Language Movies

Yu Ming is bored of his life in China and decides to go to Ireland. He studies the language, but is dismayed to find that no one understands him when...

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

A short documentary film that explains why ancestral languages are dying and promotes their preservation.

The aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surprised to see that a former French professor has settled...

In this short documentary, a Musqueam elder rediscovers his Native language and traditions in the city of Vancouver, in the vicinity of which the...

Emile is an unhappy little vampire, doing a job he detests, in a world plunged into perpetual gloom. He serves a despotic mistress who loathes...

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

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

CREE CODE TALKER reveals the role of Canadian Cree code talker Charles 'Checker' Tomkins during the Second World War. Digging deep into the US...

An exiled poet returns to his native homeland of Pangasinan province after many years of absence. Through a mystical soul journey, he reclaims his...

The mysterious song of humpback whales fascinates researchers worldwide. But why do the whales sing? Underwater camerawoman Christina Karliczek...

An abstract white space. An elderly woman, naked, wrapped in transparent plastic. A shoot for a video installation. The filmmaker talks to her, gives...

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

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

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...

Secessionnist movements in Canada outside Quebec.

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...

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

The inhabitants of Babel, from all periods of history, attempt to flee a divine flood.