Film Library

In New York City subway station, a dazzlingly dressed all-female mariachi band brings the platform to life. It’s a four-minute slice of life that captures the women’s bravery as they challenge the gender norms of their favorite music.

This documentary is about the industry and consumption of mankind’s most precious resource: water. As African villages survive on potentially toxic water supplies, Salina explores how the corporate structure has come to control humanity’s water supply, and how politics and grassroots humanitarian organizations both fight and support the increasing privatization of water.

In the hierarchy of her nunnery, 82 year-old Mother Ksenya has now achieved the second-to-last level. She is heading towards complete silence, the Great Schema. But before that she has been given permission to tell her story for the last time.

Eleven-year-old Anne is a beautiful girl. The kind of girl you can’t take your eyes off. And the longer you look, the more you see her ‘tics’. Anne suffers from Gilles de la Tourette’s syndrome.

Struggling to raise an adolescent boy with autism, Jeanne realizes that her love alone cannot sustain them, until his does.

Food Stamped is an informative and humorous documentary film following a couple as they attempt to eat a healthy, well-balanced diet on a food stamp budget. Through their adventures they consult with members of U.S. Congress, food justice organizations…

Angel, and his three siblings, were raised in Colorado Springs primarily by their mom, Alice Valdez. Angel explores the absence of a father and the compensatory ways his family made due. The result is FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE, an intimate and loving account of one mother’s fierce love and respect for her kids and a family whose respect for their mother provides a model for what makes a family successful.

This film follow stories of adoptees who are seeking to have their birth records opened. The unexpected and touching conclusion illuminates the impact of secrets imposed for an entire lifetime.

Running out of time and money, editor/publisher Laurie Ezzell Brown battles an oil bust, a global pandemic, and a growing mistrust of the media as she tries to keep her newspaper alive in rural Texas.

This film reconstructs the life of a woman, the director, based solely on interviews of the people who loved her. Intimate first-hand accounts, mixed with old mementos, will reveal the universal path of love.

After decades of war and an oppressive Taliban regime, four Afghan photojournalists face the realities of building a free press in a country left to stand on its own – reframing Afghanistan for the world and for themselves.