Director : Carlo Carlei
Cast : Andrea Tidona|Domenico Centamore|Luca Zingaretti|Luisa Ranieri
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Release Date : 5/30/2019
Country : Italy

This short film recounts Santiago’s conflict in wanting to reveal something personal to his best friends and discovers that they themselves carry a lot of discrimination towards people with HIV. Between being able to accept his diagnosis and seek the acceptance of people around him, Santiago will challenge the prejudices of his friends and the audience.

A crossed telephone line propels Receiver into a suite of heated and intimate conversations in which we encounter scenes of protest at a university for D/deaf students, Q&A cross-fire interrogation, vocal confrontations and lip-reading practice.In its various moods the film presents a heady and multi-layered assemblage of Deaf histories, to consider how we both speak and listen, and the question of who has the right and capacity to be heard.