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Breaking Silence follows Walker Estes, a prison chaplain in the US state of Louisiana, as he assists Deaf people who are incarcerated by helping them to understand their rights, overcome communication barriers and even establish stable lives after their release. Described by his daughter Leslie as a man ‘always seeking to improve the lives of others’, Estes’s impassioned advocacy stems from his life as a Deaf man and from Leslie’s experience navigating the criminal justice system. Both a sensitive portrait of institutional marginalisation and an affecting study of family dynamics, the film holds room for both collective and personal struggle – as well as positive change.
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Food and drink
Local tensions simmer amid a potato salad contest at the Czech-Polish border
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Technology and the self
A filmmaker finds a tactile beauty in the creation of her prosthetic leg
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Knowledge
An Indigenous myth and a geological survey elicit two ways of knowing one place
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War and peace
A war meteorologist’s riveting account of how the Allies averted a D-Day disaster
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Technology and the self
How the magic of photography brought Victorian England closer to the spirit realm
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Neuroscience
Dog vision is a trendy topic, but what can we really know about how they see?
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Information and communication
An animation built from road signs is a whirlwind study of flash communication
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Biology
An elegy for a dying microbe explores what we really mean by ‘death’
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Art
Creating art that was aware of itself – and the viewer – made Manet the first modernist
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