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Thunder — Available Friday, July 18, 2025
Directed by Carmen Jaquier • Drama • With Lilith Grasmug, Sabine Timoteo • 2023 • 95 minutes • Dekanalog

Nestled in a lush Swiss valley in the summer of 1900, 17-year-old Elisabeth is preparing to take her vows at a nunnery when her fate is abruptly altered as she is summoned home following the death of her elder sister. At home the maddening silence surrounding her sister's mysterious death pushes Elisabeth to seek answers from three childhood friends — now young men with their own desires.

Nobody Wants Us — Available Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Directed by Laura Seltzer-Duny • Documentary • With Simon Neufeld, Irving Redel, Annette Lachmann • 2020 • 43 minutes • New Day Films

Through the stories of three teens, we learn about the inherent goodness of others at a time when the world seemed to be against them. With the help of a Virginia maritime lawyer, the First Lady of the United States, and a State Department employee, they eventually found freedom on the shores of Hampton Roads in VA. Nobody Wants Us tells the story of some of the last refugees allowed into the United …

Rollout — Available Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Directed by Danny Abel • Documentary • With Laureen Wanguba, Evelyn Nyaaga, Florence Kabuga • 2024 • 16 minutes • New Day Films

Rollout is a journey alongside residents of a tight-knit Kenyan community, as they face mounting pressure from a government they don’t trust, to get a Covid-19 vaccine they fear may cause more harm than good. The movie is a journey alongside residents of a Kibera, Nairobi - including Laureen, a mother and immunization nurse. Through Rollout, we seek to show a vivid picture of the powerful and complex …

Side by Side: Out of a South Korean Orphanage and Into the World — Available Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Directed by Glenn Morey and Julie Morey, co-directors • Documentary • 2018 • 38 minutes • New Day Films

What happens when the lives of children are reset by adoption, sent to grow up in new countries and families of a different race, language, and culture? To find out, the Side by Side project spent 10 years filming 100 Korean adoptees, now living in 7 countries around the world—an unprecedented effort to deeply understand 65+ years of inter-country adoption out of South Korea. This short film presents …

Sin País (Without Country) — Available Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Directed by Theo Rigby • Documentary • 2011 • 20 minutes • New Day Films

Sin País (Without Country) attempts to get beyond the partisan politics and mainstream media’s ‘talking point’ approach to immigration issues by exploring one family’s complex and emotional journey involving deportation.

What These Walls Won't Hold — Available Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Directed by Adamu Chan • Documentary • With Isabella Borgeson, Rahsaan Thomas, Lonnie Morris • 2023 • 43 minutes • New Day Films

Transcending the grim realities of the COVID-19 pandemic, Adamu Chan's powerful documentary, What These Walls Won't Hold, paints a poignant portrait of resilience and hope blossoming within the confines of San Quentin State Prison. Chan, formerly incarcerated himself, offers a unique insider's view as he weaves a tapestry of the many threads of relationships that bind together his community. The film …

Who Am I To Stop It — Available Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Directed by Cheryl Green and Cynthia Lopez • Documentary • With Dani Sanderson, Kris Haas, Brandon Scarth • 2016 • 86 minutes • New Day Films

Who Am I To Stop It is a documentary about the traumatic brain injury community made by a filmmaker with disabilities from brain injury. It follows three artists as they navigate social isolation, stigma, and rebuilding their identities. They practice the arts to reconnect to their own sense of self-pride and to their larger communities. Rather than emphasize the injuries themselves or highlight medical …

With a Stroke of the Chaveta — Available Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Directed by Pam Sporn • Documentary • With Zoe Nocedo Primo, Gricel Lombillo • 2007 • 28 minutes • New Day Films

With a Stroke of the Chaveta takes viewers into the legendary cigar factories of Cuba to witness the survival of the collective reading of literature while tabaqueros roll cigars. We learn how through la lectura de tabaquería cigar workers have been entertained, educated, and maintained a sense of class solidarity.

Silvio Rodriguez: My First Calling — Available Thursday, July 24, 2025
Directed by Catherine Murphy • Documentary • With Silvio Rodriquez • 2022 • 25 minutes • New Day Films

My First Calling explores the little-known story of global music giant Silvio Rodriguez, who intimately recounts coming of age on the youth brigades of the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign, where at only 14-years of age he taught a rural campesino family how to read and write. Edited together with newly digitized 16mm film footage from the Latin American Newsreels produced and directed by Santiago Alvarez …

The Interpreters — Available Friday, July 25, 2025
Directed by Sofian Khan, Andres Caballero • Documentary • With Khalid Awda, Paul Braun, John McCain • 2019 • 59 minutes • New Day Films

As the American involvement in the war-torn region winds down, these abandoned allies are faced with an impossible choice – wait for the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) they’ve been promised in return for their loyal service, which may never come, or attempt a hazardous exit route to Europe on the refugee trail. With the threat of bloody retribution against them from the likes of ISIS and the Taliban, …

