Translator
The one who delivers memories: transporting, distance, proximity, translating, remembering, forgetting.
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The one who delivers memories: transporting, distance, proximity, translating, remembering, forgetting.
In 2014 in St. Petersburg, a group of young artists presented a performance dedicated to the issue of translation and conversion of contemporary poetry at the Manifesta 10 parallel events biennale. The performance was fi
A young girl has to be the adult in her family, when she and her mother bump their heads against a life-threatening bias in the Danish health system.
When a teenage girl must act as a translator between her crush and a French girl who catches his eye, she decides to alter their conversation to her benefit.
A Russian Literature professor at the University of Havana is ordered to work as a translator for child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when they are sent to Cuba for medical treatment. Based on a true story.
A Syrian exile living in Australia returns when his brother is taken into custody by the Assad regime in 2011.
A college student works at the illegal exchange booth attached to the pachinko. She is fed up with facing people addicted to gambling. However, the more she tries to escape from the exchange booth, the deeper she is stuc
Young father agrees to fulfill three criminal boss's wishes in order to get money for his son's surgery abroad.
Yusuf, a shy, sensitive Syrian refugee boy who lives in an exile at a remote Turkish border town, has to experience his newfound power, at the cost of his innocence.
A short film about a Thai translator in China.
Lynne Sachs pays homage to Walter Benjamin’s essay "The Task of the Translator" through three studies of the human body. First, she listens to the musings of a wartime doctor grappling with the task of a kind-of cosmetic
A short documentary about Mohamed Yousry, a naturalized American citizen whose life changed radically after September 11, 2001. Mohamed immigrated to the United States in 1980. For the next twenty years, he developed a f
A translator of Russian origin living in France, André Markowicz undertook the task of retranslating the complete works of Dostoyevsky in 10 years. Considered one of the greatest translators of our time and highly sought
Nine translators, hired to translate the eagerly awaited final book of a bestselling trilogy, are confined in a luxurious bunker.
Every kid needs their parents– But for 11 year-old Densel, 13 year-old Harye, 16 year-old Virginia, and the over 11 million children across the U.S. who are the only English speakers in their family, sometimes that relat
Examining the translation of poetry told as a kind of endless hide-and-seek with beauty, this film is following three virtuoso literary translators who take on the challenge of recreating poetry in another language, here