University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts

Jan Wiener is a young Czech Jew struggling to survive at the outset of Nazi occupation during World War II.

A little girl uses a voodoo doll to get rid of her mother's date.

New Year's Eve 1999 finds college-bound Clark and Trevor concerned about the future of their friendship, and a request for Clark to be Trevor's wingman ensures things will never be the same again.

On a desolate farm, a couple's prayers are answered after a visitor offers them a sinister deal. Blinded by their joy, they struggle to realize that what they once desired may lead to their own unraveling.

Overcome with grief, a rural woodworker builds a coffin to join his wife.

When a high school senior, Chris, gets in trouble with the West L.A. police for joy riding in stolen cars, his wealthy but neglectful dad hires Chris's older brother Lance to spend time with him and keep him out of trouble. Lance is in the underworld, running guns, so caring for Chris starts out as a good cover. Then, he warms to his brother, and the two develop a strong bond; Chris gets serious about school and starts to come out of his shell. But, will the relationship be strong enough to weather pressures from Lance's business, Chris's discovery that dad is paying Lance for the care, and Lance's enjoyment of female companionship?

After saving an abused pit bull, a troubled Brighton Beach teenanger who makes ends meet through crime while raising his little brother, must protect the dog from its nefarious owners.

A rookie Air Force drone pilot finds himself increasingly attached to a target he watches from halfway around the world.

For Los Angeles natives living in the early 1900s, bicycles and streetcars shared the road as our primary modes of transportation. But the arrival of the freeway effectively wiped them out. Today, a collective of cycling communities fight for protected bike lanes and road safety, determined to bring a new era of mobility justice to the city.

A young man in Oakland, California, wakes with a heavy heart and decides to take a walk through the neighborhood to the local barbershop.

After a tumultuous rise to power, the first Muslim Sultana of Delhi fights to guide her kingdom while the people closest to her plot against her.

A lonely Singaporean death row guard tries to help a young Australian convicted of drug trafficking accept her fate despite a bizarre contradiction - he is her executioner.

A lonely priest must find a way to connect with an irreverent teenager after the boy confesses his plans to commit suicide.

A butterfly explores the ruins of an ancient civilization that leads to a underground cave. In the cave, the butterfly meets the Humanoid butterfly.

After tragedy strikes, a meek Ruby Oliver enters a broken VR game for a last chance to see the dead. Little does she know that this game treats all girls as a virus as she fights to save herself.

Amidst the outbreak of the 1910 Manchurian Plague, a young Chinese doctor must defy prejudices of both the East and the West to champion his groundbreaking theory about the disease's deadly evolution.

Once a successful Syrian actor, Jihad Abdo is now struggling as a refugee while trying to reinvent his life and rebuild his career.

In 1976, punk rocker Danny Brooklyn was kicked out of his own band. 45 years later, he's crashing the reunion.

A businessman lives out his daily routine until he meets unexpected stress in the form of his apartment building's elevator.

After basketball practice, a group of high school girls get ready to go home. Between conversations about next week's match and boys, June must navigate her budding attraction towards one of her teammates, Clementine.