Shablul Bamidbar (2008)

Shablul Bamidbar plot

El-Sayed, a Bedouin village in Israel's Negev Desert, is home to more deaf people than anywhere else in the world. From generation to generation, the residents have developed their own sign language. Deafness is as common in this community as life itself. This changes when an Israeli information campaign reaches the village about hearing restoration through Cochlear Implant surgery. As a result, Salim decides to have a Cochlear Implant placed on his young son Mohammed. Salim's decision shakes the balance between the deaf and hearing people in El-Sayed. For a year, filmmaker Oded Adomi Leshem follows Mohammed's progress from the point of view of the deaf in the community. A Cochlear Implant does not appear to be as simple as the educators suggested. The expectations created with regard to hearing and speaking are not realistic and the limited facilities of El-Sayed are hardly taken into account. For example, how do you charge a device when you don't have power?

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