Language Filmes

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

Taqralik Partridge asks what if every language that had been lost to English — every word, every syllable — grew up out of the ground in...

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...

This short documentary examines an innovative educational program developed by John and Gerti Murdoch to teach Cree children their language via Cree...

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

This short satirical film takes us to Stereoville, a city where citizens must literally double up in their efforts to deal with the community’s...

In a world embracing change, Ajeng distances herself from her Javanese roots. She explores the consequences as she grapples with the clash between...

Ulivia explores what is accessible via the Internet in relation to Inuktitut. A complex language with several dialects which varies from one...

“We left our language and started speaking others’. The girls have got married and have left for the villages. Boys are getting married...

The wild beauty of the Bella Coola Valley blends with vivid watercolor animation illuminating the role of the Nuxalk oral tradition and the...

In this short documentary, a Musqueam elder rediscovers his Native language and traditions in the city of Vancouver, in the vicinity of which the...

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...

Secessionnist movements in Canada outside Quebec.

“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”....

For 50 years, controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington crisscrossed the United States, frantically searching and documenting dying Native...