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 an insight into the challenges this poses as we follow a group of first graders in Zambia – a country with 72 local languages where education is primarily offered in English.
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"Mother Tongue" chronicles the first time a documentary film about Guatemalan genocide in Guatemala was translated and dubbed into...
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This short documentary examines an innovative educational program developed by John and Gerti Murdoch to teach Cree children their language via Cree...
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They just arrived in France. They are Irish, Serbs, Brazilians Tunisians, Chinese and Senegalese ... For a year, Julie Bertuccelli filmed talks,...
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“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...
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Be. Belonging. Words on vintage flash cards shuffle past in a stream-of-consciousness that shows the mind working, assigning labels and names to...
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Secessionnist movements in Canada outside Quebec.
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Ulivia explores what is accessible via the Internet in relation to Inuktitut. A complex language with several dialects which varies from one...
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In this short documentary, a Musqueam elder rediscovers his Native language and traditions in the city of Vancouver, in the vicinity of which the...
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The Cherokee language is deeply tied to Cherokee identity; yet generations of assimilation efforts by the U.S. government and anti-Indigenous stigmas...
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Taqralik Partridge asks what if every language that had been lost to English — every word, every syllable — grew up out of the ground in...
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Three college students start a social experiment to prove that reality changes according to the words we use to describe it. Through research,...