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 dialect. The opposite has happened. The dialect persists and continues to blossom.
When married couple Egon and Maren lose their adult son, their family, which includes their daughter Lily, is paralyzed with grief. As it turns out, the three of them have very different ways of coping with grief and soon find themselves slipping apart. Now the three of them need to find their way back to life and to reconstitute the family.
A man has to endure a series of physical abuses by a mysterious being until the dominant realizes something that will change how he thinks of himself and others.
A dicey murder investigation. A fuming best friend. A chaotic living situation. Village police officer Franz Eberhofer has a lot on his plate right now.
A postmodern Swiss-Tyrolean ensemble ventures into remote mountainous regions, embracing the sonorous variety of local vernaculars. A poetic road movie with stunning shots and an emphatic approach to a new alpine aesthetics.
The œuvre of poet Raffaello Baldini (1924-2005) through the words of those who knew him, the poems he himself read, the fragments of his monologues, his beloved Romagna landscapes.
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.
Borrowing from an anthropological study initiated through the University of California in 1969, The Taste of The Name is a fantasia on universality. As a parallel to the elusive “umami” and its gradual scientific acceptance as a primary taste, we consider what is perceivable, knowable, and namable. Through the blue spectrum of various hermetic artifices, we are fed fables of Jules Verne's Nautilus and resurface in a virtual tanning bed, turning over in a slippery navigation of language.
Brenner returns to Graz, the city where he grew up. When confronted with his old friends, his former girlfriend and the major sin he committed when he was young, murders and a fateful gunshot to the head result. After Brenner comes out of a coma, he begins to search for the person who tried to kill him - however, everybody claims that he himself is responsible. In the beginning Brenner was at the end of his rope, but he could face a new beginning in the end.
Amanece en Chengdu (China). Una joven, Wu Xiaofan, despierta aterrorizada y desorientada en un paraje remoto al notar cómo una serpiente recorre su mano. Se da cuenta de que su ropa está ensangrentada y siente un gran dolor que apenas le permite caminar. Mientras busca una salida, descubre una bolsa de plástico con una cabeza de conejo. En su intento de regresar a casa, será víctima de la insolidaridad de la gente y objeto de críticas. Poco a poco, a su mente vendrán imágenes que la harán comprender que todo lo le está pasando está relacionado con su novio, Chen Zhong, del que está enamorada. Traición, mentiras y el sueño de un futuro mejor determinarán un destino incierto.
The story of the New York accent, as told by New Yorkers.
Para Karl, un chico de pueblo, mudarse a Copenhague es como viajar a otro mundo. En el colegio, todos se ríen de su acento excepto Sawsan, una chica turca cuyo sueño es presentarse al concurso televisivo Factor X a pesar de la negativa de su padre. Juntos armarán un plan para desafiarle y cumplir sus sueños.
The celebration of a city is held every year and nostalgia is the main guest. Around the city there is nothing but ruins and in the distance, four men walk the streets of a city that was once great.
Set in a sleepy Austrian mountain village, ex-detective Simon Brenner has grown weary of his job repossessing cars and embarks on an extended getaway to the countryside. But before long he becomes embroiled in the convoluted world of the locals of a supposedly quiet town.
Philippe Abrams, el director de una oficina de correos del sur del Francia, intenta obtener de manera fraudulenta su traslado a la Costa Azul pero, una vez desenmascarado, le obligan a trabajar en Bergues, un pueblo junto a la frontera con Bélgica. Aunque cuando llega allí se encuentra con un lugar idílico y gentes encantadoras, a su mujer le asegura que vive en un auténtico infierno.
Director John Scott crafts this look at the curious life of his longtime friend John Stiles — an aspiring writer and former telephone marketer whose midlife meltdown worked wonders for his career. Stiles was down on his luck working as a telemarketer in Toronto when, one day, he threw out his pre-written script and began speaking to customers in curious character voices inspired by his upbringing in Nova Scotia. That month, Stiles made the most sales of any employee and earned a free DVD player for his efforts. In the following years, Stiles threw caution to the wind, venturing out to local open mic nights — where he developed a substantial cult following — and later publishing a pair of books with Insomniac press.
Former detective Brenner has become an ambulance driver and finds himself, much to his dismay, caught up in a war between two rival first aid organizations.
A story of a small town in southern Poland, residents of which immigrated to Poland in the 13th century from the present territories of the Netherlands and Belgium. Some of the residents still speak their ancient language.