Film Details

The Cinematheque is the community partner on this acclaimed new feature by Alison O’Daniel—a Cleveland Institute of Art graduate who also once worked for the Cinematheque—showing in this year’s 47th Cleveland International Film Festival. (The Festival takes place in person March 22-April 1 at Playhouse Square and online April 2-9). The CIFF47 website describes the movie this way: “Loosely hung on the backdrop of a string of tuba burglaries from high schools in Southern California, The Tuba Thieves is not a whodunnit crime documentary; instead it is an artistic encounter with the Deaf experience. The score of Los Angeles’ urban soundscape sets the tone, reverberating steady highway hums, jarring airplane flyovers, and wildfire-fighting helicopters overhead. Interspersed are stories of Nyke, a Deaf drummer, and Geovanny, a hearing marching band student, as they navigate their day to day, peppered with reenactments of lesser-known ‘silent’ concerts throughout history. Exceptionally enlightening, this rare perspective illustrates how the world is constantly communicating. From this unique purview, audiences are challenged to take a closer look at the details surrounding them and reevaluate their own definition of listening.” Alison O'Daniel will appear in person at the 3/27 screening. Cleveland premiere. In English and American Sign Language with English subtitles and captions. 91 min.

NOTE: Tickets for this film can be purchased only at the Cleveland Int'l Film Festival website and box office—not at the "Cinematheque films" ticket link below.