Misafa Lesafa: From Language to Language is a 2004 Israeli documentary film that shares interviews with foreign-born Israeli artists and writers about the importance of language and asks how the struggle between their mother tongue and Hebrew has affected their art. The documentary shares interviews with some of Israel's more prominent thinkers and artists. The film won the Best Israeli Documentary award at the 2004 Docaviv Festival.Synopsis
"It is not a language that flows out of you", an immigrant writer says of Hebrew, which he first learned when he moved to Israel. "It's more like shoveling gravel out of your mouth."