Film Library

“Breakfast Queen” Ina Pinkney has been feeding Chicago for the past 33 years. A fearless chef, businesswoman and polio survivor, Ina has decided to close the doors of her beloved breakfast eatery. “Breakfast at Ina’s” interweaves the story of Ina’s extraordinary life with the restaurant’s last days as she and her staff serve up its final meals.

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.

Taking its name from an exhibited she curated at the Louvre, The Foreigner’s Home looks at the life and work of Toni Morrison. A wealth of footage and exclusive interviews illuminate the themes of identity that unite the work of the celebrated writer.

Before starting a family, Soozie Eastman, daughter of an industrial chemical distributor, embarks on a journey to find out the levels of toxins in her body and explores if there is anything she or anyone else can do to change them.

Few venture into true wilderness. Martina and her 60 year-old mother attempt a 6-month journey to Alaska on skis; a mountain monastery; a snowshoe artist. Six riveting portraits of human passion set high in the awe-inspiring peaks of British Columbia.

Mrs. Recy Taylor was gang raped by 6 white boys in 1944 Alabama. Unbroken, she spoke up, and with help from Rosa Parks and legions of women, fought for justice.

An intimate portrait of the most accomplished American artist you’ve never heard of, working in a genre all his own.

A Woman Like Me is a documentary that interweaves the real story of Alex Sichel, diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2011, with the fictional story of Anna Seashell (played by Lili Taylor), who manages to find the glass half full when faced with the same diagnosis. The documentary follows Alex as she uses narrative film to explore what is foremost on her mind while confronting a terminal disease: parenting, marriage, faith, life, and death.

Rehtaeh Parsons, a teenage girl from Halifax, Nova Scotia, decided to end her life on April 7, 2013. The suicide was her permanent solution to the problem of being cyber bullied and harassed over the online distribution of a photo taken during an alleged gang-rape that occurred when she was extremely drunk.

GENERATION STARTUP takes us to the front lines of entrepreneurship in America, capturing the struggles and triumphs of six recent college graduates who put everything on the line to build startups in Detroit. Shot over 17 months, it’s an honest, in-the-trenches look at what it takes to launch a startup.

Ilona and Erzsébet are sisters living in the small Hungarian town of Tura. They make “big strudels on small tables” in much the same way their beloved mother did when they were children during the communist era. What starts as an ode to a disappearing way of life quickly becomes a beautifully harmonic anthem to sisterhood, freedom, mothers and, of course, strudel.

Jenny Lutkins, a 40 year-old mom living in Franklin, TN, has struggled with her weight and body image since giving birth to her son.  After endless diets and efforts to get into shape, she found something that clicked for her – CrossFit. She’s now an Olympic weightlifting coach, working with young women to improve not only their bodies and overall health, but their confidence, strength, and ideas of beauty.