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‘We Have Been Preparing Our Whole Lives to Make This Film Without Even Realizing It,’ Says Eva Libertad of Directing Her Deaf Sister in Berlin Title ‘Sorda’
Vying for Berlinale Panorama’s audience award, Eva Libertad’s ‘Sorda’ sheds light on the world of deaf women and how motherhood impacts their lives.
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. “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. She chose “Sorda” to be her first feature film in order to “explore the complexity of the bond between the deaf and the hearing worlds: the positive and negative aspects, connection and love, but also the conflicts and clashes.”
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