In new drama The Way We Talk, sign language is a tool for both communication and community. Hong Kong director Adam Wong's movie, which had its world premiere at last year's London Film Festival, centers around three d/Deaf friends: Sophie (Chung Suet Ying), Alan (Marco Ng), and Wolf (Neo Yau). Alan and Wolf are childhood friends who met at their speech and language school, where Wolf, who was born into a Deaf family, was often in trouble for refusing to use spoken language.
Flashbacks to 2005 see him clashing with his teacher, with sign language penalized in the classroom, and on-screen text at the start of the film informs the audience that policy around using sign language in schools in Hong Kong only changed in 2010.
