Movies: Language barrier

The mysterious arrival of a foreigner to a small village in a Mediterranean island, awake the sudden interest from a diverse group of residents, who will appear unexpectedly in the stranger's life, believing that he's going to reopen an old shop. In ...

A young British Chinese woman goes for dim sum with her family. Unable to speak the same language as much of her family, she both participates in, and observes, the action....

During a professional conference in Prague, two interpreters in the Hungarian booth hilariously vie for the attention of one listener....

Forced by the parents to be married, a young couple in Paris discover things about themselves as they mature through their romance together....

The Universal Language is a new documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Sam Green (The Weather Underground). This 30-minute film traces the history of Esperanto, an artificial language that was created in the late 1800s by a Polish eye doct...

Instead of enjoying her vacations in a peaceful peninsula of Turkey, Anna feels stuck in a strange torpor, while her boyfriend, Thomas, doesn't seem to notice it at all. Later in the afternoon, when a little girl suddenly disappears on the beach, An...

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Malick Bhai is a fish auctioneer, who is a familiar face in Cochin harbour. A foreigner girl Michelle enters his life. She comes to India with some motives and Malick Bhai decides to help her....

In the Greek village of Sugar Town, men have a serious problem. Women are fleeing the area in search of work or marriage in the big cities, leaving them behind - and lonely. Fully aware of the men’s dire situation, the astute mayor of Sugar Town prom...

Pariya tries to express herself to her mother and sister through a second language....

This story takes place in California in the 1990s. Xiao Lu, a young Chinese woman who has just immigrated to the United States, is struggling to learn a new language. At the same time she has elusive feelings for one of her colleagues. She wants to f...

This film, directed by Dominique GAUTIER, takes the viewer on a worldwide excursion into the history and structure of the Esperanto language, introducing its present-day speakers. The words of these users of the language are reflective of a variety o...

Basuki (22) is a fresh graduate with a Javanese accent from Semarang who has migrated to the metropolitan city. Through online video conversation, he tries to improve his Indonesian Language for a job interview....

Forced by the dangerous state of his homeland, Perghuzat moved to Berlin. He is alone, working small jobs day and night to survive. The profound clash of cultures, the linguistic barrier and the lack of spare time lead him into a condition of extreme...

Robert Brammel, a private English teacher who develops an unusual relationship with a new student....

The amazing story of 1,000,000,000 people and their MAD MAD MAD rush to learn English! China 's love affair with the English language has reached feverish proportions. With half a million or more visitors descending on Beijing for the Games, can the ...

Melanie's been having a tough day today. It's a nasty day. Piotr been having tough days for several months. It's a nasty year. Later that evening both cross paths at a bus stop....

Documentary about Voeren, officially a Dutch speaking municipality with language facilities for the French-speaking community and hence a politically highly charged region in the Belgian political context....

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