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- Valerie finds herself unable to move or speak and her little sister Sophie is becoming increasingly absent-minded. When the landlady's son, Peter, sneaks into their attic apartment on Valerie's birthday with a nefarious motive, Sophie is not disturbed -- au contraire, he's the dreamiest (only) eligible bachelor she's met in the three years since her sister's accident.
- A disastrously unhappy King goes on a quest for happiness after a maniacal Wizard tells him that sleeping one night in a happy man's pants will guarantee him eternal pleasure.
- Set in rural Illinois, a new mother prepares for the most important day of her life, the day her husband returns from WWII.
- A recent victim of an abusive kidnapping battles to overcome a psychological trauma which prevents her from removing her blindfold by carrying out the death wish of her suicidal caretaker.
- A ten-year-old outcast, Willow, helps injured felt puppet Isaac escape the clutches of the Australian Mafia.
- Darcy's all-woman poker night is thrown into chaos by the return of her prodigal daughter.
- In the cutthroat world of ballet, an overlooked dancer fights for one last chance to make it big.
- A straight-laced teen tries to get hired at the local video store, not realizing the truth behind the business's purported low prices.
- In this animated parody crossing Star Wars with Lola rennt (Run Lola Run), Princess Leia has twenty minutes to raise 100,000 credits to save Han Solo from being frozen in carbonite.
- An overly-critical student composer wrestles between his desire for artistic perfection and giving creative freedom to his musical peers, who are challenging his authorship with their personal interpretations.
- A group of Zionist fighters capture a British Officer, holding him captive during the early morning hours of the execution of one of their own. A reluctant new recruit is taught the ways of war.
- A Polish woman struggles to connect with an Argentine man through a language foreign to them both.
- Sergei, a recently naturalized American citizen, runs a polling location in a local election. Plagued by an overbearing superior and incompetent coworkers, he struggles to maintain his optimism (and patriotism) in the face of electoral disaster.
- 'Bound' is the story of Giulia, a young woman picked up by the Polish immigrant Jozef as she is hitchhiking to Chicago. After struggling to communicate, the pair forms a bond and Giulia must decide whether or not to take a chance on a stranger and accompany Jozef to his father's funeral.
- After an attempt to escape her family problems, a girl finds herself traveling through people's dreams, but can't return home until she learns to confront her real world issues.
- While trying to escape from human hunters through a vast forest, Udok must overcome his paralyzing fears and stand up to his pursuers.
- Mary Holmes is an introverted middle-aged woman with a few suicidal tendencies. Things aren't going very well for Mary until the day she drives by a car accident and witnesses the tragic death of Stella, a young and rebellious woman in her early twenties. When Mary arrives home and finds Stella's severed finger on her windshield, her own attempts at a premature death are interrupted by what becomes her new morbid fixation and, eventually, friend.
- A defeated, young man confronts the death of his father when he finds his bathtub mysteriously filled with blood.
- After a fight with his wife over the fact that they don't talk anymore, a high school detention teacher forces two people who would never talk otherwise -- a beautiful girl and a geeky boy -- to have a nonstop conversation for an entire detention period.
- Charlie Herron is a failure. He is the perfect caricature of a young, struggling artist whose work is unoriginal and bland. It is only with the arrival of a mysterious and seductive art dealer, Liz Meyers, that his life begins to change. When she tells him that his work is "gutless," he resolves to better himself. Unexpectedly, Charlie finds fresh inspiration in the ominous shrieks and shouts he hears from the apartment of his new next door neighbor, Adam. As his mind races through grave scenarios, he is able to create exquisite works of art. Charlie and Adam begin an unspoken symbiotic relationship and Charlie's artistic success surges. But his success comes at a dangerous price. As the noises next door become more and more disturbing, Charlie is forced to recognize the reality of what he cannot see, but can only hear through walls.
- In this coming-of-age drama, a successful college graduate driving cross-country to begin her career stops to visit her childhood friend, whose life has taken a far different route. When she discovers that her friend has a son, true feelings are revealed and the two must determine how to navigate their relationship in this story of growing up, growing apart, and the bonds that remain.
- Inspired by true events, Chase is a poignant story of friendship and hardship, told through the eyes of a young woman named Maul. The film follows Maul and her best friend Chase in two story lines at different times. In one, they are carefree, happy-go-lucky, and healthy. In the other, Chase is battling a brain tumor. The two collide at the end, forcing Maul to navigate their friendship in an unexpected way.
- Two treasure-hunting teens sneaking into an abandoned military base looking for a rumored gold cache. Once inside, they accidentally activate a top secret relic of the Cold War - a huge mobile weapons system bent on protecting the base from all intruders. Cut off from every exit, the pair must fight to survive.
- A man moves from his boring, routine life to New York City... from the movies. He encounters monsters, natural disasters, and a variety of other New York movie tropes. Will he be able to deal with this new life? Bystander is a 2D hand-drawn animation and the recipient of Studio 22's Special Projects Grant at Northwestern University.
- An eleven year old boy takes down a pedophile with help from his pseudo-Native American serial killer mentor.
- A down-on-their-luck Mariachi band enters a music competition to save their friend's bar.
- A young American soldier is separated from his troop in World War II France. Evading bullets and mortar shells, he finally finds the shelter of a foxhole. Unfortunately, the foxhole is already occupied, by a young German soldier. Staring directly into the eyes of the enemy, the soldiers begin to realize the absurdity of war.
- When Kevin takes his brother trick-or-treating on Halloween, a terror arises in Kevin when he and his brother separate for the night.
- When Brandon moves to a new house to escape the demons of his past he discovers that confronting what is haunting is better than the real demons waiting for him.
- Chinese-American cook Amy Chang wants to move to L.A. with her girlfriend Megan, yet is held back by unfinished business with her late grandma.
- A young man enters a yellow-wallpapered room and is entranced by images of a woman projected through cracks in the wall. She is ill and grows more sick and demented in the yellow room until she collapses and the light goes out. George tears the wallpaper off the walls revealing images of the woman, his mother, before her illness. He then repaints the room blue and is able to leave it in peace.
- A take on the Greek myth of Orpheus and the river Styx, a man seeks to find and save a woman from the afterlife, while on some scale dealing with retribution, judgement, and closure on his journey back out. Filmed entirely at Northwestern University in Chicago with a grant of $3000, an on-set crew of 30, an orchestra of 25, and a post-crew of 3. CADENCE is composed of over 300 shots, 700 cuts, and 35 vfx shots - and was shot, edited, and finished within a five week period.
- Joe Fremont's job at the Buena Vista Palms Cinema has gotten about as stale as the popcorn at the concession stand. That is, until Joe's dream girl, Iris, starts working at the same movie theater. Joe imagines himself in a series of films in an attempt to muster the courage to ask Iris out. Will Joe face his fears and get his Hollywood ending?