Language Movies
- 1973
Tickets s.v.p
Tickets s.v.p01973HD
An incident from the early days of Québec's quiet revolution, tailor-made for the cartoonist. It is the story of a Montréal commuter...
- 2016
Talkers
Talkers02016HD
The three speakers represent two of the dialects, with the most common one - the middle dialect spoken in Riga and central parts of Latvia -...
- 2023
Talk
Talk102023HD
In a world embracing change, Ajeng distances herself from her Javanese roots. She explores the consequences as she grapples with the clash between...
- 2014
Se dice poeta
Se dice poeta02014HD
- 2018
To Wake Up the Nakota Language
To Wake Up the Nakota Language02018HD
“When you don’t know your language or your culture, you don’t know who you are,” says 69-year-old Armand McArthur, one of the...
- 2012
Lon Marum
Lon Marum02012HD
A TV-hour length documentary film depicting the relationship between language, culture, place, music, tradition, and magic on an active volcano, in...
- 2009
Land of the Heads
Land of the Heads4.32009HD
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...
- 2011
The Universal Language
The Universal Language82011HD
The Universal Language is a new documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Sam Green (The Weather Underground). This 30-minute film traces the...
- 2014
Le grand roman de l'homme
Le grand roman de l'homme02014HD
- 2009
Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i
Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i62009HD
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"...
- 2018
Trillium
Trillium02018HD
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...
- 2000
The Gentle Sounding Of Livonians A Week Before The End Of The World
The Gentle Sounding Of Livonians A Week Before The End Of The World02000HD
A story about the Livonian (Liv) language going extinct, and about the people still trying to keep it alive.
- 2018
In Between
In Between52018HD
Osman can understand his mother tongue, Kurdish, but cannot speak it, and he speaks Turkish, which happens to be his second language, but cannot...
- 2023
Grape Soda in the Parking Lot
Grape Soda in the Parking Lot02023HD
Taqralik Partridge asks what if every language that had been lost to English — every word, every syllable — grew up out of the ground in...
- 2016
Colours of the Alphabet
Colours of the Alphabet02016HD
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...
- 2004
Language Does Not Lie
Language Does Not Lie82004HD
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...
- 2016
Cree Code Talker
Cree Code Talker02016HD
CREE CODE TALKER reveals the role of Canadian Cree code talker Charles 'Checker' Tomkins during the Second World War. Digging deep into the US...
- 2020
Inuit Languages in the 21st Century
Inuit Languages in the 21st Century02020HD
Ulivia explores what is accessible via the Internet in relation to Inuktitut. A complex language with several dialects which varies from one...
- 2023
Empire of My Melodious Mind
Empire of My Melodious Mind02023HD
Be. Belonging. Words on vintage flash cards shuffle past in a stream-of-consciousness that shows the mind working, assigning labels and names to...
- 2014
The Disunited States of Canada
The Disunited States of Canada52014HD
Secessionnist movements in Canada outside Quebec.