Directorial Debut Movies

A moment of weakness after a humiliating breakup leads Zahra, a young Muslim woman to play a forbidden lottery ticket. Her chance at escape becomes a...

A retired singer from northern Sudan, Mona, burdened by guilt for covering up a man's death, hires his southern widow, Julia, as her maid. Unable to...

In 1950s New England, Billie Blake returns to her hometown after her mother inherits a dress shop. Next door is a diner run by Calvin Wilkes, her...

In rural New England, a woman is marked by her first love’s death in a mountain tunnel. Drawn into the mystery of a new disappearance, she...

In a world just following a modern-day war, four returning soldiers reunite at the house of a family friend. Old grudges resurface alongside fresh...

Richard, a small-town man whose unusually large penis made him a local legend in his youth, has found himself 35, alone, and realizing the one thing...

A young woman is abducted and held captive inside a liminal room where she is trained to regress back into her primal, animalistic nature.

In a small Spanish town, teenager Mio's parents mysteriously disappear, forcing him to undertake an odyssey between childhood and adolescence that...

Based on an original idea Samantha Carroll developed over several years, 'Close to Nowhere' follows small-town Coco, who, while struggling with...

Set against the vibrant spectacle of the jaripeo, a symbol of Mexican cowboy tradition and machismo, this story unveils a hidden world of queer...

Three Sicilian summers mark the growth of Leo/Indigo and Tore, two young people from different worlds but united by an unbreakable bond: they will...

On a New York City subway, two desperate strangers experience a life-changing encounter with 'The Entity', an immortal, body-shifting consciousness...

Two ex-lovers reenter each other’s lives after decades apart, only to find old feelings stirring with messy and mixed results.

Over the final 24 hours before high school graduation, an overachieving valedictorian discovers that a psychedelic edible has caused her to begin...

When a group of five soon-to-graduate high school seniors skip the last day of school, attempting to make it the best day possible, they slowly...

Follows a young girl battling cystic fibrosis whose fragile stability is shattered when her access to healthcare and life-sustaining medication is...

Hoping to rekindle an old friendship, childhood buddies Ron and Erik set out for a day’s ice-fishing, on the last day of the ice-fishing...

A detective is charged with investigating a bank corruption scandal.

A sceney podcaster's life unexpectedly changes when she interviews a charming guest who is not all he seems.

Follows the experiences of young Black men whose lives have been abruptly snatched away. Micah is a young man who finds himself in the Inbetween, a...