Language Movies

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

Michel Thomas is one of the most brilliant language teachers in the world. His usual clients are movie stars and business leaders. This programme...

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 this short documentary, a Musqueam elder rediscovers his Native language and traditions in the city of Vancouver, in the vicinity of which the...

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

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...

“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...

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

The mysterious song of humpback whales fascinates researchers worldwide. But why do the whales sing? Underwater camerawoman Christina Karliczek...

They just arrived in France. They are Irish, Serbs, Brazilians Tunisians, Chinese and Senegalese ... For a year, Julie Bertuccelli filmed talks,...

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...

Secessionnist movements in Canada outside Quebec.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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

The Cherokee language is deeply tied to Cherokee identity; yet generations of assimilation efforts by the U.S. government and anti-Indigenous stigmas...