Tisch School of the Arts (NYU)

One of the early short films of director Brett Ratner.

A struggling insomniac is forced to confront her troubled past when a small red string emerges from under her fingernail. As her oblivious boyfriend pulls it out of her, she finds herself unravelling... literally.

Based her grandfather’s boyhood in St. Louis, Yasmin Gorenberg tells a story of the pain passed from refugee parents to their children and the hope that can overcome it. “40 Nickels” captures the image of a generation of immigrants to the United States in the 1920’s and 1930’s and through that spotlights the effects of the 1919 pogroms in Eastern Europe. This is a film about parents and children: how trauma never leaves a family, and how hope and resilience is also passed down. It asks the question: Can a new generation look at the world with wonder rather than fear?

A young woman comes home to Taiwan, to say goodbye to her father before he goes to prison.

Senegalese documentary about the country's most famous film-maker - Ousmane Sembène. The groundbreaking director explains his philosophy, politics and hopes for the future of African cinema.

Floyd has worked his whole life. One day, while out a new job, he discovers something that alters his way of thinking.

Think Blue Valentine meets Jurassic Park. Dinosaurs have invaded Earth but neither Tommy nor Stacey care anymore, now that they've found each other. They escape the war, but whether they dive to the bottom of the ocean or fly to the depths of Outer Space, conflict always seems to find a way into their lives.

In Belleau Wood, France, during the Great War, a soldier named John writes a letter home to his wife Sara in Milwaukee. He writes that her picture "helps me remember what it was like to be me." He tells her about sorties into No Man's Land, and that they have orders tonight to charge. Then, his letter becomes a report of that charge: toward an armed German soldier who doesn't fire, even when John reaches him and jumps into the trench beside him. What happens next brings silence and an end to the letter.

Following a one-night stand, a young insomniac wakes up in a luxurious Manhattan apartment where things are not what they seem. Something about his host is off. When she reveals that they are not alone, the red flags escalate into a waking nightmare.

At a shiva with her parents, a college student runs into her sugar daddy.

It’s just another ordinary day in 1930s Los Angeles for private investigator Clyde Umney, until a new client walks into his office. Umney soon learns that his client is the crime-fiction writer who not only created him, but now needs to switch places with him.

A young man's livelihood is put to the test when he gets profiled and stopped by the police on his way home from practice.

Ten aliens in human host bodies learn how to be men.

Old memories and ghosts from the past resurface when a man reluctantly agrees to help his now-alcoholic childhood friend sober up over the course of a weekend.

Pedro, an outsider trapped in a passionless marriage, secretly escapes through music. When he meets Kira, another outsider who shares his yearning for true intimacy, they begin a risky conversational affair.

NYC. A young Chinese girl owes a staggering smuggling debt to the Snakeheads. Her feelings of self-worth collide with her new life options: the sweatshop, fourteen hour days, sleeping eighteen to a room. Or Gang life. Bodywork. And Full Service, at two hundred and up.

After being assaulted, a young woman is disturbed to notice a man watching her as she practices self-defense by herself in a park basketball court. Overwhelmed, she has to choose to stand her ground or run away.

Lena and Ardi have to get married. As immigrants in America they agree to an arranged marriage by their old fashioned parents, who desperately want to keep the traditions. The comic and lovely moments between them start when they make another arrangement. Living for them selves too. Until it lasts. Based on true story.

The tense relationship between a mother and son reaches a climax during a summer heatwave.

Holly, an anxiety-ridden high school sophomore, is faced with the challenge of giving a class presentation.