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"Beyond Silence"
1996
Directed by Caroline Link
Winner
for Best Picture honors at the 1997 Tokyo International Film Festival and
nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1998 Academy Awards, this
inspiring film tells the story of a child of deaf parents who discovers her
gift for music. Given a clarinet as a young girl, Lara grows up divided
between worlds of sound and silence and tries to find a place for herself in
both. "Beyond Silence is one of those films that helps us escape our
box of time and space and understand what it might be like to live in
someone else's" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). German with English
subtitles.
107 minutes.
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