaxa anti-cancer hospital who suffer from cancer themselves, we follow this special group of people as they continue to work in the hospital. From the shock of the first time one hears it, to the experience of "… I learnt to listen to time" cancer transforms from a death-threat to a life teacher for these people, not only adding years to their lives, but also adding Life to their years.

'Ensemble'. An orchestra made of kids with different handicaps. The teacher, parents and many others get together to complete the orchestra. The orchestra 'Ensemble' is a small community of people who understand the difference of each other, and music is a communicative medium for them. Now listen to their stories and music.

When an intelligence unit soldier starts to spy on a gay couple, he is lead to confront his own sexual identity.

Taiwan Radio Golden Bell Award winner and radio host Ma Shi-Fang talks about the social landscape of Taiwan in the 20th century and the lives of young people in various periods of time through a piece of classic pop music.

The film tells of a love story linking the heart of Aziza and Jamal, and links a friendship between Jamal and Selim, the disabled young man who escapes from the persecution of his family to him and who is embraced by Abu Jamal, as if he was one of his sons

A film about sound and hearing. Some of the world's most daring composers and musicologists probe the nature of sound and hearing in this unique documentary. The sounds of a rabbit sleeping, the rhythms of a tugboat on water, and the music inspired by industrial machines are among the sounds explored. Includes insights from John Cage, Luciano Berio and Knud Victor.

Ma-ri, who believes she is very special and beautiful, thinks people can hear her thoughts. The psychiatrist who became Ma-ri's new doctor was listening to her in an isolation ward. Suddenly, she feels naked from Ma-ri's sudden, unnerving cry.

An animation film that illustrates how closely eye and ear are linked, and how one acts on the other. The film is divided into three sections--game, conflict and flirtation--that repeat themselves without seeming to do so. This illusion is created by the sound track, which varies and colours the action. A film without words.

A couple of sound engineers have stopped paying attention to each other. During a film shooting they see themselves in the actors who play the scene, which makes them understand the importance of listening to one another.

Award-winning artist Wim Helsen proves in his fifth theater performance that he not only has deep, absurd thoughts, but is also a good listener.