菲利普在法国南部普罗旺斯的一家邮局任职了十多年，一成不变的生活和闷闷不乐的妻子朱莉令他感到压抑。为了讨妻子欢心，菲利普装扮成残疾人申请升职到南部的黄金海岸地区，却不料弄巧成拙被调派到了极北的小城贝尔格担任局长。在南方人眼里，那里气候寒冷恶劣，人民粗俗不堪，说话还带着难懂的Ch'ti口音，是堪比地狱的地方。心灰意冷的菲利普辞别家人，忐忑不安的独自赴任。然而出乎意料的是，他发现自己的新下属们和当地的居民都很热情好客，自己也很快与邮递员安东尼交上了朋友。菲利普逐渐爱上了这处淳朴简单的小城，但当他试图说服朱莉一同来到北方生活，却遭到了妻子的质疑
巴伐利亚田园诗般的小镇正在酝酿着麻烦。与其说是因为村里著名的网络摄像头女孩被谋杀，不如说是因为Franz Eberhofer以他一贯悠闲的方式调查了这起案件，但更多的是因为现在，在所有时候，他咄咄逼人但总是乐于助人的伴侣Rudi在一次事故后被困在轮椅上，当然，他指责Franz。当鲁迪在农场安顿下来，期待弗兰兹全天候的照顾时，紧张气氛加剧了。
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.
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.
Being a stranger doesn’t necessarily mean to be coming from the farthest away. Karl and his mother are about to learn this when they move from the west coast of Denmark to the ethnically and religiously mixed area of Nørrebro in Copenhagen. Sawsan, a Danish-Turkish girl in Karl’s new class, takes him under her wings and tries to integrate him into the big city, with all its slang and hipness. Sawsan is far more experienced and blunt than most – especially compared to Karl, this young Danish boy from the provinces. Sawsan’s big dream comes true when one of her songs is chosen for the Danish version of the Eurovision Song Contest for kids. Sawsan’s father of course says no, but Karl has a plan.
西蒙·布莱纳（Josef Hader饰）陷入了人生的巨大僵局，只想找到一个能令他重归安宁的所在。他想起了自己在格拉茨的老家，那个他度过了少年时光却又因为某些原因长年没有再踏足的地方。对于这个私家侦探来说，还有哪儿能比家乡悠哉的呢？然而屁股还没坐热，一件件陈年旧事和年少时不可告人的秘密就接踵而至。在“少年老友”阿施布莱纳（Tobias Moretti饰）造访之后，布莱纳突然被一发子弹击中了头部。据说这是一起自杀未遂，但布莱纳却坚信事有蹊跷。接下来，又一位“少年老友”科克（Roland Düringer饰）迎来了神秘的来访者，却因此被带向了死亡……
Heinzi Boesel and Kurt Fellner are two Austrian health inspectors forced to work together, traveling through Austria. Over time a beautiful friendship evolves between the odd couple who couldn't stand each other initially; a friendship that even overcomes the boundaries of great tragedy.
Xiaofan, a young girl who works at a Karaoke Club, awakes one morning in a remote forest with her body covered in blood. As she struggles to find her way out, she tries to understand the drama circumstances which got her into the situation, events mainly related to her unpredictable boyfriend. She needs to make a decision that may change her life.
The story of the New York accent, as told by New Yorkers.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 to New York professionals, American Tongues elicits funny, perceptive, sometimes shocking, and always telling comments on American English in all its diversity. (PBS)
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.
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.
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.