Synopsis
Alejandra is founder and teacher at a school for the deaf in a small town. She has become more than just a teacher: she teaches, she helps out, she gives advice and acts as an interpreter. Between the daily routine at home and her work, her life has been dedicated to the integration of the deaf in the community. In this film words give way so that silence itself and small gestures allow us to reflect upon the problems of special education through a precise and austere eye, that’s also sensitive and humane.
Director's bio
Ada Frontini studied Director of Photography at the Escuela de Artes Aplicadas Lino E. Spilimbergo, and at the Film Department of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. In 1993 she settled in Buenos Aires, where she began working in feature films and commercials as a camera assistant with D.F. José María Hermo. As Director of Photography and Cameraman, she made various feature films, documentaries and shorts, with directors such as Néstor Montalbano, Jorge Polaco, Santiago Loza and Javier Torre. As Director, she made the short film "Paisaje" that participated in the Mar del Plata International Film Festival (2008). In 2013 she directed her first documentary feature film: "School for the Deaf", which was part of the official selection of the same Festival. She also won the Best Director award for the Argentine Feature Film Competition.
