‘We Have Been Preparing Our Whole Lives to Make this Film Without Even Realizing it,’ Says Eva Libertad of Directing Her Deaf Sister on Berlin Title ‘Sorda’

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Anna Marie de la Fuente Vying for the Berlinale Panorama’s prestigious audience award, Eva Libertad’s “Sorda” (“Deaf”) sheds light on the world of deaf women and how motherhood shapes their relationships.

Picked up by Latido Films in December, Libertad’s debut feature is an expansion of the eponymous Goya-nominated short she co-directed with Nuria Muñoz, starring her sister Miriam Garlo, an acclaimed deaf actress.

In an interview with Variety, Libertad details how “Sorda” was a lifetime in the making: “‘Sorda’ was born from the moment when my sister was considering becoming a mother.

At that time, she shared her fears as a deaf woman with me, and I realized that I had never thought about it before: the concerns of a deaf woman who wants to be a mother in a hearing world.” “At that moment, I figured out that, in addition to the insecurities we have as women, there are others related to deafness that I hadn’t considered before,” she says, adding: “So I asked her to put those fears in writing and a few days later she sent me a list of them, which made a big impression on me.