Film Catalog

In an urban park, two preteen girls play patty cake and sing the song about the baker’s men. They observe two boys playing with mock swords. These divisions of play into gender roles cause the girls to start talking as if they were sociologists and psychologists discussing learned behaviors. Given their jaded and precocious sophistication, is there anything the girls can look forward to?  

When a teenager comes home and tells his parents he kissed a bald man, his parents have reservations and a discussion ensues in song

BALLET AFTER DARK tells the story a young woman who found the strength to survive after an attack. She created an organization that is helping sexual abuse and domestic violent survivors find healing after trauma through dance therapy.

Three teenage girls in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh get a rare sense of agency over their lives when they join a surf club and fight insurmountable odds to achieve their dreams.

In the age of mechanical reproduction, this intimate, beautiful film celebrates handmade pursuits. Jan and Crispin Elsted have been making fine art books by letterpress for over 30 years. Partners in life and work, the couple are achingly aware they may be the last of a kind.

‘Battleground’ is an urgently timely window into the intersection of abortion and politics in America, following three women who lead formidable anti-abortion organizations to witness the enormous influence they wield. As the nation faces the end of Roe, the film also depicts those on the front lines of the fierce fight to maintain access.

After typing her father’s name into a web search engine, Tracy started a quest to learn about his death on a U.S. Naval swift boat in Vietnam. This film reminds us how reaffirming remembering a life can be.

Four journalists reveal the stories that propel them to amplify the voiceless, challenge the powerful, and answer the call to bear witness.

This film provides an unusual glimpse into the lives, loves, and influences of this incredible woman artist who seems as well known for her eccentric personality as for her art.

The filmmakers are the parents of Beau, whose change in behavior during the third year of his life led to a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder. They take us on their quest to save their son from a condition that is no longer considered rare.

Christina Willings’ documentary Beauty explores the lives of five gender-creative kids, each uniquely engaged in shaping their ideas of what it means to be fully human.

In this courageous, deeply personal new film, Diane Israel examines Western culture’s toxic emphasis on thinness, beauty, and physical perfection. Israel, a psychotherapist and former champion triathlete, talks candidly about her own struggle with eating disorders and obsessive exercising, fearlessly confronting her own painful past as she tries to come to terms with our unhealthy fixation on self-destructive ideals of beauty and competitiveness. The film lends context to Israel’s personal odyssey with fascinating insights from athletes, body builders, fashion models, and inner-city teens, as well as prominent cultural critics and authors such as Eve Ensler, Paul Campos, and Naomi Wolf.