Movies: Language

  • 2022
    Byaase Sunucha

    Byaase Sunucha (2022)

    Byaase Sunucha

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    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
  • 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
    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
  • 2020
    The Fight for Greenland

    The Fight for Greenland (2020)

    The Fight for Greenland

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    The world's largest island has been part of Denmark since 1721, but a significant majority of the 56.000 inhabitants now want independence. They feel their culture and language is threatened and is the main reason for the many suicides among young pe...

    The Fight for Greenland
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2014
    The Disunited States of Canada

    The Disunited States of Canada (2014)

    The Disunited States of Canada

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    Secessionnist movements in Canada outside Quebec....

    The Disunited States of Canada
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2020
    Inuit Languages in the 21st Century

    Inuit Languages in the 21st Century (2020)

    Inuit Languages in the 21st Century

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    Ulivia explores what is accessible via the Internet in relation to Inuktitut. A complex language with several dialects which varies from one generation to the next. Inuktitut is threatened by dominant languages. Are there solutions so that these tech...

    Inuit Languages in the 21st Century
  • 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
  • 2020
    Stay Maybe? We Think We Made a Film

    Stay Maybe? We Think We Made a Film (2020)

    Stay Maybe? We Think We Made a Film

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    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 preparation, all they have is a shared passion to create. Stay Maybe is a comparison of cultures, at times sublime...

    Stay Maybe? We Think We Made a Film
  • 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
  • 2009
    Child of the Sun

    Child of the Sun (2009)

    Child of the Sun

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    An exiled poet returns to his native homeland of Pangasinan province after many years of absence. Through a mystical soul journey, he reclaims his primal connection to the water (danum), to the land (dalin), and to the people (katooan) where in the e...

    Child of the Sun