Movies: Language

  • 2023
    Empire of My Melodious Mind

    Empire of My Melodious Mind (2023)

    Empire of My Melodious Mind

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    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
  • 2007
    Writing the Land

    Writing the Land (2007)

    Writing the Land

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    In this short documentary, a Musqueam elder rediscovers his Native language and traditions in the city of Vancouver, in the vicinity of which the Musqueam people have lived for thousands of years. Writing the Land captures the ever-changing nature of...

    Writing the Land
  • 2013
    The Language of Love

    The Language of Love (2013)

    The Language of Love

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    In the middle of a French exam, 17 year old Charlie struggles to find the words to be true to himself…and his best friend....

    The Language of Love
  • 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
  • 2018
    To Wake Up the Nakota Language

    To Wake Up the Nakota Language (2018)

    To Wake Up the Nakota Language

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    “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 last fluent Nakota speakers in Pheasant Rump First Nation, Treaty 4 territory, in southern Saskatchewan. Through the wisdom ...

    To Wake Up the Nakota Language
  • 2013
    If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the NY Accent

    If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the NY Accent (2013)

    If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the NY Accent

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

    If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the NY Accent
  • 2008
    Mad About English!

    Mad About English! (2008)

    Mad About English!

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    The amazing story of 1,000,000,000 people and their MAD MAD MAD rush to learn English! China 's love affair with the English language has reached feverish proportions. With half a million or more visitors descending on Beijing for the Games, can the ...

    Mad About English!
  • 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
  • 2006
    The Wind Blows Round

    The Wind Blows Round (2006)

    The Wind Blows Round

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    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 with his young wife and their three children to produce goat cheese, in order to escape the wrongs...

    The Wind Blows Round
  • 2021
    Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

    Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington (2021)

    Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington

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    For 50 years, controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington crisscrossed the United States, frantically searching and documenting dying Native American languages. Harrington amassed over a million pages of notes on over 150 different tribal lang...

    Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington
  • 1980
    Poto and Cabengo

    Poto and Cabengo (1980)

    Poto and Cabengo

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

    Poto and Cabengo
  • 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
  • 2019
    Gyani Maiya

    Gyani Maiya (2019)

    Gyani Maiya

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    “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
  • 2014
    Le grand roman de l'homme

    Le grand roman de l'homme (2014)

    Le grand roman de l'homme

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    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 to believe born? In short, where, when and how did the contours of man's essence take shape? Going b...

    Le grand roman de l'homme
  • 2015
    The Taste of the Name

    The Taste of the Name (2015)

    The Taste of the Name

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    Borrowing from an anthropological study initiated through the University of California in 1969, The Taste of The Name is a fantasia on universality. As a parallel to the elusive “umami” and its gradual scientific acceptance as a primary taste, we con...

    The Taste of the Name
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2019
    I speak français

    I speak français (2019)

    I speak français

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    I speak français
  • 2019
    The Commission

    The Commission (2019)

    The Commission

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    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 safeguards the most important principles of the language, but for others, it’s an anachronism of the Soviet ...

    The Commission