Two men reunite, struggling to reconcile past trauma. Roy Gentes and Sean Hucknall direct “Scars on his Wall,” an experimental drama desperately trying to make sense of an assault and seeking normality in the aftermath. The two men meet in a decrepit building. One paces around the room anxiously ...

A young woman confronts the source of her insecurities during a walk in the park. Caroline Falls directs “My Boyfriend Follows You on Instagram,” a cringe comedy exploring a modern relationship dynamic in the age of social media. Sam meets her friend Grace for a walk in a Los Angeles park. Just a...

As a technology company uses human spies to generate suggested content, one data analyst struggles with a matter of musical taste. Eli Speigel directs “Tastemaker,” a satire set in an alternate reality dystopia where a man finds it hard to believe that a fan of the musician Tim Buckley would not ...

A woman’s gift transforms into something darker when reality picks up the phone. Josie Charles directs “Blue Violet,” a found-footage snapshot of a volatile ex and the self-mutilating extremes they take. Speaking directly to their camcorder, Blue addresses Violet—a thought-to-be girlfriend. It’s ...

Two twenty-somethings travel to Paris so that one of them can connect with an Instagram boyfriend. Theo Matza directs “Faux Amis” (Fake Friends), a travel comedy brimming with outlandish behavior and unnerving developments. Adele and her friend May, who she treats more like an assistant, depart f...

A newly-turned, teenage vampire struggles to keep her violent nature a secret from her overbearing mother. Lida Everhart directs “Something’s Wrong With Kit,” a slow burn coming-of-age drenched in gloom and grim, momentarily bursting with blood red. With heavy eyes and pale skin, Kit doesn’t seem...

Playing phone tag with an unspecified customer service representative, a woman waits through interminable holds at her parent’s lake house in Sweden. Kevin Luna directs “The trouble you’re in,” a minimal, oddly poetic slice of life that juxtaposes a modern frustration with the serenity of the nat...

When a random couple asks him to take a photo in the park, a doe-eyed newcomer finds out what it means to be a New Yorker. Adam Kelleher directs “New York Movie,” a comic portrait of a blissfully oblivious Brit as he’s brutally broken by the Big Apple. Willy buys himself a hot dog before taking a...

To help his struggling sister, a young man sells his belongings retrieved by visiting women he’s wronged in the past. Darius D. Dudley directs “Skid Marks,” an off-kilter afternoon with a meandering, SoCal slacker. Missy just got dumped and kicked out by her boyfriend. She goes to Malcolm, her br...

A young woman discovers that her late father is actually alive and living in Mexico. Luna Garcia directs “They’ll Know You When You Call,” a coming-of-age drama with a multimedia approach. Unnamed, the “Girl” goes about her daily job at a corner store in the L.A. area. Later that afternoon, she h...

Stuck in Zoom meetings all day, a programmer daydreams about the stranger next door. Marissa Goldman directs “Max Distance,” a romantic comedy where questionable attempts to court a crush backfire. Erica spends most of her day sitting in work calls and watching slideshows for her remote job. In h...

This recently discovered footage shows a controversial psychological simulation going awry. Jeff Braun’s “The Bowdoin Library Experiment (1972)” is a playful, liberal arts parody of the infamous “1971 Stanford Prison Experiment.” A muffled narration outlines the study. The undergraduate students ...

Isolation echoes through a young woman’s webcam. Directing trio Arryana Jocelyn Walls, Nadia Freitag, and Nel Jesiak present “Keeping Company,” a post-internet horror piece where a 20-something disintegrates into pixel noise. Robbie keeps her webcam going on record almost all of the time. We watc...

A film crew and a nervous young director craft an expressive dance scene. A quietly observant exploration of a film set, “Proscenium,” directed by Georgia Evenson, portrays the filmmaking process with a shifting POV. The crew settles into place and “Action!” is called. We linger on behind-the-sce...