Language Movies

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

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

Secessionnist movements in Canada outside Quebec.

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 the middle of a French exam, 17 year old Charlie struggles to find the words to be true to himself…and his best friend.

A surreal trip into the world of an extremely long german word.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

They just arrived in France. They are Irish, Serbs, Brazilians Tunisians, Chinese and Senegalese ... For a year, Julie Bertuccelli filmed talks,...

In 1989, Tabinda Sheikh immigrated from the Dominican Republic and got a job in a New York City hotel as a housekeeper. It was there that she caught...

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"...

“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...

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