Tisch School of the Arts (NYU)

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.

Pasang, a new girl at a nunnery, has her first period after hearing a late-night ghost story. She keeps it secret until she bleeds at a prayer session. She believes that she has been cursed and needs to sacrifice a black goat to avoid further misfortune.

Two friends find themselves in the life-threatening crosshairs of a merciless shooter while taking a detour through New Mexico.

A live-action story of a six-year-old boy who goes shopping with his mother and eventually gets lost. During that time, the imaginative boy's mind alternates between fantasy and an attempt to decipher the world around him. A film about the perceptions of children

Barbara's and Bob's conjugal life is upset when Bob's former college roommate shows up unexpectedly.

14-year-old Stephanie Miller is spending a boring vacation at the beach with her protective parents and annoying siblings, until she meets David, a college student, on the boardwalk. Despite her parents' warnings, Stephanie goes on a date with David to Wildwood, a teen hangout. They go to a party where there's drinking and David starts to flirt with another girl. A fight ensues, forcing David and Stephanie to flee to the nearby amusement park. There, they are stopped by police officers enforcing the teen curfew. David is defiant and to make matters worse, the officers find what looks like a marijuana cigarette on Stephanie. Luckily, it turns out to be nothing more than oregano. After the police escort the couple out of town, David suggests they party elsewhere. Sobered by her experience, Stephanie reveals her true age and her irresponsible date speeds off. The next day, having learned an important lesson, Stephanie is content to build sandcastles on the beach.

Chicken Boy is a dark coming-of-age story in which a lonely boy recognizes parallels between the bullying he endures at school and the neglect he experiences at home.

Through the streets and boroughs of New York, Jimmy, a bicycle messenger from the Albatross Courier Company is out to deliver a package "on time". Braving the perilous city streets there's nothing Jimmy can't handle...or is there? This 1987 comedy classic short shown worldwide marked the debut of Director/Screenwriter Ari Taub and captured the spirit of low-budget filmmaking in New York City.

A winter's tale of a young boy haunted by his mother's ghost.

When Skeeve, an East Village hardcore punk, breaks into an apartment intent on burglary, he meets his match and his conscience in Estelle, a sharp old widow.

The friendship between Avi, a former drug addict, and Jaber, a Sudanese refugee, is in danger. It is Jabber's last day before being sent to Holot Detention Facility, and Avi decides to take matters into his own hands.

This experimental animated short shows the life of a forest through storms, seasons, and a variety of art forms.

A college student struggles to reconnect with his high school friends after learning they’ve started dating each other.

Dramatizes the kidnapping of a young white boy by a black teenager after an attempted robbery in a Florida supermarket. Filmed from the perspective of the child.

Samah attempts tirelessly to escape wearing a burkini for her middle school swim meet, feeling embarrassed by its shape and cultural meaning.

Valentina Moreno, a single mother who works as a housekeeper for a wealthy Manhattan family, takes decisive action when something from her past threatens to ruin her personal and professional relationships.

A down-on-his-luck photographer determined to capture visual magic and fame. He concocts an intricate plot to blow up the Statue of Liberty and sets his camera to record the exact moment of its destruction.

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.

Kit and his two best friends have been raised by a forest-dwelling cult on the outskirts of society. As they come of age and are brought closer into the cult’s fold, Kit alone is bothered by the cruelty of its rituals. After stumbling upon a mother and her child where the forest meets the outside world, Kit must decide if he is truly safest in the life he has always known or if the world he has been taught to fear is worth abandoning his adoptive family.

Yuppie corporate attorney Emily is fed up with both her job and her man. A burned-out fellow attorney bucking for a partnership. All work and no play takes it toll on the lovebirds until Emily's old flame from Israel shows up on her doorstep and makes her an offer she may not refuse.