Circumcision is not a trivial act. For those parents, mostly "mixed" couples from different religious origins, a choice has to be made before the birth of their children, whether religion has a role in their lives or not.

Circumcision

Seven young people tell their personal stories with the Yiddish language while discussing the life and work of avant-garde Yiddish poets.

Yiddish

Work, Place

The story of Ivory Coast artist, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, who created four hundred pictograms, based on one-syllable words in his language, Bété, to help people in the Bété community learn to read more quickly.

L'alphabet de Bruly Bouabré

For centuries, Hebrew was a sacred language, a written language of prayer and scripture. But today it is also the language of everyday life in Israel. Nurith Aviv, Israeli writers, musicians, actors and a Rabbi/philosopher from varying countries and ethnic backgrounds discuss the relationship between their mother tongues and Hebrew. Featuring: Aharon Appelfeld, acclaimed for his literary explorations of the Holocaust; actress Jenya (Evgenya) Dodina; Rabbi and philosopher Daniel Epstein; poet Salma-n Musa-lahah; poet and translator Agi Mishol; singer Amal Murkus; poet and Professor of Jewish Thought Haviva Pedaya; and Meir Wieseltier, a member of the early Sixties "Tel Aviv Poets" group.

Misafa Lesafa

Hebrew, which for centuries was a sacred language for the Jews of the diaspora, became, by political will, a language spoken daily from the beginning of the 20th century. What has been preserved, what has been forgotten, what has been repressed, what is it that requires resurgence? Writers and artists born in Israel are trying to describe their relationship to the religious dimension of Hebrew. The voice of some resonates with that of others, the words light up mutually, sometimes contradict each other: no version is necessary. The film deals with poetry and politics, religion and laity. It asks questions that are not irrelevant in other contexts. All modern and apparently secular languages are imbued with centuries of religious history, of which they still bear the marks.

Langue sacrée, langue parlée

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The film Announcements paints the portraits of seven women reflecting on the same theme. Their starting point is the announcement to Hagar, Sarah and Mary as in the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Koran. Their thoughts spread out and weave a new web, drawing strands from their associations and interpretations of these texts. And by talking about their own history, their personal myths, they work up to subjects such as the birth of image in the Christian world or that of poetry in ancient Greece. Announcements is a film about the movement of thought, the power of words, the secret of the voice, and the seduction of the image.