The Language Archive

Written by Julia Cho

Directed by Deana Nichols

George is a man consumed with preserving and documenting the dying languages of far-flung cultures. Closer to home, though, language is failing him. He doesn’t know what to say to his wife, Mary, to keep her from leaving him, and he doesn’t recognize the deep feelings that his lab assistant, Emma, has for him. “However whimsical—even fantastic—it becomes, it affirms life no matter how melancholy,” writes Bloomberg News.