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- In the cutthroat world of ballet, an overlooked dancer fights for one last chance to make it big.
- After a fight with his wife over the fact that they don't talk anymore, a high school detention teacher forces two people who would never talk otherwise -- a beautiful girl and a geeky boy -- to have a nonstop conversation for an entire detention period.
- 'Bound' is the story of Giulia, a young woman picked up by the Polish immigrant Jozef as she is hitchhiking to Chicago. After struggling to communicate, the pair forms a bond and Giulia must decide whether or not to take a chance on a stranger and accompany Jozef to his father's funeral.
- Two treasure-hunting teens sneaking into an abandoned military base looking for a rumored gold cache. Once inside, they accidentally activate a top secret relic of the Cold War - a huge mobile weapons system bent on protecting the base from all intruders. Cut off from every exit, the pair must fight to survive.
- A recent victim of an abusive kidnapping battles to overcome a psychological trauma which prevents her from removing her blindfold by carrying out the death wish of her suicidal caretaker.
- A disastrously unhappy King goes on a quest for happiness after a maniacal Wizard tells him that sleeping one night in a happy man's pants will guarantee him eternal pleasure.
- Mary Holmes is an introverted middle-aged woman with a few suicidal tendencies. Things aren't going very well for Mary until the day she drives by a car accident and witnesses the tragic death of Stella, a young and rebellious woman in her early twenties. When Mary arrives home and finds Stella's severed finger on her windshield, her own attempts at a premature death are interrupted by what becomes her new morbid fixation and, eventually, friend.
- Set in rural Illinois, a new mother prepares for the most important day of her life, the day her husband returns from WWII.
- After a student's suicide shakes up a small town high school, the popularity paradigm goes into free fall when Missy, the most popular girl in school is named as the bully that tormented Miles to his death. With no one to call their leader, Miles' best friend Beth is suddenly thrown into the limelight, for better or for worse.
- A ten-year-old outcast, Willow, helps injured felt puppet Isaac escape the clutches of the Australian Mafia.
- A man moves from his boring, routine life to New York City... from the movies. He encounters monsters, natural disasters, and a variety of other New York movie tropes. Will he be able to deal with this new life? Bystander is a 2D hand-drawn animation and the recipient of Studio 22's Special Projects Grant at Northwestern University.
- After an attempt to escape her family problems, a girl finds herself traveling through people's dreams, but can't return home until she learns to confront her real world issues.
- A veteran henchman, er, security guard for a multinational corporation gets a new partner. He initiates the new guy and fills him in on the routine goings on of the company: being attacked by rogue spies and suspended cops, dealing with break-ins, having a low chance of survivability, and having bad medical coverage.
- Five college students stop at a small bed and breakfast on their way to their Spring Break destination. One by one the students and their body parts go missing until the remaining survivor must battle her way through a bloody nightmare in order to survive. It is only then the true intentions of her demented captors can be understood.
- When Kevin takes his brother trick-or-treating on Halloween, a terror arises in Kevin when he and his brother separate for the night.
- Joe Fremont's job at the Buena Vista Palms Cinema has gotten about as stale as the popcorn at the concession stand. That is, until Joe's dream girl, Iris, starts working at the same movie theater. Joe imagines himself in a series of films in an attempt to muster the courage to ask Iris out. Will Joe face his fears and get his Hollywood ending?
- A take on the Greek myth of Orpheus and the river Styx, a man seeks to find and save a woman from the afterlife, while on some scale dealing with retribution, judgement, and closure on his journey back out. Filmed entirely at Northwestern University in Chicago with a grant of $3000, an on-set crew of 30, an orchestra of 25, and a post-crew of 3. CADENCE is composed of over 300 shots, 700 cuts, and 35 vfx shots - and was shot, edited, and finished within a five week period.
- A lonely gay teenager makes a risky decision.
- A young mortician deals with his lack of social skills through fantasized interactions with the bodies at the local morgue, but striking up a real relationship with a quirky girl shows him a way to enter back into the world of the living.
- Inspired by true events, Chase is a poignant story of friendship and hardship, told through the eyes of a young woman named Maul. The film follows Maul and her best friend Chase in two story lines at different times. In one, they are carefree, happy-go-lucky, and healthy. In the other, Chase is battling a brain tumor. The two collide at the end, forcing Maul to navigate their friendship in an unexpected way.
- A straight-laced teen tries to get hired at the local video store, not realizing the truth behind the business's purported low prices.
- 'New Sincerity' is a comedy that gently, but firmly addresses a tendency in culture to sugarcoat everything: The comfortingly patriarchal President of the United States announces that, due to global warming, the world will end in a matter of minutes. Laughing gas is consequently released to quiet the populace. Suddenly the inconvenient truth of our own demise is rendered surprisingly convenient.
- A young American soldier is separated from his troop in World War II France. Evading bullets and mortar shells, he finally finds the shelter of a foxhole. Unfortunately, the foxhole is already occupied, by a young German soldier. Staring directly into the eyes of the enemy, the soldiers begin to realize the absurdity of war.
- A young boy finds a hermit crab on the beach, and a friendship ensues. This 2012 short, silent film was produced entirely by freshman film students at Northwestern University and was the recipient of the Studio 22 New Student Grant.
- A young teenage girl resorts to the Internet in the hope of finding the connection she desperately needs, only to be confronted in the end with a nightmare she may never overcome.
- A group of Zionist fighters capture a British Officer, holding him captive during the early morning hours of the execution of one of their own. A reluctant new recruit is taught the ways of war.
- A down-on-their-luck Mariachi band enters a music competition to save their friend's bar.
- When Brandon moves to a new house to escape the demons of his past he discovers that confronting what is haunting is better than the real demons waiting for him.
- A young man enters a yellow-wallpapered room and is entranced by images of a woman projected through cracks in the wall. She is ill and grows more sick and demented in the yellow room until she collapses and the light goes out. George tears the wallpaper off the walls revealing images of the woman, his mother, before her illness. He then repaints the room blue and is able to leave it in peace.
- An eleven year old boy takes down a pedophile with help from his pseudo-Native American serial killer mentor.
- In this coming-of-age drama, a successful college graduate driving cross-country to begin her career stops to visit her childhood friend, whose life has taken a far different route. When she discovers that her friend has a son, true feelings are revealed and the two must determine how to navigate their relationship in this story of growing up, growing apart, and the bonds that remain.
- An overly-critical student composer wrestles between his desire for artistic perfection and giving creative freedom to his musical peers, who are challenging his authorship with their personal interpretations.
- Erica (Maggie Mae Fish), a disheveled and down-on-her luck bowling alley employee, fails to fix the alley's toilet, ends up embarrassing of herself in front of her crush Daryl, a perfect bowling champ. She searches for a way to repair the toilet - finds a manual to life. The book steers her life to wonderful opportunities. When it manual instructs her to make a fool of herself, she must choose to listen or disobey.
- A Polish woman struggles to connect with an Argentine man through a language foreign to them both.