Language Movies

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

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

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

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

How is our dialect faring in the globalized age? When the "railroad age" began 160 years ago, Switzerland feared that High German would supplant the...

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

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

In the small community of Älvdalen in northern Dalarna, Sweden, the unique language Elfdalian (Älvdalska) is spoken. This documentary...

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

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...

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

A teacher attempts to teach his students to properly enunciate the letter 'R'.

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

The Cherokee language is deeply tied to Cherokee identity; yet generations of assimilation efforts by the U.S. government and anti-Indigenous stigmas...

At what point in our evolution did we start talking? To paint, play music and travel? When did we build our first imaginary worlds? When was the need...

Linguist-philologist Mark Janse discovers speakers of the Cappadocian language – previously assumed extinct, linguists worldwide are...

Three Alaska Native women work to save their endangered language, Kodiak Alutiiq, and ensure the future of their culture while confronting their...

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