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...

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...

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"...

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

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

A Japanese man and a gay bar-owner in Hong Kong drink beer as they talk about their childhood and experiences.

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

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...

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

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...

The wild beauty of the Bella Coola Valley blends with vivid watercolor animation illuminating the role of the Nuxalk oral tradition and the...

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....

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

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

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

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

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...

CREE CODE TALKER reveals the role of Canadian Cree code talker Charles 'Checker' Tomkins during the Second World War. Digging deep into the US...

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