Language Movies

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

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"...

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...

As their Debs application deadline approaches, a closeted couple must sort their domestic issues as Gaeilge to prevent their classmates from knowing...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

Secessionnist movements in Canada outside Quebec.

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...

Linguist-philologist Mark Janse discovers speakers of the Cappadocian language – previously assumed extinct, linguists worldwide are...

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

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