Teach Me How to Love The Creatures Outside of My Room (2023)
The struggle of Alma, a deaf girl to hear and to be heared.
Genre : Drama, Science Fiction, Family
Runtime : 16M
Director : Auliyah Fadia Hayya
Writer : Auliyah Fadia Hayya
Synopsis
A struggle to hear and to be heared. Alma, a beautiful girl who didn’t get the chance to hear how chaos the world is since she was born. Her mother then bought a hearing device to Alma hoping she would love the idea of sound. Alma thought hearing them would make her the perfect girl to her people. She got it wrong. It wasn’t just that she couldn’t hear, she wasn’t being heard. By a poetry in her room, she asks her shadows about love she has to the universe.
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