Language Movies

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

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

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

The story of the New York accent, as told by New Yorkers.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

Taqralik Partridge asks what if every language that had been lost to English — every word, every syllable — grew up out of the ground in...

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

This tape is the first of Hill’s works for which he deliberately wrote a screenplay. The title defines the piece’s starting point: Alice...

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

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

Three Alaska Native women work to save their endangered language, Kodiak Alutiiq, and ensure the future of their culture while confronting their...