Film Series
Please visit our calendar to see the online and in-person events we offer.
Spring Film Series: All Your Faces, French, 117 mins, Not Rated
Monday, May 19 at 6:30 PM Victims of violent crime and perpetrators meet up in a restorative justice group in order to have a dialogue and heal from their trauma. Drop In
Summer Film Series: Arthur the King, 107 mins, Rated PG-13
Monday, June 23 at 6:30 PM Summer Film Series: Arthur the King, 107 mins, Rated PG-13 An adventure racer adopts a stray dog named Arthur to join him in an epic endurance race. Drop In
Summer Film Series: Inshallah, A Boy, Arabic, 113 mins, Not Rated
Monday, July 28 at 6:30 PM Summer Film Series: Inshallah, A Boy, Arabic, 113 mins, Not Rated A widow pretends to be pregnant with a son in order to save her daughter and home from a relative exploiting Jordan’s patriarchal inheritance laws. Drop In
Summer Film Series: A Real Pain, 90 mins, Rated R
Monday, August 25 at 6:30 PM Summer Film Series: A Real Pain, 90 mins, Rated R Mismatched cousins reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother, but their old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history. Drop In
International Language Collection
Books
Check out our NEW adult international book collection in the library behind the lower information desk. There you can find fiction and non-fiction titles in eleven languages: French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Persian, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu and Vietnamese. This collection is intended to better meet the needs of patrons that make up Northville’s growing, diverse cultural community and has plans to grow over the years.
In addition to the new adult collection, the library also features an international collection for kids, featuring books and DVDs in over 20 languages.
Audio/Visual
The library has hundreds of CDs featuring music from around the world in our adult music CD collection. There are also over a thousand DVDs in the foreign film collection in over 70 different languages.
Digital/Downloadable
Overdrive/Libby
- E-BOOKS in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Spanish
- E-AUDIOBOOKS in Chinese, French, German, Spanish
- MAGAZINES in Chinese, French, German, Korean, Japanese, Spanish
- MOVIES/TELEVISION in Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Persian
- E-BOOKS in French, German, Spanish, Hindi, Japanese, Vietnamese
- E-AUDIOBOOKS in Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Persian, Tamil, Vietnamese
- MUSIC in Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Tamil, Telugu, Vietnamese
- MOVIES/TELEVISION in Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Vietnamese
- COMICS in French
Freegal – Music featuring many different artists from outside of the U.S.A.
Kanopy – Foreign Films from around the world