Films A - D

A House of Leaves

Abdullah Shahid, GRAD

A Pizza Me!

Farrah Shikara, UG

Two employees from rival pizzerias deliver to the same party—and to convince the drunken host to choose, they settle it the only logical way: a dance battle!

A Rare and Unique Item

Caroline Gohlke, GRAD

A lonely Brooklyn poet searches for love using a furniture resale website.

A Trapped Dog

Xinying Lao, GRAD

During a blackout, Keke, a high school student, follows a mysterious dog off campus. They run and play in the streets and grass fields. Keke begins to lose himself on the boundary between human and animal…

A Verdant Fantasy

Roy Bao Xu, UG

When three Asian gangsters offer U.S. green cards to two aliens in exchange for their green cocaine, the handover spirals out of control — and the elusive American Dream is lost in translation for them all.

A Vulnerable Guy

Muhil Vaseekaran, UG

A therapist is tasked with a hitman job, but on the job he conducts a therapy session with his victim.

Adventure Underground

Zhenyi Li, GRAD

Twelve-year-old Yi is ready to flatten his school teacher’s car tire with his buddy, but it comes with a price that neither kid is ready to pay.

All Tha Best

Hudson Price, UG

A portrait of New York City’s 47th Street Diamond District, guided by veteran watch dealer and internet personality John Buckley. As Buckley moves through the daily grind of 47th Street, haggling, appraising, storytelling, we meet the characters who make this one chaotic block unlike any other.

ALWAYS YOU

PJ Simeon, UG

Two teens are murdered after a hate-driven assault and must find a way to stay together into the next life.

Alya

Yara Melki, UG

In Mount Lebanon, 16-year-old Alya grapples between her mother’s and society’s expectations and the desires of her own adolescence.

Amedican Dreams

Mehak Singh Gill

An immigrant salesman from India must choose between the high pressure demands of his pest control job or an extremely intense relationship with his American girlfriend as his citizenship is on the line.

An Alien (In America)

Abdullah Shahid, GRAD

At a cricket watch party in New York filled with Pakistani and Indian Immigrants, tensions begin to rise and romances form.

An Encounter

Abe Dassa Kaye, UG

Desiring intimacy one Friday night, Eli rollerblades away from his friends to have sex for the first time with an older man he met online.

Ān-dé-lǔ

Alan He, UG

A young Chinese-American baseball player must confront his internalized racism after his overbearing father comes to his rescue.

Ant's Hill

Hector Valentine Jr, UG

Three aimless kids from Harlem find themselves entangled in street violence after accidentally killing a notorious thug from their neighborhood. As they grapple with the fallout, they must confront the futures they desire and the choices that will define them.

antalya

Kyle Stone, UG

As a woman makes a documentary about her best friend, the famous artist/influencer "antalya," she discovers troubling patterns in antalya's behavior that makes her question their "friendship."

Backyard Blues

Anton Riehle, UG

A small-town school teacher must unearth a painful past when confronted by a predatory real estate developer.

Bad Apple

Joseph Bodner, UG

Four comedy sketches from the minds of your gayest and bestest of friends. A sensitive frat party, a support group for women with gay best friends, a new gift perfect for every distantly-related child, and an acting class that goes rogue. It gets funny, we promise.

Beatriz

Valentina Eguiguren, UG

Beatriz, a 10-year-old from Quito, Ecuador, must find freedom within the confines of a 19th-century secluded convent.

Becoming Clara Dogood

Helena Hockertz, UG

A young influencer fights to keep her role in a New Year’s campaign for a groundbreaking product that alters mind and body - but as corporate pressures rise, her dependence on it leads her toward an irreversible transformation.

Beneath The Fog

Yige Duan, UG

In a bustling kitchen, a 20-year-old Chinese worker and an 80-year-old Guyanese elder labor side by side, revealing an intimate intergenerational bond and the quiet endurance of immigrant survival in New York.

Bleeding Edge

Daeyoung Kim, UG

A young Korean-American figure skater navigates her mother's tough love, her coach's mind games, and self-doubt while recovering from an injury.

blue, like green

Salomé Sowa, UG

Devout Catholic Virginia falls for enigmatic Diana, fracturing her reality and unearthing nightmares of faith, desire, and identity.

BUNTIS?!

Jack Lacy, UG

Chaos ensues on Christmas Eve dinner when a traditional Filipina mom asks her untraditional gay son to baptize his baby.

Buster Dies at the End

Cosmo Clark-Shaw, UG

After losing a woman’s dog during a late-night smoke-shop run, a directionless twenty-five-year-old scrambles through New York—with two hopeless cops and his overbearing mother in tow—while spiraling into guilt, avoidance, and absurdity.

Camera

Roxy Moskowitz, GRAD

Centripetate

Raja Khuri

In the back seat of their mom’s car, three young siblings’ game gets out of hand.

Chashmish

Ilina Bhatia, UG

In a magical realist NYC, an Indian girl struggles with her first pair of glasses as she waits to merge with her deceased grandma's soul.

Cherry Picking

Colby Amos, UG

A codependent relationship between best friends is tested when one of them decides she is ready to lose her virginity.

Chopping Wood

Ryan Russo, UG

A father and son's lesson is interrupted by two ominous guests.

Choy: The Making Of

Maxwell Johnson, UG

A student filmmaker is tested when he attempts to make a documentary about his documentary film professor.

Cold Feet

Heather Hill, UG

Before college separates them, Kitty clings to her best friend Ramona, joining her on a blind double date.

Confucius Plaza

ZJ Wang, UG

A Chinese man living in New York comes across an abused American Pitbull living in the apartment downstairs. The man takes it upon himself to take the dog in and take care of her.

CORPS-À-CORPS

Nikki Kobrick, UG

When one fencer calls out another’s stare in the locker room, their duel blurs the lines of rivalry and desire.

Cottonmouth

Cole Johnson, GRAD

Longing for his family back, a young wannabe rapper seeks redemption with his baby momma on the night of his first gig.

Crisis Actor

Lily Platt, GRAD

After getting fired from her day job role-playing sick patients at a medical school, a reckless actress follows a hot stranger into a support group meeting, leading to a night of chaos that forces her to confront her addiction to drama.

Cross Checked

Haleigh Phillips, UG

A troubled teen fights for her future on a new high school hockey team after her father’s death uproots her to a rust belt town, igniting a fierce rivalry with the team’s poised and ambitious captain.

Dacha

Dasha Fogelson, UG

A stilted tween girl must navigate the intensity of female friendship and her growing desires at a bungalow colony in the Catskills one summer.

Debt I Owe

Zane Rizvi-Riemer, UG

Burdened by gambling debts, a Pakistani-American widower searches for redemption while struggling to be a good father to his two daughters.

dénouement

Brian Goodwin, GRAD

Dénouement, a melodrama of the mundane. Ned waits in a luxury rental combing through the detailed belongings of his boss Lara, as we discover not only are they having an affair, but tonight it’s coming to an end.

Die by the Schtick

Justin Scolnick, UG

Challenged by his sister and estranged father, Ezekiel Ackerman struggles to throw an unorthodox shiva for his late-brother.

Dongmei

Rubing Zhang, GRAD

When a young woman gets arrested three days before her wedding, a mother has to go on a journey of inquiry.

Down the Shore

Kirsten Pasewaldt, GRAD

On the night of a secret double date with her best friend, 16-year-old Steph realizes her desire to try new things may not be exactly what she thought.