The Defendant

Jon, a first-time filmmaker, finds himself in Lansing, Michigan to present his film at a local film festival. Vince, his high school friend who is now a volunteer fireman and small-time drug dealer, also visits the town to support Jon on his big day, or so it seems. After a raucous hello and much backslapping, it appears that there is an undercurrent of tension in the air.

Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former Pakistani rock star turned immigrant, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. And every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day, however, the pattern of this harsh existence is broken by a glimmer of hope for a better life.

On an otherwise quiet night there is a startling knock at the door. Andrew Tucker answers the door to find an old friend whom he hasn't seen in years. The disheveled and absent friend comes to him with one request: "I need you to come with me but, I can't tell you where we're going." Andrew takes a chance but learns that every answer brings more questions. Nothing good ever comes knocking after midnight and Andrew's nightmare asks how far you would go to help a friend.

After a freak accident leaves a young man in a surreal limbo, he must team up with a talking puppet to map a mysterious island from fragments of memory — a journey that forces him to confront his deepest regrets, reclaim lost connections, and decide if life is worth finding his way back to.

An old professor rents a mysterious old villa, and finds a tape recorded by a previous occupant, detailing her debauched lifestyle and the events leading to her murder.

When her lifeline - a new technology for mental health - mysteriously vanishes, a reclusive young woman must infiltrate a chaotic underground rave scene to uncover the truth behind its disappearance.

Everyone in the town of Yuletide, Arizona celebrates Christmas year-round. Everyone, that is, except town scrooge Penelope Roche Duplossier. But when a freak coconut bonking accident on New Year’s Eve wipes Penelope’s memory of Christmas, a local reporter helps her discover the true magic of the season.

Juan and Pilar return to Mexico City on the same train. Destiny cross their paths in a taxi stop, off the train station. A cab arrives and they take each other's baggage by mistake. After that, they spend two days looking for each other, trying to recover their stuff. In the meantime, Juan reads Pilar's diary and she listens to his thoughts recorded on tape. Love begins to grow between these two proper strangers.

A disciplined new student slowly unravels as he begins to mirror the careless habits of those around him, losing pieces of himself in the process.

After having her IUD removed, a woman struggling to control her reality realizes a nightmarish truth: her boyfriend is actually a giant slug.

Set on New Year’s Eve. Elizabeth, an overworked intern at a long-forgotten government black site receives an other-worldly signal. It’s up to her, a cowardly general, the site’s near bankrupt financier and a plucky yet mysterious receptionist to respond. However, not everything goes to plan after ulterior motives are revealed and tension quickly rises.

Tells the story of Jordan Wilson's life through the perspective of his guitar.

1797, and flashbacks of a story before it. How far can a lie go until time converges with time? How deep can the truth of the heart be clouded in delirium, in sorrow, in gold? What can ever be considered an axiom? I tell ya...the nonlinear plotline is hard to follow if you don't pay attention to the timestamps.

A couple are picked to test a new government scheme.

During a nature retreat class, two incompatible students and their oddball instructor are forced to get along after everyone else drops the course.

While visiting her father's apartment, a woman discovers that the man who raised her might be something less than human.

In 1969, socially awkward observer, Otto Mcguin agrees to play a lead role in his friend's movie in hopes of sparking a relationship between he and his mysterious on-screen lover, Adaline Kirkoff.

Simon and Cubes, two sisters birthed from the soil ground, go on various of misadventures. Commissioned as a campaign of short films for Utopia Mushroom Co.

Jess and Joey have grown up beside each other, from family problems to teenage drama- they have always been there for one another. When a new boy enters their world, it disrupts their comfortable pattern. A once safe place for both girls turns into a jealous ridden and unstable relationship. As each girl is tested- will they be able to trust themselves and live authentically.

Ashton and Julie are about to go down two very different roads. As they take one last ride through their hometown, they reflect on the past, present, future, and forever