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Release Date: 2012

Categories: Movies, Language & Literature, Biography, Documentary, Culture & Society, Linguistics

Misafa Lesafa: From Language to Language is a 2004 Israeli documentary film that shares interviews with foreign-born Israeli artists and writers about the importance of language and asks how the struggle between their mother tongue and Hebrew has affected their art. The documentary shares interviews with some of Israel's more prominent thinkers and artists. The film won the Best Israeli Documentary award at the 2004 Docaviv Festival. "It is not a language that flows out of you", an immigrant writer says of Hebrew, which he first learned when he moved to Israel. "It's more like shoveling... MORE

Misafa Lesafa: From Language to Language is a 2004 Israeli documentary film that shares interviews with foreign-born Israeli artists and writers about the importance of language and asks how the struggle between their mother tongue and Hebrew has affected their art. The documentary shares interviews with some of Israel's more prominent thinkers and artists. The film won the Best Israeli Documentary award at the 2004 Docaviv Festival. "It is not a language that flows out of you", an immigrant writer says of Hebrew, which he first learned when he moved to Israel. "It's more like shoveling gravel out of your mouth." Hebrew might be Israel's national language, but the nation has always had a large number of immigrants who arrive speaking their own native tongues. According to Misafa Lesafa, these Israeli immigrants face a conflict between the reflexive language of their childhood and the new language that surrounds them, and no one feels this conflict more sharply than the artists whose passions rely on words. Misafa Lesafa explores the inner workings of writers’ mind to reveal how each one handles their craft differently, and responds differently to the common linguistic conflict they LESS