To organize the first time in Italy, the International Festival of Film and Video "del Sordo" it took the stainless strength of will, "Merlini Clan", a Milanese family, only one component deaf, who made of Theater and Cinema of a reason to support the existential passion staged by Alessandro, who knows assume his deafness as artistic value, and therefore his sister, Paola, and their mother, Lidia, have declined in the part of film producers and theatre , Giving themselves the spontaneous contribution to organize the International Festival, with the encouragement to put in place by the Provincial Chamber ENS Milan, and wheel the whole staff knows have referred, if necessary, the Company Theatre "Without Words", which was the first suggeritrice and proponent of that film supranational.

The festival took place in Milan at the Auditorium "Don Bosco" Via Melchiorre Gioia, Friday and Saturday 20 and October 21, 2006, with an opening prologue, reserved for participants, held the evening of Thursday 19 at the new " Hall Ridolfi 'dell'Ente National Deaf Milan, for the official presentation of international film exhibition, through a press conference and the intervention of some personality of Cinema, including actor Edward Costa, now known among deaf Milan being a character who knows himself understood with approaches Sign Language, and then the Festival was consolidated in the evening concluding with an epilogue gala protrattosi until dawn of Sunday, October 22.

For the opening of the exhibition film, Friday October 20, conducting stage has been entrusted to two young deaf, John and Clare Dollorenzo Di Monte, with considerable communication skills and entertainment "global" in the universal language of signs.
A ballet, just off the lights in the room and turned on the stage, then given the "Welcome!" Publicly and immediately avvinto the view of spectators, enchanted by the four girls avvenenti Corps dance, Gabriela Danci, Mary and Joanna Cavallaro and Stefany Hulguin, which nicely imbranato the impromptu presenter, Peter Masella.

The conductors scene, having presented three major proponents of that festival - Alessandro Merlini as actor, Antonio De Pieri as initiator of "Without Words" and Virginio Castelnuovo as president dell'ENS Provincial - have thus given the "Gone!" the film program with the first "no stop!" four movies, one of Germany - "The last deaf" - and three Italians: "Garbage, without food" in Turin, "The strange similarity", from Piacenza and " The life of Felix ", in Bologna. After the interval, were screened in succession other movies: "Roaring girl productions", England, "Ball precious", "Magarotto" Padua, "Deaf patients in the hospital", Germany and "I and my friend Nike "by Ippocampus Ciak Milan, followed by the series of five other movies," Auto-movie ", France, Awakening, from Como, not I see you, do not you answer, from Arezzo, Wild west, Slovenia and" GT "production of the deaf in Bologna.

Saturday, October 21 were projected eight movies in the morning: Charlie's Angels Deaf Girls, the group of Bologna, ecological Sacrifice, Spain, Apartment 1999, from Udine, Something has changed, from Milan, A deaf person guide to the sound sensitive, England , The premotion, from Piacenza, Another world, from Bologna and The Jam, Germany. The Film Festival 9ha then concluded the review on the afternoon of Saturday, with six other films: Place right, wrong room, from Piacenza, Pinky tells the real story VRL, USA, Something has changed, from Milan, Deaf Media, from Padova The news creatures can signs, Slovenia and most recently operated by Lecce.

Conclusion and awards.
The award ceremony was conducted by the jury composed of two critical Italians, hearing of film and two deaf foreigners, a Frenchman and a Swede ..
The Festival has highlighted the skill of deaf foreigners in the cinema sector, they, in fact, the film "Nectar" was awarded three prizes and one for "best actress" assigned to Cristina Boncompagni, of Bergamo, rewarded for his interpretation in movie "Awakening".
Here's how were awarded prizes: