Language Movies

Secessionnist movements in Canada outside Quebec.

This short documentary examines an innovative educational program developed by John and Gerti Murdoch to teach Cree children their language via Cree...

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

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...

WORDS FROM HOME is a poetic documentary that explores the kinds of affection and identity in the portuguese language spoken in Brazil. Through...

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

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

Joe learns the importance of using new words.

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

“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”....