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Showing 1 - 10 of 17 titles with a criteria of Subject is Languages
Bittersweet Blues
Driven by the poetry of language, Bittersweet Blues takes us into a parallel between the evolution of Acadian French and family memories.
National Film Board of Canada | 2015 | 24 minutes
Bomb It 2!
Jon Reiss and his crew travel to Asia, Australia, the Middle East and beyond, exploring the local graffiti scenes and artists. Follow-up to the groundbreaking street art documentary Bomb It!.
Collective Eye Films | 2010 | 83 minutes
Bomb It!
Tells the story of contemporary graffiti, tracing its roots in ancient rock paintings through Picasso to its place in hip-hop culture in 1970's New York City.
Collective Eye Films | 2007 | 93 minutes
Bruly Bouabré's Alphabet
In the 1950's, Ivory Coast artist Bruly Bouabré created hundreds of pictograms based on one-syllable words in his language, Bété.
Icarus Films | 2005 | 17 minutes
Hidden Letters
Two Chinese millennial women struggling with patriarchal culture work to save an ancient secret language created by women banned from reading or writing.
GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 86 minutes
Looking for Horses
A film about a friendship between the filmmaker and a fisherman. One lost his mother-tongue because of a stutter, the other lost his hearing during the Bosnian civil war. They look for ways to communicate, while the camera mediates their growing bond.
Lightdox | 2021 | 88 minutes
The R-Word
THE R-WORD is an intimate look at the history of the word ‘retard(ed),’ cultural representation, and the challenges and triumphs of people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Women Make Movies | 2020 | 65 minutes
Silvestre Pantaleon
The story of an elderly man from the Nahuatl-speaking village of San Agustin Oapan, Mexico.
Icarus Films | 2012 | 65 minutes
Speaking In Tongues
Amidst the rise of “English-only” initiatives, four diverse American students in language immersion schools open their minds to new ways of thinking
GOOD DOCS | 2009 | 56 minutes
