Best Local Film (Since March 2004)

When Denver-based movie director Alexandre O. Philippe came across a copy of Hamlet that had, according to its cover, been restored to the “original” Klingon text, it opened a door to a strange world called the Klingon Language Institute, whose members study and speak the made-for-TV tongue that linguist Mark Okrand created for the iconic series Star Trek. Like Gene Roddenberry’s wrinkled warrior geniuses, the KLI faithful are ruled by codes and wonders, and Philippe’s profoundly weird, highly engaging documentary does them every justice.