Film Library

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.

Sofia and her husband have been married for twenty years and enjoy an affectionate and uneventful life together. Then one day the water heater in their Athenian flat goes on the blink. A delightful and refreshing spin on being human, foibles and all.

Lacey Schwartz believes her family’s explanation that her looks were inherited from her dark-skinned Sicilian grandfather. But when her parents abruptly split, her gut starts to tell her something different.

A young, hardworking journalist is forced to leave her job producing TV news in Washington, DC when her liver starts to fail. While she’s back at her parents’ house in Michigan seeking a transplant, she discovers something unexpected that changes the course of her treatment.

A lifelong hobby becomes a lifeline for an unexpected Twitch streamer.

An exploration of the art community at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, which is devoted to the art of the mentally ill. Yu raises questions about artistic genius being compensation for the wounded mind. She reveals that those living with mental illness are as full of wonder as the rest of us.

Five Swazi orphaned children turn their past trauma into creative fuel for an original collective fairytale, in which they send a young girl on  a dangerous quest.

Andy Kwiatowski, 18, is a recent graduate of Rampart High School in Colorado Springs. Andy came to YDA to make a documentary about growing up with an autistic disorder and turned the camera on himself, his parents and sister in telling a deeply personal account. His film LONELY HIGHWAY, is an intimate portrayal of family love and support as they come to terms with the unique challenges of and resilience necessary to being on the autistic spectrum. Prior to joining YDA, Andy took several film and media classes in school and produced a comic strip, stop motion video and several small films.

Barreling along freeways from behind the wheel of their big rigs, three women truck drivers share their humor, insight and experience of driving 18-wheelers for a living. This film enriches and challenges every preconceived notion of truck driving while seeking to understand what is gained and lost as a woman, a mother, and a trucker on the open road.

In the wake of apartheid’s bloody past, South Africa has chosen a unique solution-the creation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Four diverse stories are told in this film. Nominated for Best Feature Length Documentary, 2001 Academy Awards.

An intimate, joyful celebration of family, love, creativity, and music, played out against the backdrop of more than half a century of strife amongst the world’s superpowers.

Once upon a time, long before Disney and other animation giants, Lotte Reiniger ignited the screen with shadows, light, and a pair of magical scissors.