Film Library

The number of women in U.S. prisons has grown by 800% over the past 40 years. And the vast majority are mothers. In a Midwestern state caught between harsh drug sentencing and rising incarceration for women, three unforgettable mothers—Tomika, Lydia, and Amanda— return home from prison and rebuild their lives after being separated from their children for years. Their stories overlap at a new reentry program for women, run by Malika, an advocate formerly incarcerated in the same prison.

Art and Pep are the owners of the iconic bar Sidetrack, Chicago. And they’re also civil rights leaders who have been fighting for LGBTQ+ equality for decades, their activism is the focus of their struggle to live and love freely.

This beautiful bio-documentary film reveals the life and work of Eric Bransby, a respected and admired artist known for his dozens of extraordinary public murals in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, and Utah. Bransby is an authority on the history and technique of mural painting and one of the few living painters qualified to work in the Buon Fresco medium. Instructing well into his 102 years, Eric is a dedicated, inspiring and caring teacher and an integral part of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center’s rich history.

An artist (Michel Serrault) encourages his daughter’s (Valentina Cervi) delvings into areas previously forbidden female painters in 17th-century Rome.

Artists and Orphans: A True Drama is a 2001 documentary documenting a group of American artists traveling to the Republic of Georgia for an art festival, and their subsequent effort to provide humanitarian aid to a group of local orphans.

After having a breakdown, a famous conductor (Michael Nyqvist) returns to his remote village and inspires a church choir.

Could you forgive a person who murdered your family? This is the question faced by Rwandan women who meet with the men who slaughtered their families during the 1994 genocide. The film follows their extraordinary journey from death to life through forgiveness.

On a winter afternoon, Alex must realize the importance of family and her responsibility for her grandfather, remembering that he had done the same for her when she was little.

Winfred Rembert, the only living survivor of a lynching, a Star Wars fanatic and leather artist, collides and develops a friendship with Doctor Shirley Jackson Whitaker who is on a mission to memorialize the forgotten 4,000 African Americans lynched during the Jim Crow era. Together, their journeys of healing intertwine.

This program is not an instructional program but rather a look at the practice of Ashtanga yoga through the guidance of guru Sri K. Pattabhi. This program documents his final workshop in New York, in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Two strangers unexpectedly meet at an airport. He mistakenly assumes her to be his assigned driver. She, enchanted by the random encounter, does not hurry to prove him wrong.

Sexy Senior Seeks Same. Backseat Bingo is a delightful animated dialogue about senior citizens and romance.