Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor's guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.
Kawa Nemir is like a walking dictionary of the Kurdish language. He flees Turkey and takes refuge at Anne Frank's former house in Amsterdam. Will he be able to finish the translation of Ulysses and publish it?
Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people – rescue or death? Which move should she take?
Koncom osemdesiatych rokov v Ceausescovom Rumunsku priniesol pašerák VHS na čiernom trhu a odvážna prekladateľka rumunskému ľudu čaro západných filmov a zasiali semienka revolúcie.
An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.
Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society. She is determined to be a "real Japanese" before her year contract runs out, though it precisely this determination that is incompatable with Japanese humility. Though she is hired for a choice position as a translator at an import/export firm, her inability to understand Japanese cultural norms results in increasingly humiliating demotions. Though Amelie secretly adulates her, her immediate supervisor takes sadistic pleasure in belittling her all along. She finally manages to break Amelie's will by making her the bathroom attendant, and is delighted when Amelie tells her the she will not renew her contract. Amelie realizes that she is finally a real Japanese when she enters the company president's office "with fear and trembling," which could only be possible because her determination was broken by Miss Fubuki's systematic torture.
A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a web of deception and paranoia that seems impenetrable...
Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?
Petr Michal‘s meditative documentary follows the current life of an esteemed Czech literary translator, Anna Karenina. The film largely treats the relationship with her late husband, poet Petr Kabeš, and the feeling of loneliness she has been facing since his death. It is definitely not a conventional documentary portrait, since the director does not ask questions, and instead lets Karenina voice out her thoughts and feelings, observing her with a casual camera during work or on her mountaineering trips. The film also serves as an implicit proof of love to analogue medium: not only the book, but analogue film as well, with its invisible, yet almost tangible features.
Brazilian director Julio Bressane directs this religious biography on the life and work of Saint Jerome, the monk who first translated the Bible into Latin. Set both in the desert and in the posh confines of the Vatican, Jerome (Everaldo Pontes) agonizes over which Latin word would best fit its Hebrew counterpart. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
Román pre ženy je jemným groteskným príbehom dvoch žien: dvadsaťročnej Laury (Zuzana Kanóczová), ktorá pracuje v redakcii dámskeho týždenníka Vyrovnaná žena, a jej ovdovelej matky, tlmočníčky a prekladateľky Jany (Simona Stašová). Obe ženy hľadajú toho pravého a stále sa im to nedarí. Jana, ktorá kedysi chodila s jedným Čechom, a preto „typických“ Čechov úprimne neznáša, márne hľadá svojho vysnívaného cudzinca a zároveň útrpne odoláva tragikomickej dvornosti dobráckeho suseda Žemlu (Miroslav Donutil). Laura sa po dvoch vzťahoch (s lektorom angličtiny a mladučkým predavačom mobilných telefónov) zamiluje do štyridsaťročného Olivera (Marek Vašut), ktorý je zamestnaný v reklamnej agentúre. Nosnou zápletkou celého filmu je fakt, že Oliver bol pred dvadsiatimi rokmi veľkou láskou Laurinej matky, inými slovami „typickým“ Čecháčkom…
Filmmaker Alan Berliner documents his first cousin, the poet-translator Edwin Honig, as he succumbs to Alzheimer's.
Four Australian soldiers become compromised when they capture a young Afghani boy spying on their reconnaissance position.
Ľubomír Feldek je jeden z najvýznamnejších slovenských básnikov, publicistov, prekladateľov a dramatikov Slovenska 20. storočia. Slovenský prekladateľ Shakespeara, spolutvorca Perinbaby a syn neprávom odsúdeného sudcu, ktorý netušil, že aj nad ním budú celý život vynášať rozsudky. Či už išlo o cenzorov alebo o jeho blízke okolie. Napriek tomu sa Ľubomír Feldek stal jedným z najplodnejších a najrešpektovanejších slovenských autorov. Divák počas filmu prejde 85 rokov histórie nielen samotného autora, ale aj Slovenska.
Russian sociologist Maxim Shugaley and his translator colleague Samer Sueifan are still being held in a Libyan prison. For more than a year, they have been subjected to torture and psychological violence on a daily basis. While in custody, Maxim Shugaley encounters various people who turn out to be, sometimes unknowingly, sources of information about the situation in Tripoli. Listening to their stories, the sociologist literally collects valuable information bit by bit, which can be decisive for the entire world community.
A Syrian exile living in Australia returns when his brother is taken into custody by the Assad regime in 2011.
Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquaintance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Instead, however, he arranges for the hit to be placed on himself. Before the contract is executed, he develops a relationship with a prostitute, and then changes his mind. In order to survive he takes the obvious course of action, which turns out to have possibly been unnecessary, and then he must deal with the guilt.
A young American agent living in Rome meets with a beautiful Swedish translator.
During a professional conference in Prague, two interpreters in the Hungarian booth hilariously vie for the attention of one listener.
A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.