Film Library

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.

A selection of short films produced by the Youth Documentary Academy.  

Ana and Sergio are not only immigrants, but also parents to a teenage son and a growing daughter with Dandy-Walker Syndrome. They navigate their lives in Crete, Nebraska, as Sergio learns English and Ana runs errands as well as her own salon.

May, an 8-year-old detective, lives with her mother in the suburbs. Left to her own devices, May, alongside her trusted toy robot, investigates the neighborhood. She inspects every abandoned cigarette butt and eavesdrops on her neighbors in search of a mystery. Then, while investigating one day, she discovers the aftermath of a violent death and learns that her world is far more mysterious and consequential than she thought.

Evelyn McHale is a young wife to be in the 1940s. One morning, Evelyn’s feeds her fiancé Barry breakfast as she experiences a flashback to when she was young and her mother, Helen, fed her family. Helen is a disheveled woman who doesn’t meet the “perfect housewife” standard. The film continues to cut between time periods, showing the parallels between Evelyn’s parents’ relationship and Evelyn’s relationship with Barry. Helen leaves her husband and child, and eventually Evelyn leaves her fiancé as well.

An inside look into the world of taxidermy and the passionate artists from all over the world who work on the animals.

Subject explores the life-altering experience of sharing one’s life on screen through the participants of five acclaimed documentaries. As tens of millions of people consume documentaries in an unprecedented “golden era,” the film urges audiences to consider the impact on documentary participants – the good, the bad, and the complicated.

Subjects of Desire is a thought-provoking feature documentary that examines the cultural shift in beauty standards towards embracing Black aesthetics and features. The film deconstructs what we understand about race and the power behind beauty.

An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.