Film Library

This film follow stories of adoptees who are seeking to have their birth records opened. The unexpected and touching conclusion illuminates the impact of secrets imposed for an entire lifetime.

Struggling to raise an adolescent boy with autism, Jeanne realizes that her love alone cannot sustain them, until his does.

This documentary is about the industry and consumption of mankind’s most precious resource: water. As African villages survive on potentially toxic water supplies, Salina explores how the corporate structure has come to control humanity’s water supply, and how politics and grassroots humanitarian organizations both fight and support the increasing privatization of water.

The Gift is the retelling of an old urban myth this time set in New York City on Christmas Eve. This silent short is black comedy at its most poignant: about a woman, loss and the intrusion of practical reality.

A bittersweet drama that unfolds almost without dialogue, this prizewinning short film conveys the isolation of immigrant women’s experiences. Miriam lives with her children in a cramped amd dreary house near the airport. The places overhead remind her…

Growing up in Hawaii, Rell Sunn was famed as a surfboarder. She was a single mother, first female lifeguard, founder of the Women’s Professional Surfing Association, and a radio DJ. She fought an 18 year battle with breast cancer. This film joyfully celebrates a life lived to the fullest.

A documentary Roosevelt Roughriders, a girls’ high-school basketball team in Seattle, and one player’s fight to regain her eligibility to play.

After 65 years of silence, Paul and Sally Taylor decide to undergo cochlear implant surgery and explore the world of sound. The filmmaker documents her deaf parents’ complex decision to undergo a risky and controversial medical procedure. (Captioned)

The topic of child sexual abuse has seldom been documented with such a sense of empowering joy as we witness in this film. Three women from disparate backgrounds bear witness to the horrible impact this crime has on society. They are a stunning example of the power of support and healing.

You are sitting alone and lonely in Central Park when a handsome stranger leaves an elaborately wrapped present in your care. Do you peek? Do you believe that some special things belong to those who can understand and appreciate them? Do you hear the m…