RECENTLY ADDED: Titles added in the last two weeks

— Added Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Directed by LeeAnn Dance • Documentary • With Judy Favish, Tess Peacock, Alex Dunai • 2018 • 56 minutes • New Day Films

My Dear Children is a journey that reveals a heartbreaking and little-known humanitarian tragedy. One hundred years ago, Jews in what today is Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus suffered through what scholars now call “the holocaust of its day.” Pogroms that swept the region from 1917-1921 killed some 300,000 Jews, perhaps many more. Judy Favish, a South African Jew, uses a decades-old letter from her … More

— Added Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Directed by Melanie La Rosa • Documentary • With Costa Constantinides, Juan Shannon, Thomas Meyer • 2024 • 73 minutes • New Day Films

"How To Power A City" is a singular film as the first clean energy documentary that puts communities at the center. It showcases local solutions in the US and Puerto Rico, while also highlighting women and people of color leading renewable energy projects. Audiences will travel through solar and wind power projects from the urban sprawls of New York City, Atlantic City, Las Vegas, and Detroit/Highland … More

— Added Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Directed by Kristal Sotomayor • Documentary • With Linda Hernandez • 2023 • 21 minutes • New Day Films

An immigrant mother becomes an unexpected community leader during a groundbreaking campaign to end the Philadelphia police’s data-sharing with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Expanding Sanctuary tells a rarely seen story of resilience, tracing the Latinx immigrant community’s successful fight to protect families and change legislation against a backdrop of systemic injustice. At the heart … More

— Added Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Directed by Charles Ableman • Documentary • 2002 • 32 minutes • New Day Films

In 2020, there were over 100,000 Americans and at least 20,000 Filipinos teaching English to millions of Chinese students online. With billions of dollars in investment, the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) industry was the largest financial sector in the ed tech space. Then, in 2021, with US-China tensions rising, the industry collapsed overnight with the announcement of a new policy -- the Double … More

— Added Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Directed by Todd McGrain • Documentary • With Andrea Tukalo, Sassely Bernard • 2018 • 52 minutes • New Day Films

With unprecedented footage, Elephant Path / Njaia Njoku captures the beauty and behavior of the rare and elusive Forest Elephants. Our guides - Sessely Bernard, a tracker and elder of the Bayaka people, and Andrea Turkalo, an American field biologist, join eco-guard Zephirine Mbele in Dzanga Bai, a rainforest clearing in the Central African Republic. The Seleka, an alliance of rebel militia groups, … More

— Added Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Directed by Robert Rooy • Documentary • With DJ Savarese • 2017 • 73 minutes • New Day Films

Abandoned by his birth parents and presumed incompetent, DJ Savarese (“Deej”) found not only a loving family but also a life in words, which he types on a text-to-voice synthesizer. As he makes his way through high school and dreams of college, he confronts the terrors of his past, society's obstacles to inclusion, and the sometimes paralyzing beauty of his own senses. In his advocacy on behalf of … More

— Added Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Directed by Joanne Hershfield • Documentary • 2018 • 62 minutes • New Day Films

Benevolence, a Journey from Prison to Home follows the journey of five women as they are released from prison and move onto Benevolence Farm in Alamance County, NC. Benevolence Farm is a working farm that serves as a transitional home for women reentering society from state or federal prison. Benevolence tells the story of what happens when you bring individuals who have never met, to live and work … More

— Added Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Directed by Matt Mahurin • Documentary • With Kenny Shopsin • 2004 • 78 minutes • Oscilloscope Laboratories

In 2002, an unusual eatery called Shopsin's loses its lease after 32 years. Filmmaker Matt Mahurin goes inside the diner to figure out its gastronomic appeal, and paint a portrait of its colorful owners Kenny and Eve and they prepare to start fresh in a new location.

— Added Friday, July 11, 2025
Directed by Stefan Liberski • Drama • With Benoit Poelvoorde, Camille Cottin • 2025 • 110 minutes • Distrib Films

"Tabula rasa and vita nova," exclaims artist Jean-Yves Machond (Benoît Poelvoorde). "A clean slate and a new life." Leaving Brussels and his job as a professor to settle in Normandy, Machond searches for inspiration, convinced he still has something to say with his art. The small town of Étretat, with its scenic cliffs, sea views and beaches, is the ultimate embodiment of Impressionism. But ever the … More

— Added Thursday, July 10, 2025
Directed by Abba T. Makama • Drama • With Samuel Abiola Robinson, Dabis Christopher • 2016 • 102 minutes • Dekanalog

Shot on location in Lagos, and playing like a cross between American Graffiti and Be Kind Rewind, in this richly textured and frequently funny look at Nigeria's next generation, a group of young bohemian artists hang out and search for direction in their lives in the stagnant months leading up to the beginning of their university studies. Green White Green humorously explores social and political … More