Language Movies

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

“We left our language and started speaking others’. The girls have got married and have left for the villages. Boys are getting married...

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

The documentary proposes a unique meeting with the speakers of several indigenous and inuit languages of Quebec – all threatened with...

A Japanese man and a gay bar-owner in Hong Kong drink beer as they talk about their childhood and experiences.

A TV-hour length documentary film depicting the relationship between language, culture, place, music, tradition, and magic on an active volcano, in...

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

A teacher attempts to teach his students to properly enunciate the letter 'R'.

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

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...

An Asian film crew’s attemptsat making a film while navigating the strict laws of filming in the UK. They don’t have a budget or enough...

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

There are over 6,000 languages in the world. We lose one every two weeks. Hundreds will be lost within the next generation. By the end of this...

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