{{Short description|2004 film by Nurith Aviv}} {{italic title}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} thumb|Film poster '''''From Language to Language''''' (Hebrew: '''משפה לשפה''', tr. ''MiSafa LeSafa'') is a 55-minute 2004 Belgian-French-German-Israeli Hebrew-language independent underground experimental documentary art film directed by Nurith Aviv.<ref>{{cite news|last=Liebergall|first=Ofer|script-title=he:דוקאביב 2016: דיווח שלישי ואחרון של עופר – '''פואטיקה של המוח''', '''שלושה אחים ומערה''', '''אמא ילדה''', '''הומו סאפיינס'''|trans-title=DocAviv 2006: Ofer’s Third and Final Report – ''Poetics of the Brain'', ''Shalom Italia'', ''Child Mother'', ''Homo Sapiens''|date=30 May 2016|url=https://www.srita.net/2016/05/30/docaviv_2016_finale_report|language=Hebrew|work=Srita|location=Tel Aviv-Yafo|access-date=24 February 2019|publisher=Mifal HaPayis}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Amiel Lavie|first=Noa|script-title=he:הבמאית הישראלית הכי מוערכת בצרפת חוזרת בסרט חדש|trans-title=The Israeli Director Most Appreciated in France Returns With a New Film|date=20 February 2019|url=https://timeout.co.il/%D7%AA%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%95%D7%AA/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A2-%D7%A1%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%99%D7%9D/%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%90%D7%91%D7%99%D7%91-%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9F|language=Hebrew|work={{ill|Time Out Tel Aviv (magazine)|lt=Time Out Tel Aviv|he|Time Out תל אביב}}|location=Petah Tikva and Tel Aviv-Yafo|access-date=25 February 2019|publisher=Steimatzky’s and {{ill|Yuval Sigler Communication Ltd.|he|יובל סיגלר}}’s Time Out Israel Ltd.}}</ref><ref>{{ill|Tal, Ran|he|רן טל}} and {{ill|Even, Anat|de|Anat Even|mg|Anat Even}} {{cite news|script-title=he:ראיון עם נורית אביב|trans-title=Interview With Nurith Aviv|date=December 2013|url=https://www.takriv.net/ראיון-עם-נורית-אביב|language=Hebrew|work=Takriv (Close Up): Online Magazine for Discussion and Critique of Documentary Film, Volume 7|location=Jerusalem and Tel Aviv-Yafo|access-date=25 February 2019|publisher=Ministry of Culture and Sport, Mifal HaPayis’s {{ill|Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts|he|מועצת הפיס לתרבות ולאמנות}}, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Mifal HaPayis’s, Ministry of Culture and Sport’s Israel Film Council’s, and Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality’s {{ill|Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv|he|קרן יהושע רבינוביץ לאמנויות תל אביב}}, Tel Aviv Cinematheque’s Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Forum, and Aleph Aleph Aleph – House of Hebrew Typography}}</ref>
==Synopsis== The film, produced by {{ill|Marek Rozenbaum|he|מרק רוזנבאום|pl}} and the Dardenne brothers, was released on DVD by {{ill|Éditions Montparnasse|fr}} as part of a boxset also including 2008's ''Langue sacrée, langue parlée'' and 2011's ''Traduire'',<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.editionsmontparnasse.fr/p1358/Nurith-Aviv-Coffret-DVD|people=Aviv, Nurith|title=''Nurith Aviv (Coffret 3 DVD)''|location=Paris|publisher=Éditions Montparnasse|language=ar, Catalan, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian, Spanish, Yiddish|accessdate=4 March 2018|format=DVD|oclc=650587091|date=18 May 2011|id=3346030022979|trans-title=''Nurith Aviv (3 DVD Boxset)''}}</ref> with which they form a trilogy.