A deaf girl speaks to her shadows in this 16-minute poem that'll wreck your heart and rebuild it weirder.
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 for Alma hoping she would love the idea of sound. 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.
Cinematography
Shadow play becomes entire emotional vocabulary.
Writing
Poetry that actually sounds like desperate prayer.
Acting
Amanda Cristia Maryanto's eyes do all the screaming.
Director
Auliyah Fadia Hayya
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Indonesian cinema rarely centers deaf experience without inspiration-porn; this refuses triumph narratives entirely.
The 16-minute runtime isn't limitation—it's breath control, forcing you to sit in discomfort without relief.
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