Jessica Damouni

A female Lyft driver navigates the night shift in New York City while waiting to hear life-or-death news from her family in Syria.

After the conniving understudy of an avant-garde theater group knocks off the star actor, he finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse with Inspector Ike, New York City's Greatest Police Detective.

While boxing and jazz rely on improvisation, they both have a deep sense of resilience. Hala, an Arab American female boxer in New York City, and Kendrick, an African American jazz musician, improvise their way through a passive-aggressive America. She's Miles Davis in boxing gloves and he's Muhammad Ali refusing to live a lie.

A rising MMA star hides her refugee status from her small American town, and the world.

When a reclusive young woman receives an invite to her estranged friend's birthday party, she spends an entire day obsessively preparing herself to go. However, an emotional phone call with her mother derails her plans and leads her back into her usual self-destructive cycle of behavior.

A self-proclaimed "pesky atheist" is encouraged to help strangers by someone claiming to be God who friends him on Facebook.