Language Movies

As their Debs application deadline approaches, a closeted couple must sort their domestic issues as Gaeilge to prevent their classmates from knowing...

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...

There are about 250 people with a unique ancestry. Livonians – one of the smallest and most endangered nations. Each of Livonians has a duty to...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

Victor, a passionate birdwatcher, is convinced that all the pigeons have vanished. When he meets Abby, a photographer, there’s no doubt for him...

How do German couples communicate in private? What are they arguing about? Is the way to a man’s heart really through his stomach? This...

Yu Ming is bored of his life in China and decides to go to Ireland. He studies the language, but is dismayed to find that no one understands him when...

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

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