video-es | VIDEO – Ethnographic Documentary Film “What if Babel was just a myth?” (56′, 2019)

• Following a young researcher documenting a 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.
  But for how much longer?

• Category: Culture
• Thematic area: Intercultural Dialogue
• Call topics: Science ethics and open content
• Major objective: Focus attention on the critical risks confronting indigenous languages
• Area of intervention: Increasing understanding, reconciliation and international cooperation