Students in the primary school that takes part in the bilingual pilot scheme attend a class called the "junior interpreters", following a prayer in sign. Kahon Chan / China Daily

The problem of a Deaf seems simple - it is a disability to hear and sometimes, to speak - but the hearing world has not heard their needs very well. For many years, educators had faith in lip-reading and sign language has only revived from suppression very recently in Hong Kong schools. Kahon Chan steps into the world of silence to understand how sign language could make big diff erence.

Jenny Lam meets film experts and her Deaf fellows on selection of films for the Second Hong Kong International Deaf Film Festival in next February. Kahon Chan / China Daily

(HK Edition 12/29/2011 page4)