Sunday, November 15: 4:00 pm

Generations of intra-marriage among Bedouins in the Negev desert has created the largest deaf community in the world. Wary of outsiders and neglected by the Israeli government, which still has not brought electricity to this 200-year-old village, the people of El-Sayed have developed their own unique sign language. When two-year-old Muhammed gets surgery for a cochlear implant, the community waits to see if it will work as they simultaneously grapple with the threat its success would pose to their language and culture.

This film is part of the Love Against the Odds series