A 13-minute silent rebellion where dance speaks louder than words ever could.
Gerelee, a Deaf teenage girl, decides to follow her dreams and audition for a dance company, despite her father’s protests.
Direction
Gantulga frames silence as its own language.
Acting
Gerelee's whole body performs the dialogue.
Director
Nomin Gantulga
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mongolia's Deaf community has historically been isolated; this is among the first Mongolian films centering sign language as primary communication.
The director cast a non-professional Deaf dancer; some signed dialogue was improvised when the actor rejected scripted lines as inauthentic to Deaf culture.
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