24th New York Asian Film Festival

July 11-27, 2025

Photo: Ⓒ 2024 One Cool Film Production Limited, Lee Hysan Foundation. All Rights Reserved

North American Premiere

The Way We Talk

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Adam Wong (The Way We Keep Dancing, NYAFF 2021) presents his most heartfelt film yet with this empathetic coming-of-age drama. Sophie, Wolf, and Alan are young people navigating life in Hong Kong, all sharing one trait: deafness. Wolf and Alan grew up together attending a school for the hearing impaired, while Sophie received an implant and attended mainstream school. When Sophie meets Wolf and Alan, she embarks on a journey to learn sign language, prompting all three to reflect deeply on identity, language, and acceptance. With clever sound design and dialogue largely in sign language, Wong immerses viewers in his characters’ experiences, celebrating diversity, language, and inclusion.

Director: Adam Wong
Cast: Neo Yau Hawk-Sau, Chung Suet-Ying, Marco Ng
Languages: Hong Kong Sign Language & Cantonese with English subtitles
2024; 132 min.

SCHEDULE:

Saturday July 19, 6:00pm
Film at Lincoln Center

Intro and Q&A with director Adam Wong