Language Movies

A TV-hour length documentary film depicting the relationship between language, culture, place, music, tradition, and magic on an active volcano, in...

In the middle of a French exam, 17 year old Charlie struggles to find the words to be true to himself…and his best friend.

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...

“When you don’t know your language or your culture, you don’t know who you are,” says 69-year-old Armand McArthur, one of the...

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

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

Emile is an unhappy little vampire, doing a job he detests, in a world plunged into perpetual gloom. He serves a despotic mistress who loathes...

A surreal trip into the world of an extremely long german word.

In a world embracing change, Ajeng distances herself from her Javanese roots. She explores the consequences as she grapples with the clash between...

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

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

The wild beauty of the Bella Coola Valley blends with vivid watercolor animation illuminating the role of the Nuxalk oral tradition and the...

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

An Asian film crew’s attemptsat making a film while navigating the strict laws of filming in the UK. They don’t have a budget or enough...

This tape is the first of Hill’s works for which he deliberately wrote a screenplay. The title defines the piece’s starting point: Alice...

The Art of Nom explores an ancient and nearly extinct Vietnamese script called Chu Nom and the five scholarly artists known as Zenei, Gang of Five....

In this short documentary, a Musqueam elder rediscovers his Native language and traditions in the city of Vancouver, in the vicinity of which the...

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...

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