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
On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want?
In this delightfully bizarre comedy-drama, the Zellner Brothers take us deep into the wild with a quirky family of Sasquatches grunting their way through the mundane joys and perils of forest life.
United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup.
Eileen is a peculiar young woman whose dreary life stretches on toward unending misery. In 1960s Boston, Eileen shuffles between her father’s emotionally haunted home and the prison where she works. When an intoxicating woman joins the prison staff, Eileen is taken. Just as the possibility of friendship (or maybe more) takes hold, her newfound confidant entangles her in a shocking crime.
After 26 years of spinning dives and flying uppercuts in the ring, Cassandro, the star of the gender-bending cross-dressing Mexican wrestlers known as the Exoticos, is far from retiring. But with dozens of broken bones and metal pins in his body, he must now reinvent himself.
While staying at an isolated island resort, James and Em are enjoying a perfect vacation of pristine beaches, exceptional staff, and soaking up the sun. But guided by the seductive and mysterious Gabi, they venture outside the resort grounds and find themselves in a culture filled with violence, hedonism, and untold horror.
Two childhood sweethearts, after decades apart, are reunited for one fateful week in New York as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
Morgue technician Rose successfully reanimates a little girl in this psychological horror film, but to keep her alive, she must harvest biological materials from pregnant women. When the girl’s mother, Celie, discovers her daughter alive, they form a dark pact to continue the experiment.
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Itto, a young woman from a modest rural background, is slowly adapting to the privileged codes of her husband’s family. But when supernatural events put the country in a state of emergency, Itto finds herself separated from her husband and new family. Alone, pregnant and looking for her way back, she unexpectedly finds emancipation and the possibility of solace in a new world order.
Living in the not-so-distant future, a New York couple takes a wild ride to parenthood after landing a coveted spot at the Womb Center, which offers couples a convenient and shareable pregnancy by way of detachable, artificial wombs, or pods.
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.
A rich couple invite two scrap dealers, a father and his son, to their house to recycle more objects.
he film explores Giovanni’s Afrofuturist-feminist philosophical outlook as well as her poignant relationship with her family, her political audacity, and her poetic eloquence, all knit together with a constant eye and ear for its subject’s own aesthetic verve.
Georgie is a dreamy 12-year-old girl who lives alone in her London flat, filling it with magic after the death of her mother. Out of nowhere, her estranged father Jason arrives and forces her to confront reality. Uninterested in this sudden new parental figure, Georgie is stubbornly resistant to his efforts. As they adjust to their new circumstances, Georgie and Jason find that both father and daughter still have a lot of growing up to do.
The award-winning film from the last international journalists inside the Russian siege of Mariupol. An extraordinary account, seen through the lens of the AP’s Mstyslav Chernov and two colleagues documenting the atrocities and their own escape.
Seventeen-year-old Jem Starling struggles to define her place within her fundamentalist Christian community in rural Kentucky. Even her greatest joy of dancing with the church group is tempered by worry that her actions are sinful and she is caught between a burgeoning awareness of her own sexuality and her religious devotion. With the return of Owen, an enigmatic youth pastor, Jem soon finds herself attracted to his worldliness and charm. Slowly, he draws her into a dangerous relationship that could upend their entire community.