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Nurith Aviv, the trace of the Hebrew letters in "Words that remain"

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Nurith Aviv has made about fifteen documentary films, in particular by making language issues a personal and cinematographic field of 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.

© Juliette Agnel

By: Pascal Paradou

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What can a language revive in 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 

, 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.

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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 Lucie Bouteloup's "La puce à l'oreille" column

: today, the expression "

" with Étienne Klein, physicist, philosopher of science and author of "

 at LeRobert. 

Nuith Aviv at the microphone of Pascal Paradou.

© Fanny Garancher

Theatrical release on March 9, 2022.

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