Tisch School of the Arts (NYU)

A young man walks into a meticulously clean and sterile bathroom and proceeds to shave away hair, then skin, in an increasingly bloody and graphic bathroom scene.

A writer named Algernon (but called Harry by his friends) buys a picture of a boat on a lake, and his obsession with it renders normal life impossible.

A young couple moves to their first NYC apartment together when a mysterious roach and rat infestation disrupts their relationship.

15-year-old Angus considers the sacrifice he needs to make for the approval of his older brother's friends.

Now middle-aged, mobster Murray looks back at his humble beginnings as a bootlegger and his rise to becoming wealthy and highly influential. Through it he talks about how much of his success and happiness is due to the support of his "friend" Joe. Unfortunately the only one who blindly believes Joe is anything close to a friend is Murray, because it's obvious to everyone that Joe back-stabs him at every chance and is sleeping with his wife.

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

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

Isaac and Vivi, two adventurous young New Yorkers, go on a surreal first date to a mysterious Brooklyn art gallery where things are not as they seem. After consuming LSD-infused olives, their perceptions of reality – and each other – begin to unravel.

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.

The movie focuses on creating an experimental visual storytelling and questions: 'What makes us who we are."

This visually ravishing and thought-provoking work portrays one of the USA’s great shames—the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till by two white men in Mississippi—and movingly reminds us of this dark episode’s enduring relevance.

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.

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

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.

On the stormy night of July 5th, 1995, Trick Stuart works the graveyard shift with his plus-sized pal Meathead at the Delta Kream, a 24HR fast food joint. As they practice their brass band routine, a very unexpected visitor arrives.

The first animated short by Michael Dougherty, about a young kid trying to survive in a Catholic school.

One of the early short films of director Brett Ratner.

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?

The memory of his partner, Raul, who died during the AIDS crisis in New York in the 80’s, drives a melancholy, solitary man, Robert, to look for his family, who know practically nothing about him.

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