Talking letters
Talking Letters
TALKING LETTERS narrates the history and present of the Romani people, whose native language is currently threatened with extinction. Over the course of centuries the language was passed from generation to generation orally, with a commonly agreed-upon written form for the various dialects only in existence since 1990. This documentary film is a vivid portrait of an endangered language, which has been banned and persecuted from the reign of Maria Theresa through to Hitler's times. Witnesses and linguists from Austria, Lithuania, Moldova, Romania and the Ukraine sketch multifaceted portrait of a little-known language and associated culture.
HDCAM | Farbe / colour
Angelika Herta, Pavel Braila
Radu Zara, Oleg Butnaru, Christian Haas, Eitvydas Doškus, Pavel Cuzuioc, Filip Bârsan
Radu Bostan
Alte arte
Str. Colentina, 1
Bucharest
Romania
Tel: +40.731 61 76 03
liliabraila@gmail.com
www.altearte.ro/talkingletters
Pavel Braila, Angelika Herta - Pavel Braila – born 1971 in Chişinău. Artist and filmmaker. His film DEFINITELY UNFINISHED was shown at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival in 2010.
Angelika Herta – born 1972 in Vienna. Studied film and art at the Cologne Academy of Media Arts. Has first-hand experience of working with migrants having worked both as a teacher of German as a foreign language and at a legal advice centre for refugees.
(Pavel Braila)
SHOES FOR EUROPE (2002, short)
BARONS’HILL (2005, short)
PLUSH WONDER (2007, short)
DEFINITIVELY UNFINISHED (2009, short)
CHISINAU – CITY DIFFICULT TO PRONOUNCE (2011)
NEW YEAR DISSECTION (2012, short)
INK RIBBON FINGERPRINTS (2012, short, anim.)
(Angelika Herta)
CZŁOWIEK Z ŻELAZA (2011, SHORT)
EIN BILD IM PARK (2012)