Movies: Language

  • 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
  • 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
  • 2019
    I speak français

    I speak français (2019)

    I speak français

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    I speak français
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2016
    Talkers

    Talkers (2016)

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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
  • 2009
    Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i

    Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i (2009)

    Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i

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    What if you are made to feel ashamed when you speak your "mother tongue" or ridiculed because of your accent? "Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i" addresses these questions through its lively examination of Pidgin - the language spoken by over half of Hawa...

    Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i
  • 1973
    Tickets s.v.p

    Tickets s.v.p (1973)

    Tickets s.v.p

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    An incident from the early days of Québec's quiet revolution, tailor-made for the cartoonist. It is the story of a Montréal commuter train, a unilingual ticket collector and a bilingual passenger. The passenger appears on screen himself to describe h...

    Tickets s.v.p
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1967
    Build Your Vocabulary (Second Edition)

    Build Your Vocabulary (Second Edition) (1967)

    Build Your Vocabulary (Second Edition)

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    Joe learns the importance of using new words....

    Build Your Vocabulary (Second Edition)
  • 2018
    In Between

    In Between (2018)

    In Between

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    Osman can understand his mother tongue, Kurdish, but cannot speak it, and he speaks Turkish, which happens to be his second language, but cannot understand it. As a result of this condition of his, Osman starts to fail at handling two concurrent task...

    In Between
  • 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
  • 2014
    Se dice poeta

    Se dice poeta (2014)

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    Se dice poeta
  • 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
  • 2014
    put the goat in the goat boat

    put the goat in the goat boat (2014)

    put the goat in the goat boat

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    “Let’s think of nature as a big room. Nature is a room you know you’ll have to leave some day, most likely not by choice”. Heather Phillipson’s hallucinatory video put the goat in the goat boat explores endless declinations of nature—natural, naturin...

    put the goat in the goat boat
  • 2019
    Se ti Sabir

    Se ti Sabir (2019)

    Se ti Sabir

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    "Se ti sabir" is a film reflecting on language, intelligence, and our relationship with new technologies and non-human species....

    Se ti Sabir