When 12 alien spacecraft enter Earth’s atmosphere and hang sentinel over the planet, workaholic linguistics expert Louise Banks (Adams) is called in by US Army Colonel Weber (Whitaker) to lead government attempts to communicate.
There was a special screening of Arrival Movie + Q&A with three professional linguists from the University of York: Dr Márton Sóskuthy (language change and evolution), Dr Ann Taylor (sentence structure and language change) and Dr Richard Ogden (phonetics and sign languages).