2023 Mother Tongue Film Festival: Coming Home

23 Languages | 12 Regions | 27 Films https://mothertongue.si.edu/ Home can evoke safety, stability, and knowing. For the 2023 Mother Tongue Film Festival, we celebrate the warmth of home and acknowledge the treacherous journey that often accompanies the return after a long time away. This year’s theme, Coming Home, inspires the question, what is home—and how do we arrive and stay rooted there? Whether through a return to traditions, to land and community, to internal elements of the self, or a blending of all of these, we all have a sense of home. Since 2016, the festival has celebrated International Mother Language Day on February 21. In celebration of Coming Home, the festival returns to in-person programming on the National Mall, February 23 to 26. After two years online, we are thrilled to return home.