Film Library

Sometime love lasts a lifetime as an old woman who waits for her late husband to return knows while her neighbor waits only for death to come and take her away. When their fates connect, they are both miraculously freed.

A film about place and memory, a farmhouse in Japan, and the lives of the people who called it home.

Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman put it on one of his Top Ten lists. More than 15 years later, the McDonald’s coffee case continues to be cited as a prime example of how citizens use “frivolous” lawsuits to take unfair advantage of America’s legal system. But is that an accurate portrayal of the facts? First-time filmmaker and former public interest lawyer Susan Saladoff uses the infamous legal battle that began with a spilled cup of coffee to investigate what’s behind America’s zeal for tort reform. By following four people whose lives were devastated by the attacks on our courts, this thought-provoking documentary challenges the assumptions Americans hold about “jackpot justice.”

This film follows a young black woman’s quest to become the 2005 Homecoming Queen at the University of Alabama, running against a strictly segregated Greek system, internal black politics, and a secret all-white association that has been controlling campus politics at the University.

Umoja  – No Men Allowed tells the amusing and life-changing story of a group of impoverished tribal Samburu women in Northern Kenya who reclaim their lives, turning age-old patriarchy on its head when they set up a women’s only village.Their story bega…

An ode to city life, Touch explores themes of isolation and the universal need for love when two strangers make the most important connection of their lives while waiting for a train.

Hebron is a city of conflict and hate. It is home to 160,000 Palestinians and a colony of 600 Jewish settlers who live right in the city center with a garrison of more than 2,000 Israeli soldiers to defend them. Kicking, spitting, stone-throwing and abuse are part of the daily routine. Children, women and the army participate in this war between neighbors.

Francesca Woodman’s haunting B&W images, many of them nude self-portraits, now reside in the pantheon of great photography from the late 20th century. The daughter of artists Betty and Charles Woodman (she a ceramicist and he a painter/photographer), F…

Night lovestory of two outsiders, who meet in a closed swimming pool in the middle of a big city.

Summer Pasture is a feature-length documentary about a young nomadic couple living with their infant daughter in the high grasslands of eastern Tibet. Filmed during the summer of 2007 with rare access to an area seldom visited by outsiders, Summer Past…

In the heart of Tel Aviv, there is an exceptional school where children from forty-eight different countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn. Many of the students arrive at Bialik-Rogozin School fleeing poverty, political adversity and e…

Artist Beverly McIver was enjoying a skyrocketing career when a casual—yet life‐changing—promise made to her mother years before came due. Filmed over 6 years by Oscar nominees Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher, RAISING RENEE explores deep themes of family, race, class, disability and art through the interplay of painting, cinema and everyday life.