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June and Jennifer Gibbons became known as the 'Silent Twins' after developing a 'secret language' which meant they only spoke to each others and their dolls, isolating themselves from everyone else

A new film exploring the lives of selectively mute twins June and Jennifer Gibbons will be all too familiar to neurodiverse children and their parents, writes Anna Morell from Disability Rights UK

Agnieszka Smoczynska’s strange, whimsical and somber film “The Silent Twins” feels like a minor miracle. In a cinematic landscape where it seems like there’s only room for the predictably bombastic or prestigious, the odd, heartfelt gems that manage to slip through are to be celebrated.

The story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, who grew up in a small, Welsh town, has been made into a film

June and Jennifer Gibbons cut themselves off from other people from a young age and became known as the "Silent Twins" - until one sister met an untimely and unexplained death

Agnieszka Smoczyńska directs this well-acted, disturbing drama about June and Jennifer Gibbons, whose shared isolation ended in criminal acts

Austin Butler shakes his stuff as Elvis, Cronenberg gets creepy, Claire Denis takes on colonial agony and Hirokazu Kore-eda unwraps his first Korean-language film

June and Jennifer Gibbons were always close as toddlers, but as they grew up their bond started to alarm those around them - leading to disastrous consequences