Film Library

Mary Katzke got both the idea and the money for her latest documentary unexpectedly: via a life-threatening illness. Misdiagnosed in 1991, Katzke later found she had advanced breast cancer, requiring massive chemotherapy. Dropped by her insurance company, she sued her doctor to cover medical bills, promising herself that if she survived five years, she’d make a film for other women in the same crisis. With her settlement, she created a life-affirming video, Between Us, for hospitals to give to new breast cancer patients.

A powerful, honest portrait of one of America’s greatest 20th century photographers. A film that celebrates the individual woman who chooses”the road less traveled.”

Mark O’Brien was a poet-journalist who lived in an iron lung for four decades. Incorporating the vivid imagery of O’Brien’s poetry and his candid, wry and often profound reflections on work, sex, death and God, this provocative film asks: What is a life worth living? Winner of Best Documentary-Short Subject, 1997 Academy Awards.

A film revealing intricate social relationships that operate in a community of workers with learning disabilities making a variety of organic breads for daily delivery to shops in Edinburgh.

What is it like to move twelve times before you graduate; feel like an outsider in your own country; grow up in a paradox that is idealistic and autoritarian; privileged and perilous? This film is about growing up as a military “brat”. Brilliant, thoughtful, unforgettable.

How can a young boy end his life at the tender age of 15? This film seeks to find answers about what kind of life he led. What defines this film as a remarkably unique and truth-telling achievement is the way it explores how filmmaking can create closure for its creators as well as its audience.

Arsenic-laced water has poisoned a 15 year old Cambodian boy who dreams of karaoke stardom.

This film exemplifies a once-in-a-lifetime chance the filmmaker had to change the course of the lives of the children of prostitutes in India by teaching them to make photographs. Winner for the best full length documentary at the Academy Awards in 2005.

Without any dialogue, volumes are spoken by this short but poignant film featuring the music of John Lennon. We are proud to present this film by Annette Solakoglu and her timely message of universal concern.

3:00 am – a darkened house – the intruding burglar confidently collecting his take, unaware that the woman in the flannel nightie has other plans. She knocks him out with her frying pan, steals his clothes and his car, and leaves him to take her place. A delightfully silly Australian film that will make you smile.