Indonesian Stories
In an extension of the Stories2Connect project, we worked with deaf young people in Indonesia to tell their stories.
Together with storytellers and animators they made three wonderful fictionalised stories.
You can watch these short animations here, in Indonesian Sign Language with subtitles in English.
Akses pendidikan tuli – Accessible deaf education
https://youtu.be/Z10xEJ84G8o Deaf schoolgirl Indi struggles at school because the teachers do not use sign language, and she cannot understand what they say. She meets Natha, a deaf boy who goes to a school where sign language is used. Eventually, with the help of...
Tuli pasti bisa – Surely deaf people can!
https://youtu.be/vMCr3mdsEa8 Zalfa, a deaf girl, dreams of winning a drawing competition. On her first attempt, she does not win; but thanks to support from her hearing father and brother, she goes on to win the next competition.
Dunia kita setara – Our worlds are equal
https://youtu.be/upGaeYySnpU Hana, a deaf young woman, struggles to communicate with the hearing man that her parents wish her to marry. She convinces her parents to let her marry a deaf man.