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DES MOTS QUI RESTENT

WORDS THAT REMAIN

By Nurith AVIV

LES FILMS D'ICI - as DISTR / PROD

Documentary - Completed 2022

Six personnes évoquent le souvenir des langues qui ont bercé leur enfance, des parlers judéo-espagnols ou judéo-arabes et le judéo-persan. Ces langues s'éteignent mais la résonance des mots, les mélodies, les rythmes, les accents, ont laissé des traces chez ceux qui, enfants, les ont entendues.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- FRANCE, ISRAEL
- Languages
- FRENCH, HEBREW, Other
- Duration
- 52 mn
- Director(s)
- Nurith AVIV
- Writer(s)
- Nurith AVIV
- Producer(s)
- Serge LALOU (LES FILMS D'ICI), Itai TAMIR (Laila Films)
- Synopsis
- In Words That Remain, six people recall the languages that cradled their childhoods: Judeo-Spanish or Judeo Arabic, or Judeo-Persian. These languages, while quite different from one another, have a common Hebrew component, and—especially—a common feature: all of them are written in Hebrew letters. These letters have, with the passage of time, lost their use and their force. Today, the languages themselves are becoming extinct. The resonance of their words, however, of melodies, rhythms, and accents, have left traces that still work on in those who heard them as children.