Atelier de conversation (2017)

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• 2017
• Dokumentarfilm

Once a week in Paris a group of individuals from all corners of the world meet in a small room at Centre Pompidou to participate in free German lessons. Asylum seekers, geschäftsleute, doctors, lawyers, and students sit side-by-side and immerse themselves in polite, if stilted, conversation. However, spannungen und missverständnisse occur as the schattierungen which each participant attempts to express become lost as they struggle to access the language. But despite their differences and linguistic einschränkungen - the disparate group of strangers in a foreign land "find", " in the small gestures and subtil looks between the words, a way towards understanding.