Film Library

Interesting stories of four very different women overcoming challenges to move into their own vision of who they are.

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Art Cullen and his family fight to unite and inform their rural Iowan farming community through their biweekly newspaper, The Storm Lake Times — even as the paper hangs on by a thread. Twice a week, they work as civic watchdogs to protect their hometown and the legacy of credible journalism, at large — come hell or pandemic.

Let us tell you a story about the boundary pushers who shape souls and give children strange dreams. The stars of STORY & PICTURES BY are picture book creators changing the narrative for the next generation, even when their own lives are not fairytales.

In 1967 in rural Kentucky a man was killed. As happens sometimes, outsider’s good intentions are perceived as intrusive and threatening. The murdered man was Hugh O’Connor, a Canadian documentarian. The man who shot him was Hobart Ison, a reclusive lan…

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…

An aspiring photojournalist discovers the power of her own voice while struggling to survive homelessness.

Striking A Chord, a documentary from director Susan Cohn Rockefeller, brings the audience along on a band’s tour of remote American military bases in Kuwait and Iraq. They find great soldiers – men and women – forced to deal with daily challenges such as the constant threats of the ongoing war, crushing boredom and great physical and emotional distance from their families. They discover their visit, attention to the soldiers and music have a surprisingly profound impact on many of the soldiers, helping them open up to discuss their experiences.

Strong Coffee tells the story of Café Femenino – the first and only coffee beans grown entirely by women farmers. Café Femenino is an initiative of some of the poorest women in Peru.It involves them growing their own coffee, keeping it separate from ot…

95-year-old Catherine Kuehn is a world record winning deadlifter. As she prepares for her last competition she reflects on the love, and the loss, that brought her to this moment.

Ilona and Erzsébet are sisters living in the small Hungarian town of Tura. They make “big strudels on small tables” in much the same way their beloved mother did when they were children during the communist era. What starts as an ode to a disappearing way of life quickly becomes a beautifully harmonic anthem to sisterhood, freedom, mothers and, of course, strudel.