What is Kanopy?
Kanopy is a free streaming service that features award-winning Sundance films and over 500 films previously shown at the Sundance Film Festival. In addition, Kanopy has over 30,000 indie films, documentaries, classic gems, and captivating children’s content to stream free of charge with your library card. Your library card allows 30 tickets per month (most movies generally use 2 tickets, while longer movies may require more), and unlimited viewing for children’s content.
Kanopy’s commitment to thoughtful entertainment extends to the youngest of viewers. The platform provides educational and engaging story time videos and television series for children of all ages. This content aims to encourage social and emotional development, promote respect for community diversity, and inspire creativity.
How to Get Started
To start using Kanopy, visit their user-friendly website. Enter your library card number and effortlessly create your account. Browse, choose, and enjoy the extensive film library!
Recent Sundance Films
While staying at an isolated island resort, James and Em are enjoying a perfect vacation until they venture outside the resort grounds and find themselves in a culture filled with violence, hedonism, and untold horror.
Seventeen-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.
In this vibrant and inventive father-daughter comedy; Georgie, a dreamy 12-year-old girl, lives happily alone in her London flat, filling it with magic. Suddenly, her estranged father, Jason, turns up and forces her to confront reality.
12-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. She hides it, keeps it warm. When it hatches, what emerges is beyond belief.
In 1993, a boy named Brandon Lee enrolls at the Bearsden Academy secondary school in Glasgow, Scotland. Over time, it is revealed that Brandon Lee is not who he seems.
A revelation of the inner lives of young LDS missionaries, as they leave their homes for the first time and embark upon the most emotionally, physically and psychologically challenging period of their life.
The youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque, and he quickly becomes infatuated with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show.
Hoping to provide for their families, struggling widows start a business to sell a local food product. Together, they find healing and solace in the new venture, but their will to live independently is soon met with hostility.
Must See Sundance Winners
Desperate for answers about the theft of her 2 paintings, a Czech artist seeks out and befriends the career criminal who stole them. After inviting her thief to sit for a portrait, the two form an improbable relationship and an inextricable bond that will forever link these lonely souls.
This documentary tells four stories of Apartheid in South Africa, as seen through the eyes of the Truth and Reconciliation commission. White soldiers who have killed ANC activists, black activists who have killed whites in political attacks: can there be forgiveness when the full truth comes out?
Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.
Airport security worker Joseph lives a mundane existence with a daily commute and a repetitive job. After a frustrating reunion with his unresponsive parents, he cracks under the pressure and embarks on a frenzy of emotional release.
This film follows the titular character (Chloë Grace Moretz) as she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night.
Angel LaMere is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, Angel embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister to avenge her mother’s death.
A poor Maltese fisherman faces the temptation to sell his wooden fishing boat and join a black-market operation that’s decimating the Mediterranean fish population and the livelihoods of local families.
Renowned horror writer Shirley Jackson is on the precipice of writing her masterpiece when the arrival of newlyweds upends her routine and heightens tensions in her already tempestuous relationship with her husband.