Hear and Now

Hear and Now

2007 · 85 min · ★ 6.8 · Documentary

Filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky aims her camera at her own life to capture the remarkable transformation of her deaf parents, who decided to undergo a life-changing procedure to restore their hearing after spending 65 years in silence. Chronicling her parents' experiences over their first year of having sound in their lives, Brodsky tells a deeply personal tale that moved viewers to bestow it with the Documentary Audience Award at Sundance 2007.

Directed by Irene Taylor

Your Rating

Where to Watch

Rent or Buy

Make it a double feature

2h 4m together

Hear and Now

Saving Pelican 895

Both from Irene Taylor.

More from Irene TaylorSee all →

Open Your Eyes

Open Your Eyes · 2015

MovieDocumentary

Living under the Himalayan sun, their eyes have slowly gone milky white. Manisara and Durga have cataracts, and their mountain home in Nepal has become a warren of darkness. Shot over three days, Open Your Eyes follows their extraordinary journey down the mountain for a chance to see again.

I Am: Celine Dion

I Am: Celine Dion · 2024

I Am: Celine Dion

MovieDocumentaryMusic

A raw and honest behind-the-scenes look at the iconic superstar's struggle with a life-altering illness. Serving as a love letter to her fans, this inspirational documentary highlights the music that has guided her life while also showcasing the resilience of the human spirit.

One Last Hug

One Last Hug · 2014

MovieDocumentary

"One Last Hug" chronicles a three day summer camp for children learning to cope with the death of a loved one. With the guidance of trained professionals, grieving children as young as seven years old learn that their feelings are normal, and that by talking about them they can begin to heal. A testament to the healing power of shared sorrow, One Last Hug shows the often-unseen and particular experience of children's grief.

Saving Pelican 895

Saving Pelican 895 · 2011

Saving Pelican 895

MovieDocumentaryDrama

HBO Documentary Films Presents the story of the effort to save the 895th surviving oiled pelican in Louisiana, showing how conservationists, government agencies and wildlife activists joined forces to preserve this one life.

Leave No Trace

Leave No Trace · 2022

MovieDocumentary

In February 2022, the Boy Scouts of America reached a $2.7 billion agreement over sex abuse claims, the largest such settlement in history. Leave No Trace explores how this all-American institution went so horrifyingly wrong.

Beware the Slenderman

Beware the Slenderman · 2016

Beware the Slenderman

MovieDocumentaryCrime

In this horrifyingly modern fairytale lurks an online Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. The entrance to the internet quickly leads to its darkest basement. How responsible are our children for what they find there?

The Final Inch

The Final Inch · 2009

MovieDocumentary

A documentary about the ongoing efforts to eradicate polio in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements

Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements · 2019

Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements

MovieDocumentary

A deeply personal portrait of three lives, and the discoveries that lie beyond loss: a deaf boy growing up, his deaf grandfather growing old, and Beethoven the year he was blindsided by deafness and wrote his iconic sonata.

Trees and Other Entanglements

Trees and Other Entanglements · 2023

Trees and Other Entanglements

MovieDocumentary

A poetic meditation on nature, mortality, and the passage of time in her exploration of our symbiotic nexus with trees. Weaving together several stories of arboreal adoration, unfolds as a deeply human tale of our connection to the natural world and to one another.

Homeless: The Soundtrack

Homeless: The Soundtrack · 2018

Homeless: The Soundtrack

After being taken away from her parents as a baby by the state and given up for adoption, musician "Cami" Jenni Alpert went searching for her birth father. She finally finds him: homeless, toothless, addicted. And a musician, just like her.

The Listening Project

The Listening Project · 2018

The Listening Project

MovieDocumentary

The profound impact of technology on the lives and identities of young deaf adults is explored in The Listening Project. Fourteen deaf people tell stories beginning with a childhood wide-eyed about sound, into the growing pains of adolescence and, eventually, their professional lives. Sometimes humorous, always tender, The Listening Project is a timely coming of age story, one we haven't heard before.

More Like This

Couldn't load this row right now.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter