Tongues Untied

Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill reciting his poetry, Riggs tell

Tongues

"2010 has generally been a fantastic year, but looking back it's the sad loss of my great friend and musical collaborator Steve Reid back in April that is one of the main things that comes into my mind. As a tribute and

American Tongues

Rich in humor and regional color, this sometimes hilarious film uses the prism of language to reveal our attitudes about the way other people speak. From Boston Brahmins to Black Louisiana teenagers, from Texas cowboys t

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A performance piece written by Sam Shepard, enacted by Joseph Chaikin and directed by Shirley Clarke, a dying man reflects on his life while delivering his own last rites.

Speaking Tongues

For three years, director Kyzza Terrazas has followed over thirty people from all over Mexico to explore the underground hip-hop movement in Latin America. Using rhythm and creative language, rappers such as Serko Fu, Ra

Silver Tongues

Two lovers play a dark and dangerous game of deceit. Donning different personalities, they travel from town to town using their talent for performance to shatter the lives of strangers unlucky enough to cross their path.

Tongues

A young man joins a megachurch and struggles to speak in tongues - until the Pastor's daughter agrees to help him out.

The Tongues

During a blizzard on the tundra, a Sámi woman is herding her reindeer when she is raped by a man. Her sister who is far away senses that something is wrong and starts looking for her. Wrapped in fear and confusion, both

Salty Tongues

In an overcrowded refugee camp, young Syrian poet Hadi is unable to express his thoughts, while his neighbor Nadim fears to articulate his feelings. But a hidden cassette redefines the trajectories of both their lives fo

Lesbian Tongues

Both famous and infamous lesbians talk about love and sex, and relate some of their funniest experiences about the realization of their love for women.

Foreign Tongues

Dead Tongues

Following the mysterious suicide of her former lover, a woman teams up with his estranged twin brother to unearth the uncanny events preceding her ex-boyfriend's death. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's short story, "Facts Co

Silver Tongues

Two lovers travel from town to town playing a dark game of deceit that soon spirals out of control, threatening their very relationship.

Queer Tongues

Following “guerrilla filmmaking” tactics, Queer Tongues documents today’s vibrant queer spoken word scene. It showcases the work and passions of queer spoken word artists (poets and performers) through snippets of live a

Venomous Tongues

Charles Raleigh is a cousin of Miss Clara Burton, and is secretly in love with her. She returns his affection in secret also. Time parses and George Conway makes love to Clara. She considers his proposal of marriage long

Sixteen Tongues

The lives of an assasin and her hacker girlfriend are shattered when they cross paths with a rogue cop holed up inside an S/M hotel.

Whispering Tongues

When his father commits suicide a gentleman sets out to avenge the death on those who swindled him out of a fortune.

Diamond Tongues

Edith dreams of being a successful actress but just can't seem to make things happen. When she can't figure out what she's doing wrong, she begins to do everything wrong.

Idle Tongues

After serving 5 years in prison for embezzling church funds, Dr. Ephraim Nye returns to Ostable and the scornful gossip of its residents, led by Althea Bemis. There is a typhoid epidemic, and Dr. Nye believes it to be ca