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Invictus (12/31/2024) President Nelson Mandela inspires the South African rugby team to strive for the World Cup in hopes of soothing the country's racial tensions.

V for Vendetta (12/31/2024) In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman

Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (2/19/2025) A woman uses sexual prowess to ruin her sister's wedding day.

Barbie (2/28/2025) Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.

The Motorcycle Diaries (2/28/2025) Portrait of Ernesto `Che' Guevara as a young man on a life-changing journey across South America in 1952.

The Big Short (3/1/2025) Explores the 2008 financial crisis through the lens of four unorthodox moneymen, who foresaw the consequences of the fraudulent mortgage-lending practices of large banks on Wall Street.

My Beautiful Laundrette (3/1/2025) Study of racial inequality, focusing on a gay couple running a coin laundry.

Paradise Now (4/1/2025) Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

Trainspotting (4/1/2025) A Scottish heroin addict tries to kick the habit, but struggles because of his out-of-control mates.

Raw (4/30/2025) A vegetarian veterinary student is forced to eat meat during a hazing ritual, and her subsequent violent allergic reaction soon turns into animalistic hunger, sheer bloodlust and an embrace of carnality in all its forms.

Weekend (4/30/2025) Two gay men meet at a nightclub and begin a 48-hour affair that has a profound impact on both of their lives.

Casablanca (5/31/2025) A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.

Adaptation (5/31/2025) A screenwriter tries to adapt a bestseller about a real-life orchid thief, but his neuroses get in the way of his writing.

The Talented Mr. Ripley (5/31/2025) A social-climbing psychopath insinuates himself into a wealthy man's life.

In The Bedroom (5/31/2025) A New England couple copes with their son's murder at the hands of his older lover's husband.

Pan's Labyrinth (8/31/2025) A small family in Spain moves into an old house in 1943 after the rise of Fascism. 

Queendom (12/31/2025) In Moscow, Russia, queer and controversial performance artist Jenna Marvin radically challenges Russia's fierce anti-LGBTQ policies.

Ex Machina (1/30/2026) The reclusive CEO of a tech company recruits a brilliant young computer programmer to evaluate his latest invention: a highly advanced android named Ava.

Wall-E (1/30/2026) Set on a wasteland Earth circa 2800, a centuries-old trash compactor named WALL-E, romances a sleek, high-tech android.

The Shawshank Redemption (1/1/2026) Red, serving a life sentence, and Andy Dufresne, a mild-mannered banker wrongly convicted of murder, forge an unlikely bond that will span more than twenty years.

Blade Runner 2049 (2/28/2026) A new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. 

Blade Runner The Final Cut (2/28/2026) In the year 2019, the police department forces Rick Deckard out of retirement to hunt four genetically engineered humans who have come to earth.

Ghost in the Shell (2/28/2026) Futuristic Japanese-animated adventure about a cyborg policewoman on the heels of a master robot criminal.

Separated (3/1/2026) Focusing on the Trump administration's policy of separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.

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EXPIRATION DATES IN PARENTHESIS

All about My Mother (4/1/2025) 

-Manuela, a mother and hard-working nurse, has built a comfortable life for herself and her teenage son, an aspiring writer. But when tragedy strikes and her beloved only child is killed in a car accident, her world crumbles.

No (3/1/2025) 

-An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.

Keita: The Heritage Of The Griot (9/4/2025)

-Keita creates a unique world where the West Africa of the 13th Century Sundjata Epic and the West Africa of today co-exist and interpenetrate.

Off the Verandah (9/23/2025)

-Examines the work of Bronislaw Malinowski, who studied the people of the Trobriands, a group of Pacific Islands, altering the idea that native peoples were primitive savages.

Bending the Arc (//2025)

-A documentary about a team of doctors and activists whose work thirty years ago saved lives in a rural Haitian village, which grew into a global battle in the halls of power for the right to health for all. 

Civilaztions, Episode 3, God and Art (//2025)

-Trace the relationship between religion and art, which has inspired some of the most ingenious, affecting, and breathtaking works of art ever made. 

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►The Silence of Others  https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7a2dad4f-4ce2-4682-b18c-ad870131a26a    

-Reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, as they organize a groundbreaking international lawsuit and fight a “pact of forgetting” around the crimes they suffered.

►The Inner Tour   https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=4a1d54dd-dc32-42b1-a09c-ad870123027a  

-Innovatively probes the human side of the Israel-Palestinian conflict crisis, bringing to light, with unparalleled grace and sensitivity, stories of loss and displacement told from the Palestinian perspective.

