Plautdietsch News

The Low German film, Stellet Licht, (Silent Light)  won the jury award at the famous Cannes Festival and recently played at the New York Film Festival where it garnered the following review:  “Never predictable but always audacious, Mexican director Carlos Reygadas has made the world’s first talking picture in the medieval German dialect called Plautdietsch. Silent Light is set in Northern Mexico’s ascetic, self-contained Mennonite community and cast almost entirely with Mennonite non-actors. Building in emotional intensity, this elemental tale of love and betrayal is at once an ethnographic exploration and an homage to Dreyer’s Ordet...”    Author Miriam Toews is one of the actors.