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Showing 1 - 7 of 7 titles with a criteria of Subject is Linguistics


The Emoji Story

Explores the complex, conflict-prone, and often hilarious world of the creators, lovers, and arbiters of emoji, our world's newest pictorial language.

Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 79 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

Lotman's World

The story of Yuri Lotman (1922-1993), little-known - except maybe in Estonia! - pioneer of semiotics. This title has one or more clips.

Icarus Films | 2008 | 57 minutes

Silvestre Pantaleon

The story of an elderly man from the Nahuatl-speaking village of San Agustin Oapan, Mexico.

Icarus Films | 2012 | 65 minutes

Unfinished Diary

In this moving docudrama, Chilean emigre Mallet struggles to make a film about her experience of profound isolation

Women Make Movies | 1986 | 55 minutes

We Still Live Here

Tells the amazing story of the return of the Wampanoag language, a language that was silenced for more than a century.

Bullfrog Films | 2011 | 56 minutes

Yiddish

Seven young scholars share their love for Yiddish, and for the avant-garde Yiddish poetry written between the World Wars.

Icarus Films | 2020 | 61 minutes