Watch talkers on SolarMovie. 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...
02016HD
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...
72020HD
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...
62009HD
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"...
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Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a professor of literature in Dresden, was Jewish; through the efforts of his wife, he survived the war. From 1933 when...
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Michel Thomas is one of the most brilliant language teachers in the world. His usual clients are movie stars and business leaders. This programme...
01970HD
Linguist-philologist Mark Janse discovers speakers of the Cappadocian language – previously assumed extinct, linguists worldwide are...
02024HD
How is our dialect faring in the globalized age? When the "railroad age" began 160 years ago, Switzerland feared that High German would supplant the...
8.52019HD
The movie explores the origin of the Ukrainian language and persecution of those who defended its authenticity. Using examples of other countries,...
102019HD
“We left our language and started speaking others’. The girls have got married and have left for the villages. Boys are getting married...
02010HD
The filmmaker traces the loss of her ancestral language over three generations of her family, and her own desire to recover it.