Film Library

The personal account of one girl’s harrowing escape from the imprisonment of Boko Haram.

Styawat/ Leigh Joseph is a Skwxwú7mesh Nation ethnobotanist. While walking in two worlds, she was guided home by plants.

Three young dancers and musicians prepare for a national contest in spite of the war atrocities around them. They gain their confidence enough to discuss the horrors and fears they experienced and express their hopes and dreams. Nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores” — self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Director Lucy Walker (DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND, BLINDSIGHT, COUNTDOWN TO ZERO) has great access to the entire process and, in the end, offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit.

Meet the Radical Monarchs, a group of young girls of color at the front lines of social justice. Set in Oakland, a city with a deep history of social justice movements, the film documents the journey of the group as they earn badges for completing units including being an LGBTQ+ ally, preserving the environment, and disability justice.

Faith and the scientific method collide amid the battleground of a Kentucky creationism museum.

A group of teens find belonging at a LARP camp, building a fantasy world facing climate disaster. Through roleplaying heroes facing apocalypse, they find strength to heal past trauma and emerge empowered in life.

We Keep On Dancing is a short comedy-drama about human connection expressed through the strange meeting, and the even stranger dance, shared by Danny the mechanic and Alan the lonesome gent with the rundown Beetle in The Rainbow Mechanics workshop.

Celebrated every Thanksgiving as the Indians who saved the Pilgrims, then largely forgotten, the Wampanoag of Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard, spurred on by their intrepid Wampanoag linguist and MacArthur honoree Jessie Little Doe Baird, are saying loud and clear, in their Native tongue, “Âs Nutayuneân,” – “We still live here.”

America is in the grip of a societal economic panic. Lawmakers cry “We’re Broke!” as they slash budgets, lay off schoolteachers, police, and firefighters, crumbling our country’s social fabric and leaving many Americans scrambling to survive. Meanwhile…