Movies: Language

  • 2023
    Talk

    Talk (2023)

    Talk

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    In a world embracing change, Ajeng distances herself from her Javanese roots. She explores the consequences as she grapples with the clash between tradition and modernity. "Wicanten" is a poignant reflection on the evolving dynamics of language and i...

    Talk
  • 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
  • 2024
    Tuorås Dalska

    Tuorås Dalska (2024)

    Tuorås Dalska

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    In the small community of Älvdalen in northern Dalarna, Sweden, the unique language Elfdalian (Älvdalska) is spoken. This documentary follows Ing-Marie's personal story about how it is and has been to live with the Elfdalian language....

    Tuorås Dalska
  • 2015
    Train de vie

    Train de vie (2015)

    Train de vie

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    Train de vie
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    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
  • 1969
    It Ain't Necessarily So

    It Ain't Necessarily So (1969)

    It Ain't Necessarily So

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    It Ain't Necessarily So captures a budding Japanese jazz singer and her biracial vocal instructor who struggle to agree on the proper way to sing Gershwin’s “I Loves You Porgy.” Humor is no stranger to jazz singers Eiko Katayama and Kazue Hiraoka who...

    It Ain't Necessarily So
  • 1984
    Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia)

    Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia) (1984)

    Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia)

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    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 in Wonderland asks her omniscient father why things get in a muddle. They then talk on a metalinguistic level. A ...

    Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia)
  • 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
  • 1983
    Secret of the Waterfall

    Secret of the Waterfall (1983)

    Secret of the Waterfall

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    The confluence of words and movement propels this multi-layered collaboration by Atlas, choreographer Douglas Dunn, and poets Anne Waldman and Reed Bye. Dunn's athletic choreography is performed to the rhythms, cadences, and associative meanings of t...

    Secret of the Waterfall
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1994
    Štúrovci na Dobrej Vode

    Štúrovci na Dobrej Vode (1994)

    Štúrovci na Dobrej Vode

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    Štúrovci na Dobrej Vode
  • 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
  • 1969
    Last Words

    Last Words (1969)

    Last Words

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    Linguist-philologist Mark Janse discovers speakers of the Cappadocian language – previously assumed extinct, linguists worldwide are exhilarated at the discovery, but Janse realizes the rediscovered language is doomed to die anyway....

    Last Words
  • 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
  • 2019
    I speak français

    I speak français (2019)

    I speak français

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    I speak français
  • 2010
    Mom n' Me

    Mom n' Me (2010)

    Mom n' Me

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

    Mom n' Me