Film Library

Ed and Abby are Yankee fans. In fact they love everything about baseball: watching TV games together, talking trash to the umps, trading stats, but they especially love the fact that Abby plays Little League and Ed coaches her. It’s just the two of the…

“A Matter of Taste” takes an intimate look inside the world of an immensely talented and driven young chef, Paul Liebrandt. The film follows Paul over a decade and reveals his creative process in the kitchen, as well as the extreme hard work, long hours, and dedication it takes to be a culinary artist and have success in the cutthroat world of haute cuisine in New York City. Exploring the complicated relationships between food critics, chefs and restaurant owners, the film delves into the life of an uncompromising, thought provoking, young chef ahead of his time.

A New Color is a joy-filled, heart-rending story about community, art and lives that matter. Bay Area artist and civil rights activist Edythe “Edy” Boone is a sprightly septuagenarian who seems only to gain energy over the years. Since she was a girl, this celebrated muralist (San Francisco Women’s Building) has aspired “to develop a new color no one has seen in life.” Edy paints walls to build bridges toward unity when the chokehold death of her nephew Eric Garner and his final words – “I Can’t Breathe” – ignite a national outcry for racial justice.

In the vast Norwegian wilds, five family members navigate grief and what “home” means after the loss of the mother who had served as the family’s glue.

It is common practice for doctors to perform genital surgeries on intersex infants–often with disastrous results. A Normal Girl brings the widely unknown struggles of intersex people to light, through the story of intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis.

At a night class in Boston, Kafi Dixon is transformed by the lessons of history and philosophy. But is her new sense of agency strong to deflect the inequities of wealth and race in a rapidly gentrifying city?

Nguyen Van Ket, a 16-year-old boy from the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, was born with a cleft palate that kept him isolated and lonely. Hearing that the arrival of an American medical team was imminent, Nguyen walks through the jungle to the provincial hos…

One women’s obstinate battle to make her voice heard demonstrates the power of action over fear.

In an era when Dick, Jane and discipline ruled America’s schools, Albert Cullum allowed Shakespeare, Sophocles, and Shaw to reign in his fifth grade classroom An inspiring, joyous film about a brilliant unorthodox teacher and the students he influenced.

The story of five Ethiopian women who suffer from devastating childbirth injuries and make the journey to reclaim their lost dignity. The trials they endure and their attempts to rebuild their lives tell a universal story of hope, courage, and transformation.

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.

Two kids whose lives center around the sea have their routine changed when something unexpected appears from the water during a fishing trip. Will their friendship survive the turbulent events that follow?