Language Movies

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are...

With the 70s behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.

After an unprecedented global pandemic has turned the majority of humankind into violent infected beings, Morgan, a man gifted with the ability to...

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...

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

After 45 years, a second-generation filmmaker embarks on a mission to rediscover her mother's roots and save what's left of her family's fading...

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

She was born in a cave, more than 60 years ago. Now she lives in a village, with many children and grandchildren to look after. Sometimes, she dreams...

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...

Alistair Heather sets out on a mission to reclaim the Scots language. For decades, his fellow-Scots speakers have been mocked, their language...

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

An abstract white space. An elderly woman, naked, wrapped in transparent plastic. A shoot for a video installation. The filmmaker talks to her, gives...

In the small community of Älvdalen in northern Dalarna, Sweden, the unique language Elfdalian (Älvdalska) is spoken. This documentary...

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

For some time now, The State Commission of the Lithuanian Language is at the center of tough discussions. For some, it’s an institution which...

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 Wounaan teenager and a leader of their community venture into the Darién in search of a sacred bird. Along the way, they will face the...

For his 45th birthday, wealthy Californian Adam receives a surprise gift from his choreographer partner: 100 weekly Spanish lessons with...

For 50 years, controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington crisscrossed the United States, frantically searching and documenting dying Native...

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