video | 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