Pain

A debt collector who has lost his sense of pain after being in an accident when he was young falls in love with a street vendor who has acute hemophilia.

Lost Tongue

Helena Steenkamp, a Khomani - San woman from the Kalahari, South Africa joins one of the last Elders of her people to revive their endangered N!uu language.

Pierced Tongue

Documentary short film shot in Madison

Speaking in Tongues: Take One

A 16mm experimental film that analogizes the discourse of racialized criminality and the carceral apparatus, which surveils and delimits the movements of Black people’s bodies, with the conventions and mechanics of the c

Catching Snowflakes On Her Tongue + Cute Little Drunk

Gelya is enjoying being young. Her elder sister Kristina is expecting a second child at the age of just 17, and people are predicting the same fate for 14-year-old Gelya. After going out for a walk with a boy who is beso

Naked Tongues

Queers using their queer bodies as creative vessels and political tools on the naked word spoken scene in London.

Hiko in Tonga: A Culture almost Lost

A multi-generational film of a unique, vanishing culture of Polynesian women jugglers in The Kingdom of Tonga.

Twin Tastes & Tongues

Split-screen footage of daily goings-on in Shanghai and Barcelona captures the blurred cultural lines of our global present.

Fishing Child

An old fisherman catches a fish bowl from the sea, the fishing child painted on the bowl comes out to reality to catch a lot of pearls for him. A missionary wants to occupy the bowl and is punished by the fishing child.

Speaking in Tongues

At a time when 31 states have passed “English Only” laws, four pioneering families put their children in public schools where, from the first day of kindergarten, their teachers speak mostly in a foreign language. Speaki

Mother Tongue

During a family gathering, a shy teenager is forced to confront her cultural disconnection with her Sri Lankan heritage caused by losing touch with her first language. She turns to her grandmother in this heartfelt explo

Tip of my Tongue

To mark her 50th birthday, filmmaker Lynne Sachs gathers a group of her contemporaries—all New Yorkers but originally hailing from all corners of the globe—for a weekend of recollection and reflection on the most life-al

A Tongue Called Mother

A Tongue Called Mother depicts the relationship between language, gestures and affiliation. It slowly captures the actions and words of three generations of women in the same family and children learning to read, meditat

Tongjing

Audiovisual views of Tongjing, China. Sounds and images recorded along the banks of the Yangtze river in Jiangsu Province.

The Future of Tongue

An ominous future that will blow in a few minutes to a lover whom I met for the first kiss.

Talking Tongues

“Talking Tongues” (10 min.) finds Steele delivering a monologue as Beatrice Small, a woman who was abused by her husband. - True/False program

The Bedside Story

A light-hearted comedy about a struggle between a maverick actress and her stubborn and conservative brother-in-law, which represents a debate between individualistic values and family obligations. Apparently the happy e

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Potret Kerukunan Antar Etnis di Indonesia: Tradisi Bakar Tongkang Bagansiapiapi Provinsi Riau

The Bakar Tongkang tradition in Bagansiapiapi symbolizes the homecoming of Chinese descendants who settled there. Burning the boat represents their ancestors' commitment to making this port their new home. This tradition

Ne Zha

A young boy is born as the reincarnation of a demonic power, into a society that hates and fears him. Destined by prophecy to bring destruction to the world, Nezha must choose between good and evil to see if he can chang