The Librarians

As an unprecedented wave of racist and anti-2SLGBTQIA+ book bans rips through the United States, librarians join forces to defend intellectual freedom and targetted communities. As tensions escalate, a nationwide coalition of librarians comes together to lay bare the underpinnings of the white Christian nationalism fueling these censorship efforts. Despite facing harassment, threats, and laws aimed at criminalizing their work, the librarians unite under a rallying cry for the freedom to read.

Peabody Award winner and Academy Award nominee Kim A. Snyder (Newtown, Us Kids, 2025 Oscar-nominated Death By Numbers) takes us to the front lines where these knowledge keepers emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy and free access to information. The Librarians, which World Premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, reminds us that we have powerful allies everywhere.

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Screening in-person only.