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2026: The Language Challenge

Personal Progress: 34/52

Hello - Hallo - Hola - Bonjour - Etc!
As a language student, I want to challenge myself to watch more films in foreign languages. Come and join me if you want!

"Rules": Watch 52 films in at least 42 different languages in 2026. You can watch them in any order and at your preferred speed. If possible, review them. This includes short films, rewatches, multilingual films etc. - just have fun!

"Hard Mode": Include as many languages that are new to you as you can, include at least 2 different sign languages, and 3 different indigenous or minority languages.

"Easy Mode": If you can't commit to a full challenge, just try to explore as many different…

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  • Seven Samurai

    1

  • The House Is Black

    2

  • Ivalu

    3

  • Garden of the Sleepwalkers

    4

  • Fire

    5

  • Open Your Eyes

    6

  • Gulîstan, Land of Roses

    7

  • Om Shanti Om

    8

  • YMCA Baseball Team

    9

  • Sore: A Wife from the Future

    10

  • Mumu

    11

  • Organ Child

    12

  • Beats of the Antonov

    13

  • Crossing

    14

  • Flowers of Shanghai

    15

  • Under Paris

    16

  • Sound of Falling

    17

  • Germany, Year Zero

    18

  • Umjolo: There Is No Cure

    19

  • Badak

    20

  • City of Joy

    21

  • The Way We Talk

    22

  • Vikruthi

    23

  • Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)

    24

  • Beautiful Boxer

    25

  • Lorena: Light-Footed Woman

    26

  • Compensation

    27

  • maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore

    28

  • Itam Hakim, Hopiit

    29

  • Miss Navajo

    30

  • Prey

    31

  • Remote Strutting

    32

  • Coming Out

    33

  • Echoes Between Land and Blue Sky: The Lives of Mongolian Deaf Nomads

    34

  • Fig Tree

    35

  • The Color of Pomegranates

    36

  • The Return of the Projectionist

    37

  • The Clay Bird

    38

  • The Perfect Circle

    39

  • My Buddha is Punk

    40

  • Days of Being Wild

    41

  • Alcarràs

    42

  • The Celebration

    43

  • Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

    44

  • Bye Bye Blue Bird

    45

  • Ouzeri Tsitsanis

    46

  • Last Film Show

    47

  • Cabascabo

    48

  • Kills on Wheels

    49

  • Tenement

    50

  • Neptune Frost

    51

  • Centaur

    52

  • The Long Walk

    53

  • Sambizanga

    54

  • The Raid

    55

  • If Only I Could Hibernate

    56

  • Faya Dayi

    57

  • Osama

    58

  • I Like Bats

    59

  • Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

    60

  • Quo Vadis, Aida?

    61

  • Dark Habits

    62

  • Rafiki

    63

  • Leonor Will Never Die

    64

  • Kannathil Muthamittal

    65

  • Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

    66

  • C/o Kancharapalem

    67

  • Bol

    68

  • A First Farewell

    69

  • Song Lang

    70

  • Solomon & Gaenor

    71

  • Xala

    72

  • Children Must Laugh

    73

  • Ten Canoes

    74

  • Tiger Stripes

    75