“Languages unite when you master several. They can talk to each other endlessly.”
What can a language revive for you? What traces do they leave in those who spoke them one day? Can they be completely forgotten? Do they still find a way to survive? In the documentary words that remain, six people evoke the memory of the languages that rocked their childhood, Judeo-Spanish or Judeo-Arabic dialects, as well as Judeo-Persian. Dozens of languages that are housed in these Hebrew letters, and maintain the memory of this learning, and common culture, which allows to cross the centuries.
Guest: Nurith Avivdirector of ” Words that remain ». She has made about fifteen documentary films, in particular by making questions of language a field of personal and cinematographic research. She is the first female director of photography in France, recognized by the CNC. She made the image of a hundred films (fiction and documentaries), among others for Agnès Varda, Amos Gitaï, René Allio or Jacques Doillon.
And the chronicle “The flea in the ear” by Lucie Bouteloup : today, the expression “to empty» with Étienne Klein, physicist, philosopher of science and author of «150 funny expressions to bring back your science» at LeRobert.
Theatrical release on March 9, 2022.