Language Movies

“We left our language and started speaking others’. The girls have got married and have left for the villages. Boys are getting married...

What if you are made to feel ashamed when you speak your "mother tongue" or ridiculed because of your accent? "Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i"...

Documentary by Jean-Pierre Gorin about twin girls who spontaneously developed their own unique language as children.

Ulivia explores what is accessible via the Internet in relation to Inuktitut. A complex language with several dialects which varies from one...

In 1989, Tabinda Sheikh immigrated from the Dominican Republic and got a job in a New York City hotel as a housekeeper. It was there that she caught...

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

Three college students start a social experiment to prove that reality changes according to the words we use to describe it. Through research,...

The filmmaker traces the loss of her ancestral language over three generations of her family, and her own desire to recover it.

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

A story about the Livonian (Liv) language going extinct, and about the people still trying to keep it alive.

An incident from the early days of Québec's quiet revolution, tailor-made for the cartoonist. It is the story of a Montréal commuter...

The Universal Language is a new documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Sam Green (The Weather Underground). This 30-minute film traces the...

For 50 years, controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington crisscrossed the United States, frantically searching and documenting dying Native...

In the Bella Coola Valley, a haunting legend endures through generations as a filmmaker reckons with whether the stories of her ancestors can survive...

Robert Brammel, a private English teacher who develops an unusual relationship with a new student.

"Se ti sabir" is a film reflecting on language, intelligence, and our relationship with new technologies and non-human species.

"Speedball" Mike Bailey pulls back the curtain on the artistry of pro wrestling while fighting his way through a busy week of independent shows.

A Carefree Artist confronts The Pioneer of Odia literature Byaasakabi Fakir Mohan, to lament about the current state of the Odia Language and how it...

The amazing story of 1,000,000,000 people and their MAD MAD MAD rush to learn English! China 's love affair with the English language has reached...