Movies: Language

  • 2002
    R-Rated

    R-Rated (2002)

    R-Rated

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

    R-Rated
  • 2023
    Grape Soda in the Parking Lot

    Grape Soda in the Parking Lot (2023)

    Grape Soda in the Parking Lot

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    Taqralik Partridge asks what if every language that had been lost to English — every word, every syllable — grew up out of the ground in flowers? Taqralik’s grandmother’s Scottish Gaelic and her father’s Inuktitut unfold in memories of her family, of...

    Grape Soda in the Parking Lot
  • 2016
    Colours of the Alphabet

    Colours of the Alphabet (2016)

    Colours of the Alphabet

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    It is estimated that 40% of the world’s population lack the opportunity to be educated in their own language. In Colours of the Alphabet we get an insight into the challenges this poses as we follow a group of first graders in Zambia – a country with...

    Colours of the Alphabet
  • 2020
    The English Teacher

    The English Teacher (2020)

    The English Teacher

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

    The English Teacher
  • 2021
    Thima it

    Thima it (2021)

    Thima it

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    Thima it
  • 2025
    Words From Home

    Words From Home (2025)

    Words From Home

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    WORDS FROM HOME is a poetic documentary that explores the kinds of affection and identity in the portuguese language spoken in Brazil. Through migrants' stories and their reflections, the movie reveals how expressions, accents and memories form emoti...

    Words From Home
  • 2023
    Empire of My Melodious Mind

    Empire of My Melodious Mind (2023)

    Empire of My Melodious Mind

    02023HD

    Be. Belonging. Words on vintage flash cards shuffle past in a stream-of-consciousness that shows the mind working, assigning labels and names to things through love and language. In the space of a moment, perception embarks on an epic journey of tong...

    Empire of My Melodious Mind
  • 2010
    Cry Rock

    Cry Rock (2010)

    Cry Rock

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    The wild beauty of the Bella Coola Valley blends with vivid watercolor animation illuminating the role of the Nuxalk oral tradition and the intersection of story, place and culture....

    Cry Rock
  • 2022
    Byaase Sunucha

    Byaase Sunucha (2022)

    Byaase Sunucha

    02022HD

    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 has been looked down upon by the elites of the state. Will his voice be heard?...

    Byaase Sunucha
  • 2020
    From Over Here

    From Over Here (2020)

    From Over Here

    02020HD

    This is a film about stuttering. Dedicated only to some of you. Oh, and it's also about pigeons, cat callers, apple trees, Goethe's Faust, forests, bridges, words, letters, DNA, benches, shopping streets, worms, symbols, computers, fallen trees and g...

    From Over Here
  • 1962
    Comprehensive School

    Comprehensive School (1962)

    Comprehensive School

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

    Comprehensive School
  • 2017
    The Art of Nôm

    The Art of Nôm (2017)

    The Art of Nôm

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    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. The beauty, heritage and emotion of the Chu Nom characters inspire Zenei’s art. The film also examines...

    The Art of Nôm
  • 2023
    dadme la muerte que me falta

    dadme la muerte que me falta (2023)

    dadme la muerte que me falta

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    dadme la muerte que me falta
  • 2016
    Talkers

    Talkers (2016)

    Talkers

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    The three speakers represent two of the dialects, with the most common one - the middle dialect spoken in Riga and central parts of Latvia - not featured in the film. In intimate surroundings, a farmer, a schoolteacher, and a ...

    Talkers
  • 1977
    Cree Way

    Cree Way (1977)

    Cree Way

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    This short documentary examines an innovative educational program developed by John and Gerti Murdoch to teach Cree children their language via Cree folklore, photographs, artifacts, and books that were written and printed in the community. Made as ...

    Cree Way
  • 2024
    Omegäng

    Omegäng (2024)

    Omegäng

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    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 dialect. The opposite has happened. The dialect persists and continues to blossom....

    Omegäng
  • 2019
    Gyani Maiya

    Gyani Maiya (2019)

    Gyani Maiya

    102019HD

    “We left our language and started speaking others’. The girls have got married and have left for the villages. Boys are getting married in villages. It should be taught to children”. — Gyani Maiya Sen-Kusunda The Gi Mihaq (also known as Kusunda) wa...

    Gyani Maiya
  • 2000
    The Gentle Sounding Of Livonians A Week Before The End Of The World

    The Gentle Sounding Of Livonians A Week Before The End Of The World (2000)

    The Gentle Sounding Of Livonians A Week Before The End Of The World

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    A story about the Livonian (Liv) language going extinct, and about the people still trying to keep it alive....

    The Gentle Sounding Of Livonians A Week Before The End Of The World
  • 2018
    Trillium

    Trillium (2018)

    Trillium

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    There are about 250 people with a unique ancestry. Livonians – one of the smallest and most endangered nations. Each of Livonians has a duty to preserve their identity and the great history of their ancestors. Trillium follows the footsteps of a poet...

    Trillium
  • 2012
    Lon Marum

    Lon Marum (2012)

    Lon Marum

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

    Lon Marum