Two women, two continents, one fight to keep dying languages alive.
From great plains of Oklahoma to mountains in south west of France, two native cultures match each other. Two women talk about their culture, their threatened language. Isabelle from France in the Osage country, Chelsea from the Osage country in France.
Direction
Patient observation that trusts silence over exposition.
Cinematography
Oklahoma plains and French mountains speak as loudly as subjects.
Director
Francis Fourcou
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Osage has roughly 15 fluent native speakers left; Occitan, once dominant across southern France, now struggles against Parisian linguistic centralization.
Director Francis Fourcou spent three years building trust before filming—explaining why his subjects speak with such unguarded intimacy rarely seen in indigenous documentaries.
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