Language Movies

Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a professor of literature in Dresden, was Jewish; through the efforts of his wife, he survived the war. From 1933 when...

Despite an unrivaled talent for communicating, Jake has trouble talking to women. When an impossible situation presents itself, Jake ignores the...

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.

“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...

Michel Thomas is one of the most brilliant language teachers in the world. His usual clients are movie stars and business leaders. This programme...

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...

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...

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

It is estimated that 40% of the world’s population lack the opportunity to be educated in their own language. In Colours of the Alphabet we get...

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

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

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

This is a film about stuttering. Dedicated only to some of you. Oh, and it's also about pigeons, cat callers, apple trees, Goethe's Faust, forests,...

Steven, a pupil in a special-needs class, learns that his school has won a trip to Alcabideche, Portugal. He is overjoyed to get the chance to...

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....

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...

The confluence of words and movement propels this multi-layered collaboration by Atlas, choreographer Douglas Dunn, and poets Anne Waldman and Reed...