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Silenced ( 도가니, aka Dogani, Korean; 2011) Director:  Hwang Dong-hyuk This movie is based on events that should have occurred in the Gwangju Inhwa School for the Hearing Impaired in South Korea. The principal and some teachers were accused of having sexually abused a few of its underage students for many years. It is said that the faculty members went away with a slap on their wrists. The convicted were given jail terms of less than a year each. This movie highlighted the deficiencies in Korean Law regarding the statute of limitations for sex crimes against minors and the disabled. Under this realisation, the people demanded change for the National Assembly to pass a bill in late 2011, often referred to as the Dogani Bill (named after the movie), to abolish the limitations and increase jail terms for this offence. This is a difficult movie to watch. A new art teacher reports for duty in a school for the hearing impaired. He soon discovers the wrongdoings of the principal, teachers ...

CODA (2021) Director: Sian Heder Now we know they are two meanings to the word 'coda'. As we have come to know it, the first word refers in music to the closing passage in a music piece. As the root word in Latin suggests, Coda is Italian refers to the tail (e.g. cauda equina is the sack of nerve fibres that fan out like a horsetail at the posterior end). The word's second meaning is actually an abbreviation for 'Child of Deaf Adult'. In essence, it refers to the child who grew up with non-hearing parents. This film is about a CODA, a high school girl, Ruby, who grows up with both mute parents and an elder brother who is also mute. This tightly-knitted family of four live by the coast. Father is a fisherman helped by his son, who dropped out of school early due to disability. Ruby juggles between school and helping her father on a fishing boat. The understanding is that Ruby is to help out in the family business after high school. By chance, after joining the scho...