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bar-On|first=Yaakov|date=19 December 2016|script-title=he:נשארת בתמונה|trans-title=She Stays in the Picture|url=http://nurithaviv.free.fr/cerveau/article_presse/MAARIV_2016.pdf|language=Hebrew|work=Maariv|location=Tel Aviv-Yafo|access-date=28 April 2018|publisher=Jerusalem Post Group’s The Jerusalem Post|pages=10–11}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=8 July 2011|title=Rendering a Reborn Tongue|last=Katz|first=Lisa|url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.372135|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424202604/https://www.haaretz.com/1.5025761|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 April 2018|work=Haaretz|location=Tel Aviv-Yafo|publisher=M. DuMont Schauberg and {{ill|Haaretz Group (Company)|ar|مجموعة هاآرتس|de|Haaretz-Gruppe|he|קבוצת הארץ|lt=Haaretz Group}}|access-date=23 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=1 February 2011|title=''Traduire'' – Review|last=Mandelbaum|first=Jacques|author-link=Jacques Mandelbaum|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/feb/01/nurith-aviv-film-language-review|work=The Guardian|location=London|access-date=23 April 2018}}</ref> It contains interviews with Israeli artists and writers such as Aharon Appelfeld, Evgenia Dodina, Salman Masalha, Agi Mishol, Amal Murkus, Prof. Dr. Haviva Pedaya, Haïm Ulliel, and Meir Wieseltier who write in Hebrew even though it is not their native language about the importance of language and asks how the struggle between their mother tongue and Hebrew has affected their art.<ref>{{ill|Yudilovitch, Merav|he|מרב יודילוביץ'}}. {{cite news|date=26 September 2008|script-title=he:ניצחון ההולכים נגד הזרם|trans-title=The Victory of Those Who Go Against the Stream|url=https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3601999,00.html|language=Hebrew|work=Yedioth Ahronoth’s Ynet|location=Rishon LeZion|access-date=4 March 2018|publisher=Yedioth Ahronoth Group|last1=יודילוביץ' |first1=מרב }}</ref><ref>{{ill|Anderman, Nirit|he|נירית אנדרמן}}. {{cite news|date=3 February 2012|script-title=he:לדבר קולנועית: ראיון עם הבמאית והצלמת נורית אביב|trans-title=Speaking Film: Interview With Director and Cinematographer Nurith Aviv|url=https://haaretz.co.il/1.1632553|language=Hebrew|work=Haaretz|location=Tel Aviv-Yafo|publisher=M. DuMont Schauberg and Haaretz Group|access-date=4 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=2 April 2004|script-title=he:רק השפה העברית היא מולדת|trans-title=Only Hebrew Is a Motherland|last=Gur|first=Batya|author-link=Batya Gur|url=http://nurithaviv.free.fr/misafa/BatiaGour|language=Hebrew|work=Haaretz|location=Tel Aviv-Yafo|publisher=M. DuMont Schauberg and Haaretz Group|access-date=4 March 2018|page=113}}</ref><ref>Raizen, Prof. Dr. Esther. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23062661 ''From Language to Language'']. In: ''Middle East Studies Association Bulletin'', Tucson, Arizona: Middle East Studies Association of North America, Volume 40, Number 1, June 2006, pp. 127–129. Retrieved 24 March 2018.</ref><ref>{{ill|Golan, Dr. Ruth|he|רות גולן}}. שפת האם, שפת האב, השפה הטפילית והשפה הארוטית: על סרטה של נורית אביב '''משפה לשפה''' [Mother Tongue, Father’s Language, Parasitic Language, and Erotic Language: On Nurith Aviv’s Film ''From Language to Language'']. In: {{cite book|date=2007|script-title=he:'''דוקומנטלי: אסופת מאמרים על קולנוע דוקומנטרי ישראלי'''|trans-title=Documentally: Essays on Israeli Documentary Cinema|pages=230–235|location=Tel Aviv-Yafo|language=Hebrew|publisher=Am Oved and New Fund for Cinema and Television|oclc=181631075|url=http://www.am-oved.co.il/page_2452|accessdate=4 April 2018|last=Amir|first=Dr. Maayan, ed.