American Film Institute Conservatory

At arts summer camp, Basia, a reserved 13-year old girl, struggles to connect with other kids. She feels seen for the first time when an equally reserved 19-year-old camp counselor takes her under his wing. When a late night encounter with him leads Basia to lie to impress her roommate, she must reckon with the consequences of her exploration.

In Ancient Nazareth in the year Zero, a pregnant teenage girl (Mary) and her gay best friend (Joseph) must hatch a plan to save their lives when they discover they might get stoned to death for their sexual "sins". Their plan? They'll convince everyone that God made Mary pregnant with the new Messiah.

When Joe discovers his high school crush has moved into his nursing home, he asks his best friend Alma for help, but little does he know, she has a crush of her own.

When Nina, a resilient and tenacious eight-year-old Mexican girl is granted asylum in the U.S. and forced to stay in the custody of her estranged aunt, she rejects her new family and escapes inside the fantasy world of her book, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”

Linh, a disillusioned Vietnamese woman carrying out evictions for a landlord, is instructed to evict Vietnamese refugees. She must decide whether to follow through with their eviction or reject it in solidarity.

After a fight with his mom, a dysfunctional 16-year-old with a habit of biting is taken to an abusive, remote therapy program in the woods for troubled teens, where he is forced to confront his aggressive instincts to grow and find some semblance of inner peace.

When a young risk analyst at a major US oil company in 1982 learns that the climate research department has just discovered a rapid rise in global temperatures, he has to decide on which side of history he wants to be.

After hours at a mobile repair shop, a routine fix takes a strange turn.

After missing his wife's phone call goodbye on the morning of September 11th, a now listless and brokenhearted music teacher must harmonize with his increasingly desperate fourteen-year-old son.

When her son’s life is put at risk, a hard-of-hearing mother must decide how to seek help for her bipolar husband in order to keep her family safe.

When a Latina transwoman in East LA is on the verge of losing her daughter to child services, she begins to unravel as she is forced to confront her buried traumas and fears.

Amidst his wife’s flourishing career, a once hotshot director turned stay-at-home dad becomes convinced his hands are inexplicably shrinking. In a desperate search to re-enlarge his hands, he risks his family and sanity.

Dominic is a boy trying to cope with the turmoil surrounding him. His life is about to take a very sharp turn.

A young man decides not to go to college on a baseball scholarship but remain at his summer forest ranger's job. This is Edward Zwick's first short film, which won first place in the student film competition at the 1976 Chicago Film Festival.

In a rundown Iranian circus in LA, a groundskeeper decides to participate in the show to see what the trapeze dancer sees every night – a magnificent view of their hometown, Tehran.

A young man takes his grief-stricken boyfriend to recover at an idyllic desert resort, but awakens to an eerie new reality.

Wanda, a bubbly middle aged woman battling cancer and keeping it a secret from her daughter Rosie, decides to reinvent herself as a city council candidate; but as her campaign spirals, she realizes the hardest door to knock on is her daughter’s.

Tyler lives a quiet, unremarkable life in the small Arkansas town of Paradise. That is, until the day that a Hollywood film crew rolls into town, and he matches with actor Raphael on Grindr.

When her boyfriend is taken off life support by his family, a brilliant but obsessive college student risks everything to steal his body and DIY cryogenically freeze him.

When a former centerfold suffers a breakdown on her partner’s birthday, she must outwit her smart home device on a blood-soaked path to having her own cake and eating it, too.