Language Movies

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

“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...

The joys of 1960s modern education - as seen at a not-exactly-typical local comp.

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

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....

How do German couples communicate in private? What are they arguing about? Is the way to a man’s heart really through his stomach? This...

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

Three college students start a social experiment to prove that reality changes according to the words we use to describe it. Through research,...

This short documentary examines an innovative educational program developed by John and Gerti Murdoch to teach Cree children their language via Cree...

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

"Speedball" Mike Bailey pulls back the curtain on the artistry of pro wrestling while fighting his way through a busy week of independent shows.

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...

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

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

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

In 1989, Tabinda Sheikh immigrated from the Dominican Republic and got a job in a New York City hotel as a housekeeper. It was there that she caught...

“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”....

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...

WORDS FROM HOME is a poetic documentary that explores the kinds of affection and identity in the portuguese language spoken in Brazil. Through...