Film Library

Anna is preparing for a first date with Henry, but there’s a huge pimple on her nose and she’s fat! Argh! If only she could change a few things about how she looks – like those girls in beauty magazines! If you could, would you? And how far is too far? Beware of your dreams they might just come true!

This film is an astoundingly frank journey through a disastrous 59 year marriage. Drawing on a lifetime of her family’s home movies and interviews made over 12 years, the filmmaker uses cinema verite’ and animation to tell a story that couldn’t be shown publically until her father had died.

A Vietnam War widow shows us a Vietnam we have never known. While taking us on a strangely beautiful journey by train, this film portrays the lasting devastation of the war as seen through the eyes of an unforgettable group of American and Vietnamese women.

For over sixty years, children have been born and raised here. Parents and grandparents eat and survive here. Thousands of families have thrived in the largest and most toxic area in all of Central America. For decades, the Guatemala City Garbage Dump…

This film presents a funny and touching look at Sarah who notices she is losing her memory. In a last attempt to maintain control of her life, she begins to videotape everything: from momentous events to the tiniest details of daily living.

For decades after autism was finally named, doctors presumed the bizarre behaviors stemmed from the mothers’ emotional frigidity.

In 1969, when Fred Sondermann was presented with the opportunity to return to his native Germany, thirty years after he and his parents narrowly escaped to the United States just days before the outbreak of WWII, he said yes. Dr. Sondermann, a Jew and…

Increasingly in our complex frenetic lives we long for simplicity. Here there is a young man so melancholy about the way things are that he de-evolves. His mystified lover watches helplessly. Remember Altered States in the 70s?

A feminist tour of Orthodox Judaism, giving insight into the question about how modern life has failed to answer our longing for roots.