"My 60-year-long love affair with books and authors, their stories, and the life lessons they have gifted me. Filmed during the 2024 Oscars for Joel Havers Annual I Shot A Movie During The Oscars Worldwide Film Festival."
Young girl is locked at the library after it closes. Soon after, four storybook characters come to life in front of her.
Shy book lover Jane is unexpectedly tasked with having to save her beloved library from closure...but help is on hand from a host of literary characters.
It's closing time at Nina's library. Goodnight, patrons!
A university student working after hours at a library looks for the source of a strange sound.
Mildred must choose between authenticity and safety when the only world she knows is the inside of a Library.
This film about Library services in Australia shows some of the work of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library, the National Library with its varied resources and examples of State, University, special and public services suggesting their value in meeting needs for information at all levels. The library movement has become a vital part of Australian life. How libraries have fitted into society all over Australia, from the bustle of Sydney's Kings Cross to the remote outback.
This documentary follows the life of a one-of-a-kind man, and his one-of-a-kind library. Luis Soriano is a Colombian schoolteacher who spends weekends taking his donkey, and book collection, to the poverty-ridden towns of Magdalena Province. Facing down drug dealers, dangerous creatures, and overbearing heat, Soriano bravely faces down fear to promote education and literature.
A documentation of library vibes.
See how Sally Jenkins and her driver, Thomas, run Hertfordshire's mobile library service with military precision.
A probate lawyer handles the will and testament of his recently deceased elderly clients and uncovers a shocking secret about their middle-aged son's unusual roots.
In a future Leeds, society is divided between loyalists of the powerful Queen Bear and radical followers of Galahad. Avalon is a young woman desperate not to take sides, but as civil war begins she must undertake a dangerous mission to rescue a precious relic from destruction.
In the future, a second great flood covers most of the known world. Country borders collapse and language barrier disappear. All salvageable books are taken to a deep underground vault facility for protection. Run by priests, the facility is called The Stacks. As Olivia wanders the facility she discovers that she may not be alone and that a dark part of her past may have followed her into the narrow corridors of this inescapable purgatory.
Short documentary about an archetypal library concept for kids in Clamart.
Madiha Aijaz’s observational documentary on public libraries in Karachi, Pakistan, provides an entry point into present-day Karachi, where irredeemable changes feel imminent. While the libraries become a bastion for the literary tradition of Urdu, their frequent visitors lament the increasing dominance of English – a residual reminder of colonialism, partition and the ‘globalising’ present. Wrapped in quiet solitude, seated readers are shown hiding away from the hustle and bustle of urban life that can be seen outside.
Envolves around the mysterious death of a female librarian.