Film Library

Ampe: Leap into the Sky, Black Girl is a documentary film by Ghanaian/Nigerian artists Claudia Owusu and Ife Oluwamuyide. Set in Accra, Ghana and their hometown Columbus, OH, the film is a rhythmic love letter to Black girlhood through the lens of the…

Made over 6 years, YOUR FAT FRIEND charts the rise of writer and activist Aubrey Gordon from anonymous blogger to NYTimes best selling author and beloved podcaster. Her aim – a paradigm shift in the way we see fat people in the world and the fat on our…

THE TEST is a character-based documentary short that follows the story of Eric Frimpong, a Ghanaian immigrant who works as a maintenance worker at a large retirement center. Eric dreams of bringing his wife and three children to the US, as he hasn’t se…

Cut off from the glitz and glamor of Palm Springs, and overshadowed by towering sixty-foot Tamarisk trees, lies the historically Black Lawrence Crossley neighborhood. Allegedly planted by the City in the late 1950’s to line the 14th fairway of a City-o…

Praying for Armageddon is a political thriller that investigates the dangerous consequences of the fusion between Evangelical Christianity and American politics. Through years of reporting, this film not only reveals how structures of fundamentalism we…

Periodical, a new feature documentary from XTR and MSNBC Films, tells the unexpected story of the human body by exploring the marvel and mystery of the menstrual cycle, from first period to last. But this is not your middle school sex-ed class. Bringin…

Teenagers Egghead (Louis Tomeo) and Twinkie (Sabrina Jie-A-Fa) have been best friends since childhood, but recently they’ve been keeping secrets from each other. Egghead has a secret crush on Twinkie. Twinkie is a lesbian infatuated with social media s…

Emily Ramshaw and Amanda Zamora wanted to do something radical about the white men dominating newsrooms. 70% of policy and politics editors are men, almost all of them are white, says Emily. These are the people deciding which stories are told, who is…

26.2 TO LIFE takes us inside California’s oldest prison, where members of the 1000 Mile Club–San Quentin’s volunteer-led running group–are about to run the prison’s annual marathon: 105 laps on a quarter-mile, uneven dirt and concrete path that loops…

A comedy about the insanity of modern politics and social media whataboutery. A tickly cough derails the career-defining live tv interview of MP Fiona Lacey (Maxine Peake) – Minister for the Environment. Trying to deliver a serious and important messag…

What if you could rewrite your adolescence? In this high school reunion movie turned inside out, filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo embarks on a fantastical quest to reconcile her tortured teen years. She ‘goes back’ in more ways than one, tracking down old f…

Russians bombarded Bucha, Borodyanka, Irpin and other cities in the region following their invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. By the time they retreated a month later, the damage was massive: destroyed houses, executed civilians, and ruined live…