MOONLIGHT SONATA: DEAFNESS IN THREE MOVEMENTS

By Irene TAYLOR BRODSKY

LICHTER, GROSSMAN, NICHOLS, ADLER & FELDMAN, INC. - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2019


Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2019
U.S. Documentary Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Irene TAYLOR BRODSKY
    • Synopsis
    • Irene Taylor Brodsky builds on her powerful first feature Hear and Now (Audience Award winner at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival) by delving into an intergenerational exploration of living with deafness. Brodsky’s son Jonas began losing his hearing as a baby and underwent cochlear-implant surgery as a toddler. Now 11 years old, Jonas has adjusted to a world with sound and is learning to play Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. Brodsky’s parents also have cochlear implants, but unlike Jonas, the majority of their lives were shaped by silence. While Jonas explores what silence means to him, his grandfather grapples with a new transition of his own.