Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema

During a visit to New York from Egypt, Mark, a 32-year-old Orthodox Christian, decides to lose his virginity, facing all the cultural and religious restrictions that have shaped his character. After a failed blind date, Mark is persuaded by his friends to seek something other than a soul mate. Their solution? A prostitute.

Elder Braxton Barlow, a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, while proselytizing in the streets of New York City with his missionary companion, encounters a fortune teller who gives a life-changing tarot card reading.

An absurd nightmare comedy about an ex-military suburbanite begging his neighbor to have sex with his wife, in order to save his marriage.

A young child loses his prized deck of playing cards amidst a life-changing day for him and his family.

Canelé is a playful comedy about pregnancy cravings, competition, and the small battles we fight before life shows us the bigger picture. When a devoted but exhausted father-to-be sets out to secure a single pastry for his very pregnant wife, he's pulled into an absurd, high-stakes race against his equally stubborn neighbor. What begins as a simple errand spirals into sabotage, rivalry, and sheer chaos-until a sudden twist reminds everyone what truly matters.

A young man arrives from Europe and spends his days with his sister in an apartment in the Once neighbourhood. While he gets used to his new life, he secretly dreams about the possibility that the cashier from the Chinese supermarket has some kind of interest in him.

Expecting their first child, a married couple struggles to find romance and connection while building a new life together in America.

Jason, an 11-year-old boy who suffers relentless torment at the hands of his older brother, Davey. Their sibling rivalry unfolds through constant bullying and intense video game battles, where Jason is always at a disadvantage. But when one seemingly ordinary gaming session takes an unexpected turn, the power dynamic shifts in a way no one could have predicted.

Even though Sami is safe in the United States with his 9-year-old daughter, Aya, the injures sustained during the war in Syria are making his life difficult. When news breaks that the rest of his family will arrive from a refugee camp, he should be as elated as Aya. But as Aya grows more eager to see her brother Saeed, Sami grows more anxious.

On a trip to New York, an Australian father and daughter navigate the city and their strained relationship.

A short film about a family faced with tragedy and evil in the shadow of a looming forest.

Under the pretense of an owl prowl, a grieving teenage birdwatcher and his two childhood friends search for a local ghost rumored to have reappeared, only to discover the real danger isn't the legend.

To maintain the tenuous connection with her mother, 8-year-old Christina unwittingly endangers her father, an undocumented food-delivery driver.

Set against the streets of the Lower East Side, Lost and Found follows Marco and Nez, two young boys chasing excitement and trying to act older than they are. When they stumble upon an abandoned handgun, what begins as a thrilling discovery quickly spirals into chaos during a reckless game of show and tell. Told through both the boys' perspective and the detached gaze of the gun itself, the film is a tragic coming-of-age story about innocence, masculinity, social pressure, and the desperate need to belong in a world forcing kids to grow up too fast.

Fen, a contemporary Asian woman, undertakes a profound journey of self-examination within the intricate "spiderweb" spun from her mother's sacrificial expectations, the lure of career advancement, and the illusion of social connections.

Interwoven fragments of one day in the filmmaker's childhood.

During a night of relentless fraternity hazing, a freshman desperate to prove his loyalty must decide whether to sacrifice his closest ally in order to secure his place at the top of the pack.

A group of young queers navigate bars, friendships, abandoned warehouses, and a room where dreams are recorded on VHS tapes.

Two waiters kidnap a pair of unruly restaurant customers to give them a lesson in civility.

A Brooklyn teenager reunites with her Guyanese cousin for the funeral of a relative. On the last day of the wake the girls venture out into the city alone.