Language, Culture, Storytelling ! Welcome to The Mother Tongue Film Festival Published February 15th, 2021 - 11:26 GMT
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Highlights
Featuring 45 films in 39 languages from all over the world, the festival “opens on the United Nations’ International Mother Language Day, February 21, and runs through May.”
The Smithsonian Institute’s Recovering Voices initiative offers global audiences a film festival online that centres around “language, culture and the power of storytelling” and features 45 films in 39 languages.
The Smithsonian’s Recovering Voices (RV) initiative was founded in 2009. It is “a collaborative program of the National Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage that partners with communities around the world to revitalise and sustain endangered languages and knowledge.”