Watch talkers on Soap2day. 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.
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"This project consists a visual fluidity of construction, harmony and thoughts taking colors and length from this body of autonomy. Different images...
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The movie explores the origin of the Ukrainian language and persecution of those who defended its authenticity. Using examples of other countries,...
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For 50 years, controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington crisscrossed the United States, frantically searching and documenting dying Native...
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A short documentary film that explains why ancestral languages are dying and promotes their preservation.
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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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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...
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The Art of Nom explores an ancient and nearly extinct Vietnamese script called Chu Nom and the five scholarly artists known as Zenei, Gang of Five....
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CREE CODE TALKER reveals the role of Canadian Cree code talker Charles 'Checker' Tomkins during the Second World War. Digging deep into the US...
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Ahmemulić prepares tongue in her mother’s way – skinned, seasoned, boiled, sliced. She can then in turn serve her son her...
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A Wounaan teenager and a leader of their community venture into the Darién in search of a sacred bird. Along the way, they will face the...
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“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”....
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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...