Film Library

An ode to city life, Touch explores themes of isolation and the universal need for love when two strangers make the most important connection of their lives while waiting for a train.

Hebron is a city of conflict and hate. It is home to 160,000 Palestinians and a colony of 600 Jewish settlers who live right in the city center with a garrison of more than 2,000 Israeli soldiers to defend them. Kicking, spitting, stone-throwing and abuse are part of the daily routine. Children, women and the army participate in this war between neighbors.

Francesca Woodman’s haunting B&W images, many of them nude self-portraits, now reside in the pantheon of great photography from the late 20th century. The daughter of artists Betty and Charles Woodman (she a ceramicist and he a painter/photographer), F…

Night lovestory of two outsiders, who meet in a closed swimming pool in the middle of a big city.

Summer Pasture is a feature-length documentary about a young nomadic couple living with their infant daughter in the high grasslands of eastern Tibet. Filmed during the summer of 2007 with rare access to an area seldom visited by outsiders, Summer Past…

In the heart of Tel Aviv, there is an exceptional school where children from forty-eight different countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn. Many of the students arrive at Bialik-Rogozin School fleeing poverty, political adversity and e…

Artist Beverly McIver was enjoying a skyrocketing career when a casual—yet life‐changing—promise made to her mother years before came due. Filmed over 6 years by Oscar nominees Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher, RAISING RENEE explores deep themes of family, race, class, disability and art through the interplay of painting, cinema and everyday life.

Celebrated every Thanksgiving as the Indians who saved the Pilgrims, then largely forgotten, the Wampanoag of Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard, spurred on by their intrepid Wampanoag linguist and MacArthur honoree Jessie Little Doe Baird, are saying loud and clear, in their Native tongue, “Âs Nutayuneân,” – “We still live here.”

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.

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…

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…

Olympic rower, Chris Ernst, leads the Yale women’s crew in protest against substandard training conditions.