8 Stories About My Hearing Loss

(8 Cuentos sobre mi hipoacusia)
Charo Mato | Documentary

2021 | 86 minutes | Argentina, Uruguay

Charo lost her hearing as an adult. In this insightfull documentary, she asks herself: How does someone listen when they can't hear?

Synopsis

Diagnosed with bilateral sensorineural progressive hearing loss in the first grade, Charo Mato became fully deaf by the age of 23, and received cochlear implants against her parents’ wishes. Structured with eight distinct stories and questions, Mato’s autobiographical documentary flits between childhood stories and digressive memories, the scientific and medical explanations of hearing loss and implants, and poetic ruminations on the nature of life and language. Mato uses the film to process her own experience. A beautiful, highly personal film processing and celebrating the experiences of those with hearing loss.

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Main credits

Mato, Charo (film director)
Mato, Charo (screenwriter)
Mato, Charo (film producer)
Mato, Charo (on-screen participant)
Olascuaga, Eugenia (film producer)
Baracco, Valentina (film producer)

Other credits

Cinematography, Tomás Ridilenir; editing, Camila Muhafra; music, Maximiliano Silveira.


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Festivals

IDA Documentary Awards - Best Writing Nominee; International Labour Film Festival (Construir Cine) - Best Feature; Puerto Madryn International Film Festival (MAFICI) - Special Mention "Women in focus"; Tandil Cine Film Festival - Best Film, Best Director, Best Editing; Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF); Santiago de Chile International Film Festival (SANFIC); Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival (FIDBA); Philadelphia Latino Film Festival (PHLAFF); Santa Catarina Diversity Week; La Semana del Documental- DocMontevideo; FIC Monterrey; Bolivia Lab; Espoo Ciné International Film Festival; Seattle Latino Film Festival (SLFF); San Francisco Latino Film Festival (SFLFF); Cuenca International Film Festival

DIRECTOR: Charo Mato

NATIONALITY: Argentina, Uruguay

YEAR: 2021

GENRE: Documentary

LANGUAGE: Spanish

COLOR / B&W: Color

GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School, College, Adult

SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE

AUDIO DESCRIPTION: AVAILABLE

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