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2023 Mother Tongue Film Festival: Coming Home

The Smithsonian’s Mother Tongue Film Festival celebrates cultural and linguistic diversity by showcasing films and filmmakers from around the world, highlighting the crucial role languages play in our daily lives.

In 2023, the festival returns in person! Join us in Washington, DC, February 23 to 26. The full program and schedule will be announced in the coming months.

Through digital storytelling, the festival amplifies the work of diverse practitioners who explore the power of language to connect the past, present, and future.

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The Mother Tongue Film Festival is a public program of Recovering Voices, a collaboration between Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of the American Indian, the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, and the Asian Pacific American Center.

In the foreground of the flyer, text in the upper left corner reads SmithsonianMother Tongue Film Festival. In the bottom right corner, text reads February 23-26, Washington, DC, mothertongue.si.edu. In the backgroundof the flyerare a series of teal, yellow, and beige circles creating an abstract pattern,and the number 23, large, and in yellow.
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