Deaf

Eva Libertad's Deaf (Spanish: Sorda) was the surprise breakthrough of the 2025 Spanish award season. The film won the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlinale, the Lux Audience Award at the European Film Awards, the Golden Biznaga for Best Spanish Film at Málaga, and three Goyas, Best New Director for Libertad, Best New Actress for Miriam Garlo, and Best Supporting Actor for Álvaro Cervantes. The Goya tally placed the film among the most-decorated Spanish debuts of the past decade.

Libertad is a screenwriter and director from Murcia who developed Sorda from her own short film of the same name (2021). The lead, Miriam Garlo (Libertad's sister and herself a deaf actress and theatre artist) had played the role in the short version and reprised it for the feature, with the bilingual Spanish/Spanish Sign Language script worked out collaboratively across years of pre-production. This is one of very few Spanish features in which the central performance is delivered in LSE (Lengua de Signos Española) by a deaf performer.

The supporting cast includes Álvaro Cervantes (best known for the Movistar+ series El embarcadero and the title role in TVE's Carlos, rey emperador) Elena Irureta and Joaquín Notario. Cinematography is by Gina Ferrer García and the score by Aránzazu Calleja and Maite Arroitajauregi. The film also became one of the most-watched Spanish-language productions of 2025 in the streaming markets where it was acquired (Filmin domestically, Netflix internationally) and is widely treated as the highest-profile recent example of Spanish independent cinema crossing into mainstream visibility.