Language Movies

Be. Belonging. Words on vintage flash cards shuffle past in a stream-of-consciousness that shows the mind working, assigning labels and names to...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

The movie explores the origin of the Ukrainian language and persecution of those who defended its authenticity. Using examples of other countries,...

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

Borrowing from an anthropological study initiated through the University of California in 1969, The Taste of The Name is a fantasia on universality....

The world's largest island has been part of Denmark since 1721, but a significant majority of the 56.000 inhabitants now want independence. They feel...

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