Watch talkers MyFlixer. 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.
102015HD
There are over 6,000 languages in the world. We lose one every two weeks. Hundreds will be lost within the next generation. By the end of this...
02016HD
In this film a young man and his curmudgeonly grandfather are going 1,800 km to northern Russia in an old Zhiguli car, hoping to find the grave of...
02012HD
A TV-hour length documentary film depicting the relationship between language, culture, place, music, tradition, and magic on an active volcano, in...
01970HD
Linguist-philologist Mark Janse discovers speakers of the Cappadocian language – previously assumed extinct, linguists worldwide are...
02019HD
For some time now, The State Commission of the Lithuanian Language is at the center of tough discussions. For some, it’s an institution which...
02019HD
Vārdotājas (Wordsmiths) traces the recent rise of women's stand-up comedy in Latvia, but it is by no means just for laughs. Feelings of...
02019HD
"If a person doesn't go to church anymore, then the church should go to them," says Rinalds, a calm, smiling, young man with a good sense of humor....
01977HD
This short documentary examines an innovative educational program developed by John and Gerti Murdoch to teach Cree children their language via Cree...
02023HD
A short documentary film that explains why ancestral languages are dying and promotes their preservation.
02015HD
"Mother Tongue" chronicles the first time a documentary film about Guatemalan genocide in Guatemala was translated and dubbed into...
02016HD
Deniss is a Russian-speaking young man working at a fast food chain and spending his days in a small, gloomy apartment where all the things still...
62020HD
A postmodern Swiss-Tyrolean ensemble ventures into remote mountainous regions, embracing the sonorous variety of local vernaculars. A poetic road...