American Film Institute Conservatory Movies

At arts summer camp, Basia, a reserved 13-year old girl, struggles to connect with other kids. She feels seen for the first time when an equally...

In Ancient Nazareth in the year Zero, a pregnant teenage girl (Mary) and her gay best friend (Joseph) must hatch a plan to save their lives when they...

When Nina, a resilient and tenacious eight-year-old Mexican girl is granted asylum in the U.S. and forced to stay in the custody of her estranged...

When Joe discovers his high school crush has moved into his nursing home, he asks his best friend Alma for help, but little does he know, she has a...

Linh, a disillusioned Vietnamese woman carrying out evictions for a landlord, is instructed to evict Vietnamese refugees. She must decide whether to...

A young woman thinking about ending her life forms an unexpected connection with a kind party store clerk who challenges her worldview, pushing her...

Amidst his wife’s flourishing career, a once hotshot director turned stay-at-home dad becomes convinced his hands are inexplicably shrinking....

When a Latina transwoman in East LA is on the verge of losing her daughter to child services, she begins to unravel as she is forced to confront her...

A young man takes his grief-stricken boyfriend to recover at an idyllic desert resort, but awakens to an eerie new reality.

Dominic is a boy trying to cope with the turmoil surrounding him. His life is about to take a very sharp turn.

After a fight with his mom, a dysfunctional 16-year-old with a habit of biting is taken to an abusive, remote therapy program in the woods for...

When her son’s life is put at risk, a hard-of-hearing mother must decide how to seek help for her bipolar husband in order to keep her family...

After his father’s mysterious death, thirteen-year-old William turns to his imaginary hero, Joe Hunt, for guidance. As they search for answers,...

A young man decides not to go to college on a baseball scholarship but remain at his summer forest ranger's job. This is Edward Zwick's first short...

After missing his wife's phone call goodbye on the morning of September 11th, a now listless and brokenhearted music teacher must harmonize with his...

When a young risk analyst at a major US oil company in 1982 learns that the climate research department has just discovered a rapid rise in global...

A naïve poet who dreams of glory competes inside a surreal battle royale. The rules are simple: one hundred wrestlers in a ring, last man...

Wanda, a bubbly middle aged woman battling cancer and keeping it a secret from her daughter Rosie, decides to reinvent herself as a city council...

After hours at a mobile repair shop, a routine fix takes a strange turn.

In a rundown Iranian circus in LA, a groundskeeper decides to participate in the show to see what the trapeze dancer sees every night – a...