►Las Raíces de Mi Corazón (Roots of my Heart)  https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=222e3475-e1f7-4606-9acf-ad8701095c3b

-This drama follows a young Cuban woman investigating her family history, and discovering disturbing revelations about the 1912 genocide, in which over 6,000 members of the Independents of Color were killed by the Cuban Army.

►Buddha in Africa (expires 9/1/2031)  https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=16e6865a-e08e-42b7-90b9-ad980006b4ad  

-A Malawian boy, raised in a Buddhist orphanage, struggles to retain his cultural identity

►Falafelism: The Politics of Food in the Middle East   https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=865ef301-6452-4272-bd68-adc8013922b2  

-Falafelism follows the iconic Palestinian croquette made from ground chickpeas and fava beans as it rolls its way through world history, cultural identity, class struggle, and international politics.

►The Esmeraldas Beach     https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=73147b50-38c8-402b-8484-aed9012aaa8d 

-Sets out to expose the invisibility of Afro-Ecuadorians and rectify the narrative of the country’s history.

►Kafe Negro: Cuba & The Haitian Revolution https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=df485f38-06b1-4809-af86-aeda013efea1   

-A film that explores the social, economic & historical ramification of the Haitian Revolution on Cuba.

►Father, Son, & Holy War (Pitra, Putra, aur Dharmayuddha)  https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=033f0cbd-5793-4436-a3fc-af07000d32e6 

-Explores in two parts the possibility that the psychology of violence against “the other” may lie in male insecurity, itself an inevitable product of the very construction of “manhood.” 

►Inhabitants: An Indigenous Perspective https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ff87cddc-4b88-455d-aa17-af3300d83e57

-Follows five Native American Tribes across deserts, coastlines, forests, and prairies as they restore their traditional land management practices. 

►Reckonings: The First Reparations  https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=3b1dd4d3-187c-4512-8c30-af1c00cb463e 

-In the aftermath of the Holocaust, the unprecedented destruction and plight of survivors prompts the unthinkable – German and Jewish leaders meet in secret to grapple with the first reparations in history. 

►Daughter of the Lake (Hija de la Laguna) https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=4f7aefd3-cb6a-463b-a735-afba0004f6b7 

-Nelida, an Andean woman able to communicate with water spirits, uses her powers to prevent a mining corporation from destroying the body of water she considers her mother.

►My Neighbourhood https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=04f24d42-ff1f-4d73-90b3-b108015e9f6a

-Mohammed El Kurd is a Palestinian boy growing up in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in the heart of East Jerusalem. When Mohammed turns 11, his family is forced to give up part of their home to Israeli settlers, who are leading a campaign of court-sanctioned evictions to guarantee Jewish control of the area.

►The Home Front Series https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.aspx?folderID=2412ee05-a6ea-467e-8df9-b10700efe81e

-Featuring the accounts of a Palestinian teenager forced to share his house with settlers, an American-born Israeli mother who gets drawn into the demonstrations after her children's arrest, a Palestinian community organizer who brings local women to the forefront of the struggle, and a veteran of the Israeli army who becomes one of the campaign's leaders, Home Front chronicles the resolve of a neighborhood, and the support it receives from the most unexpected of places.

►Gurumbé. Afro-Andalusian Memories (Gurumbé. Canciones de tu memoria negra)) https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=4622bcd2-fc60-496a-a022-b10d014124f8

-Since the inception of flamenco, theorists have sidelined the fundamental contribution of Afro-Andalusians to this art form. Commercial exploitation of the American colonies brought hundreds of Africans to Spain and music/dance were a fundamental part of their expression and identity. Their contribution to this art form disappeared in the late 19th century. Now, their story is finally told.

►A Todos Nos Gusta El Platano (We All Like Plantain) https://vimeo.com/914381470 (please email ER Librarian for the password)

-It is a warm and mature ensemble film, in which the director hands the camera over to seven black people in Spain to have them make a film.

►Dadiwonisi (We Will Speak) https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=3fe380af-280d-4d61-ab9f-b134011346be

- This film explores the nuanced ways the Cherokee language is vital to maintaining a unique cultural identity and relationship with the world.

►Cheche Lavi https://centrevideo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=6a50c8b3-f517-4d26-b5d5-b20c017b6f61

-Two young Haitians find themselves stranded at the US-Mexico border with no way forward and no one to depend on but each other.

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Global Environmental Justice Collection-database list on library website (35 films-expires 6/5/2025)  

-A curated collection of 35 interdisciplinary documentaries featuring underrepresented stories that explore the intersections of human rights, environmental degradation, colonization, industrial development, and climate change.

