Based on findings from a 5-year inquiry project called Critical Connections, this paper sets out an integrated framework for language learning in the context of multilingual digital storytelling. Following an account of the theoretical approach, four vignettes are proposed which elucidate the principles in practice. Prioritising learner agency, this model involves moving across borders and foregrounding interfaces between languages, cultures and literacies, and learning (online and offline) across school, home and community contexts. Young people’s identities are reflected in the digital stories shared here, and final conclusions distinguish the affordances of multilingual digital storytelling in building an interculturally oriented curriculum.