There are an estimated 7000 languages spoken world-wide (174 of which are spoken in New York City, according to the Department of City Planning), and half of them are slowly disappearing. The Linguists, one of the documentaries being shown as part of the Sundance Institute at BAM — which began last night — follows Dr. K. David Harrison and Dr. Gregory Anderson to Siberia, India and Bolivia as they search for dying languages, some with only a handful of living speakers. Far from a dry treatise on sentence structure, the documentary was an instant hit in Park City and was one the first of the Sundance screenings to sell out at BAM. In response, an additional screening has been added to the festival roster, for Monday, June 2 at 9:40 PM. (bam.org/sundance/)

— Annaliese Griffin / Brooklyn Based