France

55'47’’, 2019

DIRECTED BY

Sandrine Loncke

PRODUCED BY

Sandrine Loncke

SCRIPTWRITER

Sandrine Loncke

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Charlotte Krebs, Sandrine Loncke

EDITED BY

Romain Grésillon

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According to the UN, one language dies every two weeks. Following a young researcher documenting an endangered language isolate in southern Chad, the film goes out to meet villagers and explore their relation to languages. With their testimonies, one discovers a deeply multilingual humanity, made up of a myriad societies, each endlessly using language to encode its knowledge, its culture, and much more: its entire worldview. Could it be that multilinguism is the “natural” state of humanity? And for how much longer?

Sandrine Loncke is a French ethnomusicologist and filmmaker. She is the author of several books on West African Fulani Societies (Burkina Faso and Niger), and of the award-winning feature documentary “Dance with the Wodaabes”.