Language Barrier Movies

A woman introduces her Chinese dad to her American Jewish boyfriend and manipulates their language barrier to keep everyone happy.

As a little girl, Rosalie doesn't understand anything her French family says, and that's what she encounters in À table! How does she deal...

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...

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...

Focuses on the Trial of Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American radio broadcaster who broadcast English language propaganda for Japan during World...

Basuki (22) is a fresh graduate with a Javanese accent from Semarang who has migrated to the metropolitan city. Through online video conversation, he...

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

The days around New Year's Eve of a Nepali immigrant worker in Romania.

The Universal Language is a new documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Sam Green (The Weather Underground). This 30-minute film traces the...

Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees living in Italy. One day at the hospital, Fatma learns her mother has breast cancer.

Set in Bengaluru’s restless chaos of fading tongues, simmering pride, and the dark seduction of violence, a young pro-Kannada activist battles...

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

Set in Singapore in 1979, A Year Of No Significance chronicles the gradual disintegration of a middle-aged architect as changes rock the 45th year of...

This film, directed by Dominique GAUTIER, takes the viewer on a worldwide excursion into the history and structure of the Esperanto language,...

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...

This short tells the story about the existing boundary between what is masculine and feminine in the Peruvian LGBT community.

Evicted from his rental apartment, a Belarusian migrant finds himself distant among friends who have integrated into Polish society. Holding onto his...