Language Movies

Always the last to know, filmmaker Jon Beaton learns of his autism late in life – a diagnosis that brings liberation and mourning in equal measure. Se...

Steven, a pupil in a special-needs class, learns that his school has won a trip to Alcabideche, Portugal. He is overjoyed to get the chance to finally...

The Universal Language is a new documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Sam Green (The Weather Underground). This 30-minute film traces the...

In the Bella Coola Valley, a haunting legend endures through generations as a filmmaker reckons with whether the stories of her ancestors can survive...

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. Th...

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...

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 Gers...

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

Using a small, portable HD video recorder, the artist creates a self portrait that captures his confrontation with foreign people, places and language...

This is a film about stuttering. Dedicated only to some of you. Oh, and it's also about pigeons, cat callers, apple trees, Goethe's Faust, forests, br...

Fashion has a powerful influence over the way people perceive each other. Within fractions of a second, we attach any number of characteristics to a p...

“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 halluc...

Captured during his francisation courses in Montreal, Adad Hannah constructs a playful video portrait of the different people and backgrounds that mee...

Borrowing from an anthropological study initiated through the University of California in 1969, The Taste of The Name is a fantasia on universality. A...

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