Language Movies

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

After 45 years, a second-generation filmmaker embarks on a mission to rediscover her mother's roots and save what's left of her family's fading...

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...

The Art of Nom explores an ancient and nearly extinct Vietnamese script called Chu Nom and the five scholarly artists known as Zenei, Gang of Five....

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...

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

“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”....

Three Alaska Native women work to save their endangered language, Kodiak Alutiiq, and ensure the future of their culture while confronting their...

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...

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

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...

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

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

During a Q&A where he serves as an interpreter for a film director, Ron briefly experiences the spotlight. Unable to let the feeling go, his conflict...