The Pinochet Case (expires 11/7/2025)

-Augusto Pinochet ruled Chile from the early 1970s through 1990. This documentary chronicles the collapse of Pinochet's violent and corrupt reign. 

Still Waters (Perpetual Access)

-A remarkable one-room school in Brooklyn is facing a tough year. It's the run up to the US presidential election and anti-Latino rhetoric is ramped up--an extra source of tension for a hard-pressed Hispanic community already threatened by gentrification and eviction.

 

Tingher-Jerusalem: Echoes from the Mellah (Perpetual Access)

-Kamal Hachkar goes in search of a community in Tinghir, Morocco that has vanished - and confronts fundamental questions of his own identity in the process.

Queer China, 'Comrade' China (Perpetual Access)

-This film documents the changes and developments in LGBT culture that have taken place in China over the last 80 years, exploring the historical milestones and ongoing advocacy efforts of the Chinese LGBT community.

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Three Colors: Blue (11/29/2024) A blistering study of grief; a tale of liberation, as Julie attempts to free herself from the past while confronting truths about the life of her late husband, a composer.

Taxi (12/1/2024) Jafar Panahi drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse (and yet representative) group of passengers in a single day. 

Rabin, The Last Day (1/3/2025) The Director's aim is to prove Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination was not just the act of one fanatic; it was the culmination of a hate campaign that emanated from the rabbis and public figures of Israel's far right.

A Berlin Romance (2/5/2025) (Eine Berliner Romanze) Mid-1950s Berlin, before the building of the Wall. Uschi, a salesgirl and aspiring fashion model from the East, is attracted to Hans, from the West.

Yuli (2/12/2025) As a child Yuli avoids discipline and education, learning from the streets of an impoverished and abandoned Havana. His father, however, has other ideas, and knowing that his son has a natural talent for dance, sends him to the National Ballet School of Cuba.

Killing Us Softly4 (2/16/2025) In this update, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. 

The American Friend (3/8/2025)  An amoral American art dealer entangles a terminally ill German everyman in a seedy criminal underworld as revenge for a personal slight--but when the two become embroiled in an ever-deepening murder plot, they form an unlikely bond.

The Great Beauty (3/8/2025) A tale of decadence and lost love. For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome.

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (3/8/2025) An American writer traveling in Rome is the only witness to an attempted murder by a sinister man in a raincoat and black leather gloves, though he is powerless to do anything to stop him.

Ixcanul (Volcano) (3/9/2025) A dreamlike depiction of the daily lives of Kaqchikel speaking Mayans on a coffee plantation at the base of an active volcano.

Hippie Family Values (3/10/2025) An intimate portrait of hippie elders and their adult children, filmed over a 10-year period at a communal ranch in New Mexico.

An American in Mao’s Cultural Revolution (4/8/2025) Sidney Rittenberg arrived in China as a GI Chinese language expert at the end of World War II. Discharged there, he joined the Chinese Communist Party, and was an active participant in the Chinese communist revolution and its aftermath.

The Wanted 18 - The Israeli Army's Pursuit of 18 Cows (4/11/2025) Through a mix of stop motion animation and interviews, this film recreates an astonishing true story: the Israeli army's pursuit of 18 cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared "a threat to the national security of the state of Israel."

The Anthropologist (9/3/2025) Examines climate change from the perspective of teenager Katie Crate as she studies the impact of climate change on indigenous communities.

Framing the Other (9/4/2025) Mursi women are known for placing large plates in their lower lips and wearing enormous, richly decorated earrings, which has become a subject of tourist attraction.

Last Train Home (10/6/2025) Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. 

La Reine Margot (Queen Margot) (10/12/2025) She is Marguerite de Valois. He is Henri de Navarre. They are forced to marry in a political move to reconcile France, ripped apart by the Wars of Religion.

Sand Dollars (10/31/2025) An older European woman becomes enchanted with a young Dominican woman who must struggle to make ends meet.

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (10/31/2025)  Built in 1956, Pruitt-Igoe was heralded as the model public housing project of the future. Two decades later, it ended in rubble - its razing an iconic event that the architectural theorist Charles Jencks famously called "the death of modernism." 

Yasuni Man (11/14/2025) Desperate conservationists struggle against oil interests as native people in the heart of Ecuadorian Amazon vie to preserve their culture.

I Dream in Another Language (2/15/2027) Follows a young linguist into the jungles of Mexico as he tries to learn about and preserve a mysterious indigenous language.

Race: The Power of Illusion (10/30/2027) Questions the very idea of race as innate biology, suggesting that a belief in inborn racial difference is no more sound than believing that the sun revolves around the earth.