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 herder of ostriches talk about perceived differences between Latvian speakers, and about language policy and their lives.

Twenty-four images of a camera running in the woods, a moonlight and a cemetery through improvised g...

How do German couples communicate in private? What are they arguing about? Is the way to a man’s hea...

Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a professor of literature in Dresden, was Jewish; through the efforts ...

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

The celebration of a city is held every year and nostalgia is the main guest. Around the city there ...

Vārdotājas (Wordsmiths) traces the recent rise of women's stand-up comedy in Latvia, but it is by no...

This short documentary examines an innovative educational program developed by John and Gerti Murdoc...

"This project consists a visual fluidity of construction, harmony and thoughts taking colors and len...

The world's largest island has been part of Denmark since 1721, but a significant majority of the 56...

What if you are made to feel ashamed when you speak your "mother tongue" or ridiculed because of you...
Linguist-philologist Mark Janse discovers speakers of the Cappadocian language – previously assumed ...

Michel Thomas is one of the most brilliant language teachers in the world. His usual clients are mov...

In this short documentary, a Musqueam elder rediscovers his Native language and traditions in the ci...

Three college students start a social experiment to prove that reality changes according to the word...

The movie explores the origin of the Ukrainian language and persecution of those who defended its au...

There are over 6,000 languages in the world. We lose one every two weeks. Hundreds will be lost with...

In this film a young man and his curmudgeonly grandfather are going 1,800 km to northern Russia in a...
A TV-hour length documentary film depicting the relationship between language, culture, place, music...

For 50 years, controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington crisscrossed the United States, fra...

The documentary proposes a unique meeting with the speakers of several indigenous and inuit language...