Film Library

This film follows a young black woman’s quest to become the 2005 Homecoming Queen at the University of Alabama, running against a strictly segregated Greek system, internal black politics, and a secret all-white association that has been controlling campus politics at the University.

He said. She said. What is the truth? Cindy Kleine aims a camera; asks a few simple questions; gets a few seemingly simple answers. In between is a supposedly shared lifetime. A simple film raising anything but simple questions.

Ten Muslim women show the diverse, lively, argumentative debates in Muslim societies about the meanings of modernity, emancipation, feminism, and wearing hijab, the headscarf.

#FEMALE PLEASURE is a plea for female sexuality in the 21st century. Questioning millennial patriarchal structures as well as todays omnipresent porn-culture, it accompanies five extraordinary women around the globe, fighting for a self-determined, joyful female sexuality.

Stephanie Houser embarks on a grueling 147-mile run over 48 hours, each mile symbolizing a day her preemie baby, Zev, battled for his life in the NICU. As their stories entwine, Steph’s run and Zev’s fight for survival push the Hauser family’s hope to the limits.

Addictions take many forms. For 30-year-old Norwegian adrenaline junkie and professional BASE jumper Karina Hollekim, her addiction is danger. Amongst spectacular landscapes in some of the most remote corners of the world, the film offers stunning cinematography and a breathtaking joyride.

Behind the walls of San Quentin State Prison, three men sentenced to life in prison for murder undertake running a marathon on a quest for redemption and freedom — or something like it.

3 1⁄2 MINUTES, TEN BULLETS dissects the shooting death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis by Michael Dunn in Jacksonville, Florida on Black Friday, 2012. The film examines the aftermath of this systemic tragedy, the contradictions within the American criminal justice system – particularly the implications of the “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law, and the racial prejudices that ensued.

Hope Litoff embarks on an exhaustive investigation to discover why her talented and much-loved sister Ruth committed suicide in 2008.

399: Queen of the Tetons follows the famous Grizzly 399 as she struggles to raise an unusually large litter in the face of human encroachment, a rapidly changing climate, and disputes over her Endangered Species protections.

Marlise Muñoz was 33 and 14 weeks pregnant when she died. She suffered a pulmonary embolism and was pronounced brain-dead in Fort Worth, TX. Marlise had previously told her family that she never wanted to be on life support, under any circumstances. And since a brain-dead patient is in fact legally dead, that should have been the end of this sad story. But the Muñoz family was forced to keep Marlise on mechanical support against their will for 62 days, because of a little known law stating “a person may not withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment… from a pregnant patient.”

Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, 93QUEEN follows a group of tenacious Hasidic women who are smashing the patriarchy in their community by creating the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York City. With unprecedented — and insider — access, 93QUEEN offers up a unique portrayal of a group of empowered women who are taking matters into their own hands to change their own community from within.