Language Movies

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

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.

Three college students start a social experiment to prove that reality changes according to the words we use to describe it. Through research,...

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 amazing story of 1,000,000,000 people and their MAD MAD MAD rush to learn English! China 's love affair with the English language has reached...

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

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,...

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

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

The Universal Language is a new documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Sam Green (The Weather Underground). This 30-minute film traces the...

This tape is the first of Hill’s works for which he deliberately wrote a screenplay. The title defines the piece’s starting point: Alice...

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

In the Bella Coola Valley, a haunting legend endures through generations as a filmmaker reckons with whether the stories of her ancestors can survive...

A Carefree Artist confronts The Pioneer of Odia literature Byaasakabi Fakir Mohan, to lament about the current state of the Odia Language and how it...

A surreal trip into the world of an extremely long german word.

The filmmaker traces the loss of her ancestral language over three generations of her family, and her own desire to recover it.

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

"Se ti sabir" is a film reflecting on language, intelligence, and our relationship with new technologies and non-human species.

This year will be the one! I swear! I'm going to make my short film for real!