Language Movies

The aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surprised to see that a former French professor has settled...

A Japanese man and a gay bar-owner in Hong Kong drink beer as they talk about their childhood and experiences.

There are over 6,000 languages in the world. We lose one every two weeks. Hundreds will be lost within the next generation. By the end of this...

For some time now, The State Commission of the Lithuanian Language is at the center of tough discussions. For some, it’s an institution which...

Osman can understand his mother tongue, Kurdish, but cannot speak it, and he speaks Turkish, which happens to be his second language, but cannot...

The documentary proposes a unique meeting with the speakers of several indigenous and inuit languages of Quebec – all threatened with...

A Wounaan teenager and a leader of their community venture into the Darién in search of a sacred bird. Along the way, they will face the...

A short documentary film that explains why ancestral languages are dying and promotes their preservation.

This short satirical film takes us to Stereoville, a city where citizens must literally double up in their efforts to deal with the community’s...

The story of the New York accent, as told by New Yorkers.

An exiled poet returns to his native homeland of Pangasinan province after many years of absence. Through a mystical soul journey, he reclaims his...

The joys of 1960s modern education - as seen at a not-exactly-typical local comp.

The movie explores the origin of the Ukrainian language and persecution of those who defended its authenticity. Using examples of other countries,...

An abstract white space. An elderly woman, naked, wrapped in transparent plastic. A shoot for a video installation. The filmmaker talks to her, gives...

Secessionnist movements in Canada outside Quebec.

CREE CODE TALKER reveals the role of Canadian Cree code talker Charles 'Checker' Tomkins during the Second World War. Digging deep into the US...

They just arrived in France. They are Irish, Serbs, Brazilians Tunisians, Chinese and Senegalese ... For a year, Julie Bertuccelli filmed talks,...

Yu Ming is bored of his life in China and decides to go to Ireland. He studies the language, but is dismayed to find that no one understands him when...

Taqralik Partridge asks what if every language that had been lost to English — every word, every syllable — grew up out of the ground in...

The three speakers represent two of the dialects, with the most common one - the middle dialect spoken in Riga and central parts of Latvia -...