Language Filmes

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Despite an unrivaled talent for communicating, Jake has trouble talking to women. When an impossible situation presents itself, Jake ignores the...

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

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

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

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