|authorlink=Maayan Amir}} Reprinted in: {{cite book|date=2009|script-title=he:'''נושאי התודעה: כשהפסיכואנליזה פוגשת את התפתחות הרוח'''|trans-title=Consciousness Bearers: When Psychoanalysis Meets Spiritual Development|pages=325–336|location=Tel Aviv-Yafo|language=Hebrew|publisher={{ill|Resling|he|רסלינג}}|oclc=757629706|url=http://www.resling.co.il/book.asp?book_id=561|accessdate=4 April 2018|series=Fetish: Original Series of Cultural Critique, Series Editors: {{ill|Dr. Itzhak Benyamini|he|יצחק בנימיני}} and Idan Zivoni|last=Golan|first=Dr. Ruth}}</ref><ref>Caland, Dr. Brigitte. Speaking in Tongues: Film Examines Languages in Israel. In: ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Qv8PAQAAMAAJ Al Jadid: A Review of Arab Arts and Culture]'', Los Angeles, California: Nagam Cultural Project, Volume 11, Issues 50/51, Winter/Spring 2005, pp. 19–20. Retrieved 4 April 2018.</ref>
==Reception== Between its release and 2006, the film was screened and won several awards at DocAviv, Marseille Festival of Documentary Film, Visions du Réel, Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme, {{ill|Les 3 Luxembourg|fr}}, {{ill|Espace analytique|fr}}, {{ill|États généraux du film documentaire|fr}}, Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle, Israel Psychoanalytic Society, Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Martin-Gropius-Bau, University of Lausanne, and many other places.<ref>{{cite news|last=Yudilovitch|first=Merav|date=30 March 2004|script-title=he:הזוכה בפסטיבל ״דוקאביב:״ '''משפה לשפה'''|trans-title=The Winner at DocAviv: ''From Language to Language''|url=https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/1,7340,L-2896554,00.html|language=Hebrew|work=Yedioth Ahronoth’s Ynet|location=Rishon LeZion|access-date=26 March 2018|publisher=Yedioth Ahronoth Group}}</ref><ref>{{ill|Schnitzer, Meir|he|מאיר שניצר}}. {{cite news|date=31 March 2004|script-title=he:קלוז־אפ על השונה|trans-title=Closeup on Difference|url=http://www.makorrishon.co.il/nrg/online/archive/ART/680/382.html|language=Hebrew|work=Maariv|location=Tel Aviv-Yafo|access-date=26 March 2018|publisher=Jerusalem Post Group’s The Jerusalem Post}}</ref><ref>{{ill|Pinto, Goel|he|גואל פינטו}}. {{cite news|date=31 March 2004|title=DocAviv Prize Goes to Film About Struggling With Hebrew|url=https://haaretz.com/1.4769968|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180309120509/https://www.haaretz.com/1.4769968|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 March 2018|work=Haaretz|location=Tel Aviv-Yafo|publisher=M. DuMont Schauberg and Haaretz Group|access-date=4 March 2018}} Hebrew original: {{cite news|last=Pinto|first=Goel|date=30 March 2004|script-title=he:בין שפת התמונות לשפת המלים|trans-title=Between the Language of the Images and the Language of the Words|url=https://haaretz.co.il/1.955929|work=Haaretz|location=Tel Aviv-Yafo|publisher=M. DuMont Schauberg and Haaretz Group|access-date=6 October 2018}}</ref> The film was produced by ZDF, Arte, Noga Communications, {{ill|New Fund for Cinema and Television|he|הקרן החדשה לקולנוע וטלוויזיה}}, and {{ill|Israel’s Channel 8|he|ערוץ 8}}. It was also screened at Centre Georges Pompidou in 2015.<ref>{{cite news|last=Esterkin|first=Jonathan|script-title=he:שפת המוח|trans-title=Language of the Brain|date=15 May 2016|url=http://nurithaviv.free.fr/cerveau/article_presse/maariv1505.jpg|language=Hebrew|work=Maariv|location=Tel Aviv-Yafo|access-date=28 April 2018|publisher=Jerusalem Post Group’s The Jerusalem Post}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://nurithaviv.free.fr/misafa/misafa ''From Language to Language''] at [http://nurithaviv.free.fr Nurith Aviv’s Official Website] {{in lang|fr}} *{{IMDb title|0416984}} *[https://www.editionsmontparnasse.fr/video/r745t4 ''From Language to Language'' Film Trailer] at [https://www.editionsmontparnasse.fr Éditions Montparnasse’s Website] {{in lang|he}}
{{Films directed by Nurith Aviv}}
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