Language Movies

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

A Japanese man and a gay bar-owner in Hong Kong drink beer as they talk about their childhood and experiences.

Despite an unrivaled talent for communicating, Jake has trouble talking to women. When an impossible situation presents itself, Jake ignores the...

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

A Wounaan teenager and a leader of their community venture into the Darién in search of a sacred bird. Along the way, they will face the...

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

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...

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

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...

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

Michel Thomas is one of the most brilliant language teachers in the world. His usual clients are movie stars and business leaders. This programme...

Joe learns the importance of using new words.

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

An Asian film crew’s attemptsat making a film while navigating the strict laws of filming in the UK. They don’t have a budget or enough...

This tape is the first of Hill’s works for which he deliberately wrote a screenplay. The title defines the piece’s starting point: Alice...

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

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...

“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...