for children aged 11+
An adventure of two pre-pubescent kids, deaf Jamie and her heard of hearing friend Imane, offering an insight into deafness, cochlear implants, sign language, and life as a hearing-impaired person.
Twelve-year-old shy and deaf Jamie moves to the boarding school for the deaf to start her new school. She is reluctant to make new friends. When her eccentric grandmother, who has always been her guiding light and her rock, is taken to hospital in Paris, Jamie is distraught. An unexpected plan develops with the help of her bold classmate Imane. Together they set off on a road trip to Paris, but soon things do not go as planned and the trip takes an adventurous turn. Jamie is forced to come out of her shell. The trip full of obstacles and special encounters becomes a journey to remember.
"Okthanksbye is an exciting, cool, light-hearted, and emotional coming-of-age road movie full of energy. An important premise is that our main characters' deafness and hearing impairment irrevocably help determine how the journey will or will not go. /.../ …but it is not the main subject but rather the arena. It is primarily a film that shows a friendship blossoming against the backdrop of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Paris and all the colourful people they meet on their journey."