Language Movies

An incident from the early days of Québec's quiet revolution, tailor-made for the cartoonist. It is the story of a Montréal commuter...

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...

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

Robert Brammel, a private English teacher who develops an unusual relationship with a new student.

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...

They just arrived in France. They are Irish, Serbs, Brazilians Tunisians, Chinese and Senegalese ... For a year, Julie Bertuccelli filmed talks,...

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...

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

Emile is an unhappy little vampire, doing a job he detests, in a world plunged into perpetual gloom. He serves a despotic mistress who loathes...

This is a film about stuttering. Dedicated only to some of you. Oh, and it's also about pigeons, cat callers, apple trees, Goethe's Faust, forests,...

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

"Mother Tongue" chronicles the first time a documentary film about Guatemalan genocide in Guatemala was translated and dubbed into...

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

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

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

In this short documentary, a Musqueam elder rediscovers his Native language and traditions in the city of Vancouver, in the vicinity of which the...

Come back to this day, next year. Ain't nothing, chief.

In a world embracing change, Ajeng distances herself from her Javanese roots. She explores the consequences as she grapples with the clash between...

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...

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