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Name Me Lawand (PG)
Directed by Edward Lovelace
THE power of language and community are explored in this awe-inspiring portrait of a young deaf Kurdish boy desperately trying to find his own voice in Britain.
Four years in the making, the documentary, written and directed by Edward Lovelace, follows Lawand Hamad Amin who up to the age of five could not communicate in any way with his family, being profoundly deaf since birth.
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