The Way We Talk
New York Asian Film Festival 2025
July 11 - 24, 2025
A celebration of language, differences, and inclusion, this coming-of-age drama features three characters who were born deaf, and have each chosen different paths to navigating adulthood.
Ticket holders are invited to the Furman Gallery for Matsuri to Midnight after the screening and Q&A end.
Director Adam Wong (The Way We Keep Dancing, NYAFF 2021) presents his most heartfelt and empathetic work yet with the coming-of-age drama The Way We Talk. Sophie, Wolf, and Alan are three young people trying to make their way in Hong Kong. The trio all have one thing in common: their deafness. While Wolf and Alan grew up together and attended a school for the hearing impaired, Sophie was given an implant and went to a mainstream school. When Sophie meets Wolf and Alan, she sets about on a journey to learn sign language, forcing all three to examine what it means to be deaf, what it means to sign, and what it means to embrace yourself. With cleverly crafted sound design, and much of the dialogue in sign language, Wong immerses the viewer in the world of its characters. The result is a celebration of language, differences, and inclusion.
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