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19.02.2019 - 19.02.2019

Film Screening – Grammar of Happiness

Europe and North America / / Kalkanli
Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus

Film screening of The Grammar of Happiness (2012).This film follows the story of linguist Daniel Everett and his work with the Piraha tribe in the Amazon and their language. He argues that it has a special syntax, unique among human languages.
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21.02.2019 - 24.02.2019

Mother Tongue Film Festival

Global / / Washington, D.C.
Various

Through digital storytelling, the Mother Tongue Film Festival amplifies the work of diverse practitioners who explore the power of language to connect the past, present, and future. The four-day festival will open on United Nation’s International Mother Language Day, Thursday, February 21, and will feature 22 films and audiovisual experiences from 33 countries in 62 languages.
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06.02.2019 - 15.02.2019

Sámi Film Screening for school children / Sámi National Day

Europe and North America / / Rovaniemi
Arktikum, Polarium Hall

University of Lapland is celebrating the Sámi National Day by organising a film screening of Sámi films to school children. The event will be held on Wednesday, February 2 in Polarium Hall of Arktikum in Rovaniemi, Finland. The event is to raise awareness, recognition and interest on Sámi language and culture. The event aims also […]
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18.01.2019 - 25.01.2019

Exhibition of Documentaries on Indigenous Peoples of Ecuador: Waorani, Epera, Andwa, Chachi and Kayambi

Latin America and the Carribean / / Quito
Audiovisual Don Bosco Center

The documentary exhibition (through 10 films) will allow to raise awareness on the necessity of preserving languages in risk of extintion of indigenous peoples of Ecuador and in long-term to preserve their history, customs and traditions, memory, unique modes of thinking, meaning and expression, but also to construct their future. The languages of these indigenous […]
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01.01.1970 - 01.01.1970

INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE ON SCREEN: A RETROSPECTIVE

Global / / Paris
Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac Paris France + Australia + USA

INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE ON SCREEN: A RETROSPECTIVE A co-curated program giving voice to the galaxy of Indigenous film-makers whose works have and will continue to revitalize Indigenous languages, from within and outside the mainstream.
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11.10.2018 - 21.10.2018

12th Annual Native Spirit Indigenous Film Festival

Global / / London
Human Rights Consortium (School of Advanced Study), Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (Birkbeck University), The Crypt Gallery, SOAS

UK's Premiere Independent Festival of Indigenous Cinema, Media & Artists 11-21 October 2018 and year-round events.
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