Language Movies

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

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...

A short documentary film that explains why ancestral languages are dying and promotes their preservation.

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

There are about 250 people with a unique ancestry. Livonians – one of the smallest and most endangered nations. Each of Livonians has a duty to...

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...

This short satirical film takes us to Stereoville, a city where citizens must literally double up in their efforts to deal with the community’s...

The aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surprised to see that a former French professor has settled...

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...

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

Secessionnist movements in Canada outside Quebec.

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 exiled poet returns to his native homeland of Pangasinan province after many years of absence. Through a mystical soul journey, he reclaims his...

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

The joys of 1960s modern education - as seen at a not-exactly-typical local comp.

Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a professor of literature in Dresden, was Jewish; through the efforts of his wife, he survived the war. From 1933 when...

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