Language Movies

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

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

Joe learns the importance of using new words.

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...

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...

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,...

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

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

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

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

It Ain't Necessarily So captures a budding Japanese jazz singer and her biracial vocal instructor who struggle to agree on the proper way to sing...

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

Secessionnist movements in Canada outside Quebec.

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

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

“Let’s think of nature as a big room. Nature is a room you know you’ll have to leave some day, most likely not by choice”....

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...