Language Movies

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

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

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...

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...

The world's largest island has been part of Denmark since 1721, but a significant majority of the 56.000 inhabitants now want independence. They feel...

Borrowing from an anthropological study initiated through the University of California in 1969, The Taste of The Name is a fantasia on universality....

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

In a world embracing change, Ajeng distances herself from her Javanese roots. She explores the consequences as she grapples with the clash between...

Captured during his francisation courses in Montreal, Adad Hannah constructs a playful video portrait of the different people and backgrounds that...

Using a small, portable HD video recorder, the artist creates a self portrait that captures his confrontation with foreign people, places and...

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

Joe learns the importance of using new words.

It Ain't Necessarily So captures a budding Japanese jazz singer and her biracial vocal instructor who struggle to agree on the proper way to sing...

Fashion has a powerful influence over the way people perceive each other. Within fractions of a second, we attach any number of characteristics to a...

“Let’s think of nature as a big room. Nature is a room you know you’ll have to leave some day, most likely not by choice”....